Regional Tax Executive
About the job
- A bachelor's degree in Accountancy, ACCA, or equivalent is required.
- Six to eight years of relevant experience in corporate tax and/or GST/VAT, with prior experience in a Big Four accounting firm or multinational corporation.
- Knowledge and experience working with tax technology solutions are required.
- Ability to communicate tax technical issues, especially with non-tax professionals.
- Familiarity with tax laws within the APAC region.
- Ability to multi-task, work under reasonable pressure, and meet tight deadlines.
- Triage tax issues raised by users to identify root causes and support or resolve them.
- Collaborate with IT teams and system developers to translate business and tax requirements into technical solutions, and test, implement, and enhance tax technology solutions for automation and efficiency.
- Participate in implementation projects for the in-house-developed tax engine and new e-invoicing scheme.
- Evaluate and recommend technologies that can improve direct and indirect tax work processes.
- Support Regional Tax Managers on tax risk management for the APAC region, with a primary focus on Singapore entities.
- Identify opportunities to streamline and improve direct and indirect tax work processes to enhance efficiency and accuracy.
- Design and implement best practices to optimize workflows and ensure compliance with relevant tax regulations.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement changes in tax processes, systems, and compliance requirements, including training internal teams and users on process improvements and ensuring awareness of and adherence to compliance standards.
- Maintain comprehensive documentation of direct and indirect tax work processes and internal controls and procedures.
- Assist in preparing tax schedules and managing tax compliance reporting, payment deadlines, and related matters for APAC entities, including GST, VAT, CIT, WHT, and transfer pricing; work with external tax agents and review their deliverables.
- Assist in preparing monthly tax provisions for Singapore entities.
- Assist in preparing responses to information requests from tax authorities.
- Assist in preparing and liaising with external tax consultants on the Assisted Compliance Assurance Programme for GST, Tax Risk Management and Control Framework for Corporate Income Tax, BEPS Pillar Two, and transfer pricing documentation.
- Keep abreast of changes and developments in tax laws and administrative practices for APAC and analyze their implications.
About the company
Vitol is a global energy trader and logistics operator across oil, gas, power, and renewables. It sources crude and products and moves them to refineries, utilities, airlines, retailers, and traders, while managing physical energy risk. It coordinates physical trading, shipping (about 6,000 voyages a year) and energy infrastructure with in-house technology. Its goal is to add value across the energy supply chain, support the energy transition with investment in renewables, and maintain strong risk and operational performance.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
New York City, New York
Founded
1966
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Uganda expects first Pearl Sweet exports in early 2027, expanding Vitol's crude marketing volume.
- Vitol sold VEV and VTX in 2026, recycling capital into higher-return trading and LNG.
- August 2026 Civitavecchia LNG bunkering and June 2026 20-year LNG deal widen low-carbon revenues.
What critics are saying
- September 2026 Reuters reported a former Vitol trader got four years for bribery.
- Namibia ended Vitol's exclusive fuel deal in October 2026, signaling pricing and concentration pressure.
- Venezuela, Uganda, and Ghana dependence exposes Vitol to counterparty politics and licensing shocks.
What makes Vitol unique
- Vitol combines trading, logistics, and infrastructure, monetizing assets across oil, gas, and shipping.
- Its September 2026 Ghana MoUs deepen upstream optionality alongside OCTP, owned with Eni and GNPC.
- Vitol secures state-level market access: Uganda appointed it September 2026 to market Pearl Sweet.
