Senior Manager - Tax Planning

Country USA City HOUSTON Workplace location HOUSTON-LOUISIANA STREET(USA) Employer company TotalEnergies American Services, Inc. Domain Finance Type of contract Regular position Experience Minimum 10 years

Context & Environment

• Must develop a working relationship with the CFO’s and accounting managers for assigned affiliates and consult with the affiliates on a regular basis regarding the tax implications for various transactions.
• Requires an ability to lead a project to completion – including new investments in the US.
• Requires experience and understanding of the complex deferred tax rules for oil & gas companies
• Frequent Interaction with a variety of departments and businesses, sometimes outside of US.
• Typically, there are many ongoing initiatives with multiple deadlines and very short turnaround.
• Assisting in coordinating with external tax advisors and service providers to deliver needed services in a cost constrained environment. 
• High level analysis of complex business operations and industry specific tax issues for all branch activities, Upstream, Downstream, Petrochemicals, Renewables, trading and shipping, and other specialty chemicals and manufacturing businesses.
• Leadership regarding international filing requirements and transfer pricing issues impacting the US affiliates

Activities

This position is primarily responsible for the following:

• Tax Planning function for TotalEnergies in the US (3 US consolidated tax groups).
• Serve as Tax Business Partner for various branches with a focus on E&P and Renewables.
• Provides tax advice in support of US and global transactions.
• Monitoring and modeling tax attribute management.
• Serve as a member of the Tax Leadership Team supporting US tax strategy.
• Primary contact for tax committees representing the US tax team with the Washington DC office and American Petroleum Institute and General Business Alliance tax committees.
• Respond to document requests from the IRS and state auditors.
• Perform analysis and provide documentation of all material uncertain tax positions.
• Recommend tax mitigation strategies, cost savings, and process improvements.
• Provide leadership for IRS income tax audits and IDR requests for all US affiliates.
• Project work as needed

Candidate Profile

• BS/BBA in Accounting - Master’s Degree in Taxation, JD and/or CPA is preferred
• 10+ years of US corporate tax experience in a CPA firm (Big 4 experience preferred) and/or major corporation.
• Project management skills required
• Ability to manage multiple competing priorities in a fast paced enviroment
• Strong commun