Senior Tax Advisor

Ecopetrol in North America; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Ecopetrol USA Inc. in Houston seeks a Senior Tax Advisor to join its accounting team. You will help define and execute the company tax strategy, ensure ongoing tax compliance and optimize tax payments.

The role covers planning, budgeting support, transfer pricing, and leading audits. You will work with IFRS/US tax rules, manage filings, and provide guidance to minimize tax exposure while maximizing benefits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, economics, or related subject required.
• MBA or J.D. is a plus.
• Strong knowledge of US tax law, compliance and procedure.
• Experience in oil and gas corporate tax preferred.
• Familiarity with US federal/state tax returns and schedules.

Responsibilities

• Apply IFRS policies and tax regulations for tax provisions, payments and financial statements.
• Support planning in business plans, budgets and forecasts.
• Analyze new projects for tax assumptions and recommendations.
• Prepare monthly, quarterly and annual tax filings (federal/state taxes).
• Monitor deferred tax adjustments and current tax provision.
• Provide tax advice to minimize exposure and maximize benefits.
• Lead tax audits with federal, state and international authorities.
• Oversee annual transfer pricing study with consultants.
• Maintain reconciliations between fiscal and accounting ledgers.

Skills

US tax law & compliance

Tax planning & forecasting

Oil & gas corporate tax

E&P partnership taxation

MS Office 365, Power BI, SAP

Education

Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, economics, or related subject

MBA or J.D. (preferred)

Tools

SAP

Power BI

Microsoft Office 365

Job description

Ecopetrol USA Inc. is seeking a Senior Tax Advisor to join its Houston-based accounting team.

About the Role

The Senior Tax Advisor reports to the USA Controller and is responsible for supporting the definition and execution of the company tax strategy, ensuring tax compliance, optimizing company tax payments and tax planning and forecasting.

Responsibilities

• Application of IFRS policies, tax regulations & corporate guidelines for the calculation of tax provisions, tax payments, tax legal requirements and the presentation of the financial statements.
• Support the planning team in the preparation of business plan and current year budgets and forecast.
• Support the analysis of new projects or investments evaluations, ensuring tax assumptions, calculations and recommendations are properly reflected.
• Preparation of monthly, quarterly, and annual tax filings such as annual income tax return, withholding tax, superfund tax, federal & state taxes, or other applicable filings.
• Ensure that economic models used by the company to assess projects economics’, impairment testing and other applicable valuations are aligned with tax assumptions.
• Responsible for the calculation and monitoring of deferred tax adjustments (DTA/DTL), current tax provision and corporate minimum tax (CMT). Provide tax advice to minimize the company’s tax exposure and maximize tax benefits such as application of Net Operating Losses (NOLs).
• Preparation of monthly tax provisions & adjustments journal entries, tax account reconciliations and compliance with tax obligations.
• Maintain a well-documented reconciliation between the fiscal and accounting ledgers.
• Establish and maintain effective and auditable tax procedures, processes, and controls for the tax area. Lead tax audits including negotiating with federal, state, and international tax authorities to ensure successful closures.
• Lead the completion of the annual transfer pricing study with consultants.

Qualifications

• Education/Experience: Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, economics, or related subject. MBA or J.D. is a plus.

Required Skills

• Knowledge of US tax law, compliance and procedure
• Familiarity with various tax returns/schedules (both federal and state)
• Broad experience in corporate tax for the oil and gas industry (as operator and non-operator)
• Experience in E&P partnership taxation and in the business of supply/trading of petroleum products is strongly preferred
• Proficiency in all Microsoft Office 365: PBI and SAP working knowledge.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Ecopetrol USA Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.