Senior Director of Global Tax
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Job description
Lead Monzo's Global Tax team, owning global tax strategy, compliance and commercial tax advisory across the UK, Europe and future markets. The role reports to the Group Financial Controller and partners closely with the CFO and Executive team.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Hybrid
What you'll do
- Define how Monzo approaches tax across the UK, Europe, and future markets; set the tax risk appetite and prepare reporting for the Audit and Risk Committee
- Structure cross-border expansion across Europe and future regions, advising on market-entry structures, permanent establishment risks, and local compliance
- Establish, document, and defend the global transfer pricing strategy and intragroup financing arrangements
- Oversee group Direct Tax, Indirect Tax (VAT), Employment Tax, Transfer Pricing, and Operational Customer Taxes across all locations
- Act as the primary liaison with HMRC and international tax authorities, proactively managing tax audits, and oversee statutory regimes including Senior Accounting Officer compliance
- Work directly with product managers, engineers, and treasury to understand what they want to build and ensure the tax treatment is clear from day one
- Mentor and lead the tax team, fostering a culture of technical excellence, autonomy, and commercial focus
- Design a tech-enabled tax operating model that embeds AI, workflow tools, and automation across compliance, reconciliations, and contract reviews
What we're looking for
- Qualified tax professional or accountant (CTA, ACA, ACCA, ADIT, or international equivalent)
- Have led an in-house tax team at scale, ideally within banking, fintech, or a regulated multinational
- Empathetic, effective people leader with a strong track record of coaching individuals and fostering a positive, high-performing environment
- Practical experience with cross-border tax issues, international structuring, and transfer pricing
- Understanding of operational and customer taxes common to financial services (such as FATCA/CRS, withholding taxes, and interest reporting)
- Excited by modern technology, data, and AI, with a clear view on how tools can automate workflows, reduce human error, and modernise routine tax tasks
- Can explain complex tax positions to non-tax stakeholders, including product leads, commercial teams, and auditors
- Comfortable with ambiguity and making calls without a standard blueprint
Your team
Global Tax team
A growing Tax team of 10+ individuals, part of the wider finance team
Benefits
Set up to work from home; all employees are given Macbooks and fully remote workers get extra support for their work-from-home setup
- Dependant on experience + Incentive Awards tied to your performance
- Flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, and at times that suit you and your team
- £1,000 learning budget each year to use on books, training courses and conferences
- Plus lots more
How to get hired
- 1Phone call with the Recruiter (30 mins)
- 2Initial Interview with the Hiring Manager (45 min)
- 3Role Specific, Technical, Leadership & Behavioural Interviews (x4 45 mins)
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About Monzo
We're on a mission to make money work for everyone.
Monzo started as a prepaid card and has grown its product offering over the last 10 years in the UK, offering personal and business bank accounts, joint accounts, accounts for 16-17 year olds, a free kids account and credit cards in the UK. UK customers can also save, invest and combine their pensions with Monzo.
Mission
Make money work for everyone
Key facts
- Banking / fintech
- Started as a prepaid card
- Product offering has grown a lot in the last 10 years in the UK
- Offers personal and business bank accounts, joint accounts, accounts for 16-17 year olds, a free kids account and credit cards in the UK
- UK customers can save, invest and combine their pensions with Monzo
- Known for hot coral cards and get-paid-early feature
- Financial education on social media and award winning customer service