Global Head of Tax
Booksy
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $150,000 - $200,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Own and drive the global tax strategy, ensuring alignment with business objectives, growth plans, and evolving regulatory requirements.
- Act as the company’s primary tax advisor to executive leadership, including the CFO and senior finance leaders, on complex and high-impact tax matters.
- Partner with Finance, Legal, M&A, and business leaders to ensure tax considerations are embedded in strategic initiatives, new market entry, and product expansion.
- Own the company’s global tax risk framework, identifying, assessing, and mitigating tax risks across all jurisdictions.
- Ensure strong global compliance processes for corporate income tax, indirect taxes, withholding taxes, and transfer pricing, supported by effective controls and governance.
- Oversee audits, inquiries, and negotiations with tax authorities globally, serving as the senior escalation point when needed.
- Lead complex international tax initiatives, including transfer pricing strategy and documentation, global structuring and restructuring, mergers, acquisitions, and integrations, and expansion into new markets and new revenue models.
- Provide leadership on cross-border tax planning while maintaining an appropriate and transparent risk posture for the company.
- Build, lead, and develop a high-performing global tax organization, including internal team members and external advisors.
- Drive process standardization, documentation, and automation to improve efficiency, scalability, and audit readiness.
- Own tax-related data strategy to improve reporting, forecasting, and risk visibility.
- Own the global tax budget and resource planning for the function.
- Establish governance frameworks, policies, and escalation protocols related to tax matters.
- Monitor global legislative and regulatory developments, proactively assessing business impact and recommending actions.
Requirements
- Based in the US in an ET or CT timezone.
- Advanced degree in Law, Accounting, Finance, Economics, or a related field, and/or relevant professional qualification (e.g., CPA, CTA, or equivalent).
- Extensive progressive experience in tax, including significant leadership responsibility over global tax operations and strategy.
- Deep expertise in US federal, state, and local taxation, combined with strong knowledge of international tax regulations and OECD frameworks.
- Demonstrated success in developing and executing global tax strategies that support business growth while managing risk.
- Significant experience leading complex international tax projects, transactions, and audits.
- Proven people leader with experience building, mentoring, and scaling global teams.
- Strong business acumen with the ability to translate tax strategy into commercial outcomes.
- Excellent judgment and decision-making skills in complex, high-impact situations.
- Exceptional communication and influencing skills with executive-level stakeholders.
- Fluent in English (B2 level or higher); additional language skills are a plus.
- Experience operating in international, matrixed, and fast-growing organizations.
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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
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Certifications
CPACTAadvanced degree in Lawadvanced degree in Accountingadvanced degree in Financeadvanced degree in Economics