Tax Accountant

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.

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

Job Title: Tax Accountant

Key Responsibilities:
• Tax Compliance
• Support in Preparing and filing corporate tax returns accurately and on time, and arrange for tax payments to be made
• Support in Preparing and filing other periodic direct and indirect tax returns, e.g. VAT/GST, WHT, etc. and ensure that all payments are made accurately and on time
• Review and ensure that all positions taken in filed tax returns are adequately supported and documented so that all tax submissions are “audit ready”
• Assist with the preparation of local transfer pricing documentation and reports
• Support the tax assessment / audit process and other tax controversy matters, e.g. prepare analyses and reports, compile documentation, etc.
• Understand and keep up to date with all tax laws and regulations in so far as they impact the Tax Accountant’s portfolio
• Ensure full compliance with all tax laws and Petrofac Group policies, standards, and procedures, and ensure that any deviations are corrected promptly and adverse consequences to the organisation are mitigated
• Address ad-hoc tax related queries from colleagues and support ad-hoc tax projects as required
• Ensure that accounting entries in relation to tax are properly made
• Financial Controls
• Operate a continuously effective financial controls framework to ensure the integrity of the books of account of the E&C business unit
• Assess opportunities to optimise the financial controls framework
• Tax Reporting
• Support in Delivering timely, accurate, meaningful and “right first time” support for periodic tax reporting for the E&C business unit, e.g. cash tax forecasting, tax compliance tracker, etc.
• Process Improvement
• Identify ESSA (elimination, standardisation, simplification and automation) opportunities, and communicate to relevant stakeholders inefficiencies including suboptimal processes in transactional accounting processes
• Build and sustain a network of key stakeholders to deliver process improvements.
• Improve data management and report automation through close collaboration with the finance systems team and the Information Technology (IT) function

Essential Qualification & Skills:
• Bachelor's/ Master's level education in Accounting.
• Chartered Accountant or CA intermediate qualification (Preferred)
• At least 2-3 years’ experience within taxation with a listed multinational company
• Oracle ERP
• Good working knowledge of, and experience of application of, IFRS
• Tax professional with good working knowledge of direct and indirect taxes, and relevant in-house experience
• Excel
• Ability to work effectively with all areas of the business and to communicate with colleagues, and build effective relationships
• Ability to critically analyse current work methods and suggest and rapidly implement successful change
• Strong verbal and written communication in English
• Ability to work effectively as part of a global virtual team
• Deadline focused, thrives in a high-pressure environment
• Resilient, ability to self-manage and work autonomously
• Diligent and dependable, works with a high degree of attention to detail
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Willingness to do all requested ad-hoc work