Senior Analyst - TAX

About Zepz

Zepz is the group powering two leading global remittance brands: WorldRemit and Sendwave. Since 2010, we have been disrupting an industry previously dominated by offline legacy players with our relentless focus on reducing the cost of remittances and increasing safety and convenience for our users. Every day, our people work to unlock the prosperity of cross-border communities through finance and technology - driven by our vision of a world that celebrates migrants’ impact on prosperity, at home and abroad.

Our brands helped cross-border communities send over $15bn from 50 countries to recipients in 130 countries in 2022. We operate over 5,000 money transfer corridors worldwide and employ over 1,000 people globally. Zepz is a remote-first employer, with team members located across six continents.

Our vision is to create a world that celebrates migrants’ impact on prosperity, at home and abroad. Our purpose is to unlock the prosperity of cross-border communities through finance and technology.

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Our Commitments:

1. We act like owners - We are relentlessly delivering for our users and spending money thoughtfully.
2. We embrace embarrassing honesty - We function best when we're open and honest with one another — especially about our challenges and doubts.
3. We have a bias to action - We get to first outcomes quickly, iterate and learn.
4. We strive to be better - We may make mistakes, but always learn from them.
5. We are inclusive - to better reflect and serve our users.

About the role:

We are seeking a Tax Analyst to join our team at Zepz. In this exciting role, you will be at the helm of managing all tax-related matters for our organisation. Your mission: to ensure we comply with tax laws, minimise tax liabilities, and steer us towards optimal tax positions. As a key collaborator, you’ll work closely with internal teams, external advisors, and regulatory bodies to ensure our tax compliance reporting is accurate and timely across all geographies (Europe, Americas, Africa, Asia and Pacific). If you understand tax regulations, tax systems, accounting basics and love creating effective tax strategies, this is the opportunity you’ve been waiting for!

The job position is fully remote with an option to come to the company’s London office in Monument.

What you will do:

Tax compliance:

• Compile and Manage data for the external tax advisors by using the Company’s ERP system in order to prepare and file all tax returns promptly and accurately. Filings include CIT, VAT, WHT and other tax filings.
• Work closely with colleagues from the broader Finance Team to ensure timely tax compliance.
• Review the tax returns, assist in the tax payment process.
• Work closely with the Legal colleagues to ensure the signatories for the tax returns.
• Assess potential impacts of tax laws and regulations changes on ensuring compliance highlighted by the external tax advisors and implement it in the Company.
• Manage and document Transfer Pricing arrangements with the tax external tax advisors assistance to ensure compliance with relevant regulations.

.Tax planning and strategy:

• Assist the Head of Tax to develop and implement the Group’s tax policy.
• Work closely with Finance and Legal colleagues to ensure the group’s tax policies are properly implemented in terms of intercompany agreements, accounting entries and financial reporting.
• Take part in the Zepz’s projects for tax savings by project managing and recommending appropriate actions to internal stakeholders.
• Help on employment tax issues. Tax reporting, analysis and administration
• Prepare and review the tax notes in the financial statements to comply with accounting standards and reporting requirements.
• Calculate the quarterly and yearly group tax provisions, including effective tax rate calculations, deferred tax assets/liabilities, and tax-related contingencies.
• Prepare the reconciliations of the tax accounts and book journals in the ERP systems.
• Create the purchase orders, receipts in the ERP system and monitor the tax budget fees.

Internal and External tax audit:

• Address tax-related audit inquiries by working with external auditors.
• Take part in the Group audit.
• Take primary responsibility for interaction with tax authorities regarding queries on returns.

What We Would Like To See:

• Ability to interpret and apply complex tax rules to specific situations, with strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong attention to detail and experience of analysis
• Exceptional leadership, communication, and project management skills
• Experience working under tight deadlines
• Ability to manage time effectively and prioritise tasks
• Proficiency in various tax calculation and reporting
• Excellent spoken and written English communication
• Not be work shy and be willing to get stuck in and help regardless if its your area of responsibility.
• Knowledge of UK VAT (not essential but preferable)

What’s a plus:

• Experience in working with Netsuite system

Required Skills and Attributes:

• Qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA) or tax adviser (CTA)
• Proven, successful experience of dealing with tax authorities and corporation tax and VAT return preparation essential
• Experience in impact of tax strategy implementation on other areas of business desirable
• Exposure to taxes outside UK corporation tax and VAT useful but not essential
• Flexible, adaptable, inquisitive, and with a collaborative approach - someone who enjoys working in a changing high growth environment
• Organised and proven track record of meeting deadlines is a must
• Self-starter, pro-active and uses innovation and creative thinking whilst demonstrating the tenacity to negotiate and resolve difficult queries and issues
• Excellent communications skills, ability to interact well throughout all levels of an organisation
• Fintech experience not required
• Cultural Fit: ZEPZ is deeply proud of its goal to disrupt an incumbent industry, create commercial success and fulfil a broader social mission - The company is known for its low ego culture, and its high intellectual bar

What we offer you:

Please note that the benefits below will apply to Full-time roles.

We have five core benefits for our talent in the US, UK, Philippines, Poland, and South Africa. If you're not in one of those regions, don’t worry - the Talent team can let you know what is available for you specifically:

• Unlimited Annual Leave: Most Zepz team members are eligible for unlimited annual leave. Colleagues in customer-facing roles, receive a competitive holiday allowance and four recharge days a year. Feel free to make the most of your time off and maintain a healthy work-life balance!

• Private Medical Cover: ​​You can opt-in to a Private Medical Insurance scheme. This provides you with access to thorough medical coverage, so you can feel confident in your health and well-being.

• Retirement: We offer pension schemes to help you plan for and secure your future.

• Life Assurance: Life assurance is available to give you peace of mind and protect your loved ones in case of the unexpected.

• Parental Leave: We offer competitive parental leave schemes to ensure you are spending as much quality time with your new bundle of joy as possible.

We are also remote-first as an organisation, offering flexibility for you to work where you need to be most productive. In many locations, we have workspaces, which you can use as you desire. Most roles in the Philippines are predominately office-based, with this we offer free meals for those 100% on-site.

In addition to the above, you will discover that we have a range of secondary perks (such as the cycle-to-work scheme and employee discounts) depending on your location, to help you thrive at Zepz!

Why choose Zepz?

• Our team of over 1,000 employees is fully distributed across the world. We are working from coffee shops, homes, and co-working spaces — making us one of the larger fully distributed growth-stage startups in the world but we also offer workspace in our talent cluster locations - spaces we can meet, collaborate and connect.

• We are proud parents, community organizers, farmers, band members, yoga teachers, YouTube influencers, former Olympians, and serial entrepreneurs.

• We collectively speak over twenty languages, including Akuapem, Amharic, Bengali, Ewe, Fante, Ga, Igbo, Kalenjin, Luganda, Oromo, Somali, Swahili, Wolof, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish.

• At Zepz, embodying our commitments binds us together. We are collectively passionate about striving to achieve our vision and purpose - to continue to provide the best service to our users.

Ready to Apply?

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. If interested, please submit your resume along with a cover letter (optional), highlighting why your experience demonstrates you meet the requirements of the role. Please also indicate the countries in which you have work authorization.

Confidence can sometimes hold us back from applying for a job. But we'll let you in on a secret: there's no such thing as a 'perfect' candidate. Zepz is a place where everyone can thrive.

So however you identify and whatever background you bring with you, and if at all you might need any form of support to make the process as comfortable as possible, please let us know and give us a shot by applying. We want you to be excited to wake up to make an impact every day.