About

Pankaj
Agarwal

Tax Technology Leader · Dubai, UAE

14+ years building and delivering tax technology practices across Big 4 and industry — from Pillar Two implementations for FTSE 250 clients in London to leading the GCC's largest CIT programme covering 1,000+ legal entities across 40+ countries.

CA · ICAI India CPA · Guam, USA DITT · CIOT UK Oracle EPM Certified AWS Cloud Practitioner Oracle Fusion AI Agent Certified
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Pankaj Agarwal
Senior Manager · Intellicore Consulting · Dubai
14+
Years in tax
technology
40+
Tax technology
projects implemented
1000+
Legal entities in
largest implementation
3
Professional
qualifications
Background

A career at the intersection of
tax, technology & AI

14+ years delivering tax technology programmes across Big 4 (PwC UK, Deloitte USI), management consulting (Accenture), and in-house roles — with a consistent track record of taking complex, multi-jurisdictional programmes from design to go-live. Most recently, led the UAE's largest Corporate Income Tax and CbCR implementation on Oracle EPM, covering 1,000+ legal entities across 40+ countries for the largest company in the UAE.

Dual-qualified as a CA (ICAI India) and CPA (USA), with a Diploma in Tax Technology from CIOT UK — one of very few professionals to hold all three. This combination of deep tax technical grounding and hands-on technology delivery sets the foundation for everything I build.

Currently based in Dubai as Senior Manager, Tax Technology Practice at Intellicore Consulting Group, leading the firm's EMEA practice — originating client engagements, building and mentoring specialist teams, and representing the firm as a tax technology thought leader in the GCC market. pankaj.tax is my personal proof-of-concept: AI-native tax tools built by someone who has actually done the work.

What I Do

Areas of expertise

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OECD Pillar Two & International Tax

  • Transitional Safe Harbour analysis
  • GloBE Information Return readiness
  • Country-by-Country Reporting
  • Pillar Two technology implementation
  • Cross-jurisdictional compliance programmes
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Tax Technology & EPM

  • Oracle TRCS / EPM Cloud implementation
  • Onesource, Longview, Orbitax delivery
  • SAP S4HANA tax workstream integration
  • Tax operating model design
  • ERP/EPM transformation programmes
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AI & Tax Automation

  • AI agent workflow design for tax
  • Automated data extraction & reconciliation
  • AI-powered compliance tools (pankaj.tax)
  • Oracle Fusion AI Agent (certified)
  • Power BI & Alteryx tax analytics
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Middle East Tax Compliance

  • UAE Corporate Income Tax implementation
  • Zakat & Saudi CIT compliance
  • GCC VAT advisory & technology
  • Transfer pricing in the GCC
  • 1,000+ entity CIT programme delivery
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US Tax Compliance & Reporting

  • Federal & international tax (1120, 5471, 8858)
  • ASC 740 tax provision (quarterly)
  • Withholding tax (1042, 1099)
  • State & local tax compliance
  • M&A tax integration workstreams
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Leadership & Delivery

  • Team leadership (20+ professionals)
  • Big 4 practice development
  • RFP pursuit & client orals
  • Tax technical training programmes
  • Conference speaking & thought leadership
Career Journey

