**Job Description :** **About the Function:** Our Finance team deliver sustainable growth for our business, customers, and much-loved brands. We’re part of a profit organization, responsible for driving an exceptional level of performance and creating the potential for future growth. Whether we’re applying our digital capabilities and analytics to inform our business strategy or creating capacity to invest in the future — no two days are the same in our Finance team. Wherever your skills lie, we’ll help you to learn and develop, supporting you along the way in our inclusive culture. **About the team:** **About the role:** The purpose of this the role is to: To partner with the business to drive the execution of the tax strategies, policies and governance framework across Diageo. Proactively engage with business partners with a commercial mind-set to generate opportunities and to deliver robust tax risk management and mitigation plans. Support the business strategy and operational activity. Connect with the compliance team to support on the tax returns and tax determination. **Role Responsibilities:** **The areas of the business you will support and who you will work with:** + Diageo Mexico has grown exponentially in the last few years. Mexico is a very dynamic and challenging market and has one the most complex tax legislation and sophisticated tax authorities in the LAC region. This role will focus on the Demand business unit that sells locally all categories including imported and locally manufactured products. + The Tax Business Partner role will be based in Mexico D.F. and will report to the Mexico Tax Business Partner Lead. This role has no direct reports. _Key Interactions:_ + Finance Business partners and operational teams - Develop and maintain a strong working relationship and keeping up to date with business priorities and developments, act as a trusted business advisor in order to challenge and support the markets in improving overall tax management + Specialist finance functions - Collaborate with finance functions as required to deliver end to end finance services to markets + Tax Compliance, Reporting teams - Collaborate to provide high quality, timely tax activities and outcomes to the business + Governance & Change - Support delivery of changes / improvements + Tax Authorities - Contribute to the management of the relationship and discussions with authorities on tax audits or tax enquiries + External Advisors - Support the relationship with external tax advisors and hold them to account for the delivery of timely, cost effective and value tax advice Accountabilities What you will be responsible for: 1.Active engagement in the management and monitoring of market tax risks, including taking action to detect and solve issues and deal with implementing and where necessary mitigating the impact of legislative changes. 2.Advise, guide and educate key partners on key tax issues to enable the business to adopt and adhere to relevant tax policies and standards, and mitigate tax risk. 3.Execute specific tax related processes/activities following agreed global standard processes and governance framework and find opportunities for standardization and simplification. 4.Support the tax compliance, financial and reporting obligations of the markets, capital structure reviews. 5.Provide tax support to market-initiated projects to ensure tax strategies and policies are adhered to and opportunities to deliver tax efficiencies are identified and fully evaluated. 6.Participate in tax projects to deliver shareholder value/mitigate tax risks. 7.Provide support to the market on tax audits and tax enquiries including working with legal to resolve any tax related disputes. 8.Perform administrative procedures before the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit and other federal and local authorities in time and legal form (attention to requirements, fines, audits, request and acquiring tags), maintaining an outstanding relationship with said authorities. **Experience / skills required:** **The qualifications and experience you will bring:** + Accounting, law or tax related qualification + Experience within a tax function in a global multinational or a tax advisory firm + Experience of handling tax audits + Broad understanding of key domestic and international tax issues + At least 7 years of relevant tax experience + English spoken and written (90% minimum) Skills **The skills you will need:** + Effective project management and implementation skills + Good team working and communication skills across diverse cultures + Capable of adapting policies across several territories + Able to handle risk + Able to embed compliance and ethics + Tax Governance and Reporting **Flexible Working Statement:** Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you’re Supported to handle your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one. **Rewards & Benefits Statement:** We recognize and value performance, offering our people a highly competitive Rewards and Benefits package including: **Diversity statement:** Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this. We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you’ll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You’ll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, approaches, and more. Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to new heights and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world. Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you. If you require a reasonable adjustment, please ensure that you collect this information when you submit your application. **Worker Type :** Regular **Primary Location:** Mexico City **Additional Locations :** **Job Posting Start Date :** 2025-08-14 With over 200 brands sold in more than 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Every day, over 30,000 talented people come together at Diageo to create the magic behind our much-loved brands. From iconic names to innovative newcomers – the brands we’re building are rooted in culture and local communities. Our ambition is to be one of the best performing, most trusted and most respected consumer products companies in the world. Our founders, such as Arthur Guinness, John Walker, and Charles Tanqueray, were visionary entrepreneurs whose brilliant minds helped shape the alcohol industry. And through our people, their legacy lives on. Join us, and you’ll collaborate with talented people from all corners of the world. Together, you’ll innovate and push boundaries, shaping a more inclusive and sustainable future that we can all be proud of. With diversity at our core, we celebrate our people's unique passions, commitments and specialist skills. Because when varied voices, mindsets, and personalities come together, great ideas are born. In our supportive culture, your voice will be heard and you’ll be empowered to be you. Just bring your ambition, curiosity and ideas, and we’ll celebrate your work and help you reach your fullest potential. **DRINKiQ** What's your DRINKiQ? Take our quiz to understand how alcohol is made and explore the effects of drinking. 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