Make Your Mark with Thiess

Every day, all around the world, Thiess supports and celebrates our people. We recognise talent and reward transparency. We champion diversity, inclusion, and meaningful career growth.

Join us. Hone your skills and develop new ones. Take on big challenges and grow through mentorship, collaboration, and empowerment.

Thiess is the place to make things happen.

The Opportunity

This is a senior leadership role with responsibility for shaping and executing the Group’s tax strategy, ensuring compliance with Australian and international tax obligations, and providing trusted advice to the Board, shareholders and executive leadership.

Leading a high-performing tax team, you will balance strong technical expertise with commercial insight and stakeholder influence to support business decisions and protect Thiess’ reputation across multiple jurisdictions.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the Group Tax function, fostering a culture aligned to Thiess’ values of Discovery, Accountability, Respectful and Empowered.
• Develop and implement a tax team strategy that supports the Thiess business strategy.
• Drive change initiatives and continuous improvement across tax processes and ways of working.
• Provide strategic oversight of global tax risk management and optimisation of the Group’s total tax position.
• Prepare high-quality tax advice and position papers for senior management, the Board and shareholders.
• Oversee the Tax Governance Policy, including Board-level reporting and internal compliance review programs.
• Manage reputational risk and maintain effective, constructive relationships with revenue authorities globally.
• Ensure timely and accurate compliance with all direct and indirect tax obligations across global operations.
• Oversee tax effect accounting for the global Thiess Group.
• Act as a key interface with the ATO, international tax authorities, auditors and external tax advisers.

About You

You are a senior tax leader with deep technical expertise, strong commercial acumen and the confidence to influence at executive and Board level. You thrive in complex, global environments and bring a pragmatic, solutions-focused approach to tax governance and compliance.

Qualifications & Experience

• Tertiary qualifications in Commerce or Law.
• CA, CPA or CTA qualification.
• Significant experience in senior tax roles within large corporates and/or Big 4 environments.
• Demonstrated Australian and international tax experience; mining or similar industry experience highly regarded.
• In-depth knowledge of income tax, GST and FBT, with solid understanding of international tax and transfer pricing.
• Strong capability in tax effect accounting and managing audits across multiple jurisdictions.

What Thiess Can Do for You

• Supportive, inclusive culture that values innovation and continuous improvement
• Opportunity to work with an amazing team on a high impact project 
• Collaborative, values-led culture with a global reach.
• Access to leading-edge technology and systems.
• Competitive salary and employee benefits package

About us 

Thiess works with clients in Australia, Asia and the Americas in the dynamic field of open-cut and underground mining. 

The pioneering spirit of our founders – the legendary Thiess brothers – is our legacy, and inspires our vision to harness the power of people and technology to drive sustainable change. 

At Thiess, you will have the opportunity to play a part in the global energy transition. We are growing our commodities portfolio to include metals and minerals critical to the energy transition, and developing services to enable sustainable mining. 

We’re creating a culture of curiosity, knowledge-sharing, and continuous learning – supporting our people to contribute to Thiess’ success and continued growth in sustainable mining. 

We’ll support you to hone your skills and develop new ones, take on challenges and grow, through mentorship, collaboration and empowerment. We offer our people ongoing technical training and development opportunities so they can reach their full potential. We also invest in the workforce of the future, with a range of programs for people starting their careers. 

We recognise the value of an inclusive and diverse workplace through our vision of better together. We’re focused on creating an inclusive environment to enable our people to bring their best self to work because they feel safe, included and empowered. 

How to Apply

This is an opportunity to take the next step in your career with a global leader in mining services. With our culture of recognition, development, and purposeful work, there is no better time to join Thiess.

To apply for this role, please click the ‘Apply’ button.

If you require assistance with your application, contact us at hiring@thiess.com

Thiess follows a Pre‑Employment Process that includes reference checks, a National Police Check, and a medical assessment. Your recruiter will guide you through each step.

Applications close: Friday 29 May 2026