Senior Manager, Indirect Tax

Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software, we empower over 200,000 businesses worldwide – including Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN and many more – with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts, payments, spend management and treasury, to embedded finance at a global scale.

Proudly founded in Melbourne, we have a team of over 2,000 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$8 billion and backed by world-leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Visa, Mastercard, Robinhood Ventures, Sequoia, Salesforce Ventures, DST Global, and Lone Pine Capital, Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If you’re ready to do the most ambitious work of your career, join us.

We hire successful builders with founder-like energy who want real impact, accelerated learning, and true ownership. You bring strong role-related expertise and sharp thinking, and you’re motivated by our mission and operating principles. You move fast with good judgment, dig deep with curiosity, and make decisions from first principles, balancing speed and rigor.

You're humble and collaborative; turn zero‑to‑one ideas into real products, and you “get stuff done” end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here, you’ll tackle complex, high‑visibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you, let’s build what’s next.

What you’ll do

Airwallex is looking for a proactive and motivated Senior Manager, Indirect Tax with extensive hands-on experience and a global mindset to start building the Airwallex Tax Product team. This position will be part of the global tax function and focused on building indirect tax products and their performance. The role reports directly to the Global Head of Tax based in Singapore.

Responsibilities:

• Lead complex, high priority product building projects whilst managing competing priorities – including working across multi-region and cross-functional teams

• Deliver holistic, commercially balanced advice to senior and executive level leadership to devise strategic, technical tax positions

• Oversee indirect tax compliance for our new products in different jurisdictions, including GST/VAT filings.

• Lead and help grow the new Airwallex Tax Product team while working closely with product and engineering teams.

• Contribute to complex global projects, such as global indirect tax reviews and specific country analyses to increase recovery ratios.

• Demonstrable experience working across multiple timezones, supporting and/or leading on strategic cross-functional projects designed to identify growth opportunity or mitigate risk

Who you are

We're looking for people who meet the minimum requirements for this role. The preferred qualifications are great to have, but are not mandatory.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelors or Masters in Finance, Accounting, Tax or another related field

• Previous experience working in at an accounting firm and preferable in multiple regions/ countries

• Minimum 7 years of relevant professional experience

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English

• Strong leadership and management skills

• Team player mentality and ability to work with individuals across functions and culture

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