Tax manager

Responsible for all accounting and finance functions, including preparation of all financial statements and reports for management and HQ’s. Responsible for day to day financial housekeeping and ensures quality and accuracy of data and takes corrective action in a timely way.
Prepare and review annual and quarterly operational budget submission for assigned GL accounts. Promptly resolve billing, service, and Accounts Receivable AR issues. Process invoice for AP Posts, checks, balances, and adjust accounts
Prepare GAAP consolidated financial statements by analyzing information from the general ledger system and departments.
Prepare financial reports including cash flow, bank reconciliation, sales and payroll tax filings. Compile and analyze financial information to prepare entries to accounts, such as general ledger accounts, documenting business transactions. Match invoices to purchase orders and receive reports, coding invoices with account numbers or review invoice coding for accuracy.
Prepare the close of books process, the financial statements (Balance Sheet, P&L, Cash Flows (NIF B-2), KPIs (inbound, backlog, sales, standard cost, revenue recognition, remeasurement (FASB-52: all foreing exchange rates translated into USD, transaction currency into functional currency, treasury pool reports, etc.), signed reconciliations with accounting support, responsible for the module of fixed assets (additions, withdrawals, depreciations) and to run monthly tax transactions, NIF D3, NIF D4.
Preparing and recording journal entries, reconciliations, expense analysis, manufacturing overhead allocation, cost-of-goods sold and financial reviews. Updates standard cost and investigates / resolves costing issues. Monitor and run periodic checks on costed BOMs, path changes, absorption and inventory valuation. Inventory internal control reviews, cycle count and annual count program. Monitors compliance with Financial Policies and Procedures and represents Finance on teams designed to improve operations and reduce costs. Prepares and analyzes manufacturing variances (i.e. material usage, planned variance, rate variance, etc.). Monitoring the scrap, Excess & Obsolete process and reserves (according with Lean Manufacturing Methodology). Prepare and run the inventory destruction process, presenting all the reports and document backup to fiscal authorities in Mexico, etc.
US-GAAP: reporting of financial statements and analytical integrations by each of the Mexican entities (monthly, quarterly, annual, budgets, projections, etc.) using the Oracle-Hyperion EPM platform. Meetings and phone calls for the monthly, quarterly, annual closing with the corporate located in Huston.

In charge to formulate the financial statements (balance sheet, income statement, cash flow statement and statement of changes in equity) the budget and the forecast by store, for the Board of Directors, for external auditor and for the financial institutions (bank or intercompany), KPIs, GMROI x SKU, CashFlow-ROI by store, cost accounting, ratios and graphics for the monthly presentation for the Board of Directors,, etc. 
Analyze financial but also technical and commercial data using trending, earned value and estimation methods to forecast or establish budgets.
Maintains accounting controls by preparing and recommending policies and procedures. Reconciles financial discrepancies by collecting and analyzing accounting information. Maintains financial security by following internal controls. Answers accounting procedure questions by researching and interpreting accounting policy and regulations. Complies with international, federal and local financial legal requirements by studying existing and new legislation, enforcing adherence to requirements, and advising management on needed actions.
Weekly: staff meetings, operation meetings with director and supervisors (in-charge to prepare the P&L analysis by store every deviation). 
Had-doc/Daily: In-charge to manage the accounting and financial information at HQ, in charge of preparing the financial statements, KPI’s and tax calculations, prepaid expenses, NIF D3, NIF D4, supervise the roll-forward procedures (bank reconciliation, inventory process, completeness, existence, and accuracy of the expenses). In charge of preparing the P&L deviation explanations according to the accounting information of the ERP (MS-Dynamics AX).

Finance activities and accountant activities. Monthly presentation for the Board of Directors with 120 slides (with cash flow, financial statements, inventories and cost of sales levels, income per divisions, bank credits and draft bank documentations for import merchandise, level of suppliers and expenses segregation per division, all of this information is compared real vs budget). 
Inventories reconciliation and cost of sales monthly and weekly meetings with CFO and the board of managements. Tax calculation activities. GL vs Subledger reconciliation. Prepare financial statements and the payroll and social contribution calculations. IMSS, SUA, SIPARE. Invoice activities.
Taxation: auditing, supervising, preparing and filing the federal and local tax calculations of Income Tax, Valued Add Tax, Good and Services Tax, Payroll Tax, Social Security Contributions and local payroll tax payment, monthly by monthly and the annual fiscal report for Mexican tax authorities.
Participate in Board activities in conjunction with corporate By-Laws, assist in preparation of corporate resolutions, and maintain records of all Board meetings

Month end close process, preparation of financial statements and reports for the board of directors.
Conciliating total accounts from GL report vs Sub-ledgers reports.
Calculation of the payroll process on bi-weekly basis.
Calculate sales commissions and financial reports monthly for each business unit.

