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You might not know our name, but companies like eBay, Spotify, Klarna, Uber, and Sony do, because we’re behind many of the digital experiences you use every day. \nWe are where the world checks out, enabling over 10 billion transactions yearly for more than one billion global shoppers. \nWhether you want to book a holiday, order food, renew a subscription, or check out online, there’s a good chance our tech powers the payments behind the scenes. Our platform helps the most ambitious businesses deliver effortless digital experiences, at scale. \nIf you want to do career-defining work, you’ve come to the right place. We move fast, think globally, and believe great teams are built by hiring exceptional people with conviction, curiosity, and the desire to make an impact. \nWith 20 offices across six continents and London as our HQ, we’re shaping the future of fintech - and we’re just getting started.\nWe are looking for a pragmatic Global Equity Tax Specialist to join our Tax team.\nThis role is primarily responsible for global equity tax at Checkout.com. You will act as the designated equity tax specialist, supported by the Employment Tax Manager, and will provide practical technical advice while improving the processes, controls and data that support equity activity, payroll, reporting and employee communications.\nThe role sits at the intersection of Tax, Equity, Finance, Payroll, People, Legal, Accounting, Data and external advisers. You will help establish clear ownership, translate technical tax requirements into workable processes, and support the resolution of historic and live compliance matters.\nThis is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys balancing hands-on technical work with process improvement, remediation, stakeholder management and continuous improvement in a business that values pace, curiosity and better ways of working.\nKey Responsibilities\nGlobal equity tax\nAct as the key equity tax specialist within the Tax team, providing practical and commercially focused advice on the employment tax treatment of equity arrangements and related events across their lifecycle.\n\nProvide tax input into plan design, country implementation, employee events, cross-border situations, liquidity activity, system changes and other business initiatives.\n\nAssess the tax treatment of equity activity across relevant jurisdictions, including sourcing, apportionment, withholding, payroll and reporting requirements.\n\nIdentify when matters can be handled internally and when specialist local advice is required.\n\nMonitor legislative and business changes affecting equity taxation, withholding, reporting and cross-border treatment, translating them into clear actions for the business.\n\nPayroll, reporting and compliance\nWork closely with Equity and Payroll to support accurate and timely withholding, payroll processing, payslip reporting, employee funding and downstream reporting.\n\nMaintain or support the global equity tax compliance calendar, coordinating returns, notifications, reporting packs, approvals and supporting evidence.\n\nReview the quality and completeness of equity tax data used for payroll, reporting, tax calculations and compliance submissions.\n\nIdentify, assess and remediate historic or live issues, including missing or late filings, incorrect withholding, incomplete reporting, data weaknesses and participant-level exceptions.\n\nSupport tax authority enquiries, audits, voluntary disclosures and other remediation activity, coordinating facts and evidence across teams and external advisers.\n\nOperating model, processes and controls\nBuild and continuously improve the global equity tax operating model, including ownership, hand-offs, escalation routes, service expectations and control requirements.\n\nCreate and maintain practical country guidance, process documentation, decision logs, filing trackers, data specifications, exception logs and evidence trails.\n\nHelp develop a scalable and audit-ready approach to managing equity tax across jurisdictions, while maintaining appropriate flexibility for local requirements.\n\nSupport the design and implementation of system or process changes that affect equity tax, payroll, reporting or employee communications.\n\nStakeholder and adviser management\nPartner with Finance, Treasury, Payroll, People, Legal, Equity, Accounting, Strategic Finance, Data and other teams so that equity tax considerations are understood early and embedded into business decisions.\n\nManage relationships with external tax advisers and other providers where required, setting clear briefs, challenging advice and deliverables appropriately, and converting external support into practical internal processes and retained knowledge.\n\nDevelop and maintain employee-facing equity tax guides, FAQs and other explanatory materials, explaining tax mechanics clearly without presenting Checkout.com as providing personal tax advice.\n\nProvide clear updates on risks, decisions, dependencies, remediation activity and recommended actions to the Employment Tax Manager and relevant stakeholders.\n\nWider employment tax contribution\nSupport the Employment Tax Manager with wider global employment tax advisory, compliance, risk management and process-improvement priorities where appropriate.\n\nContribute to a high-performing team culture by taking ownership, sharing knowledge, challenging existing approaches constructively and improving how we work.