**Job Description :** **Job Title:** Tax Business Partner, CCA **Location:** Panama City, Panama **Type of contract:** Permanent **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. **Purpose of the role:** 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. **About the role:** The Tax Business Partner role will be based in Panama and will report to the LAC 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 the finance functions as required to deliver end to end finance efficiencies + _Tax Compliance, Reporting teams_ - Collaborate to provide high quality, timely tax activities and outcomes to the business + Governance & Change - Support delivery of changes / improvements in tax legislation or processes + Tax Authorities - Contribute to the management of the relationship and discussions with authorities on tax audits or tax inquiries + 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 **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 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 standardization and simplification. 4. Support the markets' tax compliance, and financial and reporting obligations. 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. Support the market on tax audits and tax enquiries including working with legal to resolve any tax-related disputes. 8. Perform administrative procedures before the tax authority and local authorities in time and legal form (attention to requirements, fines, audits, request and obtaining tags), maintaining an extraordinary relationship with said authorities. **About you:** + Legal or accounting qualification + Experience within a tax function in a global multinational or a tax advisory firm preferred + Experience of managing tax audits + Broad understanding of key domestic (Panama) tax rules and other markets of Central America and Caribbean + At least 6 years of tax experience + English and Spanish spoken and written (90% minimum) + Effective project management and implementation skills + Good team working and communication skills across diverse cultures + Capable of adapting policies across several territories + Able to manage risk + Able to embed compliance and ethics + Tax Governance and Reporting Flexibility is key to success in our business and many of our people work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time, compressed hours, and flexible location. Please talk to us about what flexibility means to you and don’t let anything stop you from applying. Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and listened to, is a crucial part of this. We believe the most inclusive and diverse culture makes for a better business and a better world. We know that for our business to thrive and for Diageo to realize its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills, and capabilities in each of the 180 countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base. **Worker Type :** Regular **Primary Location:** Panama City **Additional Locations :** **Job Posting Start Date :** 2025-01-23 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. 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