Associate Director Tax

Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software, we empower over 150,000 businesses worldwide – including Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN and many more – with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts, payments, spend management and treasury, to embedded finance at a global scale.

Proudly founded in Melbourne, we have a team of over 1,800 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$6.2 billion and backed by world-leading investors including Visa, Airtree, Blackbird, Sequoia, DST Global, Greenoaks, Salesforce Ventures, Lone Pine, and Square Peg, Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If you’re ready to do the most ambitious work of your career, join us.

We hire successful builders with founder-like energy who want real impact, accelerated learning, and true ownership. You bring strong role-related expertise and sharp thinking, and you’re motivated by our mission and operating principles. You move fast with good judgment, dig deep with curiosity, and make decisions from first principles, balancing speed and rigor.

You're humble and collaborative; turn zero‑to‑one ideas into real products, and you “get stuff done” end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here, you’ll tackle complex, high‑visibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you, let’s build what’s next.

About the team

Airwallex has a global tax team with different hubs covering for APAC, EMEA and Americas and reporting to the Head of Tax, based in SG.

What you’ll do

Airwallex is looking for a proactive and motivated Senior Tax Manager/ Associate Director with extensive hands-on local experience and a global mindset to provide tax advice and supporting documentation, compliance, and reporting for existing businesses and new business initiatives. This position will be part of a team that works closely with business partners to understand business initiatives, prepare advice on the associated tax implications, provide actionable guidance and requirements for the business, and support reporting and compliance obligations. The role reports directly to the Global Head of Tax based in Singapore.

This role will be based in Amsterdam.

Responsibilities:

• Lead complex, high priority projects whilst managing competing priorities – including working across multi-region and cross-functional teams

• Deliver holistic, commercially balanced advice to senior and executive level leadership to devise strategic, technical tax positions

• Analyse and review statutes, regulations and case laws, and extract data make appropriate recommendations in simple terms

• Own all regional (EMEA - which covers NL, UK, LT, IL, KSA, UAE, FR, DE) direct tax, indirect tax, and transfer pricing issues related to current and future Airwallex entities

• Contribute to complex global projects such as M&A transactions, due diligence, or IPO-readiness

• An in-depth, technical knowledge of complex taxation matters, including; Direct tax, Indirect tax, International tax and Transfer Pricing

• Demonstrable experience working across multiple timezones, supporting and/or leading on strategic cross-functional projects designed to identify growth opportunity or mitigate risk

Who you are

We're looking for people who meet the minimum requirements for this role. The preferred qualifications are great to have, but are not mandatory.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelors or Masters in Finance, Accounting, Tax or another related field

• Previous experience working in at an accounting firm

• Minimum 8/10 years of relevant professional experience

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English

• Strong leadership and management skills

• Team player mentality and ability to work with individuals across functions and culture

Desired qualifications:

• In-house roles in a high growth company is a plus

• Indirect tax or Transfer pricing hands on experience

• Experience working across multiple countries and multiple types of taxes

• Tax accounting experience

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Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don’t regard color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.