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Vitol to start LNG bunkering in Asia from late 2026 after vessel sea trials. 12,500-cbm Vivit Asia LNG completes trials, with regional operations due to begin later this year. Vitol Bunkers readies Asian LNG bunkering operations, with more supply vessels planned for 2027. Pictured: Vivit Asia LNG, a 12,500-cbm LNG bunkering vessel. Image credit: Vitol Vitol Bunkers says it will start LNG bunkering operations in Asia from late 2026 following the completion of sea trials for its 12,500-cbm LNG bunkering vessel (LNGBV), Vivit Asia LNG. In a LinkedIn post, Vitol noted that the operations will be "backed by a fully contracted regional supply chain and Vitol's established global LNG portfolio", adding that the expansion of its LNGBV fleet would continue into 2027. In Asia, Vitol Bunkers currenly acts as a supplier in China, Maldives, Pakistan, UAE and Singapore. It is also one of ten licensed LNG bunker suppliers in Singapore, together with Aramco Trading, Equatorial Marine Fuel Management Services, ExxonMobil, FueLNG, Pavilion Energy, Petrochina International, Shell Eastern Trading, Sinopec and TotalEnergies. Back in August, the company completed the first LNG bunkering operation at the Italian port of Civitavecchia in cooperation with Axpo. Speaking at the time, Vitol's head of small-scale LNG and LNG bunkering, Stefan Dubbeldam, stated: "LNG and bio-LNG have a key role to play in reducing emissions from bunkering. Vitol is globally invested throughout the value chain, from upstream bio-LNG and LNG production and offtake, through to solutions for customers through our LNG bunker vessel fleet." | / | / | Singapore safety council inspects methanol bunker tanker Golden Centaurus NMSSC members 'encouraged' by integration of structural and operational safety into newly commissioned IMO Type II vessel. | | / | / | PetroChina International seeks bunker sales manager to grow European marine fuels business The state oil major's trading arm is hiring in Rotterdam or London to expand bunker sales across the ARA region. | | / | / | WinGD signs global service agreement for TMS Cardiff Gas LNG carrier newbuilds WinGD will support six dual-fuel engines on three new LNG carriers for the Athens-based operator throughout their operational lives. | | / | / | Yangzijiang Xinfu delivers first 175,000-cbm LNG carrier built by Chinese private shipyard Vessel features two dual-fuel MAN B&W 5G70ME-C10.5-GA-EGR engines fitted with cryogenic units. | | / | / | LNG bunkering vessel Kaguya completes 200th ship-to-ship operation in Japan K Line's joint venture vessel reaches milestone in Mikawa Bay. | | / | / | Synergy Marine adds dual-fuel LPG carrier to managed fleet MFM Nicole joins Synergy's gas carrier portfolio as owners weigh fuel choices ahead of MEPC 85 negotiations. | | / | / | DSV to use CMA CGM's ACT+ solution to slash shipping emissions Danish firm targets 12,000-tonne reduction in CO[2] emissions over two years through the use of UCOME-based biofuels. | | / | / | Peninsula welcomes 2026 graduate cohort across global bunkering network Bunker firm brings new graduates into roles spanning Houston, Singapore, Gibraltar, Monaco and Las Palmas. | | / | / | Malik Supply appoints Mathias Krogsgård as bunker trader Danish bunker firm adds trader with export and technology background to growing team. | | / | / | Biofuel adoption in shipping shifts from debate to delivery, says Peninsula's Jeroen de Vos Marine biofuels have moved from pilot projects to routine fuel strategy, argues IBIA vice-chair. | | / |
Voltus, a distributed energy resource platform, has raised $225 million in an oversubscribed Series D financing round. Generation Investment Management led the round alongside co-leads Activate Capital and Vitol, with participation from Broadscale Group, Climate Investment, NGP, Ajax Strategies and All Aboard Fund. The San Francisco-based company plans to expand its platform to 20 gigawatts by 2030. Voltus taps latent capacity in batteries, cooling systems and industrial processes at businesses and homes, dispatching it into electricity markets. The platform enables participants to reduce power consumption, lower energy bills and earn revenue. The funding comes as the North American Electric Reliability Corporation expects peak demand to grow 24% over the next decade. Voltus will execute its Bring Your Own Capacity programme in PJM and MISO markets whilst expanding across the US and Canada.
Vitol CEO says oil inventories in West have been exhausted. by Bloomberg C.Gorrivan, G.Smith, A.Hunter Tuesday, October 06, 2026 | 9:48 AM EST Oil inventories in western countries have been exhausted as a result of the Iran war, the boss of the world's largest independent oil trader said. Oil inventories in western countries have been exhausted as a result of the Iran war, the boss of the world's largest independent oil trader said, warning that fuel markets are likely to remain tight going into winter. "There aren't any more inventories to drain in the West," Russell Hardy, chief executive officer of Vitol Group, said at the Energy Intelligence Forum in London on Tuesday. "We drained the available inventory." The Group of Seven nations and its partners announced on Friday that they would release 100 million barrels of emergency oil reserves after the Trump administration piled pressure on Europe to do more to quell soaring diesel prices. Hardy said the precise details of that release were "not fully transparent." Hardy's comments come a day after the chief executive officer of Saudi Aramco warned that less than 10% of the world's 6 billion-barrel oil stockpile is practically available because of various logistics challenges. Hardy also warned that a tight fuels market is likely to persist in the coming months. "Products are still in a very, very tight situation and that will probably roll forward for a little bit longer as we go through winter," he said. What do you think? Generated by readers, the comments included herein do not reflect the views and opinions of Rigzone. All comments are subject to editorial review. Off-topic, inappropriate or insulting comments will be removed.
