Indirect Tax Senior

About the Company

Cover Genius is a Series E Insurtech that protects the global customers of the world’s largest digital companies including Booking Holdings, owner of Priceline, Kayak and Booking.com, Intuit, Hopper, Skyscanner, Ryanair, Turkish Airlines, Descartes ShipRush, Zip and SeatGeek. We’re also available at Amazon, Flipkart, eBay, Wayfair and SE Asia’s largest company, Shopee.

Our partners integrate with XCover, our award-winning insurance distribution platform, to embed protection for millions of customers worldwide each year. Our team and products have been recognized with dozens of awards including by the Financial Times who ranked Cover Genius as the #1 fastest growing company in APAC in 2020. Our diverse team across 20+ countries and many language groups commits itself to diverse cultural programs, in particular “CG Gives” which makes social entrepreneurs out of us all and funds development initiatives in global communities.

Our People are Bold, Authentic, Purposeful and Inspired  

Our People are not Perfect, Traditional, Complacent or Cautious 

About the Role

As an Indirect Tax Senior on our Finance team, you will own day-to-day global indirect tax (VAT, GST, sales tax) compliance and indirect tax accounting processes.

To drive success in this role, you will bring strong international indirect tax technical expertise across EMEA, APAC, Canada, US, and LatAm, robust tax accounting capabilities, and hands-on experience scaling tax operations in a fast-paced tech or financial services environment. You will manage end-to-end indirect tax filing operational workflows globally, perform month-end and quarter-end tax accounting tasks and reconciliations, and optimize workflows across multi-jurisdictional transaction flows. Regular collaboration with Product, Legal, Financial Reporting, and Regional Finance teams will be key to ensuring accurate filings and audit-ready reporting standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Global Tax Compliance: Own end-to-end global indirect tax compliance (VAT, GST, Sales/Use Tax, IPT) processes for local Cover Genius entities across EMEA, APAC, Canada, US, and LatAm, ensuring accurate and timely filings and remittances across all active markets.

• Month-End Close & Reconciliations: Manage the indirect tax month-end close process, including preparing tax journal entries, GL balance sheet reconciliations, and reserve analyses.

• Tax Determination: Review tax determination logic for new insurance and non-insurance product offerings.

• Audit Support: Support annual financial statement (FS) audits by preparing workpapers and responding directly to external auditor requests.

• Tax Automation & Systems: Assist with the evaluation, scoping, and implementation of automated tax engines to streamline compliance workflows for both general indirect taxes and IPT.

• Audit Defense & Authority Inquiries: Assist with tax authority inquiries, notices, and audit defense strategies globally to minimize financial exposure and operational risk.

• Cross-Functional Partnership: Partner with Product and Legal to embed tax requirements into internal billing architectures, ERP systems, and platform infrastructure.

• Legislative Monitoring: Track global indirect tax policy and legislative changes to proactively adapt tax configurations and operational workflows.

What You Will Bring

• Experience: 4–6 years of progressive indirect tax experience within a multinational technology, insurtech, fintech, or Big 4 / public accounting environment.

• Technical Expertise: Proven, hands-on experience managing global VAT, GST, US Sales/Use tax, and Insurance Premium Tax (IPT) compliance and tax accounting procedures.

• Systems Proficiency: Advanced proficiency with cloud ERP systems (e.g., NetSuite). Hands-on experience implementing tax automation tools or tax engines is a plus.

• Accounting Skills: Strong grasp of transactional accounting concepts, with experience designing and performing balance sheet reconciliations.

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a relevant field. A postgraduate tax-related degree or record of high academic achievement is desirable.

Key Competencies for Success

• Analytical Precision: Ability to evaluate complex, multi-jurisdictional transaction structures and translate tax law into clear business requirements.

• Cross-Functional Influence: Exceptional communication skills to bridge technical tax requirements with non-tax teams like Product, Engineering, and Legal.

• Ownership Mindset: Takes full accountability for accuracy, deadlines, and scalable tax operation designs.

• Adaptability: Thrives in an agile, rapidly expanding global business with evolving strategic priorities.

Why Cover Genius?  

Cover Genius not only cares about being the best in our industry, we care about our team. We’re a business that understands life can be fluid and so we flex to ensure we provide the environment to suit that. What does that mean?  

• Flexible Work Environment - our teams are hybrid. We work from home on Wednesdays and Thursday and attend the office on Monday, Tuesday and Friday with flexibility around start/finish times.

• Global company, with the opportunity to work from any of our offices for 4 weeks a year

• Employee Stock Options - we want our people to share in our success, we reward them with ownership for their contribution in creating a world-class company.

• Work with like-minded people who are passionate about both the work we're doing and giving back. Our CG Gives programs enables us to all become philanthropists through our peer recognition and rewards system.

• Social Initiatives - pictures speak a thousand words!

Sound interesting? If you think you have the best composition of the above, send us your resume and let's chat!

* Cover Genius promotes diversity and inclusivity. We don't tolerate discrimination, demeaning treatment of anyone, or harassment due to race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.

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