Senior Tax Accountant

YOUR OPPORTUNITY

Join Bacardi’s dynamic North America Tax Team and play a key role in strengthening and streamlining statutory tax compliance and accounting processes across the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico. This role offers the opportunity to deepen your technical expertise, drive process improvements, collaborate across functions, and contribute to a high-performing tax team supporting a complex and diverse regional hub. You will be based in Miami, Florida.

ABOUT YOU

You are a proactive and detail-oriented tax professional with a strong foundation in statutory tax compliance and accounting. You have a natural curiosity about the business and a drive to deliver high-quality results. You thrive in a fast-paced environment, are highly disciplined, and take pride in meeting deadlines with accuracy and efficiency. Your strong communication and collaboration skills allow you to work effectively across functions, including with shared service teams and global tax colleagues. You are motivated by opportunities to improve processes, embrace automation, and contribute to building a more standardized and efficient tax environment for the North America region.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Ensure the accurate and timely filings of the U.S. Federal and State/Local Income Tax returns for various NAM entities
• Ongoing connection with business partners (finance, legal, other) to ensure current knowledge of non-recurring events, changes in the business, and impact on taxes
• Ensure accurate statutory financial reporting throughout the year
• Review book results and various journal entries for analysis of book to tax adjustments
• Interface with various finance teams and shared service center resources to ensure thorough understanding of statutory results and reporting of tax sensitive transactions
• Prepare federal, state and provincial income tax returns prepared in tax software
• Prepare analysis of book to tax differences, tax return working papers, investigate material discrepancies between year-end tax accounting and tax returns
• Deliver timely analysis and response to matters identified by the Tax Manager on consolidated or separate tax returns
• Prepare filing adjustments to state returns for federal audit adjustments
• Prepare analysis to “true up” income tax returns with year-end tax accounting entries
• Prepare tax research on specific federal and state income tax issues
• Keep up to date on relevant U.S. and Canadian tax compliance legal and procedural developments
• Support other tax compliance and projects, as required
• Ensure the accurate and timely preparation of tax financial reporting submissions
• Prepare accurate and timely tax accounting submissions
• Prepare tax reporting packages and entries for various entities for the submission of the following: Budgets, latest estimates and quarterly reporting
• Complete supporting documentation in compliance of SOX procedures
• Ensure accurate calculation and timely payment of federal, state, provincial and GST estimated tax payments
• Support indirect tax compliance as required (ie., sales and use tax, beverage tax, Canadian GST, and other non-income tax)
• Ensure business changes and impact on transfer pricing are timely considered and properly executed including intercompany agreements, recharges amongst legal entities and other supporting documentation

SKILLS

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting
• CPA or MST preferred
• Big 4 accounting firm experience or comparable preferred
• Experience with IRC Sec 263A Uniform Capitalization Rules, and foreign tax credit preferred
• 2+ years of experience with federal and state income tax compliance
• Strong tax technical skills and working knowledge of U.S. transfer pricing regulations
• Working knowledge of US GAAP financial reporting, deferred tax accounting, valuation allowances, etc.
• Working knowledge of SAP with the ability to retrieve account balances and journal entries
• Fluency in Spanish an asset

PERSONAL QUALITIES

• You are inquisitive and curious about the business, with a strong drive for results
• You are highly disciplined and thrive in a fast-paced environment
• You have strong verbal and written communication skills
• You demonstrate effective collaboration skills and work successfully in a team environment

LEADERSHIP AGILITY

At Bacardi we care deeply about finding brilliant talent who can bring the following personal attributes to help elevate our 3Fs: Fearless, Family, Founder culture to the next level.

• Belonging: You have a strong capacity to create a culture of ‘Belonging’, where people feel appreciated for who they are, what they do, and who they can become
• Self-Awareness: You have high levels of self-awareness, are reflective and know yourself well, understanding both your own strengths and weaknesses and your impact on others
• People Agility: You bring a deep ability to understand and relate to people and navigate through tough situations to harness and multiply collective performance
• Results Agility: You demonstrate consistent delivery of results in first-time situations by inspiring teams, exhibiting a presence that builds confidence in yourself and others.
• Mental Agility: You can think critically to penetrate complex problems and expand the possibilities by making fresh connections. You think strategically whilst being execution focused and bring creativity to the challenges you’re presented with
• Change Agility: You have a deep natural curiosity, desire to experiment and ability to effectively deal with the heat of change. You have a growth and learning mindset: ready to test, stumble, learn and apply from experience

Disclaimer: Bacardi seeks talent from all backgrounds to bring diversity of thought, agility and capability to our organization across the globe. We promote a working environment where all employees are treated and rewarded fairly. We do not tolerate any form of discrimination that adversely affects individuals or groups on the basis of national origin, race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, age, and any other legally protected aspect of a person’s identity. U.S. applicants have rights under Federal Employment Laws.

Perks of Working for us

At Bacardi, we are committed to providing our Primos (employees) with a comprehensive Total Rewards package of compensation, benefits, incentives, allowances, well-being, and much more to meet the needs of themselves and their families. It goes beyond just Cash! The total rewards program is based on pay for performance, whereby the incentive programs are linked to company and individual performance.

Compensation, Paid Time Off & Retirement:

• Competitive Pay Package
• Competitive Holiday/Paid Time Off, plus additional days offered ( i.e., volunteer day, allowing you to give back to the community)
• Retirement/Pension Plan

Health & Wellbeing

• Medical, Critical Illness, and Life Insurance
• Employee Assistance Programs
• Best-in-class, family-friendly, and inclusive leave policies

Additional Benefits

The benefits /perks may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Bacardi, your work location, and are subject to change. Some benefits may be subject to an employee contribution. Some benefits may be fully or partially subsidized. Incentive plans are linked to the nature of your employment and can vary based on region, market, function or brand.