Description
We're on a mission to make money work for everyone.
We're looking for an experienced, hands-on and enthusiastic Senior Director of Global Tax to lead the Global Tax team at Monzo, and our wider finance team.
Key Responsibilities:
- Global tax strategy: Defining how Monzo approaches tax across the UK, Europe, and future markets.
- International expansion: Structuring cross-border expansion across Europe and future regions.
- Transfer pricing: Establishing, documenting, and defending our global transfer pricing strategy and intragroup financing arrangements.
- Total tax ownership: Overseeing group Direct Tax, Indirect Tax, Employment Tax, Transfer Pricing, and Operational Customer Taxes across all locations.
- Tax authority relationships: Acting as the primary liaison with HMRC and international tax authorities.
- Product and commercial advisory: Working directly with product managers, engineers, and treasury to understand what they want to build and ensuring the tax treatment is clear from day one.
- Leading the team: Mentoring and leading our tax team, fostering a culture of technical excellence, autonomy, and commercial focus.
- AI and automation: Designing a tech-enabled tax operating model that embeds AI, workflow tools, and automation across our compliance, reconciliations, and contract reviews.
Requirements:
- Qualified tax professional or accountant (CTA, ACA, ACCA, ADIT, or international equivalent).
- Led an in-house tax team at scale, ideally within banking, fintech, or a regulated multinational.
- Empathetic, effective people leader with a strong track record of coaching individuals and fostering a positive, high-performing environment.
- Practical experience with cross-border tax issues, international structuring, and transfer pricing.
- Understands operational and customer taxes common to financial services.
- Excited by modern technology, data, and AI, with a clear view on how tools can automate workflows, reduce human error, and modernise routine tax tasks.
Benefits:
- Dependent on experience + Incentive Awards tied to performance
- Flexible working hours
- £1,000 learning budget each year
- Macbooks provided
- Extra support for work-from-home setup
- Lots more!