Global Indirect Tax Lead

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After starting as a prepaid card, our product offering has grown a lot in the last 10 years in the UK. As well as personal and business bank accounts, we offer joint accounts, accounts for 16-17 year olds, a free kids account and credit cards in the UK, with more exciting things to come beyond. Our UK customers can also save, invest and combine their pensions with us. 

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Hear from our UK team about what it's like working at Monzo ✨

📍London, Cardiff or Distributed | 💰 £115,000 - £125,000 + stock options | Benefits | Hear from the team ✨ 

⭐ About the role

We're looking for a hands-on, detail-oriented and enthusiastic Global Indirect Tax Lead to support the Tax team at Monzo, and our wider Finance team.

You’ll be joining our Tax Team and reporting into our Head of Tax. You’ll be our Global Indirect Tax Lead, owning all UK, EU and US indirect tax compliance and advisory. You’ll be supported by our Indirect Tax manager, along with our local finance teams and local advisors.

🔑You’ll play a key role by...

• Owning all of our VAT and other indirect tax compliance and reporting processes and controls, both in the UK and overseas. This will include designing the new processes required as we continue to expand internationally
• Assisting the business with indirect tax advice on an adhoc basis, both in the UK and overseas. This could be in relation to new contracts, new products, new operating models, or expansion into new countries. 
• Designing and owning the Group’s indirect tax strategy, both in the UK and internationally, and you’ll be responsible for keeping on top of changes in indirect tax rules and practice.

🤩We’d love to hear from you if…

• You’re a qualified accountant and/or qualified tax advisor 
• You have significant experience working inhouse in VAT, ideally including in FinTech or other Financial Services
• You’re an experienced people manager
• You’re energetic and are hands-on with your work, tackling whatever needs doing to make things happen
• You enjoy the challenges that come with expansion
• What we’re doing at Monzo excites you

🙌What’s in it for you

💰£115,000 - £125,000 ➕ share options.

📍This role is based in our London office. We're open to distributed working within the UK (with the expectation of occasional work from our London office, for key meetings).

⏰We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, and at times that suit you and your team. 

📚£1,000 learning budget each year to use on books, training courses and conferences.

🏡We will set you up to work from home; all employees are given Macbooks and for fully remote workers we will provide extra support for your work-from-home setup. 

➕ Plus lots more! Read our full list of benefits

🌈 The application journey has 4  key steps:

- Phone call with recruiter (30mins)
- Initial video call with hiring manager (30 mins)
- Technical case study video interview with Tax team (60 mins)
- Behavioural interview with Finance team (45 mins)

Our average process takes around 3-4 weeks but we will always work around your availability. You will have the chance to speak to our recruitment team at various points during your process but if you do have any specific questions ahead of this please contact us on business-hiring@monzo.com

We’ll only close this role once we have enough applications for the next stage. Please submit your application as soon as possible to make sure you don’t miss out.

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Equal opportunities for everyone

Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and we’re making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at Monzo. At Monzo, we’re embracing diversity by fostering an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives with us. This is integral to our mission of making money work for everyone. You can read more in our blog, 2024 Diversity and Inclusion Report and 2024 Gender Pay Gap Report.

We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity or disability status.

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