From Fivetran’s founding until now, our mission has remained the same: to make access to data as simple and reliable as electricity. With Fivetran, customer data arrives in their warehouses, canonical and ready to query, with no engineering or maintenance required. We’re proud that more organizations continue to leverage our technology every day to become truly data-driven.
About the Role
As the Senior Director of Tax, you will play a pivotal role in leading all aspects of the company's tax function, ensuring compliance, optimizing tax positions, and driving strategic tax planning. You will be instrumental in preparing the company for its next stage of growth and maturity, overseeing a range of tax-related activities, including federal, state, and international income tax filings, tax provisions, annual audits, sales tax reporting, and strategic tax planning.
This is a full time, hybrid position based out of our Oakland, CA office.
What You'll Do
- Company Maturity: Lead and coordinate all tax-related activities required for Fivetrans next stage of growth and maturity, ensuring compliance with SEC regulations and best practices.
- Tax Compliance: Oversee the timely and accurate filing of federal, state, and international income tax returns, including quarterly estimates and extensions.
- Tax Provision: Prepare the quarterly and annual income tax provision in accordance with ASC 740, ensuring compliance with GAAP and SOX requirements.
- Tax Audits: Manage tax audits conducted by federal, state, and international tax authorities.
- Sales Tax: Oversee sales tax compliance, including registration, reporting, and remittance.
- Strategic Tax Planning: Identify and implement tax-saving strategies to optimize the company's tax position.
- SOX Compliance: Implement and maintain compliance of SOX controls related to the tax function.
- International Tax: Handle intercompany transactions between different countries, particularly in a SaaS environment.
- Leadership: Act as a critical leader within the Finance organization.
- Technology Adoption: Embrace and leverage technology to streamline tax processes and improve efficiency.
Skills We're Looking For
- Experience: 15+ years of relevant experience in public accounting, private and public companies, with progressive complexity in scope and responsibilities.
- Education: CPA or CA designation required.
- Technical Skills: Strong understanding of tax laws and regulations, including ASC 740, SOX, and international tax principles.
- IPO Readiness: Experience in IPO readiness processes and involvement in IPO-related activities.
- International Tax: Experience working with international accounting teams and handling intercompany transactions.
- Leadership: Proven ability to lead material initiatives, inspire others, and drive results.
- Analytical Skills: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Communication Skills: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, ability to explain complex topics clearly.
- Proactive and Detail-Oriented: Ability to anticipate needs, identify opportunities, and work with a high level of attention to detail.
- Technology Savvy: Enthusiasm for leveraging technology to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
About You
You are a passionate and driven tax professional who thrives in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. You are a self-starter with a strong work ethic and a commitment to excellence. You are a team player who enjoys collaborating with others and building strong relationships. You are excited about new challenges and are eager to contribute to the growth and success of the company.
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This range represents base salary only and does not include incentive for sales roles, equity, or benefits, if applicable.
Pay Range
$230,880—$288,600 USD
Perks and Benefits
- 100% employer-paid medical insurance*
- Generous paid time-off policy (PTO), plus paid sick time, inclusive parental leave policy, holidays, and volunteer days off
- RSU stock grants*
- Professional development and training opportunities
- Company virtual happy hours, free food, and fun team-building activities
- Monthly cell phone stipend
- Access to an innovative mental health support platform that offers personalized care and resources in areas such as: therapy, coaching, and self-guided mindfulness exercises for all covered employees and their covered dependents.
*May vary by country and worker type - please reach out to your recruiter for more information
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Fivetran brings together high-quality talent across the globe to make data access as easy and reliable as electricity for our customers. We value and recognize that our customers benefit from having innovative teams made of people from many backgrounds, experiences, and identities. Fivetran promotes diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging through attracting, recruiting, developing, and retaining a diverse workforce, not only because it is the right thing to do, but because it helps us build a world-class company to better serve our customers, our people and our communities.
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What We Do
Fivetran is the global leader in modern data integration. Our mission is to make access to data as simple and reliable as electricity. Built for the cloud, Fivetran enables data teams to effortlessly centralize and transform data from hundreds of SaaS and on-prem data sources into high-performance cloud destinations. Fast-moving startups and the world’s largest companies use Fivetran to accelerate modern analytics and operational efficiency, fueling data-driven business growth. Fivetran is headquartered in Oakland, California, with offices around the world.
Why Work With Us
At Fivetran, we live by our values daily. In every interaction, it is easy to identify that we work with integrity, we take initiative, and we employ a team-first approach. Our Glassdoor rating is no accident: just as customer experience is a guiding light for us, so is employee satisfaction. Experience ownership, impact, and recognition here.