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Description
This is a newly created role in the Tax hub in Tampa, FL. The position will report to the Senior Tax Manager for LATAM and collaborate with our foreign finance group across Latin America. This role is responsible for preparing the tax returns and coordinating other tasks related to the tax department with external partners.
Roles & responsibilities
- Preparation and timely filing of all federal, state, and local tax returns for the multiple foreign jurisdictions.
- Responsible for tax accounting routines, this includes journal entries and ending balances tied to the returns.
- Preparation of quarterly and annual income tax provisions using one source for foreign entities.
- Responsible for VAT and withholding determination.
- Coordinate and support the determination of the annual tax returns.
- Collaborate and coordinate with external partners on documenting tax positions and responding to tax inquiries.
- Prepare and document intercompany transactions to ensure compliance with domestic tax rules.
- Prepare documentation for the transfer pricing report, CbC, and Master File for Latin American jurisdictions.
- Collaborate on profitability analysis and prepare documentation that adheres to local legislation.
- Proactively seeks to streamline compliance process and create efficiencies through automation.
- Identifies potential tax compliance opportunities, perform research, and make recommendations to prevent and resolve tax issues.
- Learn the organization’s business and culture and contribute to problem resolution when issues identified.
- Collaborate on technology implementation initiatives aimed at improving efficiency in tax compliance routines.
- Build a strong network across global tax, finance, customs, treasury and legal.
- Stay current with changes in tax laws that could impact the Company’s operations.
Required knowledge/skills
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Tax, Finance, or a related field.
- Minimum of 7 years of experience in public accounting and/or a multinational company, with experience working in Latin America.
- knowledge of OneSource Tax Provision (Tax Stream), Microsoft office, advanced Excel and SAP.
- Proficiency in English and Spanish, both spoken and written.
- Technical skills in accounting and tax returns preparation.
- Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously and comfortable with a dynamic work environment.
- Team player with strong collaborative skills, confident in communicating with others and can work with minimal supervision.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Detail-oriented.
- Highly proactive.
- Ability to navigate the complexities of cross-border and/or diverse teams and engagements.
- Familiarity with robotics and Alteryx will be a plus.
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If you come across a role that intrigues you but doesn’t perfectly line up with your resume, we encourage you to apply anyway. You could be one step away from work that will transform your life and career.
Uniquely Interesting Work, Life-changing Careers
With a single vision as inspiring as “Transforming patients’ lives through science™ ”, every BMS employee plays an integral role in work that goes far beyond ordinary. Each of us is empowered to apply our individual talents and unique perspectives in an inclusive culture, promoting diversity in clinical trials, while our shared values of passion, innovation, urgency, accountability, inclusion and integrity bring out the highest potential of each of our colleagues.
On-site Protocol
BMS has a diverse occupancy structure that determines where an employee is required to conduct their work. This structure includes site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design jobs. The occupancy type that you are assigned is determined by the nature and responsibilities of your role:
Site-essential roles require 100% of shifts onsite at your assigned facility. Site-by-design roles may be eligible for a hybrid work model with at least 50% onsite at your assigned facility. For these roles, onsite presence is considered an essential job function and is critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, and a positive Company culture. For field-based and remote-by-design roles the ability to physically travel to visit customers, patients or business partners and to attend meetings on behalf of BMS as directed is an essential job function.
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What We Do
At Bristol Myers Squibb, we work every day to transform patients’ lives through science. That work inspires some of the most interesting, meaningful, and life-changing careers you’ll experience. Join us and pursue innovative ideas alongside some of the brightest minds in biopharma, collaborating with a team rich in diversity of experiences, and perspectives. We have built a sustainable pipeline of potential therapies and are leveraging translational medicine and data analytics to understand how we can deliver the right medicine to the right patient, at the right time, to achieve the best outcome.
Whether in a scientific, business or supporting function, a career at BMS means you’ll be inspired every day to grow and thrive through opportunities that are uncommon in scale and scope. Here, you’ll be on the cutting edge of powerful innovation in oncology, hematology, immunology, cardiovascular disease, and fibrosis, with colleagues united in the mission to help patients.
Through the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation, we also promote health equity and seek to improve health outcomes of populations disproportionately affected by serious diseases and conditions. Our mission is to give new hope to help patients prevail over serious disease – it drives everything we do.
