Senior

Castrol IBERIA Finance Advisor

Madrid, Spain · Hybrid

Entity: Finance

Job Family Group: Finance Group

Job Description: This is a role within the Castrol organization, and the successful candidate will become part of the Castrol ring-fence. If you are part of the ring-fence, it is expected that your employment will move with Castrol to new ownership.

Our purpose is to deliver energy to the world, today and tomorrow. For over 100 years, Castrol has focused on discovering, developing, and producing oil and gas in the nations where we operate. We are one of the few companies globally that can provide governments and customers with an integrated energy offering. Delivering our strategy sustainably is fundamental to achieving our ambition to be a net zero company by 2050 or sooner.

About the role:

The IBERIA Finance Advisor is responsible for ensuring the accurate and timely delivery of statutory, financial and tax reporting for Castrol Spain and Portugal. The role provides end-to-end accountability for statutory accounts, audit coordination, and tax and regulatory submissions, while also supporting the departments accountable for intercompany billing related to Royalty and Residual Fees, as well as related treasury and payment processes. It plays a key role in maintaining a strong control environment by partnering with FBT, Tax, Treasury, external auditors and statutory bodies, while ensuring compliance with local regulations and group standards across the Castrol business in IBERIA.

In addition, you will provide quality assurance and coordination of cross-border reports and the corresponding processes for Castrol Spain and Portugal and subsidiaries in compliance with stock corporation, company and tax as well as local laws and regulations, the execution of the corresponding risk management and compliance with corporate governance. This also includes coordinating with and ensuring the resulting reporting obligations for and to the Executive Board, management and Supervisory Board. Ensuring compliance with the requirements of internal and external audits as well as audit processes is also a crucial part of the position.

The Castrol IBERIA Finance Advisor will safeguard and ensure accuracy and compliance with local tax requirements particularly associated with corporate income tax, withholding tax, sales tax, civil tax, property, agricultural and other local taxes.

You will maintain close working relationships with other business partners, acting as ‘co-pilot’ and providing professional Finance and Tax support. You will simultaneously lead multiple processes and issues, showing resilience and strong skills in prioritizing efforts.

Throughout the accountabilities of the role, the Castrol IBERIA Finance Advisor leads the identification of continuous efficiency improvements in Finance and Tax processes and drives continuous improvement of business performance.

You will be accountable for the local delivery of period end close for statutory and group accounts, lead and co-ordinate local audit as well as local taxation accounting support for the relevant legal entities within the IBERIA region with proper coordination and establishing effective relationships with FBT organization, custom agencies, tax warehouses and external authorities

Key accountabilities:

Single point of accountability and primary contact with regards to all matters related to corporate income tax, withholding tax, transfer pricing, VAT tax and excise tax.
Leads the company direct and local tax policies and ensure a robust control and supervising environment and effective risk mitigation.
Is key business interface and critical issue point, fostering effective internal and external relationships.
Supports, co-ordinates and participates in internal and external tax audits and inspections.
On request, provides input to tax advocacy activities.
Liaises with FBT to ensure quality, completeness and accuracy of tax filing. Jointly pursues opportunities for continuous improvement.
Owns direct and indirect tax-related procedures and processes and performs ongoing review of changes in national and international tax and accounting requirements to verify relevance to the business and make appropriate interventions and implementations.
Engages and supports in tax return preparation, validation and submission.
Maintains the ERP financial and tax system.
Supports, advises and participates, when needed, in continuous improvement, standardization and simplification of processes, business activities and projects in the design of accounting-related and tax issues, including direct and indirect tax projects.
Supports treasury activities, including local bank relationship management, and provides ongoing support for issue resolution.
Coordinates schedules and dependency report activities.
Coordinates dependency report-related GBS activities (data collection of values and volumes) and integration in/coordination with the dependency report, ensuring timely implementation.
Provides requested documents during tax audits in connection with the dependency report.
Maintains interactive communication with BU & FU to ensure the accuracy and completeness of the dependency report under local laws.
Co-ordinates financial close and statutory activities for Castrol Spain and Portugal.

Management and economic performance indicators:

Business understanding and ability to take advantage of opportunities in operational improvements and cost reduction/avoidance in specialist areas.
Ensure accuracy of direct and indirect tax reporting and payment (particularly CIT, WHT, TP, VAT, Excise) with no legal or regulatory issues.
Adherence to Castrol tax compliance framework and guidance

ESSENTIAL EDUCATION

A Master's Degree in Tax, Law, Economics, Finance or Accounting is preferred.
Alternatively, an MBA in Finance and Tax or a comparable qualification.
Evidenced courses and certification in the tax regulatory framework.

ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE AND JOB REQUIREMENTS

Good command of written and spoken English and Spanish/Portuguese; other European languages are an advantage.
Excellent communication, interpersonal and relationship leadership skills to enable effective collaboration.
Strong affiliation with the legislative framework and up-to-date knowledge of regulatory developments.
Good understanding of replenishment, product movement and sales procedures, and related customs and tax processes.
Practical experience in handling external financial, tax or other statutory inspections and controls.
Experience interacting with representatives from public authorities.
Very good knowledge of HGB and IFRS.
Good knowledge of the processing of general ledger transactions and the preparation of annual financial statements (HGB and IFRS).

DESIRABLE CRITERIA

Agile training and a working understanding of Agile techniques, including Scrum and Kanban.
Self-starter with the ability to prioritise and work independently with limited guidance.
Strong numerical and analytical skills, business insight and understanding of business drivers.
Knowledge of local tax and fiscal regulations.
Castrol or comparable business experience.
Knowledge of SAP (PRE, PRK, FI, CO, BW, BCS and FBW) and Excel.
Knowledge of financial accounting according to IFRS and local GAAP.
Knowledge of Group reporting systems and standards.
Experience in tax and accounting with an international orientation.
Experience in Statutory and Group Reporting across Finance, including Controlling, Tax, Business Finance and Indirect Tax.
Experience in general and/or financial accounting; experience in statutory accounts under Spanish GAAP and Portuguese GAAP is desirable.
Hands-on experience with Portuguese and Spanish tax authorities' platforms (Portal Autoridade Tributária, AEAT, Bank of Spain, Mercantile Register) and audit coordination with Deloitte.
Portuguese Certified Accountant (Contabilista Certificado / OCC) required to act as SPA for Castrol Portugal statutory submissions and tax authority filings (DMR, ECSL, VAT, Stamp Duty, Modelo 10, Modelo 30, CESE, IES, etc.).

Why Join our team?

At Castrol, we provide an excellent working environment and employee benefits such as an open and inclusive culture, a great work-life balance, tremendous learning and development opportunities to craft your career path and many others.

We support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and exciting environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to crafting an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly.

There are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are significant, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options, collaboration spaces in a modern office environment, and others benefits.

Reinvent your career as you help our business meet the challenges of the future.

Travel Requirement No travel is expected with this role

Relocation Assistance: This role is not eligible for relocation

Remote Type: This position is a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills: Accounting policy, Accounting Processes and Financial Systems, Analytical Thinking, Analytics, Business process control, Business process improvement, Commercial Acumen, Customer centric thinking, Data Analysis, Digital Fluency, Financial Reporting, Internal control and compliance

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We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of protected characteristics like race, religion, color, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, veteran status or disability status. Individuals with an accessibility need may request an adjustment/accommodation related to bp’s recruiting process (e.g., accessing the job application, completing required assessments, participating in telephone screenings or interviews, etc.). If you would like to request an adjustment/accommodation related to the recruitment process, please contact us.

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