YOUR OPPORTUNITY

This role will be working with tax compliance processes for Bacardi Mexican entities, ensuring the filings are submitted on time, implementing process improvements and automations, tracking tax law changes, and implementing accordingly. This role will help you to increase the knowledge in tax by working with different legal entities at the same time, working with different tax professionals and tax advisors.  Also, this position helps the person to develop different soft skills due to the high interaction across many functions (Finance & Non-Finance) as a resource to the international markets and service center employees. The candidate will deal with confidential and sensitive data and must ensure conformity with policies, procedures, and regulations of Bacardi and external government agencies.

ABOUT YOU

This role is for you if you are a tax professional looking for a step up in your tax career to work in tax compliance for Mexican entities in an excited environment, you have strong analytical and diagnostic skills, and are curious to challenge the status quo and with an excellent customer service

RESPONSIBILITIES - WITH OUR CONSUMER AT THE HEART YOUR KEY FOCUS WILL BE

•    Execution of the migration of the tax filings work and internal/local tax processes from another team member or third party.
•    Extraction and review of data from SAP for the preparation of the local fillings. 
•    Coordinate the information flow from and to the local finance teams and the local advisors as applicable. 
•    Preparation of the monthly tax calculations and tax returns (VAT, ExT, WHT, etc).
•    Timely and accurate filing of the tax filings-returns before the Tax Authorities. 
•    Coordination and approval of the tax payments derived from the tax filings – thresholds. 
•    Coordination with BES (internal shared service center) of any information required for the filings and ensuring that the information received from BES is correct for the purpose of the filings and returns.  Work with the BES in case information needs to be corrected or processes re-designed as necessary. 
•    Prepare the reconciliations of the tax accounts on a monthly basis. 
•    Documentation, implementation and improvement of processes and flows of information for the purpose of generating the tax filings – tax returns. 
•    Keep updated with regards to changes in the law or internally that impact the filings-returns. 
•    Collaborate in the implementation of tax law changes and internal or external audits. 

SKILLS - THE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE NEEDED TO CREATE YOUR LEGACY
•    University degree in Accounting, Business Administration or similar field.
•    Strong analytical and diagnostic skills.
•    Strong accounting skills.
•    Previous experience in tax filings-reporting– tax returns: 1-2 years at least.
•    Previous accounting experience beyond tax: 1-2 years at least.
•    Mexican tax filings experience: preferable
•    Previous experience with SAP is a must
•    Previous experience in Shared Services environment- preferred
•    Must be fluent in English (another language is a plus)
•    Proficiency with the MS Office Suite (particularly MS Excel) and MS SharePoint
 

At Bacardi we care deeply about finding brilliant talent who can bring the following personal attributes to help elevate our 3Fs: Fearless, Family, Founder culture to the next level.

• Belonging: You have a strong capacity to create a culture of ‘Belonging’, where people feel appreciated for who they are, what they do, and who they can become
• Self-Awareness: You have high levels of self-awareness, are reflective and know yourself well, understanding both your own strengths and weaknesses and your impact on others
• People Agility: You bring a deep ability to understand and relate to people and navigate through tough situations to harness and multiply collective performance
• Results Agility: You demonstrate consistent delivery of results in first-time situations by inspiring teams, exhibiting a presence that builds confidence in yourself and others.
• Mental Agility: You can think critically to penetrate complex problems and expand the possibilities by making fresh connections. You think strategically whilst being execution focused and bring creativity to the challenges you’re presented with
• Change Agility: You have a deep natural curiosity, desire to experiment and ability to effectively deal with the heat of change. You have a growth and learning mindset: ready to test, stumble, learn and apply from experience

Disclaimer: Bacardi seeks talent from all backgrounds to bring diversity of thought, agility and capability to our organization across the globe. We promote a working environment where all employees are treated and rewarded fairly. We do not tolerate any form of discrimination that adversely affects individuals or groups on the basis of national origin, race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, age, and any other legally protected aspect of a person's identity. 

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