Job DescriptionYou'll be part of a commercially-minded Tax team, helping to ensure our tax affairs are efficient, transparently compliant and slick so that our mission is sustainable.
Your mission:As Tax Manager, you will function as the regional subject matter expert for various stakeholders and ensure overall compliance with reporting, remediation and improve the management of U.S. and Canadian tax operations. Your core responsibilities will include:
- Manage the outsourced preparation of U.S. federal and state corporate tax compliance, and Canadian tax computations across direct tax. This includes managing the relationship with outsourced service providers and the maintenance of supporting documentation, review of tax returns, quarterly estimated payments, and extensions.
- Assist with the preparation of ASC740 and local GAAP tax disclosures and provisioning including return-to-provision, valuation allowance analysis and UTP tracking.
- Manage tax audit and examinations, including responses to tax authority inquiries and information requests.
- Assist tax-related SOX internal controls, maintain master tax calendars, and ensure complete adherence to all statutory and internal filing deadlines.
- Work closely with financial controllers, accounting, and finance system teams for sources of data and information, including directly extracting information from our ERP system, improving tax data accuracy and identifying opportunities to enhance and automate tax processes.
- Engage in team-wide initiatives including budgeting, forecasting, planning, risks and controls. It is important to be interested and engaged in all tax initiatives and to work closely with all members of the tax team.
QualificationsAbout 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.
- 5+ years of corporate tax experience in a professional services firm or in-house environment.
- Strong knowledge of US Federal and multistate corporate income tax compliance
- Proficiency in ASC740 and/or IFRS tax accounting
- Independent self-starter with good communication skills (we are a global organisation with offices around the world so remote communication is key).
- Drive and energy to foster impactful relationships throughout Wise.
Additional InformationSome extra skills that would be great:- Excel Proficiency
- Longview, Onesource, and other tax reporting tool experienceWorking knowledge or prior exposure to US international tax compliance (e.g., Forms 5471, 5472, 1118, GILTI, BEAT, FDII).
- Experience with or exposure to Canadian corporate tax and OECD Pillar Two (Global Minimum Tax) frameworks
- Proven experience using data to inform decision making
- Experience working in or for multinational company (MNE) within the technology and/or financial services businesses
- Ability to work and communicate well with various levels of stakeholder
- Strong project management skills
