Job Description

The Company: Aramco Trading was established as Saudi Aramco’s trading arm in 2011 under the approval of Saudi Aramco’s Board of Directors. It established its headquarters in Al-Midra Tower in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia and have 3 other global offices in London, Singapore and Fujairah. With four offices currently operating worldwide, Aramco Trading has broader access to markets, a wider client base, a more talented and diversified workforce, and a more sophisticated and integrated global business model. Today, the company is recognized globally as a critical trading partner for refiners, shipping companies, financial institutions, end-users, and other product-trading companies. The company trades across the barrel including Crude, Middle distillates, Light distillates, bulk petrochemicals, and polyolefin. Supporting market growth and the integration of downstream assets, Aramco Trading Singapore (ATS), commenced its trading activities in July 2018. ATS’ focus is on integrating Saudi Aramco’s downstream assets in Asia and expanding third-party trading by focusing on naphtha and, more recently, LNG.

The Function: The finance team is broadly divided into 4 pillars namely accounting & reporting, settlements, treasury and tax. The tax division is a newly created division which will manage end to end aspect of tax including corporate tax advisory, IRAS submission, transfer pricing, tax optimisation, reporting and be managing relationship with both internal and external counter parts.

Key Accountabilities:

• In charge of managing all tax aspects of the company’s financial statement as well as external tax reporting

• Tax advisory: to provide advisory to management, new projects, ad hoc request, and keeping the company and group abreast of new tax updates and implication

• Tax Audit: Work with internal stakeholders and tax agent to draft and response to any tax queries

• Tax Compliance: coordinate with internal stakeholders to ensure timely and accurate corporate tax & GST filing and submission. Perform reconciliation and clear review points

• Transfer Pricing: knowledge in transfer pricing with prior experience deriving the methodology will be MUST

• Be the pioneer in setting up the tax function with clear and logical work flow
  

Requirements:

• Degree in Accountancy or equivalent professional accounting qualifications

• Tax accreditation with Singapore Institute of Accredited Tax Professional preferred

• Min 8 years of relevant tax experience in Big 4 accounting firm and/or commercial firm. Prior working experience in a trading environment will be an added advantage

• Commercial experience in reviewing Singapore tax returns with knowledge of tax accounting preferred

• Strong technical knowledge of Singapore direct tax

• Knowledge of indirect tax preferred but not a must

• Good communication and interpersonal skills. Able to communicate tax technical issue to non-tax professional

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

. Proficient in MS Word, Excel and SAP

Application: Do you have what it takes? If you are keen to grow your career with a leading energy company, this is the role for you. Interested applicants please submit full resume with email and contact details to ATS-HR@aramcotrading.sg We regret to inform you that only selected candidates will be notified.