Tax Director

🚀 We’re on a mission to make money work for everyone.

We’re waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking.

After starting as a prepaid card, our product offering has grown a lot in the last 10 years in the UK. As well as personal and business bank accounts, we offer joint accounts, accounts for 16-17 year olds, a free kids account and credit cards in the UK, with more exciting things to come beyond. Our UK customers can also save, invest and combine their pensions with us. 

With our hot coral cards and get-paid-early feature, combined with financial education on social media and our award winning customer service, we have a long history of creating magical moments for our customers!

We’re not about selling products - we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo ❤️

Hear from our UK team about what it's like working at Monzo ✨

📍London, Cardiff or Distributed | 💰 From £148,000 + stock options Benefits | Hear from the team 

⭐Our Tax team

We're looking for an experienced, hands-on and enthusiastic Group Head of Tax on a 12 month fixed term contract to support the Tax team at Monzo, and our wider finance team.

You’ll be leading our growing Tax team of 8+ individuals, and will be reporting into Monzo Bank Limited’s CFO.

A large part of the role will involve advising on the tax implications of all new business developments, ensuring we’re both set up for compliance and optimised wherever possible and appropriate. Given the stage Monzo is currently at in its growth journey, these will be many and wide ranging, from customer products to treasury strategies, group reorgs to mobility proposals, systems implementations to international expansion.

🔑You’ll play a key role by...

• Being responsible for all things Tax: including Corporation Tax, VAT, Employment Tax, International Tax, Transfer Pricing, and Operational Taxes, across compliance, reporting and advisory, both in the UK and overseas.
• Coaching and developing the tax team, setting priorities and strategic direction, and stakeholder management.
• Being part of our Finance Leadership Team, feeding into and supporting the wider Finance team goals and objectives.
• Taking responsibility for identifying and acting on all relevant legislative changes.

🤩We’d love to hear from you if...

• You’re a qualified accountant and/or qualified tax advisor 
• You have experience working across a range of UK taxes, including International Tax (US and/or EU specific tax experience is a bonus, but not a requirement!)
• You have significant experience working in-house (within Financial Services is a bonus)
• You enjoy developing and motivating a team
• You’re comfortable working pretty autonomously
• You’re energetic and hands-on with your work, tackling whatever needs doing to make things happen
• What we’re doing at Monzo excites you!

🙌What’s in it for you

💰 From £148,000 ➕ share options.

📍This role can be based in our London or Cardiff office. We're also open to distributed working within the UK (with the expectation of a minimum 1 day per week working from our London office).

⏰We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, and at times that suit you and your team. 

📚£1,000 learning budget each year to use on books, training courses and conferences.

🏡We will set you up to work from home; all employees are given Macbooks and for fully remote workers we will provide extra support for your work-from-home setup. 

➕ Plus lots more! Read our full list of benefits.

🌈 The application journey has 4 key steps:

- Phone call with recruiter (30mins)
- Initial video call with hiring manager (30 mins)
- Technical video call and situational task with Tax team (60 mins)
- Behavioural interview with finance leadership team (45 mins)

Our average process takes around 3-4 weeks but we will always work around your availability. You will have the chance to speak to our recruitment team at various points during your process but if you do have any specific questions ahead of this please contact us on business-hiring@monzo.com

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We’ll only close this role once we have enough applications for the next stage. Please submit your application as soon as possible to make sure you don’t miss out.

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Equal opportunities for everyone

Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and we’re making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at Monzo. At Monzo, we’re embracing diversity by fostering an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives with us. This is integral to our mission of making money work for everyone. You can read more in our blog, 2023 Diversity and Inclusion Report and 2024 Gender Pay Gap Report.

We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity or disability status.

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