In this Role, you’ll get to:
- Lead and manage tax projects and business plans from finance perspective by partnering with Tax and Product teams
- Perform analysis of tax implications and utilize analysis to support tax technical and business decisions
- Analyze complex ideas or proposals and build a range of meaningful recommendations
- Use multiple sources of information including broader stakeholder views to develop solutions and recommendations
- Simplify complex messages, highlighting and summarizing key points
- Preparation and review of audit and compliance documents pertaining to indirect tax
- Manage project and implement various company-wide strategic initiatives as well as Finance internal projects from Finance perspective
- Think through the implications to various finance functions (accounting, tax, operations, treasury, commercial, financial systems, risk & control etc.) and drive all the work streams to complete deliverables in line with commitments
- Gather requirements from Finance and collaborate with different departments to optimize on the processes and workflows. Make key decisions such as shifting priorities, feature change requests
- Identify opportunities to eliminate or standardize activities and automate where possible – make finance and related processes as simple and effective as possible (keeping internal customer in mind)
- Ensure constant communication and calibration between project teams and other stakeholders at regular intervals
- Represent finance on a cross-functional integration team internal and external with strong influence to ensure that they incorporate finance requirements into the product development
- Ensure timely progress and achievement of project milestones and goals by coordinating different workstreams, identifying risks, troubleshooting, and proposing mitigation plans
- Assist with UAT testing, collaborate with finance users, tech and Product
- Ensure that the projects will go live smoothly, and any post-launch issues will be resolved promptly
What you’ll Need to Succeed:
- 5+ years project management experience in taxations (is a plus) of tech industry, e-commerce for strategy initiatives, finance operational, business analysis with a proven track record of driving transformational initiatives through successful execution
- Extensive stakeholder management experience and ability to influence stakeholders
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Finance, Accounting or other university degree specialization accompanied with professional accounting qualification
- Experience working in finance cross-functions (accounting, tax, operations, treasury, FP&A, financial systems, etc.)
- Experience working with non-Finance stakeholders such as Commercial team, Legal, Product, Tech/IT, Customer Experience Group, Marketing
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic, multicultural, and high intensity environment
- Flexible and resilient personality that adapts well to and is energized by change
- Comfortable working with uncertainty and experimentation in a high-velocity environment
- Ability to work on technical projects with Product Management and Tech Team
- Highly numerate with strong analytical and problem solving, influencing and change management skills. Ability to think out of the box and make judgement calls
- Attention to details, self-motivating with continuous improvement mindset. High learning agility. Ability to ask the right questions to ensure speed and accuracy
- Excellent written and verbal communication, organizational and planning skills with solid interpersonal skills
- High level of dependability with a strong sense of urgency and results-orientation. Strong business acumen
