Indirect Tax

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San Francisco, CA
Hybrid
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Productivity • Software
The Role
The Indirect Tax role at Notion requires managing indirect tax functions, including compliance and reporting for sales tax, VAT, and other taxes. Responsibilities include collaboration with accounting and engineering teams, optimization of tax automation software, and external tax advisory work. A key objective is minimizing Notion's tax footprint through strategic tax management and compliance practices.
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About Us:

We're on a mission to make it possible for every person, team, and company to be able to tailor their software to solve any problem and take on any challenge. Computers may be our most powerful tools, but most of us can't build or modify the software we use on them every day. At Notion, we want to change this with focus, design, and craft.

We've been working on this together since 2016, and have customers like Pixar, Mitsubishi, Figma, Plaid, Match Group, and thousands more on this journey with us. Today, we're growing fast and excited for new teammates to join us who are the best at what they do. We're passionate about building a company as diverse and creative as the millions of people Notion reaches worldwide.

Notion is an in person company, and currently requires its employees to come to the office for two Anchor Days (Mondays & Thursdays) and requests that employees spend the majority of their week in the office (including a third day).

About The Role:

Our Tax team is growing and we are looking to add a member to the team who will play a pivotal role in creating tangible value by minimizing Notion’s tax footprint. You will have the opportunity to work on a multitude of tax projects including indirect tax compliance, planning, and reporting. In this role, you’ll help build a world-class tax function and make a lasting impact on the success and growth of the company.

What You'll Achieve:

  • Assist with/manage the indirect tax function here at Notion, including sales and use, excise tax, VAT, GST, and other non-income-based taxes
  • Work closely with accounting team on month & quarter-end projects, including including preparing journal entries & reconciling differences between our billing system & tax determination software
  • Maintain & optimize tax automation software to ensure accurate and efficient tax calculations and compliance
  • Manage relationships with third-party tax automation software and service providers
  • Work cross-functionally with Accounting, Product, & Customer Service teams to determine indirect tax requirements for existing and new product offerings
  • Partner with the Engineering team to resolve indirect tax discrepancies in our billing system
  • Collaborate with Data team to scope potential tax exposure
  • Partner with external tax advisors in identifying and prioritizing indirect tax issues and opportunities
  • Assist with other filings such as state registrations, business licenses and business property tax filings

Skills You'll Need to Bring:

  • Bachelor's degree in accounting, economics, or finance related field
  • 5+ years of public accounting and/or industry accounting experience including Indirect /Sales tax compliance experience
  • Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment with strong ownership of his/her function
  • Results driven with a high level of initiative, teamwork, urgency, accountability and integrity

Nice to Haves:

  • Experience working in public accounting and in-house at a high-growth company
  • High attention to detail and ability to work with large datasets
  • Experience/interest to learn SQL to be able to create & work with queries from data depositories, such as Hex or Snowflake

We hire talented and passionate people from a variety of backgrounds because we want our global employee base to represent the wide diversity of our customers. If you’re excited about a role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every bullet point listed in the job description, we still encourage you to apply. If you’re a builder at heart, share our company values, and enthusiastic about making software toolmaking ubiquitous, we want to hear from you.

Notion is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Notion considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Notion is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please let your recruiter know.

Notion is committed to providing highly competitive cash compensation, equity, and benefits. The compensation offered for this role will be based on multiple factors such as location, the role’s scope and complexity, and the candidate’s experience and expertise, and may vary from the range provided below. For roles based in San Francisco, the estimated base salary range for this role is $120,000 - $145,000 per year.

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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
800 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2016

What We Do

Notion blends your everyday work tools into one. Product roadmap? Company wiki? Meeting notes? With Notion, they're all in one place, and totally customizable to meet the needs of any workflow — from teams of 1 to over 1,000. Notion is the connected workspace for you, your team, and your whole company.

Mission: We humans are toolmakers by nature, but most of us can't build or modify the software we use every day — arguably our most powerful tool. Here at Notion, we're on a mission to make it possible for everyone to shape the tools that shape their lives.

Why Work With Us

Here at Notion, our work shapes our culture and our culture inspires our work. We seek to hire creative toolmakers that want to be the best in their craft. If every employee is able to focus on being the best toolmaker in their craft, we'll be able to achieve our mission of enabling the world to better solve its problems.

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