Booksy

Global Head of Tax

Booksy

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United Kingdom

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Lead

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.
  • Design the long-term operating model for the tax function, determining the right balance of in-house expertise, shared services, and external providers.
  • 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.

Requirements

  • Based in the UK.
  • 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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