International Transactional Tax Lead

  • Full-time

Company Description

We believe everyone should be able to participate and thrive in the economy. So we’re building tools that make commerce easier and more accessible to all. We started with a little white credit card reader but haven’t stopped there. Our new reader helps our sellers accept chip cards and NFC payments, and our Cash app lets people pay each other back instantly. We’re empowering the independent electrician to send invoices, setting up the favorite food truck with a delivery option, helping the ice cream shop pay its employees, and giving the burgeoning coffee chain capital for a second, third, and fourth location. Let’s shorten the distance between having an idea and making a living from it. We’re here to help sellers of all sizes start, run, and grow their business—and helping them grow their business is good business for everyone.

Job Description

Square, Inc. ( www.squareup.com ) is hiring a International Transactional Tax Lead to advise on our product development in all areas of transactional tax outside of the US and to ensure that Square meets its associated tax compliance obligations.  It is a newly created position.  The selected candidate will lead in product advice and managing the day-to-day activities including data gathering, analysis, filing, reporting and communications relating to Square’s tax environment. This individual will play the lead role in managing all indirect/transactional non-US income tax filings and reporting processes.

This individual will prepare responses to inquiries, tax notices and audit requests from taxing authorities outside of the US. The candidate must meet monthly and quarterly tax filing deadlines, be detail oriented and accurate with a strong commitment to quality.   An accounting background would be helpful.  Tax knowledge and experience is required, as well as exceptional communication skills and the ability to interface with multiple groups outside the tax function.

You will:

  • Manage Square’s international transactional tax compliance process with the external tax providers

  • (GST, VAT, JCT) ensuring timely preparation of our returns & payment of transactional tax liabilities

  • New products taxability analysis, product advice, systems mapping for the new products, and entering them into Vertex.

  • Monthly non-income tax accrual process and reconciliation of transactional tax related GL accounts

  • International transactional tax nexus analysis

  • Track & respond to transactional tax notices globally

  • Provide transactional tax guidance on special projects.

  • Manage our transactional tax audits

  • Multistate Sales/Use tax and Property tax compliance and advice would be a growth opportunity.

  • Gross receipts tax, state regulatory fees, local business license maintenance would also be a growth opportunity.

  • Maintain the corporate e-filing profile for each jurisdiction account


Qualifications

  • 12+ years directly in transactional taxes and possess a mastery of the rules for Indirect Taxes (e.g. VAT/GST/JCT) on the compliance & reporting side to advise internal stakeholders on how to minimize transactional tax costs; but also to advise Square product developers on the transactional tax rules.

  • Experience in multi-state sales & use tax is a plus – but not required

  • Experience in managing the transactional tax compliance process with external tax providers (GST, VAT, JCT)

  • Experience working with Vertex, researching and entering product classifications, is a huge plus

  • Bookkeeping, Non-Income Tax accounting & month end close experience – within Oracle, preparing month end tax journal entries, including supporting schedules and reconciliation work papers for all tax related accounts, and preparing flux analyses.

  • Able to work cross functionally with finance and other departments to support the accounting close process, advising on tax accounting and indirect tax matters as new development arises.

  • Experience in multistate Property tax rules and compliance is a plus – but not required

  • Experience in gross receipts taxes, state regulatory fee filings and local business license renewals a plus – but not required. Able to work cross functionally with other departments to gather, analyze and prepare the filings in a timely manner.

  • Have strong internal systems & software intuition, including accounting systems and operational databases. Be comfortable running reports from databases for monthly close and returns processing. Able to visualize the bigger picture for collecting and analyzing data from separate sources to obtain a cohesive data set for tax reporting purposes.

  • Maintain and update the centralized international tax calendar to ensure all deadlines are met

  • Must be very comfortable to report out on status in real-time

  • We are a very transparent company with lots of bright and inquisitive minds

  • Self-starter with a get-it-done attitude – we still operate with Start Up! spirit

  • Flexible – willing to be in the details while never forgetting the big conceptual picture

  • Ability to explain complex tax issues in a simple, clear and concise manner

  • Must be creative in solutions while always ensuring compliance

Additional Information

At Square, we value diversity and always treat all employees and job applicants based on merit, qualifications, competence, and talent. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

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