LatAm Tax Director Job (Buenos Aires, AR)

Title:LatAm Tax Director
ID:JREQ055890

Description

Role PurposeDevelops and implements systems to compile information for various federal, state, and local reports.Ensures timely and accurate filing of tax returns. Recommends ways to minimize corporate tax through use of tax laws and regulations.May administer international tax laws and regulations.Duties & Responsibilities:
– Assist in identifying and executing tax planning opportunities, including modeling, process simplification, and tax restructuring.
– Coordinating with Treasury, Accounting and Legal functions on funding needs, intercompany invoice settlements, and forecasting.
– Facilitate development of tax reporting data for LatAm Regional Tax Director review.
– Analyze proposed LatAm tax legislation and advise on its impacts on TR’s tax position.
– Coordinate with Compliance and facilitate LatAm tax compliance process and relationship with service provider, including assisting with LatAm income tax and transfer pricing audits.
– Assist LatAm Head of Tax to ensure transfer pricing relationships are identified and in compliance with global and local transfer pricing policies & methodologies.
– Train, develop, and coach direct reports as well as development of career progression plans for team.
– Establish and monitor adherence to budgets, schedules, work assignments and performance requirements.
– Focus on developing practices that improve coordination with multiple Business Units.
– Share tax best practice within tax and with other Business Units.Key Requirements
– Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, JD or Masters in Tax required. MBA or CPA a plus.
– Minimum of 10 years of tax and accounting experience with a MNC corporate tax department, law firm or accounting firm.
– Strong LatAm and cross-border tax technical knowledge combined with strong problem solving and analytical skills.
– Demonstrated ability to lead, supervise, coordinate and delegate assignments and review work of assigned staff.
– Strong written and verbal communication skills
– Excellent teamwork and collaboration skills
– Excellent ability to identify and frame issues as well as the ability to act on findings and make well communicated decisions and recommendations.
– Excellent ability to be proactive, positive and forward thinking around planning and solutions.
– Excellent ability to work well with other corporate functions (e.g., Legal, Treasury, Finance) in a cross-cultural and diverse global MNC environment and to build and maintain relationships within tax and cross-functional.
– Proficient in MS Excel, MS Word, and MS PowerPoint.
– Working knowledge of IFRS and local statutory (tax) accounting rules.
– Organized and detail oriented with the ability to manage multiple projects, prioritize workload and meet deadlines.
– Fluent in English & Spanish. Portuguese is a plus.

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Qualifications

echnical / Professional Skills & CompetenciesInformation gathering, ordering, analyzing and prioritizing; making finely detailed comparisons and interpretations to frameworks, rules, procedures, criteria.Completion and accuracy of quarterly and annual tax returns and estimates; oversight of tax return projects.Accurate and timely reporting of appropriate transfer pricing activity.Accounting for acquisitions and dispositions; Liaise with acquisition and/or disposition deal teams and assist in all aspects of the transaction.Determining proper tax treatment of various business and legal transactions.Review and manage all aspects of compliance; monitor tax legislation, regulations, rulings, etc. affecting tax compliance.Ensure all elections, statements and applications are completed accurately including reorganizations..Review of tax structure with determination of impact of various scenarios.Review of contract to ensure tax appropriate results.Develop a working knowledge of the group transfer pricing methodology to ensure appropriate financial reporting and tax return impacts.Be involved in dispute resolution and strategic planning, tax decision automation, tax recovery issues, audit defense issues, conduct tax research to assist in the implementation and interpretation of tax laws as they affect the company.Cognitive and knowledge processing skills: judgment and decision making; analysis; complex problem-solving; evaluation; problem-sensitivity; deductive reasoning; inductive reasoning; active listening; speaking; critical thinking; monitoring; social perceptiveness; coordination; persuasion; negotiation; instructing; service-orientation; written expression; written comprehension; idea generation; information ordering; seeking information through multiple perspectives; mathematical reasoning; originality; hidden pattern detection; drive to completion.Relationships: Internal / ExternalRegularly interacts with executives and/or major customers. Interactions frequently involve special skills, such as negotiating with customers or management or attempting to influence senior level leaders regarding matters of significance to the organization.Directs and controls the activities of a broad functional area through several department managers within the company. Has overall control of planning, staffing, budgeting, managing expense priorities, and recommending and implementing changes to methods.At Thomson Reuters, we believe what we do matters. We are passionate about our work, inspired by the impact it has on our business and our customers. As a team, we believe in winning as one – collaborating to reach shared goals, and developing through challenging and meaningful experiences. With over 50,000 employees in more than 100 countries, we work flexibly across boundaries and realize innovations that help shape industries around the world. Bring your ambition to make a difference. We’ll bring a world of opportunities.

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Job: Accounting & Finance Family Group
Primary Location: Buenos Aires, AR
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Organization: Finance – Tax
Schedule: Full-time
Education Level: None
Job Type: Standard
Shift: Day Job
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