**Job Description :** **About us** With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you’ll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future. Join us to create a career worth celebrating. **About the team:** The Tax job family encompasses global roles accountable for the design and implementation of tax strategies, policies and the tax governance framework. It also includes the provision of tax support to Diageo’s business units, delivery of projects to create shareholder value, and proactive management and mitigation of key tax risks. **About the role:** The purpose of this the role is to: To partner with the Mexico Supply 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 determination, tax returns and tax credit claims. 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 add tax advice **Role Responsibilities:** **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 stakeholders 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 identify opportunities for standardisation 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 obtaining tags), maintaining an extraordinary relationship with said authorities.** **Experience / skills required:** **The qualifications and experience you will bring:** **Accounting or legal qualification** **Postgraduate studies or tax are a plus** **Experience within a tax function in a global multinational or a tax advisory firm** **Experience of managing tax audits** **Broad understanding of key domestic and international tax issues** **At least 7 years of relevant tax experience including manufacturing entities and exports programs - IMMEX** **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** **Able to manage 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 manage your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one. **We offer stellar benefits!** **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, mindsets, 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 capture this information when you submit your application **Worker Type :** Regular **Primary Location:** Guadalajara **Additional Locations :** Mexico City **Job Posting Start Date :** 2025-08-22 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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