Tax Compliance Team Lead

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.

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• Lead the monthly, quarterly and annual tax compliance cycle for the Mexico BU, ensuring that tax obligations are prepared, reviewed, filed and documented accurately and timely fulfilment of all statutory obligations including income tax returns, VAT and WHT entity work papers and tax reconciliations.
• Oversee statutory tax audit processes (SIPRED) and informative returns, coordinating with external advisers and internal stakeholders as required.
• Ensure compliance governance is maintained across all tax compliance work streams, providing provision support to the forecasting team and managing registry and corporate updates,
• The role is expected to maintain robust entity-by-entity tax work papers, control compliance calendars, manage interactions with the Mexican tax authorities, and support current and deferred tax reporting in coordination with Finance and Reporting teams.

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

• 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.
• The role is responsible for ensuring that tax filings, calculations, work papers and representations to tax authorities are accurate, complete, timely and properly supported. The role must not support aggressive, unsupported or undocumented tax positions and must elevate any potential non-compliance, errors, omissions, conflicts of interest or control failures.
• The position must ensure that interactions with tax authorities, external auditors, tax advisors, suppliers and internal stakeholders are conducted professionally and ethically. The role must also protect confidential tax, financial, legal and commercial information, and support compliance with anti-bribery, anti-corruption, sanctions, procurement and conflict of interest requirements where relevant to tax processes.

• Manage the monthly tax compliance cycle including SAT obligations, provisional payments and supporting documentation.
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