Global Equity Tax Specialist

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Company Description We’re http://checkout.comCheckout.com http://Checkout.com. You might not know our name, but companies like eBay, Spotify, Klarna, Uber, and Sony do, because we’re behind many of the digital experiences you use every day. We are where the world checks out, enabling over 10 billion transactions yearly for more than one billion global shoppers. Whether you want to book a holiday, order food, renew a subscription, or check out online, there’s a good chance our tech powers the payments behind the scenes. Our platform helps the most ambitious businesses deliver effortless digital experiences, at scale. If you want to do career-defining work, you’ve come to the right place. We move fast, think globally, and believe great teams are built by hiring exceptional people with conviction, curiosity, and the desire to make an impact. With 20 offices across six continents and London as our HQ, we’re shaping the future of fintech – and we’re just getting started. We are looking for a pragmatic Global Equity Tax Specialist to join our Tax team. This role is primarily responsible for global equity tax at Checkout.com http://Checkout.com. You will act as the designated equity tax specialist, supported by the Employment Tax Manager, and will provide practical technical advice while improving the processes, controls and data that support equity activity, payroll, reporting and employee communications. The role sits at the intersection of Tax, Equity, Finance, Payroll, People, Legal, Accounting, Data and external advisers. You will help establish clear ownership, translate technical tax requirements into workable processes, and support the resolution of historic and live compliance matters. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys balancing hands-on technical work with process improvement, remediation, stakeholder management and continuous improvement in a business that values pace, curiosity and better ways of working. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES GLOBAL EQUITY TAX - Act as the key equity tax specialist within the Tax team, providing practical and commercially focused advice on the employment tax treatment of equity arrangements and related events across their lifecycle. - Provide tax input into plan design, country implementation, employee events, cross-border situations, liquidity activity, system changes and other business initiatives. - Assess the tax treatment of equity activity across relevant jurisdictions, including sourcing, apportionment, withholding, payroll and reporting requirements. - Identify when matters can be handled internally and when specialist local advice is required. - Monitor legislative and business changes affecting equity taxation, withholding, reporting and cross-border treatment, translating them into clear actions for the business. PAYROLL, REPORTING AND COMPLIANCE - Work closely with Equity and Payroll to support accurate and timely withholding, payroll processing, payslip reporting, employee funding and downstream reporting. - Maintain or support the global equity tax compliance calendar, coordinating returns, notifications, reporting packs, approvals and supporting evidence. - Review the 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 or late filings, incorrect withholding, incomplete reporting, data weaknesses and participant-level exceptions. - Support tax authority enquiries, audits, voluntary disclosures and other remediation activity, coordinating facts and evidence across teams and external advisers. OPERATING MODEL, PROCESSES AND 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. - Help develop a scalable and audit-ready approach to managing equity tax across jurisdictions, while maintaining appropriate flexibility for local requirements. - Support the design and implementation of system or process changes that affect equity tax, payroll, reporting or employee communications. STAKEHOLDER AND ADVISER MANAGEMENT - Partner with Finance, Treasury, Payroll, People, Legal, Equity, Accounting, Strategic Finance, Data and other teams so that equity tax considerations are understood early and embedded into business decisions. - Manage relationships with external tax advisers and other providers where required, setting clear briefs, challenging advice and deliverables appropriately, and converting external support into practical internal processes and retained knowledge. - Develop and maintain employee-facing equity tax guides, FAQs and other explanatory materials, explaining tax m