What you'll do
- Champion Product Compliance: Own the regulatory landscape for our NZ products, ensuring full compliance with local standards in tax, payroll, accounting, and cyber security.
- Translate Regulation into Action: Monitor changes from key bodies (e.g., MBIE, Inland Revenue) and translate complex legislation into clear, actionable requirements for our product and technology teams.
- Shape Future Products: Provide strategic regulatory guidance on our product roadmaps, embedding compliance into the design of new features from the very beginning.
- Build Our Compliance Framework: Partner with leaders across Product, Technology, and Legal to design and implement the risk frameworks that safeguard our products and customers.
- Be the Voice of Xero: Build influential relationships with government agencies and professional bodies, representing Xero in technical working groups to help shape future policy.
- Provide Expert Guidance: Act as the go-to subject matter expert for regulatory queries across the business, including supporting our M&A team with compliance due diligence.
What you'll bring with you
- 7+ years experience in public practice with focus on taxation, compliance or business services
- 5+ years working collaboratively in technology, software or with Revenue Agencies
- Experienced in use of a broad range of accounting, tax and payroll software and the preparation of financial statements and tax returns.
- Experienced in writing technical advice addressing complex specialist issues, with in-depth analysis, evaluation and interpretation, often requiring the ability to gain acceptance or change of thinking
- Experienced collaborating and working with a broad range of stakeholders including senior leadership, external customers, technical peers
- Experience with risk assessments and product roadmaps is advantageous
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Accounting, Commerce, Law, Taxation, Finance or similar
- Qualified accountant or bookkeeper and current member of professional body
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What We Do
Xero is small business accounting software that provides a platform on which businesses can build a fully integrated solution. It’s designed to make life better for people in small business, their advisors, and communities around the world. Xero minimises tedious admin by automating routine tasks, delivers valuable insights when needed, and brings together business data, trusted advisors, and powerful apps in one intuitive platform. By alleviating pain points, Xero empowers small business owners to supercharge their business, simplifying the complex and freeing up time from manual admin so they can focus on what really matters to build the business they’ve always envisaged.
Why Work With Us
We believe that by simplifying the complex we're not only making life better for small business, we’re helping to create a stronger, more vibrant economy. When you join this team, you’re impacting local communities, on a global scale. Being a Fast Co. Best Workplace for Innovators is a direct reflection of our creative, curious culture.
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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
Join us from home or at one of our beautiful workspaces. Xero has offices in Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Singapore, and South Africa.
