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[15h Left] Tax Director Cardiff, London or Remote(UK)

Monzo
Cardiff
2 months ago
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We’re on a mission to make money work for everyone.We’re waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways oftraditional banking. With our hot coral cards and get-paid-earlyfeature, combined with financial education on social media and ouraward winning customer service, we have a long history of creatingmagical moments for our customers! We’re not about selling products- we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo. We'relooking for an experienced, hands-on and enthusiastic Group Head ofTax on a 12 month fixed term contract to support the Tax team atMonzo, and our wider finance team. You’ll be leading our growingTax team of 8+ individuals, and will be reporting into Monzo BankLimited’s CFO. A large part of the role will involve advising onthe tax implications of all new business developments, ensuringwe’re both set up for compliance and optimised wherever possibleand appropriate. Given the stage Monzo is currently at in itsgrowth journey, these will be many and wide ranging, from customerproducts to treasury strategies, group reorgs to mobilityproposals, systems implementations to international expansion. -Being responsible for all things Tax: including Corporation Tax,VAT, Employment Tax, International Tax, Transfer Pricing, andOperational Taxes, across compliance, reporting and advisory, bothin the UK and overseas. - Coaching and developing the tax team,setting priorities and strategic direction, and stakeholdermanagement. - Being part of our Finance Leadership Team, feedinginto and supporting the wider Finance team goals and objectives. -Taking responsibility for identifying and acting on all relevantlegislative changes. We’d love to hear from you if... - You’re aqualified accountant and/or qualified tax advisor. - You haveexperience working across a range of UK taxes, includingInternational Tax (US and/or EU specific tax experience is a bonus,but not a requirement!). - You have significant experience workingin-house (within Financial Services is a bonus). - You enjoydeveloping and motivating a team. - You’re comfortable workingpretty autonomously. - You’re energetic and hands-on with yourwork, tackling whatever needs doing to make things happen. - Whatwe’re doing at Monzo excites you! What’s in it for you This rolecan be based in our London or Cardiff office. We're also open todistributed working within the UK (with the expectation of aminimum 1 day per week working from our London office). We offerflexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to doyour job well, and at times that suit you and your team. £1,000learning budget each year to use on books, training courses andconferences. We will set you up to work from home; all employeesare given Macbooks and for fully remote workers we will provideextra support for your work-from-home setup. The applicationjourney has 4 key steps: - Phone call with recruiter (30mins) -Initial video call with hiring manager (30 mins) - Technical videocall and situational task with Tax team (60 mins) - Behaviouralinterview with finance leadership team (45 mins) Our averageprocess takes around 3-4 weeks but we will always work around youravailability. You will have the chance to speak to our recruitmentteam at various points during your process but if you do have anyspecific questions ahead of this please contact us . We have some guidelines on usingArtificial Intelligence (AI) to ace an application and interview atMonzo. You can read them here. We’ll only close this role once wehave enough applications for the next stage. Please submit yourapplication as soon as possible to make sure you don’t miss out.Equal opportunities for everyone Diversity and inclusion are apriority for us and we’re making sure we have lots of support forall of our people to grow at Monzo. At Monzo, we’re embracingdiversity by fostering an inclusive environment for all people todo the best work of their lives with us. This is integral to ourmission of making money work for everyone. We’re an equalopportunity employer. All applicants will be considered foremployment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex,sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status,national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity or disability status.If you have a preferred name, please use it to apply. We don't needfull or birth names at application stage. Apply for this job *indicates a required field First Name * Last Name * Email * Phone *Resume/CV * Enter manually Accepted file types: pdf, doc, docx,txt, rtf Select... A US Person is defined as someone who: - wasborn in the United States (US) - has at least 1 parent who was bornin the US - is a naturalised citizen of the US - is a green cardholder - is a US tax resident Please confirm your UK Right to Workstatus. * We legally have to verify your Right to Work in the UKbefore you can start working for us. We're asking for thisinformation now so we know later what type of right to work checkwe need to do. Your answer to this question won't affect theoutcome of your application, unless you'd need visa sponsorship butare applying to a role we can't sponsor. If you’d like to, pleaseshare your preferred pronouns (eg. they/them/theirs, she/her/hers).If you'd like to, please spell out your name how it's pronounced sowe know how to say it. Identity survey Our goal at Monzo is to makemoney work for everyone. To do that, working at Monzo must work foreveryone. We want to create an equitable, engaged and innovativeworkplace which gives people from all backgrounds the support theyneed to thrive and grow. Making Monzo work for everyone startsright at the beginning of every Monzonaut's journey: when theyapply to work here. This demographic survey will help us betterunderstand the people who apply to work at Monzo. It'll help us seehow different groups progress through our hiring process, and wherewe need to make improvements to be more inclusive. - Voluntary. Andwe've included a "prefer not to say" option for every question.It'd be helpful if you still fill out the survey even if you choose"prefer not to say" for every question, as it's useful for us tounderstand & record this. We won't know if you choose to fillthis survey in or not. - Anonymous to Monzo. We can't tie yourresponses to you and they won't make a difference to the outcome ofyour application. We'll only use grouped responses for equalopportunities monitoring in our hiring process. By filling out thissurvey, you agree that we can use your responses for the purposeswe've mentioned above. You are not letting us know if we need tomake any adjustments to the hiring process because of disability orneurodiversity - to do this please email us. How would you describeyour gender identity? Select... Do you identify as transgender?Select... What's your sexual orientation? Select... Do you identifyas having a disability? Select... Do you consider yourself to beneurodivergent? Select... #J-18808-Ljbffr

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