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Tax Associate
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Remote · EMEA
Experience
Mid-level · 3+ years
Job description
Tax Senior Associate reporting to the CFO, covering multiple Canonical corporate entities in several countries. The role is to build a tax function from the ground up at a profitable, fast-growing technology company.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Remote · EMEA
- Languages
- English – business level
What you'll do
- Managing and coordinating the preparation and review of corporate tax, VAT, and other relevant tax returns for our entities, ensuring timely and accurate filings
- Working with external advisers to develop transfer pricing documentation and tax planning initiatives and lead their implementation
- Acting as a key point of contact for tax authority audits and enquiries, preparing responses and supporting documentation in collaboration with external advisors
- Identifying opportunities to streamline and improve tax processes, controls, and data management to enhance efficiency and accuracy particularly using technology and automation
- Managing and running tax provisioning and reporting under IFRS, including calculating effective tax rates and preparing tax-related disclosures for financial statements
- Working closely with the wider finance team, legal, and business operations to provide tax support and ensure cross-functional alignment
- Monitoring changes in tax legislation across the regions in which we operate and assess their potential impact on the company
What we're looking for
- An exceptional academic track record from high school and university
- Undergraduate degree in business, finance, economics, technology or other quantitative field
- Full accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) and tax advisor (CTA, ADIT or equivalent) qualifications
- A minimum of 3-5 years of relevant tax experience, gained within a Big 4/Top 10 accounting firm or a multinational in-house tax team
- Track record of going above-and-beyond expectations to achieve outstanding results
- The work ethic and confidence to shine alongside motivated colleagues
- Confidence to respectfully speak up, exchange feedback, and share ideas without hesitation
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to explain complex tax concepts to non-tax stakeholders
- Business level written and spoken English with excellent presentation skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability
- Focus on results, with a personal drive to meet commitments
- Thoughtfulness and self-motivation
- Sincere personal motivation aligned with our mission
- International travel 2-4 times a year for company events up to two weeks long
- Precise, taking care to deliver correctness and clarity
- Reliable, delivering high quality work that builds trust and confidence
- Accessible, collaborating to build products and systems that are usable
- Adroit, blending enthusiasm, knowledge, adaptability, style and character
Nice to have
- Leadership ability
- Software or tech industry experience
- Public company finance and reporting experience
Benefits
- Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
- Bi-annual compensation review
- Company recognition rewards
- 40 days annual leave per annum, including public holidays and our All Company holiday periods
- Maternity and paternity leave
- Team Member Assistance Program & Wellness Platform
- Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues, with Priority Pass for lounge access
- Performance-driven annual bonus or commission
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About Canonical
A pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source
Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. We are founder-led, profitable, and growing. Powered by worldwide distributed collaboration since our inception in 2004, we have no central headquarters.
Mission
We believe tech and business leadership can emerge anywhere.
Key facts
- 2004
- Technology / open source software
- Founder-led, profitable, and growing
- No central headquarters
- Most of us work from home
- Platform Ubuntu is widely used in public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT
What they value
- Precise
- Reliable
- Accessible
- Adroit