Tax Manager

<b>Job responsibilites</b><br> <ul> <li> Member of Singapore Country Finance team.</li> <li> Provide concise, accurate and timely end to end direct tax advice on projects in Singapore, with a specific focus on businesses housed within Schlumberger group of Companies.</li> <li> Interact with Global and Regional teams in order to provide advice on cross-border issues and projects.</li> <li> Manage tax compliance, tax assessments and queries by the tax authorities (both for CIT & GST). Advice on Expat PIT. </li> <li> Work with Auditors to finalise the fiscal books. Manage transfer pricing issues, working closely with the Global Transfer Pricing team and finance operations on transfer pricing advisory and documentation matters.</li> <li> Conduct training and internal workshops to raise tax awareness.</li> <li> Function as a focal point for tax reporting matters, managing the interface with finance operations and closely monitoring and improving tax reporting processes in line with legislation and group requirements.</li> <li> Responsible for creating monthly/quarterly tax provision and Fin 48 reporting</li> <li> Establish and maintain good working relations with relevant government /tax authorities. Work on other matters assigned where value and priorities dictate.</li> <li> Role operates at senior levels in the Businesses and Functions.</li> <li> Managing the simultaneous demands of competing business clients, recognising the complexities of each different area of operation within Schlumberger.</li> <li> Ensuring the proper tax reporting of business transactions so that the expected results and benefits are claimed, and then providing audit and defense support to retain those benefits. </li> </ul> <br> <b>Requirements</b><br> <ul> <li> Broad experience (8-10 years) in business taxation working for multinational, or a professional firm.</li> <li> Good tax accounting knowledge and experience.</li> <li> Recognised professional qualification and member of a recognised accounting or legal professional body.</li> <li> Effective communicator of complex tax issues; both written and oral and strong negotiation skills.</li> <li> Ability to adapt to new or changing circumstances and ambiguous or pressured situations.</li> <li> Demonstrates creativity in the evaluation of issues and development of possible solutions.</li> <li> Ability to evaluate tax risks, balance risk with commercial objectives, and make objective, practical, and technically appropriate recommendations.</li> <li> Effective team player. </li> <li> Have working rights in Singapore. </li> </ul> <br> Schlumberger is an equal employment opportunity employer. Qualified applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, status as a protected veteran or other characteristics protected by law.<br> <br> Please be vigilant to fraudulent activity if you receive a communication or e-mail regarding potential employment, or an invitation to submit applications to a public email address, supposedly from Schlumberger. Please do not send money or pass any personal details to anyone suggesting they can provide employment with us. We will never ask potential job-seekers for any sort of advance payment as part of the recruiting or hiring process. For more inf