Preparing financial statements on monthly basis accordance with NIF and IFRS compliance.
Preparing financial reports of the month-end close process and delivering them to the HQ’s on time.
Conciliating total accounts from GL report vs Sub-ledgers reports.
Calculate monthly the Cost of Sales Statement for each business unit.
Preparation and posting the adjustments entries of the month-end close (payroll accrued, monthly taxes, inventory adjustments, deviation standard costs vs real costs, etc.). 
Revision of the payroll accrued expenses, social security contributions, and withholding taxes month over month and explain the variances.
Calculating the financial interests on a monthly basis (originating from bank credits or investment financial instruments or intercompany operations).
In-charge of the invoice activities every month (reconciliation of the invoice’s report vs Income Sub-ledger).
In-charge to review the financial process according to compliance and the politics.
Analyze and explain the variance between real and budget amounts (analyzing the financial ratios). 

Planning the audit program and defining the scope of audit 
Designing the audit documents and defining control questionnaires, flowcharts, checklists, and memorandums.
Analysis and test of transactions, processes, and account balances.
Auditing different financial departments according to policies and procedures and finally recommending improvements into the internal controls or changes into the internal process.
Expose results of control evaluations, analytical procedures.
Review internal controls according to COSO compliance.
Review journal entries for commission accruals, rent allocation, reclassifications of income & expenses.
Communication of the audit results to the top management.

Handling some auditing tasks and preparing audit reports according to audit compliance.
Preparing audit programs and reports for the broad management.
Revision of the internal control processes (according to COSO and SOX).
Preparation of financial statements and the annual tax report (according to NIFs, IFRS and US-GAAP compliance).
Auditing all the financial areas (reviewing the completeness, existence, accuracy, valuation, ownership, and presentation of the GL accounts).
Reconciliation of inventory count data from the warehouse versus inventory data from the accounting system.
Preparing financial information according to NIFs, IFRS, SOX and Mex-laws compliance.

Profile and Knowledge of the Graduate.
Upon completion of the academic program, the graduate will be able to venture into public and private entities as a consultant and / or fiscal consultant, as well as for the exercise of teaching and research in the area of ​​taxes, at the levels of undergraduate and graduate , since the graduate has acquired knowledge, skills, abilities and attitudes such as:
Appropriate use of theoretical and technical tools for the design of projects and investigative process in the area of ​​taxes.
Analysis of macroeconomic, microeconomic phenomena and their relationship with public finances, specifically the effect of these with respect to corporate finance.
Regarding tax laws: ISR, VAT, IEPS, Social Security Contributions, Indirect Taxes and Special Taxes and Foreign Trade.
About the models and techniques that allow optimizing the financial resources of the company via tax functions.
Interpretation of Tax Laws within the Mexican Legal System, as well as Comparative Tax Law.

Overall objective
To train competitive professionals, capable of designing, establishing, applying, controlling and evaluating financial, fiscal and administrative information systems for the decision-making of national and international economic entities, with an ethical, critical, entrepreneurial and leadership attitude, through research and the use of information and communication technology, promoting sustainable development.
Egress Profile
Design, implement, control, evaluate, advise and innovate systems of financial, administrative, fiscal and audit information in economic entities.
Analyze and generate financial information in accordance with the Financial Information Standards, national and international, for decision making.
Audit financial, fiscal and administrative systems of economic entities in accordance with the Rules and Procedures for Auditing and Standards for Attesting.
Apply the relevant legal framework to the characteristics and needs of the economic entity within the professional field.
Strategically manage the resources of economic entities with entrepreneurial and competitive vision.
Know and comply with the code of professional ethics.
Use Information and Communication Technologies to streamline processes and decision making.
Develop research assuming an attitude of leadership, commitment and service with their social environment.
Prepare and evaluate investment projects according to the characteristics and needs of the environment and promote the generation of companies
Assume an attitude of commitment and service with their social environment and the environment.
Form and promote the development of interdisciplinary working groups for the achievement of the results of the entities with a sense of social responsibility and an integrating vision.
Know and propose marketing strategies that allow achieving the objectives of the company.
Apply methods of financial information analysis to determine the best alternatives for investment and financing.