Tax Lead, UK Corporate at Shell

What You’ll Be Doing

This role reports into the UK Country Tax Manager. This role is part of the UK Country Tax Team, with team members all located in the UK, and based out of the London office. The role is expected not to have a specific business focus, but to work together with the UK Country Tax Team, to work flexibly, and ensure that as a Team we deliver on key priorities.

The successful candidate will be expected to be able to lead the provision of UK tax advice across businesses in the UK as priorities require; to ensure fiscal compliance working with the UK Filing and Reporting Tax team based; to manage and minimise exposures by working with the businesses, in support of their business objectives & value creation.

Primary stakeholder interactions:

• Working with Tax Compliance and Reporting team (“MDT”) - Provide guidance to MDT Tax for the delivery of accurate Tax reporting and compliance.
• External relationships - Effectively establish, build and utilise external advisor relationships and contacts for the benefit of Shell.
• Working with other areas of Tax, in particular other members of the UK Country Tax team, tax colleagues involved global business tax advisory work and other tax colleagues as necessary.
• Engaging with stakeholders in Finance and the Business as appropriate.
• Direct interaction with HMRC on relevant issues. Shell follows a transparent and open approach of Cooperative Compliance with HMRC, consistent with our Responsible Tax Principles.
• Close engagement with Reporting and Controllers to ensure quarterly reporting is managed and transparent.

What You Bring

• Appropriate technical, professional, and business knowledge/experience/qualifications. Strong technical knowledge of UK and international tax, commensurate with the seniority of the role, gained working for Shell, another multinational, or a professional firm for at least 10 years.
• Highly effective at managing Tax risks, balancing risk with Business objectives, and making recommendations that are objective, practical, technically appropriate and supportive of the Business aims.
• Demonstration of strong Leadership Attributes commensurate with the seniority of the role.
• Given the need for increased prioritisation and pooling of resources across the Tax function, this role will work flexibly undertaking any other activities as required.
• Support the partnership with, and reliance on, both Business and Finance in the Business, to make judgments on low-risk tax activities (provision of tools, handrail documents, decision trees, etc.) Tax is committed to supporting flexible working arrangements where feasible, and subject to applicable policy, regulations and legislative frameworks. If appropriate, please make clear in your application the type of flexible working arrangements for which you would like to be considered.

What We Offer

You bring your skills and experience to Shell and in return you work with talented, committed people on one of the most important challenges facing our planet. You’ll have the opportunity to develop the skills you need to grow in an environment where we value honesty, integrity, and respect for one another. You’ll be able to balance your priorities as you become the best version of yourself.

• Progress as a person as we work on the energy transition together.
• Continuously grow the transferable skills you need to get ahead.
• Work at the forefront of technology, trends, and practices.
• Collaborate with experienced colleagues with unique expertise.
• Achieve your balance in a values-led culture that encourages you to be the best version of yourself.
• Benefit from flexible working hours, and the possibility of remote/mobile working.
• Perform at your best with a competitive starting salary and annual performance related salary increase – our pay and benefits packages are considered to be highly competitive.
• Take advantage of paid parental leave, including for non-birthing parents.
• Join an organisation working to become one of the most diverse and inclusive in the world. We strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientation, and life experiences to apply.
• Grow as you progress through diverse career opportunities in national and international teams.
• Gain access to a wide range of training and development programmes.