Overview
This role serves as an in-house subject matter expert for tax technology, with responsibility for translating global tax regulations into logic and workflows that power an AI-driven tax compliance platform. The work spans transfer pricing, indirect tax, and withholding tax, including documentation workflows and jurisdiction-specific calculation and reporting.
Responsibilities
- Act as a subject matter expert on transfer pricing, indirect tax, and withholding tax, translating complex regulatory rules into product logic.
- Partner with product managers and engineers to design, build, and test automated workflows for transfer pricing documentation, including:
- Master file
- Local file
- Country-by-Country Reporting
- Define functional, risk, and economic analysis frameworks used to evaluate arm’s-length pricing for intercompany transactions involving:
- Goods
- Services
- Intellectual property
- Financing
- Translate global indirect tax rules—sales tax, VAT, and GST—into product requirements, including automated calculation, registration, and filing logic across jurisdictions.
- Define withholding tax (WHT) rules, including treaty-based rate determination, for cross-border payment scenarios modeled by the platform.
- Monitor global regulatory developments, including OECD BEPS, Pillar Two, and local country tax regulations, and translate changes into product requirements and updates.
- Review and validate platform outputs against real-world scenarios to ensure accuracy; partner with QA and engineering to resolve edge cases and gaps in tax logic.
- Support feature design related to intercompany agreements, cost-sharing arrangements, and advance pricing agreements (APAs).
- Create internal documentation, training materials, and product content that explain the platform’s tax methodologies to customers and internal teams.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with data, legal, and customer-facing teams to ensure product accuracy and alignment with evolving global tax requirements.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Tax, or a related field.
- 10+ years of experience in transfer pricing, international tax, or related tax roles (Big 4, law firm, or in-house), with an interest in applying that expertise to build tax technology.
- Strong understanding of OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines, BEPS Action Plans, and U.S. Section 482 regulations.
- Working knowledge of global indirect tax (sales/use tax, VAT, GST) and withholding tax compliance and reporting requirements.
- Ability to translate complex tax concepts into clear requirements for product and engineering teams.
- Excellent analytical, written, and verbal communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s degree in Taxation, Economics, or a related field; CPA, JD, or equivalent professional certification.
- Prior experience working at or partnering closely with a tax technology, fintech, or SaaS company.
- Familiarity with how AI/ML models are applied to tax and financial compliance workflows.
- Experience with transfer pricing, indirect tax, or WHT software (e.g., RoyaltyStat, Orbis, Avalara, Vertex, OneSource).