Manager - Accounting

**Additional Information****Job Number** **Job Category**Finance & Accounting**Location**Mexico Regional Office, Ejercito Nacional No. 350 Suite 4C, Mexico City, MÉX, Mexico, 11560**Schedule**Full Time**Located Remotely?**N**Position Type** Management***The Tax Manager is responsible for ensuring the accurate and timely filing of income tax returns for Marriott’s managed and holding entities across the Caribbean, Mexico, and Latin America (CALA). Reporting to the Senior Tax Manager in the Mexico office, this role supports U.S. GAAP tax accounting and local GAAP for each country in the CALA region, oversees income taxes, and ensures compliance with CALA withholding tax regulations.**DUTIES AND RESPONSABILITIES**- Ensure that Marriott International (MI) is continuously revising and implementing the fiscal strategies to guarantee the correct operational flow in the entities and the good administration of taxes.- Have constant communication with the Senior Tax manager and Corporate Tax for alignment of tax criteria, tax strategies, confirmations, tax implementations, status communications, new tax reforms, etc.- Ensure that MI is paying federal and local taxes in the right way according to Tax Laws.- Ensure that MI is compliant in a timely and proper manner with the filing of tax returns.- Ensure the electronic documentation is updated with the new tax changes made every year by the local government.- Ensure the correct calculation of profit sharing, dividends, etc.- Follow up on external tax audits in order to comply with the process in a good manner.- Look for the best results in external tax audits through negotiations with tax authorities, tax and constitutional litigations, and choose the best consultants to do so.- Ensure that all transactions are evaluated in the best possible way for transfer pricing purposes every year.- Proper financials segmentation for transfer pricing obligations duly aligned with TP MI Master File.- Get in time the transfer pricing studies for supporting all transactions between related parties.- Ensure projections of taxes and deferred taxes for planning processes as Outlook and Budget.- Ensure financial compliance through the correct accounting registers of taxes every month and every year.- Ensure the support/advisory to other areas of MI when it is needed, such as Payroll, Customs, Legal, General Services, among others.- Lead own teams and project teams to excellence to get the best results.- Improve the engagement of the team based on MI, tax and Finance Vision.- Identify opportunities to enhance the effectiveness of business processes**CANDIDATE PROFILE****Experience**- 6 or more years of accounting and tax experience, including substantial experience in U.S. and corporate tax matters- Experience with financial accounting for income taxes; strong working knowledge of ASC 740 (SFAS109, APB23, FIN18, FIN48)- Basic knowledge of tax laws in other Latin American jurisdictions, desirable such as Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Aruba.- Big four experience**Personal Attributes and Competencies**- Fluency in English required- Operates with a collaborative mindset to ensure that key stakeholders' concerns are considered- Excellent interpersonal skills - Able to develop and maintain effective relationships with a broad group of stakeholders.- Communicates effectively, both orally and in writing; listens to others and effectively comprehends information; creates an environment allowing timely information flows throughout the organization.- Responsive; able to integrate and balance priorities, work activities, and resources for the benefit of multiple key stakeholders.- Able to work both independently and as part of a team.- Able to consistently make decisions in a timely manner, sometimes with incomplete information and under tight deadlines and pressure; comfortable challenging organizational norms and accepted thinking to improve effectiveness.- Active learner - able to enhance personal, professional, and business growth through new knowledge and experiences; pushes the organization to learn from other industries' standards and practices.**EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION**- Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, or related discipline required- CPA or MBA/ master’s in taxation a plus- Oracle (Peoplesoft)**LOCATION**This position will be based at the Mexico City office.- Marriott International is an equal opportunity employer. We believe in hiring a diverse workforce and sustaining an inclusive, people-first culture. We are committed to non-discrimination on any protected basis, such as disability and veteran status, or any other basis covered under applicable law._Marriott International is the world’s largest hotel company, with more brands, more hotels and more opportunities for associates to grow and succeed. **Be** where you can do your best work, **begin** your purpose, **belong** to an amazing global team,