Head of Indirect Tax

We are looking for a motivated and detail-oriented Head of Indirect Tax to join our team. Our Tax team makes sure that we operate policies and governance procedures that 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 to manage our overall tax strategy, reducing risks, costs and keeping us compliant.

Your mission

• Providing timely, accurate, practical and proactive VAT advice to the rest of the teams as required.
• Develop strong relationships with key stakeholders to identify their needs and priorities, to enable you to work together to manage indirect tax risks globally. This can be complex given the fluid and autonomous nature of teams. Key stakeholders include other members of the tax team, financial controllers, accountants, product and expansion teams.
• Build up a network and work efficiently with external 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.
• 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.
• Reviewing global indirect tax returns to ensure fully documented review processes and timely filings. While some of these are outsourced and others prepared internally this will require the willingness and ability to get your hands dirty and dig into the details as and if required.
• 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 the finance, accounting and AP teams.
• Determining tax provisions and communicating these to stakeholders, as well as determining and enacting action plans and process improvements.
• Helping the Head of Tax in managing and reporting tax risks, tax provisions, and risk incidences to be escalated.
• Managing, leading and growing the indirect tax function.

This Role Will Give You The Opportunity To

• Own your own path to success - you’ll have a high level of autonomy and responsibility.
• 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

About you

• You have at least 6 years indirect tax experience with either big 4 or in-house - some experience of financial services preferred.
• You have good understanding/experience of spreadsheets (Excel/Google Sheets) and are able to understand large volumes of complex data.
• You have solid understanding of EU VAT and cross-border indirect tax principles.
• You have the ability to work with and influence stakeholders on indirect tax matters at all levels of internal and external stakeholders.
• You are a self-starter and can organise your own work.
• You are not afraid of making decisions, can work autonomously and take initiative.
• You are able to work independently, you assume responsibility and you make your own judgement.
• You are prepared to take ownership over complex new areas and solve problems with no or very limited guidance.
• 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.