Regional Tax Director – LATAM

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💃 Latin America – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

💰 Tax

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SGS

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1878

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

🍽️ Food & Beverage

Consulting • Healthcare • Food & Beverage

SGS is the world's leading Testing, Inspection, and Certification (TIC) company, providing a comprehensive range of services designed to assure quality and integrity across various sectors. SGS is focused on sustainability, offering climate action services and an all-encompassing ESG portfolio under its IMPACT NOW suite. The company has ambitious targets for growth by 2027, driven by its strategy to address global megatrends. SGS operates globally, providing business assurance, connectivity and products, digital trust, health and nutrition, and solutions for industries and the environment.

📋 Description

• Support countries in the LATAM region during and after tax inspections, including document provision, response review, appeals, court cases, meetings, and negotiations with authorities • Support local tax compliance, including transfer pricing documentation and withholding tax reviews • Conduct quarterly reviews of tax reporting (Form 18), including deferred tax, prior-year adjustments, tax losses, effective versus statutory tax rates, and tax risks • Manage local tax risks and provisions for consolidated group financial statements • Provide advice on tax and administrative issues, cross-border matters, permanent establishment, VAT registrations, tax residence certificates, treaty applications, exemptions, and indirect taxation • Advise on tax rulings, Advanced Pricing Agreements, tax due diligence, M&A and reorganizations, tax clauses, and tax indemnities • Identify tax planning and incentive opportunities and provide tax news, advice, and training • Review cross-border contracts and transactions, advising on tax clauses, delivery terms, invoicing, VAT, withholding tax, and PE implications • Develop alternative tax structures and support client conference calls • Lead LATAM legal-entity reorganizations, valuations, tax rulings, legal-document reviews, investment transfers, entity optimization, financing, and entity setup or liquidation • Review tax-saving opportunities, tax credits, tax exemptions, tax rates, and tax audit risks with local Finance • Assist with Form 18 quarterly reporting, deferred tax analysis, valuation allowances, forecasts for loss-making companies, and HFM Form 18 tax calculations • Support acquisitions and divestments, legal and financing structure adjustments, intercompany transaction optimization, and tax legislation reviews • Implement compliance solutions and tax-rule changes in Boss or indirect tax reporting • Support the Finance Transformation Team by identifying process improvements • Support Advanced Pricing Agreements and mutual agreement procedures in LATAM countries • Collaborate 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 • Professional certifications (CPA, CTA, CFA, or equivalent) preferred • 10+ years in international taxation, with significant regional exposure (LATAM), ideally within a Big Four firm and multinational corporation • Proven record leading regional tax teams or projects, managing advisors, and influencing executive stakeholders • Deep knowledge of direct, indirect, and transfer pricing rules, including permanent establishment (PE), thin capitalization, withholding taxes, VAT/GST, and cross-border taxation • Strong command of IFRS/US GAAP tax reporting requirements, including deferred tax assets/liabilities, effective tax rate analysis, and valuation allowances • Experience with tax audit defense, dispute resolution, appeals, court cases, and management of provisions in systems like Blika • Expertise in tax due diligence, structuring, and integration, including tax clauses in S&P agreements and tax indemnities • Ability to identify incentives, optimize legal entity structures, apply for tax rulings/APAs, and design tax-efficient financing structures • Strong business English and Spanish • CV must be submitted in English

🏖️ Benefits

• Employees can work remotely • Some international travel required