Manager Tax Minerals Australia | Adelaide, Brisbane or Perth
Australia
About BHP
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About the Role
Reporting to the Vice President Tax Minerals Australia, this role leads the Corporate Tax portfolio within Group Tax, with responsibility for Australian direct tax compliance, reporting, and consolidation in a large listed multinational company.
The role also has accountability for the Minerals Australia Coal portfolio, providing strategic tax support to BHP’s operational assets.
You will lead a high-performing team of senior tax professionals, requiring strong people leadership and the ability to operate effectively in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. This is a hands-on leadership role where you will drive delivery across large-scale tax reporting and compliance programs, while also shaping outcomes through high-quality technical advice and commercial insight.
The position requires deep experience managing Australian corporate tax obligations at scale, including tax effect accounting, and a demonstrated ability to navigate complex technical issues while maintaining a strong focus on risk management and governance.
As a senior member of the team, you will act as a thought leader on tax policy and regulatory developments, interpreting emerging changes and assessing their impact on the BHP Group—particularly in relation to capital decisions, funding, and broader business strategy.
The role involves engagement with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders, including senior business leaders, other functional teams, and regulators. Success in the role requires the ability to communicate complex tax matters clearly and succinctly, and to influence outcomes across both technical and commercial environments.
Key Accountabilities:
The role is accountable for:
- Delivering accurate and timely corporate income tax outcomes, including tax effect accounting (AASB 112 / IAS 12), tax reporting disclosures, and the preparation and lodgement of income tax returns, ensuring all positions are robust and documented to the required standards.
- Ensuring optimal tax outcomes and effective risk management by identifying, assessing, and managing tax risks and uncertain tax positions, and driving issues through to resolution in line with internal governance frameworks and regulator expectations.
- Leading and developing a high-performing team of senior tax professionals, setting clear priorities, reviewing outputs, and embedding strong delivery discipline across reporting and compliance cycles.
- Providing tax leadership on major capital projects, M&A activity, and significant commercial arrangements, including the review of key contracts and ensuring tax support on key investment processes.
- Overseeing corporate tax compliance and reporting for the Australian group, including consolidation, and ensuring alignment with Group reporting timelines, processes, and control requirements.
- Monitoring and interpreting changes in tax legislation and regulatory guidance and assessing impact on the Group, translating these into clear, actionable outcomes for the business—particularly in relation to capital investments and asset-intensive operations.
- Maintaining and operating governance through adherence to key controls and governance standards, ensuring effective controls, documentation, and review processes are in place to support a low-risk tax profile and strong external assurance outcomes.
- Managing key internal and external stakeholder relationships, including senior Finance and business leaders, external auditors, and the Australian Taxation Office, ensuring clear and effective communication of complex tax matters.
- Driving continuous improvement in tax processes, systems, and data, leveraging the BHP Operating System to enhance efficiency, standardisation, and quality of outputs across the team.
About You
- Substantial experience providing complex tax advice and managing tax compliance and financial reporting processes within a highly complex multinational business and/or professional services firm.
- Demonstrated leadership experience, including leading teams to deliver complex advice and managing tax risk across inputs into complex business processes and projects.
- Proven experience leading processes that deliver accurate and timely tax reporting and compliance outcomes.
- Tertiary qualification in accounting, law, or a related field.
- Deep technical knowledge of Australian corporate tax rules and regulations.
- Strong knowledge of IFRS and tax effect accounting (AASB 112 / IAS 12).
- Demonstrated ability to identify tax issues, provide risk-managed advice, and oversee implementation of tax strategies.
- Highly proficient in tax research across multiple jurisdictions.
- Demonstrated experience engaging with the Australian Taxation Office (ATO), including participation in Justified Trust programs.
- Ability to evaluate tax risks and opportunities and provide clear, well-considered advice to business stakeholders.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, including Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
About Our Process
At BHP, we are committed to employing individuals who align with the BHP Charter Values and meet the requirements of the role. As part of the recruitment process, there are a number of checks which may be conducted to demonstrate applicants suitability for a role including police / criminal background checks, medical, drug and alcohol testing, due diligence checks, right to work checks, and/or reference checks.
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Supporting a Diverse Workforce
The size, stability and magnitude of our business not only provides significant opportunity for professional development, but also attractive salary packages with performance-based bonuses and a best-in-class employee share program. We know there are many aspects of our employees' lives that are important, and work is only one of these, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, other extended leave entitlements and parent rooms.
At BHP, we know that we are strengthened by diversity. We are an Equal Opportunity employer that is committed to making BHP a safe and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive and be at their best every day. We are focused on creating a workforce that’s more diverse and represents the communities where we work and live. providing a work environment in which everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. We are an Equal Opportunity employer and recognise that true diversity includes gender, age, race, disability status, sexual orientation, religion, neurodiversity, education levels, and many more aspects of your identity.
BHP is committed to providing a recruitment process that is fair, equitable and accessible for all. If you have a disability, we know that it may be helpful for us to adjust our process to make it equitable for your individual situation. If you would like to reach out to someone about your situation and our recruitment process, please email us at inclusion@bhp.com.