Senior Manager, Indirect Tax

Canva Canva · Enterprise · San Francisco, CA +1 · Finance

Canva is seeking a Senior Indirect Tax Manager to oversee indirect tax compliance, accounting, and advisory in the US, Canada, and Latin America. The role involves assessing and mitigating tax risks, optimizing processes with technology and automation, and collaborating across departments. The ideal candidate will have strong US sales and use tax experience, with Canadian and LATAM experience being a bonus. While the role is primarily focused on tax operations, it also mentions implementing AI into daily work and exploring its potential impact.

What you'd actually do

  1. Overseeing the timely and accurate preparation of monthly, quarterly and annual indirect tax compliance obligations in the US, Canada and Latin America.
  2. Delivering global accounting and reporting of indirect taxes for financial statement purposes, including reconciling and supporting any provision balances.
  3. Assessing and mitigating indirect tax risks, providing recommendations for improvement and optimisation through the use of technology and automation to enhance efficiency and accuracy.
  4. Driving collaboration across departments to enhance cross-functional understanding of indirect tax.
  5. Diving into complex indirect tax technical matters to develop and implement solutions for critical business needs, drafting position papers and being a key point of contact for indirect tax matters within your scope of responsibility.

Skills

Required

  • Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills
  • ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams
  • An eye for detail
  • excellent analytical, problem-solving and organisational skills
  • Proven experience in US sales and use tax compliance
  • technical advisory (including digital services tax)
  • driving strategies from MVP to high fidelity solutions
  • The ability to work independently to develop and drive projects and compliance to completion
  • Proficiency in financial softwares and systems

Nice to have

  • Experience with Canadian and LATAM indirect taxes
  • experience with Netsuite and Fonoa

What the JD emphasized

  • strong background in indirect tax compliance
  • accounting for indirect taxes
  • preparing commercially focused indirect tax advice
  • aptitude for project management
  • utilising technology and automation
  • experience in both private and public companies
  • hands-on
  • overseeing the day-to-day indirect tax operations
  • ensuring compliance, transparency and accuracy
  • support the scale and complexity of a rapidly-expanding company
  • US sales and use tax compliance
  • technical advisory
  • driving strategies from MVP to high fidelity solutions
  • work independently
  • develop and drive projects and compliance to completion
  • fast-paced environment
  • Implemented AI into your day-to-day ways of working
  • thinking about new ways that AI can amplify your impact