Senior Tax Accountant Miami, FL Miami, FL , F

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.

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.

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

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

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