Corporate Tax Planning - Vice President - Mexico at JPMorgan Chase

Banco JP Morgan Mexico is seeking to hire an experienced tax professional to join our Corporate Tax Planning Group as a Vice President focusing on Mexican and Cross border tax matters. The Corporate Tax Group in Mexico is responsible for identifying tax issues and opportunities across the range of JPMorgan Chase's products, businesses, and regions. The position will report to the Head of Corporate Tax in country.

Job Responsibilities:

• Partner with Mexico Corporate Tax team members to review and advise on internal corporate actions, transactions or strategic initiatives, including changes to Mexico JPMorgan’s legal entity structure, treasury transactions, and other cross-border initiatives impacting the firm’s tax footprint.
• Collaborate closely with internal functions and LOBs , as well as overseas Corporate Tax colleagues, to ensure the Mexico tax implications of corporate actions, cross-border initiative, legislative changes, and new business initiatives are accurately assessed, implemented, reported, and supported during audits or inquiries.
• Support tax audit processes, reviews, and information requests from tax authorities, in coordination with internal and external teams.
• Proactively monitor developments in Mexican and international tax law, timely identify potential risks and opportunities, effectively communicate relevant impacts and recommendations to internal stakeholders and lead workstreams to execute legal entity and other restructuring projects.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting and/or Law (or equivalent).
• Minimum 5+ years of relevant tax experience at a top tier law firm with a strong tax practice or experience at Big 4 accounting firm. Preferred: financial services industry experience.
• Extensive experience in Mexican taxation and cross-border transactions, including Mexican corporate income tax, VAT and withholding taxes, income characterization, and tax treaty application (treaty eligibility/beneficial ownership and substance) based on transaction facts.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to leverage Excel to prepare clear and comprehensive quantitative analysis and communicate findings to senior management
• Execution-oriented and demonstrated ability to work independently and take initiative.
• Advanced English (professional writing and verbal communication)

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Masters in taxation
• Experience with financial services