As Tax Analyst, you will have a broad range of tax-related responsibilities, with a particular focus on maintaining an international tax compliance and reporting portfolio for the Smartly group of companies, while also assisting on adhoc advisory and project workstreams. Working directly with the Tax & Treasury Manager and collaboratively with internal teams and external advisors, you will be exposed to all aspects of tax and play a critical role in ensuring the group’s tax obligations are met on time and in full.

Given the global footprint of the business, you will gain exposure to diverse tax regimes and cross-border considerations, providing a unique opportunity to broaden your international tax expertise. Your knowledge of and proximity to the day-to-day inner workings of the business will enable you to identify areas of improvement and drive real change. Attention to detail and time management are therefore critical attributes required for this role.

This is a great opportunity to deepen your tax knowledge through practical experience across multiple jurisdictions, as well as developing related accounting and finance skills to enhance your skillset.

What You Will Do

• Support all direct and indirect tax matters, particularly corporation tax and sales tax/VAT/GST, across multiple jurisdictions.
• Preparation and timely submission of tax returns and ensuring related payments are actioned / received by relevant tax authorities.
• Review the accuracy and integrity of accounting balances recording tax, including preparing monthly/quarterly/annual tax calculations.
• Global mobility and fringe benefit tax compliance; involvement with employer-related tax obligations.
• Maintaining Smartly’s tax compliance calendar of all above workstreams and continually updating for new filing / payment obligations as the business grows.
• Continuous improvement of processes, controls and documentation to manage risk and create efficiencies.
• Establishing effective working relationships both within the tax / finance team and with other Smartly business units.
• Work with external advisors and tax authorities; assist / support audit responses and enquiries.

What We Are Looking For

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting with 3+ years of relevant work experience.
• Proven experience in a similar tax, finance, and / or accounting role.
• Understanding of direct / indirect tax, tax accounting, international tax law, and transfer pricing.
• Strong Excel or Google Sheet skills; experience with NetSuite is an advantage.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Ability to prioritize tasks and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Work well as part of a team, while being able to handle tasks independently.

What We Offer You

At Smartly, we offer a place where you can advance your career. Here, you'll find:

• An Inclusive Global Culture: Join a team of over 750 Smartlies, representing more than 60 nationalities across 24 locations in 13 countries. We cultivate a culture built on trust, transparency, and open feedback, where diverse perspectives are valued and encouraged.
• Global Impact: Contribute to a company making a global impact, directly influencing our customers' success and business growth.
• Focus on Wellbeing: We prioritize your health with healthcare packages, mental health services, and a commitment to work-life balance through paid holidays and family leave.
• Flexible Hybrid Workplace: Experience a hybrid work model, balancing office collaboration with remote work, and the option to work abroad for up to 30 days annually.

Smartly is committed to being a great place for growth-minded individuals to thrive. Explore more in our Culture Handbook!

Apply Now and Build Your Future with Smartly!

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About the Job

You are looking for a challenge, eager for a fast-paced startup environment that will push you out of your comfort zone, where learning happens. Most importantly, you’re a problem solver with exquisite attention to detail , unafraid to get technical to understand the root cause of an issue.

The Financial Operations team manages all customer funds across the region, ensuring that funds are placed appropriately, liquidity is managed correctly, transactions are reconciled and all manual operations to support customer fund flows are executed to an extremely high standard.

This role specifically is to run the FX and Cash Management teams for our sister entity, DragonPay, while still reporting regionally into the Xendit Head of FinOps. The DragonPay team currently operates independently of Xendit, but the goal is to align our operations across entities and use best practices from each to raise the bar.

If you can be accurate and detail-oriented under pressure, are always reliable, collaborative, and love the dynamic environment of operations, we want to hear from you. Bonus points for those who love challenging the status quo.

Minimum Qualifications

• Graduate of Management, Accounting, Finance, or a similar course, with 6-8 years of relevant experience in a start-up/fast paced environment or within the payments, fintech, or financial services spaces
• At least 3 years working in cross-border and FX operations
• Experience in managing a Finance / Financial Operations team of 6-8 people
• Able to get your hands dirty, getting into the weeds of the operations to ensure they are done in the most efficient and effective manner
• Comfortable dealing with large datasets and data analysis
• Constantly looking to push the bar and increase standards of operations
• You have a discerning ability to prioritize workload in line with tight deadlines and work effectively under pressure
• You are a team player and communicate well with internal and external stakeholders
• You have great ownership mentality and have proven you can push towards a goal by yourself
• You pick up new skills quickly using a combination of self-exploration and relationship building
• You are detail-oriented and able to manage multiple priorities while maintaining quality work
• Detail oriented, can see patterns in data/information or notice when something is amiss
• Located in Manila, able to go to the DragonPay office in Marikina daily

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in or dealing with banks or large financial institutions
• Experience with SQL or visualization tools (e.g. Looker)
• At least 3 years working in cash management / treasury operations

Responsibilities

Oversee & execute the fund management & liquidity strategy for DragonPay operations

