Indirect Tax Senior

About the Company

Cover Genius is the global infrastructure for embedded protection. Active in over 60 countries and all 50 US States, we protect the customers of the world’s largest digital companies, including Klarna, Revolut, Stripe, Priceline, Agoda, Booking.com, Turkish Airlines, Tongcheng Travel, eBay, and Uber, with seamless, end-to-end experiences. Cover Genius has protected more than 73M customers globally across 240M policies with USD $3.2BN in gross written sales. 

Coming off a stellar year with 40% YoY revenue growth and a recent $100M capital raise, putting our valuation at $1.9BN, we are accelerating into our next phase of growth. As part of our team, you’ll help drive our AI-first roadmap, developing hyper-personalization engines, agentic distribution, and automated claims infrastructure, while building the scalable technology powering the fast-growing $70B embedded protection market.

Our people are: Accountable, customer-obsessed, collaborative, driven

Our people are not: Passive, defensive, siloed, hesitant

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?  

At Cover Genius, we create magic by turning the archaic into the extraordinary. We take one of the world’s oldest and most complex industries and reinvent it with world-class technology. Cover Genius doesn’t just disrupt legacy insurance; we make the impossible feel effortless.Our operating principles guide our mission: 

• Make today matter: We deliver with urgency and excellence. We act decisively, move with intention, and hold a high bar.

• Act with accountability: We own our commitments  and take pride in delivering results that move us forward.

• Grow together: We are a collective of curious minds. We learn from wins and setbacks, share knowledge generously, and elevate each other every day.

• Inspire Each Other: We push each other to think bigger and pull together to go further.

• Champion Our Customers: We lead with empathy and center the customer, turning complex disruptions into seamless moments of trust.

• 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.

• Don't just take our word for it- hear about our culture straight from our people here: story time.
  

Ready to make an impact? If you’re looking for a place where you’ll be challenged, trusted, and empowered, we’d love to meet you.

The Legal & Privacy Stuff

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