Description
Job Overview
As a Tax Manager at GoCardless, a Mollie company, you will cover corporation tax, VAT, and transfer pricing across a small global group. The role involves improving systems and processes, supporting the Head of Tax with advisory work, and managing tax compliance, filing, and payment obligations.
Responsibilities
Compliance and Reporting
- Manage global tax compliance, filing, and payment obligations, providing financial information to external advisers, and reviewing returns before submission.
- Prepare and review indirect tax filings, and implement changes to improve efficiency.
- Manage US reporting obligations for payment processors, including working with Product on system changes.
- Review and advise on the application of transfer pricing policies, including calculations that support adjustments.
- Manage tax aspects of employee share incentive schemes.
- Prepare tax reporting arising from the Mollie acquisition, including equity and share-scheme reporting.
Accounting, Controls, and Transfer Pricing
- Manage the tax risk control framework, reviewing and testing controls, and reconciling balances to validate tax filings.
- Prepare tax disclosures for consolidated and entity-level financial statements.
Advisory and Projects
- Support the Head of Tax on integration planning and advisory projects, such as corporate structure reviews, new lines of business, and M&A.
- Advise Engineering, Product, Legal, and People teams on tax implications of new products and system developments.
- Document tax systems and processes to support integration with Mollie.
- Collaborate on integration projects with Mollie's tax team.
Stakeholders
- Manage relationships with external tax advisers and preparers.
- Handle enquiries from tax authorities, investors, and other stakeholders.
Requirements
- CTA or ACA qualified, ideally with in-house, financial services, or payments experience.
- Strong UK direct and indirect tax expertise.
- Working knowledge of payroll taxes, including benefits and expenses.
- Comfortable with tax accounting and preparing tax disclosures.
- Experience turning tax rules into practical advice.
- Confident with IT, happy to learn database querying and use automation tools.
- Self-starter who prioritises workload and communicates clearly.
Nice to Have
- Transfer pricing calculations.
- US federal and state tax reporting.
- Experience in fintech or payments, or in a fast-growing scale-up.
Benefits
- Wellbeing support and medical cover.
- Lunch options based on location.
- Work away scheme for up to 20 working days.
- Adaptive Working arrangements.
- Parental leave.
- Learning Budget.
- Generous holiday allowance and volunteer days.
Salary
- £64,000 - £96,000 (gross)