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 across LATAM during and after tax inspections, including document review, authority meetings, negotiations, appeals, and court cases • Support local tax compliance, transfer pricing documentation, withholding tax, tax returns, and external audits • Review quarterly tax reporting (Form 18), including deferred tax, prior-year adjustments, tax losses, tax rates, and tax risks by country • Manage local tax risks and provisions for consolidated financial statements using the Blika tax platform • Provide advice on administrative, cross-border, permanent establishment, indirect taxation, VAT registration, tax rulings, APAs, and exemptions • Review tax due diligence, tax clauses, and tax indemnities for M&A and reorganizations • Identify tax planning, incentives, credits, exemptions, and tax-saving opportunities • Support LATAM business with cross-border contracts, transactions, pricing implications, alternative structures, training, and client conference calls • Lead or support legal-entity reorganizations, financing structures, entity formation, liquidation, and closure • Coordinate tax compliance, tax accounting, tax reporting, forecasts, valuation allowances, and HFM Form 18 calculations • Support acquisitions, divestments, legal-structure optimization, intercompany transactions, tax legislation reviews, and compliance changes • Support Finance Transformation Team and implement process improvements • Cooperate 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