Senior Tax Advisor

Ecopetrol USA Inc. is seeking a Senior Tax Advisor to join its Houston-based accounting team.

The Senior Tax Advisor reports to the USA Controller and is responsible for supporting the definition and execution of the company tax strategy, ensuring tax compliance, optimizing company tax payments and tax planning and forecasting.

• Application of IFRS policies, tax regulations & corporate guidelines for the calculation of tax provisions, tax payments, tax legal requirements and the presentation of the financial statements.
• Support the planning team in the preparation of business plan and current year budgets and forecast.
• Support the analysis of new projects or investments evaluations, ensuring tax assumptions, calculations and recommendations are properly reflected.
• Preparation of monthly, quarterly, and annual tax filings such as annual income tax return, withholding tax, superfund tax, federal & state taxes, or other applicable filings.
• Ensure that economic models used by the company to assess projects economics’, impairment testing and other applicable valuations are aligned with tax assumptions.
• Responsible for the calculation and monitoring of deferred tax adjustments (DTA/DTL), current tax provision and corporate minimum tax (CMT). Provide tax advice to minimize the company’s tax exposure and maximize tax benefits such as application of Net Operating Losses (NOLs).
• Preparation of monthly tax provisions & adjustments journal entries, tax account reconciliations and compliance with tax obligations.
• Maintain a well-documented reconciliation between the fiscal and accounting ledgers.
• Establish and maintain effective and auditable tax procedures, processes, and controls for the tax area. Lead tax audits including negotiating with federal, state, and international tax authorities to ensure successful closures.
• Lead the completion of the annual transfer pricing study with consultants.

• Education/
  
  Experience:
  
  Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, economics, or related subject. MBA or J.D. is a plus.

• Knowledge of US tax law, compliance and procedure
• Familiarity with various tax returns/schedules (both federal and state)
• Broad experience in corporate tax for the oil and gas industry (as operator and non-operator)
• Experience in E&P partnership taxation and in the business of supply/trading of petroleum products is strongly preferred
• Proficiency in all Microsoft Office 365: PBI and SAP working knowledge.

Ecopetrol USA Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.