Dangote's Kenya refinery project launches this week at up to $20B. Kenya breaks ground September 30 on the Dangote-backed East Africa Oil Refinery in Lamu, a project priced at $17 billion by Kenyan officials and $20 billion by Aliko Dangote himself, and designed to process 700,000 barrels of crude oil a day at Lamu's deep-water port. It would serve Kenya, Uganda, South Sudan, Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Disclosed financing for the project totals $1.6 billion against a price tag of $17 billion to $20 billion. Tanzanian billionaire Mohammed Dewji has committed $100 million to the project. Dangote Group offered East African nations a combined 30% equity stake valued at $1.5 billion on August 21; Kenya's economic adviser David Ndii put Kenya's individual 10% allocation at about $500 million. Additionally, two separate pipelines, not one, are tied to the Kenya project, and neither has a disclosed cost, capacity or completion date. Ruto told Dangote he is discussing construction of a line from Turkana's oil fields to Lamu "to unlock the oil that we have in Turkana," according to Kenyans.co.ke. This would be an inbound route for the refinery's own crude supply. Dangote is building two more pipelines unrelated to Kenya. A Djibouti-Ethiopia gas and petroleum pipeline starts construction within two months. A separate $3.5 billion, 2,650-kilometer corridor will connect Namibia, Botswana and South Africa. Dangote has described the combined program, Kenya included, as $46 billion to $50 billion and roughly 4,000 kilometers of pipeline across the continent. Kenya's refinery faces a competing regional project of similar scale. Tanzania and Uganda have partnered with Vitol Bahrain on a $20-billion energy hub in Tanga, built around the nearly complete East African Crude Oil Pipeline. Uganda is backing both the Lamu and Tanga projects simultaneously, while separately advancing a UAE-backed, 60,000-barrel-per-day refinery of its own in Hoima. Back in 2016, Uganda abandoned a joint pipeline route with Kenya in favor of Tanzania's. Dangote anticipates completion around 2029 to 2030, with construction beginning in October and running roughly three years from groundbreaking.
Eni, Vitol sign MoUs with Ghana for two offshore blocks in Tano Basin. 10 September 2026 6:24pm Eni Ghana and its partner, Vitol Upstream Tano Ltd, have signed two Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) with the Government of Ghana covering two offshore blocks in the Tano Basin. The agreements, covering the GH WB 3 and GH WB 8 blocks, are expected to pave the way for the finalisation of Petroleum Agreements for the two areas. The MoUs were signed on Thursday, September 10, 2026, by the Minister for Energy and Green Transition, John Jinapor, on behalf of the Government of Ghana. Executives of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) witnessed the signing. The two offshore blocks cover approximately 2,100 square kilometres, with water depths ranging from 750 to 2,800 metres. According to Eni, the opportunities align with its nearfield and Infrastructure-Led Exploration (ILX) strategy, which seeks to leverage existing infrastructure and proximity to established producing areas to unlock the potential of prospective acreage. The latest agreements follow the signing of a Memorandum of Intent between the parties last year, representing a further step towards the finalisation of the Petroleum Agreements. Eni said the development reinforces its long-term commitment to investment and exploration in Ghana's upstream petroleum sector, while supporting the management and development of the country's petroleum resources within Ghana's legal and regulatory framework. Eni's Ghana operations Eni has operated in Ghana since 2009, undertaking offshore hydrocarbon exploration and production activities. The company currently has equity production of about 40,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day in Ghana. It is the operator of the Offshore Cape Three Points (OCTP) project, in which Eni holds a 44.4% interest, alongside Vitol with 35.6% and GNPC with 20%. Beyond oil and gas production, the joint venture's portfolio includes initiatives focused on training, economic diversification, access to water and sanitation, and access to energy. The signing of the two MoUs marks another expansion of the partnership's interests in Ghana's upstream petroleum sector as the country seeks to attract investment to new and prospective offshore acreage. DISCLAIMER: The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited. % buffered Powered by GliaStudios DISCLAIMER: The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.