Intercompany & Foreign Payments Advisor

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:

• Own the day-to-day technical analysis and documentation of foreign payments and intercompany transactions for the Mexico BU.
• Ensure cross-border payments are supported by appropriate source-of-income, withholding tax, treaty, beneficial ownership and anti-abuse analysis before payment or filing.
• Support transfer pricing, SIPRED and financial statement related-party disclosures in coordination with the Forecasting / Provision Team Lead.

Critical Responsibilities (MAE/MATTE/HSES*):

• Ensures all activities are carried out in a safe manner complying with all regulatory requirements, legislation and Harbour Energy HSES Procedures.

Ethics and Compliance Responsibilities:

• Ensure that all activities and behaviours are carried out in accordance with Harbour Energy’s Ethics and Compliance Policies and Procedures and to complete any compulsory compliance training as required.
• Ensure that tax analyses, filings, calculations, workpapers and representations are accurate, complete, properly supported and consistent with approved tax positions. Escalate potential non-compliance, errors, omissions, conflicts of interest or control failures.
• Protect confidential tax, financial, legal and commercial information and conduct interactions with tax authorities, auditors, advisers, suppliers and internal stakeholders professionally and ethically.

Areas of Accountability, Responsibility and Competence:

Foreign Payments and Withholding Tax

• Analyse payments to non-residents, including source-of-income rules and applicable Mexican withholding tax.
• Assess treaty entitlement, tax residence certificates, beneficial ownership and documentation requirements.
• Perform MLI/PPT and other anti-abuse analysis where relevant and identify REFIPRE implications.
• Analyse technical services, royalties, leases/use or enjoyment, interest, dividends and other cross-border payment categories.
• Maintain foreign payment workpapers, withholding support and transaction trackers.

Intercompany Transactions and Financing

• Review intercompany agreements, recharges and service arrangements from a Mexican tax perspective.
• Analyse cash pooling, intercompany loans, debt capitalisations and related financing transactions.
• Coordinate related-party documentation and ensure consistency between contracts, invoices, accounting and tax treatment.
• Identify permanent establishment considerations arising from cross-border operations, personnel or service arrangements and escalate material matters.

Transfer Pricing and Informative Reporting

• Coordinate transfer-pricing documentation, including Local File, Master File and CbC inputs where applicable.
• Support EPT and related-party compliance requirements.
• Prepare and maintain SIPRED Annexes 16 and 17 support and provide inputs for Annex 19 where required.
• Prepare intercompany and related-party inputs for the financial statement notes.
• Provide underlying information and analysis for DIM Annex 9 workpapers owned by the Forecasting / Provision Team Lead.

Controls and Stakeholder Coordination

• Coordinate with Treasury, AP, Legal, Procurement and Accounting before material foreign or intercompany payments.
• Maintain tax residence, treaty, beneficial-ownership and contractual evidence repositories.
• Identify unsupported or unusual transactions and escalate them to the Forecasting / Provision Team Lead and Tax Manager as appropriate.
• Support external audits, SIPRED, tax authority reviews and JV audits with cross-border and related-party evidence.
• Monitor legislative, regulatory and business developments relevant to the role and recommend required process changes.
• Prepare periodic status reporting to the Tax Manager / functional lead on deliverables, risks, open items and upcoming deadlines.

Critical Skills*, Qualifications, Experience, etc.:

Technical Skills

• Strong knowledge of Mexican international tax, withholding tax and double tax treaties.
• Working knowledge of beneficial ownership, MLI/PPT, REFIPRE, transfer pricing and permanent establishment concepts.
• Strong understanding of intercompany financing, services, royalties, leases and related-party documentation.
• Ability to reconcile legal agreements, invoices, payments and accounting treatment.

Non-Technical Skills

• Strong analytical and documentation skills.
• Ability to work effectively with Treasury, AP, Legal, Procurement and Accounting.
• Disciplined escalation of high-risk or novel cross-border matters.

Professional Experience

• Experience in international tax, transfer pricing, foreign payments or intercompany tax in a multinational or advisory environment.
• Oil & gas or energy-sector experience preferred.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Tax, Law, Finance or a related field.
• Postgraduate tax or international tax studies are preferred.

Language

• English: Proficient (written and spoken).
• Spanish: Proficient/Native.

Harbour Principles and Values

• Strong alignment with Harbour Energy’s core values, behaviours, and commitment to operational excellence and integrity.

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.

For further information or support on any of these points, please reach out to us at careers@harbourenergy.com