• Understand all fund flows, their volumes, and their liquidity requirements, in order to build on the existing strategy to support these operations
• Enhance the existing strategy to manage liquidity in the most operationally and cost effective manner for Xendit. Adjust strategy as needed
• Monitor funds through the day to ensure correct allocation across accounts
• Train the team on how to manage liquidity so they grow into operating more independently

Monitor FX operations to ensure seamless execution

• Execution of FX operations will be done by the existing Financial Operations team.
• Oversee and guide the operations to ensure that there are no errors or disruptions to merchant flows
• Create or update SOPs as required to correct operations and ensure they all follow best practices
• Address and manage any operational issues or escalations independently

Operational improvements & reporting

• Focus on the processes and tooling to enable the execution of cross border fund flows and liquidity operations
• ⁠⁠Own and drive Cash Management & FX metrics such as efficiency and accuracy

Work closely with various internal teams to drive success

• Work closely with relevant stakeholders to ensure all operations are smooth and all Cash Management / FX transactions are correctly reconciled
• As our products continue to evolve, partner closely with the product team to give feedback on the product and provide FinOps’ input and requests, to ensure future builds and evolutions meet our operational requirements
• Solve complex problems by working across product, regional partnerships, treasury, compliance, sales and growth teams to ensure FinOps is set up for success

Team management

• Manage and guide team members to grow within Xendit and scale up their skillset
• Mentor junior team members and ensure their work is delivered to a high standard
• Coach more senior team members to level up, become people managers, and take on additional responsibilities

Do whatever it takes to make Xendit succeed

About the Job

You are looking for a challenge, eager for a fast-paced startup environment that will push you out of your comfort zone, where learning happens. Most importantly, you’re a problem solver with exquisite attention to detail , unafraid to get technical to understand the root cause of an issue.

The Financial Operations team manages all customer funds across the region, ensuring that funds are placed appropriately, liquidity is managed correctly, transactions are reconciled and all manual operations to support customer fund flows are executed to an extremely high standard.

As we expand across more countries, we have developed a global offering (“Global Accounts”) for our merchants, allowing them to move funds seamlessly across currencies and leverage any of Xendit’s global services from within one dashboard. This role will be the main owner of all regional fund flows, overseeing float management, liquidity forecasting, day to day operations, cross border and FX operations. The focus will be on the strategy and management of this, while execution will primarily be done by the existing operations team.

If you can be accurate and detail-oriented under pressure, are always reliable, collaborative, and love the dynamic environment of operations, we want to hear from you. Bonus points for those who love challenging the status quo.

Minimum Qualifications

• Graduate of Management, Accounting, Finance, or a similar course, with 5-8 years of relevant experience in a start-up/fast paced environment or within the payments, fintech, or financial services spaces
• At least 3 years working in cross-border and FX operations
• Able to get your hands dirty, getting into the weeds of the operations to ensure they are done in the most efficient and effective manner
• Comfortable dealing with large datasets and data analysis
• Constantly looking to push the bar and increase standards of operations
• You have a discerning ability to prioritize workload in line with tight deadlines and work effectively under pressure
• You are a team player and communicate well with internal and external stakeholders
• You have great ownership mentality and have proven you can push towards a goal by yourself
• You pick up new skills quickly using a combination of self-exploration and relationship building
• You are detail-oriented and able to manage multiple priorities while maintaining quality work
• Detail oriented, can see patterns in data/information or notice when something is amiss
• Located in Jakarta, Bangkok, Manila or Kuala Lumpur

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in or dealing with banks or large financial institutions
• Experience with SQL or visualization tools (e.g. Looker)
• Experience in managing a Finance / Financial Operations team of 4-6 people
• Experience managing a geographically dispersed team

Responsibilities

Design & execute the fund management & liquidity strategy for Global Accounts operations

• Understand all fund flows, their volumes, and their liquidity requirements, in order to design the right strategy to support these operations
• Design & execute on the strategy to manage liquidity in the most operationally and cost effective manner for Xendit. Adjust strategy as needed
• Monitor funds across the region through the day to ensure correct allocation across accounts and currencies

Monitor Global Accounts & FX operations to ensure seamless execution

• Execution of Global Accounts & FX operations will be done by the existing Financial Operations team. Oversee and guide the operations to ensure that there are no errors or disruptions to merchant flows
• Create or update SOPs as required to correct operations and ensure they all follow best practices
• Address and manage any operational issues or escalations independently

Operational improvements & reporting

• Focus on the processes and tooling to enable the execution of cross border fund flows and liquidity operations
• Report on Global Accounts operations and liquidity statuses to the Financial Operations Head and to broader leadership as required
• ⁠⁠Own and drive Global Accounts & FX metrics such as efficiency and accuracy

Work closely with various internal teams to drive success

• The reconciliations of all fund flows are done by a centralised team. Work closely with this team on all Global Accounts / FX recons to ensure they have the information they need and to address any questions / unreconciled items that arise
• As the product continues to evolve, partner closely with the product team to give feedback on the product and provide FinOps’ input and requests, to ensure future builds and evolutions meet our operational requirements
• Solve complex problems by working across product, regional partnerships, treasury, compliance, sales and growth teams to ensure FinOps is able to support all aspects of our Global Accounts

Do whatever it takes to make Xendit succeed