Indirect Tax Senior Manager

Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money.
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Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their lives easier and save them money.

As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money.
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We are looking for a motivated, decisive, practical and detail-oriented Indirect Tax Senior Manager to join our team. Our Tax team makes sure that we operate policies and governance procedures that seek to ensure we comply with tax laws in every territory we do business. With a high level of autonomy and responsibility, you’ll work across teams at Wise to support the Head of Indirect Tax in managing our overall tax strategy, reducing risks, costs and keeping us compliant.

Your mission

• Support the Head of Indirect Tax and the wider Indirect Tax function at Wise enabling us to ensure compliance in 20+ markets.

• Develop strong relationships with key stakeholders to identify their needs and priorities, to enable the team to manage indirect tax risks globally. This can be complex given the fluid and autonomous nature of teams and will involve providing timely, accurate, practical and proactive indirect tax advice to the rest of our teams. Key stakeholders can include other members of the tax team, financial controllers, accountants, product and expansion teams. 

• Continue to broaden our external network in working efficiently and pragmatically with advisors, being fully aligned with the rest of the tax team, to manage indirect tax exposures, be up to date on ongoing compliance obligations and understand the impact of expansion as Wise develops its global footprint and service offerings.

• Support in a review of the indirect tax positions taken in material markets and our approach to engaging with tax authorities for rulings as well as handling of tax authority & financial auditors enquiries relating to indirect taxes.

• Pragmatic and commercial involvement working with the tax implementation team to support various projects including but not limited to indirect tax return automation, e-invoicing, transfer pricing, invoice coding reviews, end to end process mapping and documentation.

• In-depth understanding of processes and controls over indirect tax return preparation and submission, and providing support to ensure fully documented review processes and timely filings.

• Be an engaged, pragmatic and pro-active member of the tax team, helping to make indirect tax more accessible and understood across tax and the wider business- including providing training to finance teams.

• Supporting the Head of Indirect Tax in managing and reporting indirect tax risks, tax provisions, and risk incidences which require escalation and helping to communicate these with relevant stakeholders.

This Role Will Give You The Opportunity To

• Own your own path to success - you’ll have a high level of autonomy and responsibility to participate/lead cross team projects.

• Work in an international Tax & Finance Team and learn a lot about the tax around the world, fintech and driving financial sustainability of a fast growing company.

• You are an indirect tax professional with either big 4 or in-house experience at senior manager (or strong manager level) and have an excellent understanding of UK and/or EU VAT and cross border indirect tax principles - some experience with financial services indirect taxation preferred but not essential.

• Able to understand and support in the design of processes and controls to manage compliance obligations and risks associated with large volumes of complex data.

• You are a self-starter who is able to organise your own time but you also have the ability to work with and influence stakeholders on indirect tax matters at all levels, both internally and externally.

• You take ownership of complex new areas and are able to solve problems with limited guidance, assuming responsibility and using your own judgement in terms of decision making.

• You demonstrate attention to details but can summarise key messages succinctly, verbally and in writing, adjusting your style and level of information based on the target audience.

• You are experienced in developing people, e.g. providing ongoing feedback and development opportunities to other members of the team.

Qualifications

• CTA or ACA qualified with time qualification also met.

£88,000 - £103,000 plus relevant RSUs

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