Project Role: Tax Performance Advisory (TPA) VAT
Education: Bcom Law. LLB. Senior Certificate Tax. University of Pretoria
Francois has joined EY Dubai in November 2017 and has over 20 years experience in a big 4 VAT consulting environment. He also specializes in ERP VAT configuration setups, VAT technology offerings and VAT process optimization.

Relevant professional experience:

• Previously employed as Tax Business Process Specialist for world wide SAP template implementation by SABMillier (ABInbev). Jurisdictions include South America, Europe, Africa, Australia.
• Prior employment includes Senior manager in tax management consulting at Deloitte as well as EY South Africa. He undertook major ERP VAT implementation projects and consulted various corporates on best tax technology practices.
• He managed various ERP VAT optimization projects and empowered clients to perform in-house VAT analytics.
• He provided VAT accounting and ERP best practice training workshops to various corporates, in respect of VAT principles.
• He also managed various tax technology software implementations.