Where I've worked

Mar 2024 — Present
Senior Manager, Tax Technology Practice
Intellicore Consulting Group UAE Saudi Arabia Bahrain Dubai, UAE
Lead and grow the firm's tax technology practice across EMEA. Spearheaded the UAE's largest CIT and CbCR implementation — 1,000+ legal entities across 40+ countries on Oracle EPM. Designing AI-assisted tax workflows, managing concurrent Pillar Two, Zakat and TP programmes for GCC-headquartered multinationals.
UAE CIT Oracle EPM CbCR Pillar Two AI Workflows GCC
Oct 2022 — Mar 2024
Manager, Tax Reporting Strategy Technology
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) United Kingdom United States Finland London, UK
Led Pillar Two and tax reporting implementations for FTSE 250 clients using Longview, Onesource, Orbitax and Oracle. Represented the direct tax workstream on a SAP S4HANA finance transformation for a major European multinational. Championed firm-wide GenAI rollout and designed AI-assisted tax workflows.
Pillar Two FTSE 250 SAP S4HANA Longview GenAI
Feb 2019 — Sep 2022
Manager, Tax Management Consulting
Deloitte Tax Services (USI) United States Netherlands India India
Led Oracle Direct Tax practice with 20+ tax technology professionals. Delivered Tax Assessment & Transformation projects for Fortune 100 companies on Oracle EPM Cloud (TRCS) and Oracle ERP Fusion. Led Tax Operating Model design and implementation engagements for large MNCs.
Oracle TRCS Fortune 100 Team of 20+ Tax Operating Model
Dec 2017 — Feb 2019
Management Consultant, Tax Transformation
Accenture Strategy & Consulting South Africa India Netherlands South Africa · India · Netherlands
Functional lead on Oracle TRCS and ARCS implementation for a South African multinational telecoms company. Managed client requirements, solution design, user training and UAT through to go-live. Contributed to finance and tax transformation proposals.
Oracle TRCS Oracle ARCS South Africa Telecoms
Sep 2012 — Dec 2017
Tax Senior Representative — US Income Tax
Agilent / Keysight Technologies United States India India
Established and led a 9-person India-based team for US Federal, International, State, Withholding and Property Tax compliance. Implemented Onesource Income Tax and Tax Provisions platforms; led OneStream Financial Consolidation from a tax perspective. Managed ASC 740 quarterly provisions and M&A tax integration workstreams.
US Federal Tax Onesource ASC 740 M&A Integration Team of 9
Qualifications

Credentials & certifications

DITT
Diploma in Tax Technology
Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) · United Kingdom · Feb 2023
84.5%
CPA
Certified Public Accountant
Guam Board of Accountancy · USA · Nov 2018
90.5%
CA
Chartered Accountant
Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) · May 2012
62.4%
AI Agent
Oracle Fusion AI Agent Certified
Oracle · 2024
AWS CCP
AWS Cloud Practitioner
Amazon Web Services
B.Com
Bachelor of Commerce
Delhi University (School of Open Learning) · 2011
Technology Stack

Tools & platforms

Tax Reporting

Oracle TRCS Hyperion HTP Onesource Tax Provisions Onesource Income Tax Longview Tax Orbitax Onestream Tax

ERP / EPM

Oracle EPM Cloud Oracle FCCS Oracle PCMCS Oracle ARCS Oracle Fusion ERP SAP S4HANA SAP Group Reporting Onestream CPM

AI & Analytics

Oracle Fusion AI Agent Google Gemini API Claude AI Microsoft Power BI Alteryx AWS pankaj.tax (built)

Productivity & Workflow

Advanced Excel PowerPoint Google Workspace Onesource Workflow Manager
Beyond Work

On the trails & the mountains

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Marathon Running

Completed the Dubai Full Marathon and multiple half marathons across some of the world's most iconic routes — including Ladakh (one of the highest altitude races in the world), London, Birmingham, and Delhi. Running at altitude in Ladakh remains one of the toughest and most memorable experiences on the road.

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High-Altitude Mountaineering

Summited Friendship Peak (17,352 ft) in the Kullu district of Himachal Pradesh, India — a technical Himalayan peak requiring rope and crampon skills. Also completed Mt. KY2 (20,000+ ft), pushing further into the high-altitude terrain of the Indian Himalayas. Both climbs required months of preparation, altitude acclimatisation, and a fair amount of stubbornness.

Why pankaj.tax

Why I built this

After 14 years implementing tax technology for some of the world's largest companies, I kept seeing the same pattern: the tools that actually get used in tax teams are often not the enterprise platforms — they're the spreadsheets that sit alongside them, doing the work the platforms were supposed to do.

pankaj.tax started as a question: what would a tax tool look like if it was built by someone who has actually done the work? Not a generic AI assistant bolted onto a compliance framework, but something purpose-built for specific tax problems — with the right inputs, the right calculations, and outputs that a tax professional can actually defend.

GloBE Lens automates the Pillar Two Transitional Safe Harbour analysis that I've seen teams spend days on manually. Comply Lens tackles the compliance calendar problem that haunts every multi-jurisdiction tax team. Each tool is designed around a real pain point, not a demo scenario.

This is a proof of concept and I make no bones about that. But it represents my conviction that the future of tax technology is AI-native, not AI-adjacent — and that the people best placed to build it are those who understand both the tax and the technology deeply.

Let's connect

Open to conversations about tax technology, Pillar Two, GCC tax, or pankaj.tax.

LinkedIn Contact via pankaj.tax