\n\nSkills & Experience\nSignificant experience in global equity tax, gained in an advisory and/or in-house environment.\n\nStrong technical knowledge of the employment tax treatment of equity arrangements across multiple jurisdictions, including cross-border employees, sourcing, apportionment, withholding, payroll and reporting.\n\nPractical understanding of how equity tax interacts with payroll, employee data, finance processes and local compliance requirements.\n\nExperience managing or supporting equity tax compliance across multiple jurisdictions, with sound judgement about when local advice is needed.\n\nExperience identifying and remediating compliance gaps, including missing filings, historic withholding issues, late or inaccurate reporting, participant-level issues and weaknesses in data or controls.\n\nDemonstrable experience building processes, controls, documentation, country guidance and operating models in an environment where responsibilities or ways of working are still developing.\n\nConfidence working with data and financial systems, including the ability to interrogate and validate large datasets and use spreadsheets, equity administration platforms, Workday and other reporting tools effectively.\n\nExperience working with external advisers, with the ability to brief, challenge and manage them effectively while retaining ownership of the technical position and business outcome.\n\nStrong communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to explain complex tax issues clearly and influence a wide range of partners.\n\nA qualified accountant or tax adviser, or equivalent professional experience.\n\nPrivate-company equity experience would be advantageous, particularly where the role has involved complex data, evolving processes, employee liquidity activity or significant change.\n\nExperience in financial services, payments, fintech or another complex, multinational or regulated environment would be 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It’s a place where ambition gets met with opportunity, and where your growth is in your hands.\nWe work as one team, and we back each other to succeed. So whatever your background or identity, if you’re ready to grow and make a difference, you’ll be right at home here.\nIt’s important we set you up for success and make our process as accessible as possible. So let us know in your application, or tell your recruiter directly, if you need anything to make your experience or working environment more comfortable.\nLife atCheckout.com\nWe understand that work is just one part of your life. Our hybrid working model offers flexibility, with three days per week in the office to support collaboration and connection.\nCurious about what it’s like to be part of our team? Visit ourCareers Page to learn more about our culture, open roles, and what drives us.\nFor a closer look at daily life at Checkout.com, follow us on LinkedIn and Instagram","description_format":"text","description_chars":8878,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity","Hybrid work"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United Kingdom","iso":"GB","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Tax Advisory & Preparation","Payment Processing & Gateways"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-03T02:29:16Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"GB","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"Licensed UK visa sponsor (Skilled Worker, Senior or Specialist Worker)","filings_12m":null,"filings_prev_12m":null,"green_card_filings_12m":null,"median_offered_wage_usd":null,"route":"Skilled Worker; Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker","cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-31T06:23:40+00:00","sources":["UK Home Office: register of licensed sponsors (workers)"],"filings_for_role_12m":0}],"liveness":{"score":69,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.768,"p_room":0.9,"age_days":28,"expected_fill_days":47,"reasons":["conf:3","velocity","win:mid","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-31T05:58:55Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/checkout-com-global-equity-tax-specialist","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/checkout-com-global-equity-tax-specialist.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-31T21:28:48Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":33638,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-01T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":51355},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=51355"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fcheckout-com-global-equity-tax-specialist"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fcheckout-com-global-equity-tax-specialist"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fcheckout-com-global-equity-tax-specialist"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/checkout-com-global-equity-tax-specialist\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fcheckout-com-global-equity-tax-specialist"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":1739901}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"checkout.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":1739901},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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