Regional Tax Director – LATAM

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Latin America.

📋 Description

• Assist countries throughout LATAM during and after tax inspections, which involves document reviews, meetings with authorities, negotiations, appeals, and court proceedings.

• Facilitate local tax compliance, including transfer pricing documentation, withholding tax, tax returns, and external audits.

• Evaluate quarterly tax reporting (Form 18), encompassing deferred tax, adjustments from previous years, tax losses, applicable tax rates, and tax risks by country.

• Oversee local tax risks and provisions for consolidated financial statements through the Blika tax platform.

• Offer guidance on administrative matters, cross-border transactions, permanent establishment issues, indirect taxation, VAT registration, tax rulings, Advance Pricing Agreements (APAs), and exemptions.

• Assess tax due diligence, tax clauses, and tax indemnities related to mergers and acquisitions and reorganizations.

• Identify opportunities for tax planning, incentives, credits, exemptions, and overall tax savings.

• Assist the LATAM business with cross-border contracts, transactions, pricing implications, alternative structures, training, and client conference calls.

• Lead or assist in legal entity reorganizations, financing structures, entity formation, liquidation, and closures.

• Coordinate tax compliance, tax accounting, tax reporting, forecasts, valuation allowances, and calculations for HFM Form 18.

• Support acquisitions, divestitures, optimization of legal structures, intercompany transactions, reviews of tax legislation, and changes in compliance.

• Collaborate with the Finance Transformation Team to implement process enhancements.

• Work in conjunction with Treasury, Finance, Group Control, Corporate Development, Legal, Internal Audit, local Finance, and regional controlling teams.

⛳️ Requirements

• Master’s degree in Taxation, Accounting, Finance, or Law.

• Preferred professional certifications (CPA, CTA, CFA, or equivalent).

• Over 10 years of experience in international taxation, with notable regional exposure (LATAM), ideally from a Big Four firm or a multinational corporation.

• Demonstrated ability to lead regional tax teams or projects, manage advisors, and influence executive stakeholders.

• In-depth knowledge of direct, indirect, and transfer pricing regulations, including permanent establishment (PE), thin capitalization, withholding taxes, VAT/GST, and cross-border taxation.

• Strong understanding of IFRS/US GAAP tax reporting standards, including deferred tax assets/liabilities, effective tax rate analysis, and valuation allowances.

• Experience in tax audit defense, dispute resolution, appeals, court proceedings, and managing provisions in systems such as Blika.

• Expertise in tax due diligence, structuring, and integration, including tax clauses in S&P agreements and tax indemnities.

• Capability to identify incentives, optimize legal entity structures, apply for tax rulings/APAs, and design tax-efficient financing frameworks.

• Proficient in business English and Spanish.

• CV must be submitted in English.

🏝️ Benefits

• Employees have the option to work remotely.

• Some international travel may be required.