Company Description

Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money. Min fees. Max ease. Full speed.

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 life 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. For everyone, everywhere.

More about our mission.

Job Description

North AM Tax Manager - Based in Austin 

Money for here, there and everywhere! 

Wise PLC is one of Europe’s fastest growing companies we move billions of customers money around 160 countries and in 40 currencies, hold billions of customer funds, facilitate our customers to spend like a local with our Wise card and trusted by over 300,000 business both small and large with our international business account all the while saving our customers millions in fees. 

This truly is Money Without Boarders.

As part of our expanding operations in the Americas, we are now looking for an awesome Tax Manager to join our growing finance team in Austin Texas serving our NortAm operations.

You’ll be part of a commercially-minded Global Tax team in Finance, helping to ensure our tax affairs are efficient, transparently compliant and slick so that our mission is sustainable. You’ll initially be focused on our tax compliance and reporting obligations, primarily in the US and Canada while supporting our ever growing business with first class tax advice. 

Your mission:

• Take the lead in all outsourced US federal, state and local tax filings. This includes forecasting payments, ensuring returns are accurately prepared, and making sure all filings are made in a timely manner. Elements of this may be taken in-house over time.
• Process tax audits as and when they arise
• Maintain a tax calendar of payments and submission
• Perform the monthly controls checks and reconciliations 
• Ownership and preparation of year-end tax schedules for US and Canada. This includes calculating tax provisions and disclosures for local financial statements and working together with other members of the Group Tax team on group consolidation.
• Be completely on top of all new tax laws and cases, ensuring our operations are fully in line with latest practice, guidance and regulatory requirements. This includes monitoring for local regulatory changes, case law, OECD digital taxes, and any other developments that affect the region.
• Be the go to tax person in the region, providing the business and product teams with first class, commercially minded tax advice.
• Support the Global Tax Group on ad hoc research and projects from time to time, including expansion into new countries, monitoring transfer pricing charges, intra-group debt, and ensuring we are compliant with rules around CFCs, Tad Reform, interest restrictions etc.
• Work closely with financial controllers, accounting, and finance system teams.
• Build relationships with non-finance teams to understand how the wider business works.
  

This role will give you the opportunity to:

• Own your own path to success - you’ll have a high level of autonomy and responsibility.
• Expand your skills - as we continue to scale, you will never be short of opportunities to take on and develop skills in other taxes, countries and projects.
• Be part of an international Finance team - us finance folk are currently based across London, Tallinn, Hungry, Austin, Sydney and Singapore.

A bit about you:

As we continue to scale at speed, this role will inevitably evolve over time, so you’ll need to be proactive, independent and excited at the prospect of solving unfamiliar problems.

• Fully qualified CPA, ACA, ACCA, CTA, or similar.
• Solid understanding of both US federal and multi-state taxes.
• Proven ability to work in an uncertain environment in countries and taxes that you have not worked on before.
• A flair for solving problems and be excited at the prospect of working on challenges outside of your usual comfort zone
• Ability to manage external advisors, setting and managing budgets
• Experience in managing Financial Audits under US GAAP (IFRS would be massively helpful too)
• Able to work as part of team as well as individually and the flexibility to manage diverse range of stake holders.
• Proven to be able to think on your feet and roll your sleeves up

Some extra skills that would be fantastic:

• In-house experience.
• Fluency in another foreign language, bonus points for Spanish or Portuguese.
• Experience of working on taxes in Canada.
• Knowledge of IFRS 
• Presentation skills 

What’s in it for you?

You’ll be part of a Global tax team within finance that’s helping to ensure our mission to help customers is sustainable. You’ll also be on the receiving end of a competitive base salary, generous stock options package and some excellent benefits, and a whole lot of free food. Also don’t forget Mission Days!

A bit about Wise:

Since 2011, we’ve had a clear mission: money without borders. Built by and for people who live global lives, we’re the fairest, easiest way to manage your money across borders.

We’re just at the beginning of our story and we’re growing at an incredible pace. We won’t stop until anyone, anywhere can send, spend, hold and receive money wherever they are, whatever they’re doing. There’s still heaps to do and we can’t do it alone.

Our People:

At Wise, you’ll be joining a movement of people who believe in a better, fairer, more transparent way of moving money around the world. You’ll collaborate to do your best work and take on problems that no one has looked at before.

If you’re keen to learn, grow, try new things and aren’t afraid of a bold plan, you’ll fit right in.

How we work:

At Wise our strategy emerges from the collective brainpower of all our people, who are organized in dozens of independent, autonomous teams. Teams stay closest to our customers, so they choose what problems to solve and where to spend the most time.

You’ll experience radical levels of ownership and empowerment within your role. Plus the opportunity to see the direct impact of your work on our customers.

What do we offer: 

Key benefits:

• 🚀 RSU’s in a rapidly growing company after a year with us
• 💻 Hybrid working model – A combination of work-from-home and from the office 
• ✈️ Wisers can work remotely for 90 days a year. By ‘remote’ we don’t just mean from home, but from wherever in the world you choose to
• 💪 An annual self-development budget
• 🩺 Medical, dental, & vision insurance – including HSA and FSA options
• 💝 Company-paid: Life Insurance, Short & Long-Term Disability, and an EAP program
• ☀️ 25 days PTO, 15 sick days, 11 bank holidays, 5 compassionate leave days, 3 paid “Me” days and a paid volunteer day, annually
• 🏝️ A paid 6-week sabbatical leave after four years
• 👶🏼 18-weeks of paid parental leave, after a year with us
• 💰 401k with up to a 4% employer match
• 🏆 BuiltIn Award winner for Best Places to Work and Best Large Places to Work
• Click HERE for more info on our benefits (Austin)

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Additional Information

For everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders — without judgement or prejudice, too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.

We’re proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences.

Every Wiser should feel that they can be themselves at work.

Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to share their contributions towards mission zero and able to progress in their careers.

Having diverse teams that reflect our diverse customer base helps us build a better product. We can be more creative and empathetic to our customer’s needs and make sure we leave no-one behind on our journey to mission-zero.

For everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders — without judgement or prejudice, too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.

We're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences.
Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.

If you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs.

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