Zhanara Rakhmetova

Tax Director

Zhanara Rakhmetova is the Tax Director at RSM in Kazakhstan. 

Zhanara has over 10 years of experience as a tax professional, having worked at leading Big Four consulting firms (Deloitte and KPMG) and served as an in-house tax expert at the Kazakhstan subsidiaries of international corporations (Shell plc and FRHC).

Zhanara is a certified top category tax consultant of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Zhanara’s deep tax technical background is built on extensive experience across diverse roles at KPMG Kazakhstan, International and M&A Tax Practice at Deloitte Dubai, and within the Oil and Gas and Financial Services industries.

Zhanara Zhanara’s expertise spans a wide array of tax projects, including advising on both Kazakhstan and international tax matters, tax health checks, tax aspects of M&A deals and cross-border transactions, tax structuring, as well as tax compliance. She has advised a wide range of clients, from multinational enterprises to start-ups on the corporate income tax and other tax matters. 

Zhanara has led multi-phase international tax advisory project related to reorganization for world's leading Middle East-based airline and managed tax function and structure review project for major Middle East-based oil and gas company, working with teams in over 20 jurisdictions across four continents.