Tax Manager

About PxGeo

Role overview

Tax advisory and project work

• Advise on bids, projects, and operations across jurisdictions, covering permanent-establishment risks, tax treaties, withholding tax, transfer pricing, and tax-efficient structures.
• Manage treaty relief and refunds, withholding-tax recovery, and indirect-tax and import implications of vessel and equipment movements.
• Provide tax advice from bid to project completion, covering contracting structures, corporate and withholding taxes, payroll tax, and social security.
• Lead project registrations, compliance, treaty-relief implementation, monitoring, and deregistration; draft, review, and negotiate tax provisions in commercial agreements.
• Validate contractor and vessel-owner tax recharges; support entity changes, acquisitions, reorganizations, asset transfers, intra-group financing, and incentive plans.
• Maintain transfer-pricing frameworks, agreements, recharges, benchmarking, and Master File and Local File documentation.
• Track tax-law, treaty, and OECD developments and assess their impact on tax cost, effective tax rate, and reporting.

Compliance, accounting, and governance

• Lead global corporate-income, indirect, and withholding-tax compliance, including timely returns, cross-border payment reviews, treaty-relief claims, and remediation of historical exposures.
• Manage current and deferred tax accounting, uncertain tax positions, effective-tax-rate analysis, tax controls, policies, documentation, and alignment with statutory reporting and transfer pricing.
• Lead tax audits, inquiries, and disputes; coordinate advisers and prepare technical positions, supporting documentation, and responses for tax authorities.
• Partner with Commercial, Operations, Legal, and Finance teams and manage external advisers to deliver practical, cost-effective tax guidance.

Qualifications and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Law, Accounting, Finance, or Economics is required.
• At least eight years of tax experience in a multinational group, major accounting firm, tax authority, or a combination of these.
• Substantial international tax experience across jurisdictions, including permanent establishment, treaty application and relief, withholding tax, cross-border structuring, and transfer pricing.
• Solid VAT and indirect-tax knowledge for cross-border services and equipment; hands-on multi-country compliance, IFRS (IAS 12) tax accounting, and tax-audit experience.
• Experience providing tax input for international bids, tenders, and contract tax clauses; advanced written and spoken English.
• Professional tax or accounting qualifications and a taxation or international-tax master’s degree are preferred; ONESOURCE or similar is advantageous.
• Offshore, marine, or energy-services experience is strongly preferred.

Working capabilities

• Can research primary sources, reach and defend clear technical positions, and explain them to non-specialists and senior management.
• Can manage multiple jurisdictions and projects in parallel, prioritize financial and tax risk, and work independently.