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Warner Bros. Discovery Tax Operations Manager in Mexico City, Mexico
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From brilliant creatives, to technology trailblazers, across the globe, WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive.
The Tax Operations Manager will directly support US Domestic Indirect Tax compliance including Sales and Use, Gross Receipts, Personal Property, Real Property and, Business License Taxes for all United States brands across: Warner Bros. Studios, Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., CNN, HBO, Max, Discovery, and Scripps. This position, along with supporting staff, will report to and partner with the Director of US Indirect Tax and the Sr. Manager to compile all data necessary to ensure accurate, timely, and audit-ready tax filings. This role will also support documenting the accuracy of our financial statements and other ad-hoc reporting to management. This position will also learn and work with the Indirect tax technology on all existing new product launches and Global ERP, P2P and tax engine implementations, ensuring that US Domestic indirect tax needs are identified and communicated to ensure proper compliance reporting.
Job Responsibilities
- Generate, retrieve, and process financial data that will allow for the
accurate, timely, and audit-ready of all indirect taxes including Sales/Use,
Gross Receipts, NY Commercial Rent, Personal Property, Real Property
taxes, and Business Licenses.
The role will help the compliance team:
establish data and reporting parameters that satisfy compliance and audit
requirements; retrieve data from various ERP, tax engines, or other internal
constituents; build new process improvements as necessary; Analyze financial
data for inclusion in returns or corrections, calculate taxes due were
necessary; Assist in the management of funding for tax payments; Assist with
monthly account reconciliations to ensure accurate financial statement
reporting; Support the filing of tax returns as necessary
- Support the Tax Director on ad-hoc data compilation such as: multi-
jurisdictional audits off all tax types within the scope of US Indirect Tax.
impacts of legislation; and other reporting
- Work with the Sr. Tax Manager maintaining DTC Vertex and AFC tax
engines. Assist with special tax projects as needed to support and reduce
Company tax burdens including quantifying impacts of indirect tax legislative
proposals.
Work Experience
5-7+ years of relative experience working with financial systems (SAP, Vertex, Oracle), and building data compilation processes
Accounting or technology background (familiarity with tax compliance a plus)
Experience with entertainment/media industry preferred.
Experience with various ERP & tax systems including SAP, and Oracle
Knowledge/Skills
Working knowledge of financial systems such as, SAP, Oracle, Hyperion, and related systems
Working knowledge of data analysis tools such as Excel/Power BI, Alteryx, etc.
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