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Checkout.com is a global fintech payments platform processing over 10 billion transactions yearly for major companies including eBay, Spotify, Klarna, Uber, and Sony. With 20 offices across six continents and London as headquarters, the company is a leader in enabling digital commerce at scale.
We are seeking a pragmatic Global Equity Tax Specialist to join our Tax team. This role serves as the designated equity tax specialist, providing practical technical advice while improving processes, controls, and data supporting equity activity, payroll, reporting, and employee communications. You will work at the intersection of Tax, Equity, Finance, Payroll, People, Legal, Accounting, Data, and external advisers, establishing clear ownership, translating technical tax requirements into workable processes, and supporting resolution of historic and live compliance matters.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Global Equity Tax: Act as the key equity tax specialist providing practical and commercially focused advice on employment tax treatment of equity arrangements across their lifecycle. Provide tax input into plan design, country implementation, employee events, cross-border situations, liquidity activity, system changes, and business initiatives. Assess tax treatment of equity activity across jurisdictions including sourcing, apportionment, withholding, payroll, and reporting requirements. Identify when matters can be handled internally versus when specialist local advice is required. Monitor legislative and business changes affecting equity taxation and translate them into clear actions.
Payroll, Reporting & Compliance: Work closely with Equity and Payroll to support accurate and timely withholding, payroll processing, payslip reporting, employee funding, and downstream reporting. Maintain the global equity tax compliance calendar, coordinating returns, notifications, reporting packs, and approvals. Review quality and completeness of equity tax data used for payroll, reporting, tax calculations, and compliance submissions. Identify, assess, and remediate historic or live issues including missing filings, incorrect withholding, incomplete reporting, data weaknesses, and participant-level exceptions. Support tax authority enquiries, audits, voluntary disclosures, and remediation activity.
Operating Model, Processes & Controls: Build and continuously improve the global equity tax operating model including ownership, hand-offs, escalation routes, service expectations, and control requirements. Create and maintain practical country guidance, process documentation, decision logs, filing trackers, data specifications, exception logs, and evidence trails. Develop a scalable and audit-ready approach to managing equity tax across jurisdictions while maintaining flexibility for local requirements. Support design and implementation of system or process changes affecting equity tax, payroll, reporting, or employee communications.
Stakeholder & Adviser Management: Partner with Finance, Treasury, Payroll, People, Legal, Equity, Accounting, Strategic Finance, Data, and other teams to ensure equity tax considerations are understood early and embedded into business decisions. Manage relationships with external tax advisers, setting clear briefs, challenging advice and deliverables, and converting external support into practical internal processes. Develop and maintain employee-facing equity tax guides, FAQs, and explanatory materials. Provide clear updates on risks, decisions, dependencies, remediation activity, and recommended actions to the Employment Tax Manager and stakeholders.
Wider Employment Tax Contribution: Support the Employment Tax Manager with global employment tax advisory, compliance, risk management, and process-improvement priorities. Contribute to high-performing team culture by taking ownership, sharing knowledge, and improving how we work.
The hybrid working model offers three days per week in the office to support collaboration and connection.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Significant experience in global equity tax, gained in an advisory and/or in-house environment
- Strong technical knowledge of employment tax treatment of equity arrangements across multiple jurisdictions, including cross-border employees, sourcing, apportionment, withholding, payroll, and reporting
- Practical understanding of how equity tax interacts with payroll, employee data, finance processes, and local compliance requirements
- Experience managing or supporting equity tax compliance across multiple jurisdictions, with sound judgment about when local advice is needed
- Experience identifying and remediating compliance gaps, including missing filings, historic withholding issues, late or inaccurate reporting, participant-level issues, and weaknesses in data or controls
- Demonstrable experience building processes, controls, documentation, country guidance, and operating models in environments where responsibilities or ways of working are still developing
- Confidence working with data and financial systems, including ability to interrogate and validate large datasets and use spreadsheets, equity administration platforms, Workday, and other reporting tools effectively
- Experience working with external advisers, with ability to brief, challenge, and manage them effectively while retaining ownership of technical position and business outcome
- Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, with ability to explain complex tax issues clearly and influence a wide range of partners
- Qualified accountant or tax adviser, or equivalent professional experience
- Advantageous: Private-company equity experience, particularly involving complex data, evolving processes, employee liquidity activity, or significant change
- Advantageous: Experience in financial services, payments, fintech, or another complex, multinational, or regulated environment
- Advantageous: Interest in using approved technology and AI-enabled tools to improve quality, insight, and efficiency
- Hands-on, curious, and delivery-focused, with sound judgment and ability to balance detail, pace, and competing priorities
