Senior Manager, Tax - Airwallex

About Airwallex

Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software, we empower over 100,000 businesses worldwide – including Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN and many more – with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts, payments, spend management and treasury, to embedded finance at a global scale.

Proudly founded in Melbourne, we have a team of over 1,500 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech located across more than 20 offices across the globe. Valued at US$5.6 billion and backed by world-leading investors including Sequoia, Lone Pine, Greenoaks, DST Global, Salesforce Ventures and Mastercard, Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If you're ready to do the most ambitious work of your career, join us.

What you’ll do

Airwallex is looking for a proactive and motivated Senior Tax Manager with extensive hands-on local experience and a global mindset to provide tax advice and supporting documentation, compliance, and reporting for existing businesses and new business initiatives.This position will be part of a team that works closely with business partners to understand business initiatives, prepare advice on the associated tax implications, provide actionable guidance and requirements for the business, and support reporting and compliance obligations. The role reports directly to the Global Head of Tax based in Singapore.

This role will be based in San Francisco.

Responsibilities:

• Lead complex, high priority projects whilst managing competing priorities – including working across multi-region and cross-functional teams

• Deliver holistic, commercially balanced advice to senior and executive level leadership to devise strategic, technical tax positions

• Analyse and review statutes, regulations and case laws, and extract data make appropriate recommendations in simple terms

• Own all regional (Americas) direct tax, indirect tax, and transfer pricing issues related to current and future Airwallex entities

• Contribute to complex global projects such as M&A transactions, due diligence, or IPO-readiness

• An in-depth, technical knowledge of complex taxation matters, including; Direct tax, Indirect tax, International tax and Transfer Pricing

• Demonstrable experience working across multiple timezones, supporting and/or leading on strategic cross-functional projects designed to identify growth opportunity or mitigate risk

Who you are:

We're looking for people who meet the minimum requirements for this role.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelors or Masters in Finance, Accounting or Tax

• Previous experience working in an accounting firm

• Minimum 7 years of relevant professional experience

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English

• Strong leadership and management skills

• Team player mentality and ability to work with individuals across functions and culture

Equal opportunity

Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don’t regard color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters. Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s). Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary.