Employment Tax Lead - Africa at Baker Hughes - General Electric (GE) Nigeria

Role Summary

• Baker Hughes, a GE company has an exciting opportunity for an Africa Employment Tax Lead to join our team in Nigeria.
• In this role you will need to determine and minimize the company's worldwide tax liability with the highest integrity while complying with worldwide tax laws.
• Seasoned, senior level manager requiring in-depth understanding of regional tax issues, the oil & gas industry and how their role integrates with others within their discipline

Essential Responsibilities

• Regional responsibility for BHGE employment tax matters in Africa
• Providing commercial support, tax technical analysis, policy interpretation and support with transaction execution
• Leads the implementation of new/amended employment tax policies, best practices and new tools within the region, in order to drive a consistent harmonized tax approach across BHGE
• Review and harmonise legacy BH & legacy GE Oil & Gas employment tax and social security positions and local compliance procedures
• Work alongside the Global Mobility and Immigration functions to provide employment tax guidance on the international deployment of assignees and field service engineers
• Provide technical guidance to the monthly host country shadow payroll process
• Oversight of certain country employer payroll tax filings, collaborate with local payroll teams
• Responsibility for the management of PIT audits and related reserves including Equatorial Guinea, Congo & Gabon
• Coordinate and collaborate with tax colleagues across the BHGE organization, including regional corporate tax leaders, product company tax leaders, transfer pricing leaders, the tax planning team and the tax lifecycle & analysis team
• Key point of contact for functional regional leaders, across legal, HR, finance, commercial, compliance, etc.

Qualifications/Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited University or College, in Finance, Law or Accounting and accredited Accountancy qualification or qualified lawyer, specializing in tax
• Minimum of 8-10 years post qualification tax experience in public accounting, law firm or industry

Desired Characteristics:

• Proactive and self-motivated
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Interpersonal skills to develop relationships across the matrix organisation and collaborate with other team members and colleagues in other functions
• Demonstrated ability to lead and manage projects and influence outcomes
• Creative thinking and complex decision making ability
• Subject matter expert with deep technical expertise; viewed as a specialist within the region
• Demonstrated ability to analyse and resolve problems
• Ability to document, plan, market, and execute new policies and tax processes
• French speaker advantageous.