Tomás González Email and Phone Number

Unilever Tax Director LatAm (Middle Americas, Southern Cone, Mexico and Caribbean, 23 countries, managing 42 tax people) in charge of all tax matters as well as for the organisation of the tax function. Tax matters include meeting all statutory obligations for all taxes on time in all countries, meeting all reporting obligations and implementing local, regional and global tax planning initiatives in line with Global policy and guidelines, in order to realize a Competitive Effective Tax Rate (ETR) and optimising Unilever’s indirect tax position and Transfer Pricing.The Middle Americas, Southern Cone, Mexico and Caribbean countries under my scope are: Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Venezuela, Uruguay, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Trinidad & Tobago, Haiti and Cuba Senior Member of the Finance Leadership team in LatamUnilever Tax leadership Team memberUnilever Tax Director for Brazil on an interim basis since October 2015 to July 2016

Tax management full scope of 15 countries in South America, Middle and Central America.

Tax advice, compliance, assurance, planning & defence activities within Southern Cone, Americas. Managing a virtual team (hybrid).

Downstream and Upstream Gas Compliance, Advice, Transfer Pricing, planning, defence, reporting and controlling of all Tax matters for all countries in Latam including Brazil.

Tax management of Downstream and M&A for all countries in Latin America including Brazil.

I was in charge of the Indirect tax department in Buenos Aires office (including Customs and international trade set up).Also I set up and developed the Tax compliance department (Tax operations).I lead the international tax department, with main focus on Transfer Pricing, for a transitional period.In charge of several International and local clients like Merck, Sharp & Dhome, Carrefour, General Motors, Volkswagen, Sadesa, Macrosa, Telefonica, Cablevision, Microsoft, Arla foods, Air Liquide, Chandon, Wella; and in charge of the tax advice and direct tax compliance of the E&Y Buenos Aires office itself.I lead tax professionals staff in the range of 20 in the different clients and assignments

I started in 1988 as Junior assistant in Arthur Andersen and was consecutively promoted until becoming Senior Manager. Arthur Andersen was acquired by Ernst and Young in Argentina.