Global Equity Tax Specialist

The role

The Global Equity Tax Specialist provides technical advice on the employment tax treatment of equity arrangements. This person will improve processes, controls, and data supporting equity activity, payroll, reporting, and employee communications.

What you will do

• Provide practical advice on the employment tax treatment of equity arrangements.
• Provide tax input into plan design, country implementation, and employee events.
• Assess tax treatment of equity activity across jurisdictions including sourcing, withholding, and payroll.
• Support accurate and timely withholding, payroll processing, and payslip reporting.
• Maintain the global equity tax compliance calendar.
• Identify and remediate historic or live compliance issues.
• Support tax authority enquiries, audits, and voluntary disclosures.
• Build and improve the global equity tax operating model.
• Manage relationships with external tax advisers.
• Develop employee-facing equity tax guides and explanatory materials.

Required qualifications

• Significant experience in global equity tax in an advisory and/or in-house environment.
• Strong technical knowledge of the employment tax treatment of equity arrangements across multiple jurisdictions.
• Practical understanding of how equity tax interacts with payroll, employee data, and finance processes.
• Experience managing or supporting equity tax compliance across multiple jurisdictions.
• Experience identifying and remediating compliance gaps.
• Experience building processes, controls, documentation, and operating models.
• Confidence working with data and financial systems including spreadsheets, equity administration platforms, and Workday.
• Experience working with external advisers.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• A qualified accountant or tax adviser, or equivalent professional experience.

Nice to have

• Private-company equity experience
• Experience in financial services, payments, fintech or another complex, multinational or regulated environment
• An interest in using approved technology and AI-enabled tools

About the company

Checkout.com is a fintech company that enables over 10 billion transactions yearly for more than one billion global shoppers. They have 20 offices across six continents with London as their HQ.