Tax Team Lead - Forecasting / Provision

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:

•    Lead the monthly, quarterly and annual tax provision and forecasting cycle for the Mexico BU, including current tax, deferred tax, cash tax forecasts and management reporting.
•    Own tax attributes, modelling and tax accounting positions, including DTA/DTL, tax depreciation, tax losses, CUCA, CUFIN and share-value calculations.
•    Lead the Tax Accounting, Forecasting & International Tax workstream and line-manage the Intercompany & Foreign Payments Advisor.

Critical Responsibilities:

• Ensure 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 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.

Areas of Accountability, Responsibility and Competence:

Tax Provision and Reporting

• Prepare and review monthly, quarterly and annual current and deferred tax provisions.
• Perform DTA/DTL analysis, including tax depreciation, fixed assets, carry-forwards and other relevant timing differences.
• Prepare effective tax rate analysis, tax reporting packs and management commentary for HQ, auditors and Finance.
• Maintain provision workpapers and support tax disclosures in the financial statements.
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Forecasting, Tax Attributes and Modelling

• Prepare cash tax estimates, monthly tax forecasts and closing scenarios aligned with the planning cycle.
• Maintain and monitor tax losses, CUCA, CUFIN and other tax attributes.
• Prepare share-value calculations and tax basis analyses for Mexican entities.
• Lead tax modelling for capital reductions, dividend planning, tax-loss utilisation and other corporate scenarios.
• Assess uncertain tax positions and tax contingencies, escalating material matters to the Tax Manager and Tax Supervisor where legal interpretation or controversy is required.
• Prepare DIM technical workpapers for Annex 9.

Intercompany and Transfer Pricing Oversight

• Supervise the Intercompany & Foreign Payments Advisor and review cross-border tax analyses, intercompany financing, withholding tax and treaty documentation.
• Coordinate Local File and Master File processes, including EPT-related support and CbC inputs where applicable.
• Provide tax advice on intercompany loans, cash pools, debt capitalisations, recharges and similar transactions.
• Review SIPRED Annexes 16 and 17 and Annex 19 inputs where linked to related-party or financing matters.
• Coordinate intercompany disclosures and related-party notes to the financial statements.

Cross-Functional Integration and Controls

• Integrate tax treatment with Finance, Accounting, Treasury, AP, Procurement, Payroll and Legal processes.
• Support SAP and tax-system implementations from a tax accounting, provision and control perspective.
• Provide provision, tax attribute and modelling inputs to annual tax returns, SIPRED, external audit and JV audit workstreams.
• Develop policies and procedures for forecasting, tax provision, tax attributes and intercompany tax governance.

People Management

• Line-manage direct reports within the Forecasting / Provision workstream, reviewing outputs and prioritising workload.
• Coach direct reports through technical guidance, feedback and development planning
• Coach direct reports through on-the-job guidance, regular feedback and targeted support on career progression.
• Monitor legislative, regulatory and business developments relevant to the role and recommend required process changes.

Critical Skills, Qualifications, Experience, etc. :

Technical Skills:

• Strong knowledge of Mexican corporate income tax, tax accounting, current and deferred tax, ETR analysis and forecasting methodologies.
• Strong understanding of tax attributes, fixed assets, tax depreciation, capital transactions and corporate modelling.
• Working knowledge of international tax, transfer pricing, related-party transactions and withholding tax.
• Advanced financial modelling and ERP/data-analysis capability, including SAP or equivalent.

Non-Technical Skills:

• Strong analytical judgement and ability to explain complex tax impacts to Finance and management.
• Strong leadership, planning and stakeholder-management skills.
• High level of integrity and disciplined documentation of assumptions and tax positions.

Professional Experience:

• Experience leading tax provision, forecasting or tax accounting in a multinational organisation, preferably oil & gas or energy.
• Experience with current/deferred tax reporting, tax modelling and intercompany/transfer-pricing workstreams.
• Prior people-management or team-lead experience.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Tax or a related field.
• Professional accounting or tax qualification preferred.

Language:

• English: Proficient (written and spoken).
• Spanish: Intermediate or above.

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