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About the Role
This is a fixed-term Tax Manager position to cover a temporary period of leave, with handover provided. The role involves managing global tax compliance and advisory work across a small global group, with opportunities to improve systems and processes. The role will support the Head of Tax with advisory work, with an expected split of 80% BAU compliance, reporting and controls, and 20% advisory and projects.
Responsibilities
- Manage the group’s global tax compliance, filing and payment obligations.
- Provide financial information to external advisers and review returns before submission.
- Help prepare and review indirect tax filings.
- Review related systems and processes, implementing changes that improve efficiency.
- Manage US reporting obligations for payment processors (1099-K and other 1099 series).
- Work with Product on any system changes related to US reporting obligations.
- Review and advise on the application of our transfer pricing policies.
- Perform calculations that support transfer pricing adjustments.
- Manage the tax aspects of our employee share incentive schemes.
- Help prepare the tax reporting arising from the Mollie acquisition, including equity and share-scheme reporting.
- Help manage the tax risk control framework.
- Review and test controls.
- Reconcile balances to validate tax filings.
- Prepare tax disclosures for consolidated and entity-level financial statements.
- Support the Head of Tax on integration planning and other advisory projects.
- Support the Head of Tax on corporate structure reviews, new lines of business, debt and equity funding, overseas expansion, M&A and FATCA.
- Advise Engineering, Product, Legal and People teams on the tax implications of new products, system developments and payroll matters.
- Document tax systems and processes to support the integration with Mollie and keep the group well controlled as it evolves.
- Work collaboratively on integration projects with Mollie’s tax team.
- Manage relationships with external tax advisers and preparers.
- Handle enquiries from tax authorities, investors and other stakeholders.
Requirements
- CTA or ACA qualified, from Big 4, mid-tier or in-house practice.
- Ideally with in-house, financial services or payments experience.
- Strong UK direct and indirect tax expertise.
- A working knowledge of payroll taxes, including benefits and expenses.
- Awareness of the tax risks around employee share schemes.
- Comfortable with tax accounting and preparing tax disclosures.
- Experience turning tax rules into practical, commercial advice.
- Experience reviewing legal documents, designing processes and suggesting ways to manage tax risk.
- Confident with IT: happy to learn how to query databases and accounting systems, and use automation tools and AI.
- A self-starter who prioritises their own workload, takes ownership, and knows when to ask for help.
- A clear communicator who can explain complex concepts to non-experts.
- Robust when needed but collaborative.
Skills
- Corporation tax
- VAT
- Transfer pricing
- US reporting obligations (1099-K and other 1099 series)
- Tax accounting
- Tax disclosures
- IT systems
- Database querying
- Automation tools
- AI tools
Location
- UK
Work Type
- Fixed-term
Experience Level
- Mid-level
Education Level
- CTA qualified
- ACA qualified
Salary/Compensations
- £64,000 - £96,000 (gross)
Benefits
- Dedicated support and medical cover
- Work away scheme (up to 90 days in any 12 month period)
- Adaptive Working (flexible working)
- Parental leave
- Annual learning budget
- Generous holiday allowance
- 3 annual volunteer days
- 4 annual business-wide wellness days (‘GC Fridays’)
About the Company
- GoCardless, a Mollie company, is a global leader in bank payments, processing over US$130bn annually across 30+ countries.
- Over 100,000 businesses use GoCardless to collect, manage and send bank payments through Direct Debit, real-time payments and open banking.
- The end-to-end payment platform features AI-powered solutions to improve payment success and reduce fraud, alongside connections to over 350 platforms.
- Mollie is the leading payments and financial services partner for business, rooted in Europe, with global reach.
- The company is headquartered in the UK, with teams and operations spanning North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific.
- GoCardless is defined by its values: We start with why, We make it happen, We act with integrity, We care deeply, and We are humble.
Equal Opportunity
- As of April 2025, we had 806 employees (GeeCees) globally, with 524 based in the UK, 163 based in Latvia and 119 across our other offices.
- The proportion of GeeCees providing diversity data increased to 88%.
- GeeCees identifying as Asian, Black, Mixed or Other — 25%
- Neurodiverse — 9%
- LGBTQIA+ — 9%
- Disabled — 1%
- Average age — 33
- Female — 45%
- Male — 55%
- GoCardless aims to provide reasonable adjustments to make our recruitment process as remarkable and accessible as we can.
- We’re committed to reducing our impact on the environment, leaving a more sustainable world for future generations.