Senior Tax Manager

Petrofac; Aberdeen City; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading energy services provider is seeking a Senior Tax Manager for a 9-month fixed-term contract. This role focuses on optimizing tax reporting processes, managing audits, and ensuring compliance with global tax legislation. The ideal candidate will possess extensive experience in tax analysis and reporting, with robust communication skills for interacting with global teams.

Qualifications

• Few years of post-qualified, relevant experience.
• In-depth knowledge of group tax reporting.
• Ability to manage complex tax positions across jurisdictions.

Responsibilities

• Leading and streamlining the Group Tax reporting process.
• Managing the internal and external Group Tax reporting process.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to validate tax inputs.

Skills

Tax analysis

Tax reporting automation

Effective communication

Tools

Oracle TRCS

Job description

Petrofac is a leading international service provider to the energy industry, with a diverse client portfolio including many of the world’s leading energy companies.

We design, build, manage and maintain infrastructure for our clients. We recruit, reward, and develop our people based on merit regardless of race, nationality, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, marital status or disability. We value our people and treat everyone who works for or with Petrofac fairly and without discrimination.

The world is re-thinking its energy supply and energy security needs; planning for a phased transition to alternative energy sources. We are here to help our clients meet these evolving energy needs.
This is an exciting time to join us on this journey.

We support flexible working requests and have adopted a hybrid approach for most of our office-based roles. We ask employees to be present in the office at least three days per week.

Are you ready to bring the right energy to Petrofac and help us deliver a better future for everyone?

JOB TITLE: SENIOR TAX MANAGER – GROUP TAX (9 MONTH FTC)

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Leading and streamlining the Group Tax reporting process.
• Managing various automation initiatives, e.g year end reporting, Country by Country Reporting (CbCR) and Pillar 2.
• Manage the internal and external Group Tax reporting process.
• Ensure accurate tax accounting disclosures are included in the external filings.
• Manage the external audit requirements and coordinate the supporting documentation required.
• Work with Business Unit Finance and Tax teams in the UK and overseas to validate, challenge and consolidate the tax inputs in multiple jurisdictions.
• Oversee the review of uncertain tax treatments, deferred tax assets/liabilities, cash taxes paid and effective tax rate analysis.
• Monitor changes in global tax legislation which could impact the Group’s tax reporting.
• Lead the design, implementation, and optimisation of automation tools for tax reporting, CbCR and Pillar.
• Drive efficiencies in tax data collection, analysis, and reporting across the group.
• Collaborate with IT and business unit finance and tax teams to ensure systems meet requirements.
• Oversee the timely filings of UK and overseas corporate tax returns, while coordinating with external providers.
• Liaise with external advisors to review the expected Pillar 2 exposure across all relevant entities.
• Design, implement and maintain processes to support 2 data collection, calculation and reporting.
• Monitor legislative developments and provide insight on changes to global minimum tax rules.
• Working with Business Unit teams to challenge and conclude on areas of tax risk and uncertainty.
• Identifying and understanding variances in the ETR across jurisdictions.
• Solving system challenges for accurate reporting.

ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS:

• Possessing few years of post-qualified, relevant experience.
• In-depth knowledge of Group tax reporting/consolidation.
• Previous experience managing the consolidated tax position across a multinational Group.
• A self-motivated individual who can proactively initiate and lead projects to completion, collaborating with team members to deliver results.
• Experience automating tax reporting systems.
• Proficiency in conducting tax analysis and preparing tax workings across various UK tax technical areas, demonstrating the ability to meet deadlines and drive process improvements.
• Effective communication skills to interact with personnel at all levels of the organisation, spanning across the Divisions and up to CFO level.
• Strong written communication skills capable of simplifying complex tax concepts for clear understanding.
• Demonstrates the Petrofac Values.
• Willingness to work flexibly and respond to changing priorities.
• Knowledge of tax accounting systems (preferably Oracle TRCS).
• Practical experience and good understanding of UK and international tax legislation.
• Strong communication skills are essential due to frequent interactions with colleagues globally.

Additional Information

About the company

Petrofac Limited is a British provider of oilfield services to the international oil and gas industry.

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