Senior Manager- Tax & Regulatory Services – Business Tax (Energy & Resources) at Deloitte – Apply Now

Job Description

• We are seeking experienced professionals with expertise in Energy & Resources to join our Tax & Regulatory Services unit.

Responsibilities

Client leadership & relationship management:

• Serve as a trusted adviser to leading upstream, midstream, and downstream clients, providing strategic tax and commercial guidance across complex transactions and operational matters.
• Lead client engagements end-to-end, ensuring high-quality delivery, responsiveness, and alignment with client commercial objectives.
• Build and deepen C-suite and senior stakeholder relationships, positioning the firm as a preferred adviser on critical energy sector issues.

Technical advisory & transaction support:

• Lead the structuring and execution of complex oil and gas transactions, including asset acquisitions and divestments, farm-ins/farm-outs, PSC restructurings, and portfolio optimization.
• Provide expert advice on Nigerian fiscal regimes (including PPT, CIT, TET, VAT, royalties), ensuring technical accuracy, regulatory alignment, and audit defensibility.
• Assess tax and commercial risks, develop optimised structures, and deliver robust, defensible opinions supporting client decision-making.

Engagement delivery & quality assurance:

• Direct multiple concurrent engagements, ensuring rigorous project management, timely delivery, and adherence to professional standards.
• Review and stress-test analyses, reports, and presentations to ensure technical robustness, clarity, and consistency.
• Drive integration of tax, regulatory, and commercial considerations into holistic client solutions.

Team leadership, coaching & capability building:

• Lead, mentor, and develop high-performing teams, providing clear direction, technical guidance, and structured on-the-job coaching.
• Foster a culture of accountability, continuous learning, and collaboration across multidisciplinary teams.
• Build sector capability by upskilling team members on evolving oil and gas fiscal frameworks and market developments.

Business development & market leadership:

• Identify and originate new opportunities within the energy sector, developing proposals and converting leads into sustainable revenue streams.
• Contribute to thought leadership on industry trends, fiscal reforms, and regulatory developments in Nigeria’s oil and gas sector.
• Support strategic positioning of the practice in response to sector transformation, including energy transition dynamics.

Regulatory engagement & stakeholder management:

• Engage with key regulatory bodies and industry stakeholders to support client matters, resolve disputes, and provide policy insights where required.
• Monitor and interpret legislative and regulatory changes, proactively advising clients on implications and required actions.

Commercial oversight & risk management:

• Manage engagement economics, including budgeting, profitability, and resource allocation.
• Ensure compliance with internal risk, independence, and quality control policies across all engagements.
• Proactively identify and mitigate delivery, technical, and reputational risks.

Qualifications

• Possess a Bachelor’s Degree or Higher National Diploma (HND) in any discipline with a minimum of second class upper/upper credit division; a Degree in law will be an advantage.
• Minimum of five credits in WASSCE Ordinary Level/NECO subjects or acceptable equivalent examination, including Mathematics and English Language in one sitting only.
• Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience in corporate tax.
• ICAN/ACCA qualified.
• Strong technical knowledge of Nigerian tax laws.
• Proven experience managing multiple projects and leading transaction workstreams.
• Effective verbal and written communication, presentation and client management skills.
• Advanced MS Office skills (particularly Excel, Word and PowerPoint).
• Good understanding of the oil & gas industry.
• Good interpersonal skills.
• Good working capital management, understanding timelines, development of templates for specific task and management of client relationships.
• Good working professional relationship with the regulatory authorities.