TITLE: LATAM Tax Manager
Location: Bogotá (Colombia) OR Mexico City (Mexico)
Adaptable Working / Hybrid - Office and Remote combination
**Why BT Business**
With over 175 years of heritage, BT is now the flagship business brand of BT Group. We’ve brought together our best people and capabilities into a B2B powerhouse serving 1.2 million business customers internationally.
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We value diversity and inclusion and believe in making a positive impact. We connect for good by championing digital inclusion and equipping people, businesses, and communities with digital skills to thrive.
As a member of our team, you will be part of an organisation that celebrates difference, fosters innovation and provides you with opportunities to be your best. With millions of businesses relying on us daily, joining BT means you can be part of a diverse and multi-skilled team that makes a significant impact to society.
**Key Purpose of the Role**:
The role will be a key part of the LatAm Finance team, primarily managing all of BT’s tax compliance in all LatAm countries that BT operates in except for Brazil. The role with all provides tax support for c. 20 countries with primary operations in Colombia and Mexico. A team of 3 tax professionals located in Buenos Aries, Bogota and Mexico City will report into the LatAm tax manager. The compliance obligations include all direct taxes, indirect taxes and in some territory’s employment taxes.



This role will include managing the preparation of internally and externally produced tax returns and driving process efficiencies. The role will be to develop a strong working relationship with finance and commercial teams across the region with the aim of optimising the tax efficiency of business decisions in the LatAm Region. The role will report to the Business Tax Lead.
**You’ll have the following responsibilities**
This individual will be responsible for the following key tasks:
- Developing/maintaining LatAm’s accounting control environment to improve the quality of finance processes that support tax compliance obligations, including documented procedures, standard processes, use of the GFSS team and reconciliation of group reporting to local statutory accounts.
- Provide support to global bid teams on tax aspects of bids.
- Working with Group Tax to inform and implement:
- Transfer pricing strategy/policies affecting direct and indirect taxes
- Direct and indirect and employment tax policies as needed
- Build quality of external reporting under IAS 12, including tax risk reporting
- Working with the Business and Group Tax leads to assist in development of the LatAm tax agenda, identifying opportunities and managing risk
- Responding to day-to-day enquiries in respect of all aspects of tax both orally and in writing, and issuing accounting instructions and guidance where appropriate.
- Minimise LatAm tax costs,



both in terms of taxes paid and also external costs of compliance.
- Manage direct and indirect tax compliance, tax payments, filing and tax accounting.
- Providing support to LatAm Finance in preparation of financial statemen
- Communication of tax ideas and concepts to the business community, and proactive involvement in the business to ensure that the business understand and complies with tax protocols.
- Minimise transfer pricing risk by working with colleagues in Group Tax and external advisers to obtain suitable comparable and documentation of our transfer pricing processes.
- Manage internal transactions, seeking to ensure that assets are owned in the correct entities, intercompany agreements are in place, and charges are raised in accordance with these
- Ensure proper and effective handling of all tax audits such that they are satisfactorily resolved, and that tax exposures are appropriately calculated and provisioned for.
- Providing tax support to sales/accounts teams on bids and new contracts, ensuring mitigation of taxes from cost/pricing perspectives, and that any internal tax costs that do arise are factored into our prices.
- Provide support and advice regarding the structuring of acquisitions and disposals, drafting of agreements and related matters, and eventual implementation.
- Assist with company rationalisations, including the business integration and elimination of surplus entities
- Customer contracts - Advice on structuring transactions to avoid Permanent Establishment issues and minimise the tax costs, particularly irrecoverable VAT and withholding taxes. Drafting of wording relating to tax matters and negotiating tax clauses with the customer
**Indirect taxes (Andean Regional)**
- Provide advice o

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