Tax Manager

About PxGeo

Role overview

International tax and projects

• Advise on bids, projects, and commercial operations across jurisdictions, covering permanent establishment, treaties, withholding tax, transfer pricing, and tax-efficient structures.
• Manage cross-border compliance, treaty relief and refunds, withholding tax recovery, and indirect tax and import effects of vessel and equipment movements.
• Advise from bid through project completion on tax implications, contracting structures, operating models, registrations, compliance, monitoring, and deregistration.
• Draft, review, and negotiate tax provisions in commercial agreements; validate tax recharges from contractors and vessel owners.

Structuring and compliance

• Support corporate structuring, acquisitions, and reorganizations, including entity and branch changes, asset transfers, intra-group financing, and incentive plans.
• Maintain transfer pricing frameworks, intercompany agreements and recharges, benchmarking, and Master File and Local File documentation.
• Monitor legislative, treaty, and OECD developments and assess their tax and reporting effects.
• Lead global tax filings and compliance, tax accounting and governance, controls, policies, documentation, and remediation of historical tax exposures.

Audits and stakeholders

• Lead tax audits, inquiries, and disputes; coordinate advisers, manage technical positions, and prepare responses and documentation for tax authorities.
• Partner with Commercial, Operations, Legal, and Finance teams and manage adviser relationships to deliver practical, commercially sound tax solutions.

Qualifications and experience

• Bachelor's degree in Law, Accounting, Finance, or Economics is required.
• At least 8 years of tax experience in a multinational group, major accounting firm, tax authority, or a combination of these is required.
• Substantial hands-on international tax experience across multiple jurisdictions, including permanent establishment, treaty application and relief, withholding tax, cross-border structuring, and transfer pricing, is essential.
• Solid VAT and indirect tax knowledge for cross-border services and equipment is required.
• Hands-on multi-country tax compliance, IFRS (IAS 12) tax accounting, and tax audit experience is required.
• Experience providing tax input to international bids, tenders, and contract tax clauses is required.
• Professional qualifications such as ADIT, CTA, ACA/CA, ACCA, or CPA, and a master's degree in taxation, are preferred.
• ONESOURCE or similar tax technology is an advantage; offshore, marine, or energy services experience is strongly preferred.
• Able to research primary sources, defend technical positions, communicate clearly to non-specialists and senior management, manage multiple jurisdictions and projects, prioritize risk, and work independently.
• Advanced written and verbal English skills are required.