What’s The Role

Working as part of the Global Tax Organisation, you will facilitate Shell and Shell Finance’s strategy and priorities, by supporting our evolving portfolio and mission of helping society attain net zero.

What You’ll Be Doing

This role reports into the UK Country Tax Manager and is part of the UK Country Tax Team, with all team members located in the UK and based out of the London office. The role is expected to work flexibly and help the team deliver on key priorities.

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

Primary stakeholder interactions:

• Working with the Tax Compliance and Reporting team (“MDT”) – provide guidance to MDT Tax for the delivery of accurate tax reporting and compliance.
• External relationships – 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 in 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 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, hand‑rail documents, decision trees, etc.). Tax is committed to supporting flexible working arrangements where feasible, subject to applicable policy, regulations and legislative frameworks. If appropriate, please indicate in your application the type of flexible working arrangements for which you would like to be considered.

What We Offer

• 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 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.

Other Details

Shell has a bold goal: to become one of the world’s most diverse and inclusive companies. You can learn more about how we’re working towards that goal.

We are committed to attracting a broader and more diverse pool of candidates. If this position doesn’t feel like the perfect fit for your qualifications right now, we’d still love to hear from you. Consider creating a profile in our Talent Community so we can keep you in mind for future opportunities that may align with your skills.

Location: London, England, United Kingdom