Tax Compliance & Provisioning Accountant
Since its creation in 2014, Harbour has grown to become one of the world’s largest and most geographically diverse independent oil and gas companies. Today, Harbour is producing between 475,000 and 485,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day with significant production in Norway, the UK, Germany, Argentina and North Africa. Harbour benefits from competitive operating costs and resilient margins, and a broad set of growth options including near-infrastructure opportunities in Norway, unconventional scalable opportunities in Argentina and conventional offshore projects in Mexico and Indonesia. With low GHG emissions intensity and a leading CO2 storage position in Europe, Harbour remains committed to producing oil and gas safely and responsibly to help meet the world’s energy needs. Harbour is headquartered in London with approximately 5,000 staff and contractors across its operations and offices.
Ours is an inclusive workplace where individuals can bring their whole selves to their job and feel recognised for the value they add. We are committed to creating a genuinely inclusive and supportive working environment to ensure everyone has a positive experience at work.
At Harbour Energy, we aim to recruit, retain and promote our people based on their unique skills, regardless of race, gender or background. We need excellent people to help shape and develop the future of our company. Could this be you?
If so, we want to hear from you.
Purpose of Role:
- UK Tax Compliance and UK Tax Provisioning.
Critical Responsibilities:
- Ensure that all activities are carried out in a safe manner complying with all regulatory requirements, legislation and Harbour Energy HSEQ procedures
Ethics and Compliance Responsibilities:
Areas of Accountability, Responsibility and Competence:
- Preparation of Corporation Tax returns and computations for Harbour Energy UK companies. Preparation of all necessary data, examination of technical issues, computation of tax liability using specialist software
- Filing corporation Tax Returns with HMRC, assisting addressing questions from HMRC, ultimately ensuring that liability agreed
- Researching/legislative checking of selected tax technical matters relevant to tax return responsibilities
- Preparing tax provisioning for inclusion in the statutory accounts of the Harbour Energy Corporate UK legal entities in UK.
- Preparing the UK group relief and UK corporate interest restriction position of the group
- Examination of technical issues and analysis of tax legislation to determine the appropriate presentation of specific transactions
- Preparation of Petroleum Revenue Tax returns for Harbour Energy PRT Fields and assistance with all associated PRT compliance.
- Assisting with Tax compliance as required;
- Assistance with UK statutory tax provisions
- Working with and supporting other members of the wider UK tax team.
- Preparation of Energy Profits Levy calculations for compliance and UK statutory reporting.
- Supporting across wider tax function as required
- Any other reasonable duty as per instruction by your Manager:
- Assisting with Tax advisory as required;
Critical Skills, Qualifications, Experience, etc.:
- Experience in relevant corporate or accountancy firm environment or working in the oil and gas industry.
- Strong accounting skillset with understanding of complex accounting
- Tax practitioner or strong background in accounting with a willingness to learn taxation.
- Professional taxation or accounting qualification, ACA, ACCA, CIMA, AAT or ATT (or working towards)
- Degree qualified (preferably Accounting, Finance, Law (desired but not essential)
- Upstream Corporation Tax and PRT experience (desired but not essential)
- Strong analytical ability
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Attention to detail and a desire for precision
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Highly numerate
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Effective communication skills
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Ability to work independently and as part of a team
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Knowledge of UK Upstream tax software desirable, together with knowledge of SAP (preferable but not essential).
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Ability to learn and develop understanding of accounting systems in order to navigate them.
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Strong Excel skills
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Pro-active, driven, ability to take ownership and is a supportive and congenial team player
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Desire to grow and learn in a supportive fast paced dynamic work environment.
Inclusive recruitment is a vital part of our diversity, equity and inclusion strategy. Whatever your background, if you feel you need an adjustment during our selection process to suit your needs, please let us know, and we will be happy to help.