About Remote

Remote is solving modern organizations’ biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease. We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. With our core values at heart and future focused work culture, our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, around the world. You can find Remoters working from 6 different continents (Antarctica left to go!) and all of our positions are fully remote.

With Innovation as one of the core values, we have built Automation and AI capabilities into the requirements for every role.

We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform.

If you are energetic, curious, motivated and ambitious, be part of our world. Apply now and define the future of work!

What this job can offer you

• As a Tax Manager – Direct Taxes, you will play a leading role in managing complex direct tax matters across multiple jurisdictions. This role combines deep technical expertise, strategic thinking, and hands-on execution to ensure compliance while driving global tax efficiency. You will work closely with internal stakeholders, external advisors, and business partners to deliver value across corporate tax, compliance, and tax planning initiatives.

What you bring

• Experience: Proven experience in international direct taxation, preferably in a consultancy or multinational corporate environment.

• Technical Knowledge: Strong understanding of global corporate tax rules, cross-border compliance, tax treaties, and EU Directives.

• Leadership Skills: Proven ability to manage multiple projects and lead teams in a fast-paced environment.

• Analytical Skills: Capability to analyze complex data sets and provide actionable insights to senior management.

• Languages: Fluent in English; additional languages are a plus.

• Communication: Strong negotiation, influencing, and stakeholder communication skills across regions and functions.

• Industry Experience: Startup or fintech experience is a plus.

• Remote Work: Prior remote work experience is advantageous but not required.

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Law, Economics, Accounting, or related field; Post-Graduate or Master’s degree in Taxation is a plus.

Key Responsibilities

• Direct Tax Compliance: Oversee global direct tax compliance, ensuring timely and accurate preparation and submission of corporate income tax returns, withholding tax returns, and other direct tax filings across all company entities.

• Collaboration with Advisors: Partner with external tax advisors to support filings, documentation, and reporting obligations in multiple jurisdictions.

• Sustainable Compliance: Ensure ongoing compliance with local tax authorities, mitigating risk and maintaining strong relationships.

• Risk Management: Identify, monitor, and address potential tax risks, proposing actionable solutions.

• Tax Audits & Inspections: Assist in managing audits and inspections, liaising with tax authorities to resolve issues efficiently.

• Tax Strategy & Planning: Provide strategic tax guidance on cross-border transactions, corporate structuring, and tax-efficient planning aligned with business objectives.

• Regulatory Monitoring: Keep up-to-date with changes in global tax laws and proactively adapt processes and strategies.

• Team Leadership: Mentor and guide a team of tax professionals, supporting their development and day-to-day execution.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with finance, legal, HR, and other departments to ensure seamless tax compliance and reporting.

Practicals

• You'll report to: Head of Direct Tax Compliance

• Team: Finance

• Tax

• Location: For this position we welcome everyone to apply, but we will prioritize applications from the Netherlands (Europe also) due to the needed expertise in those locations.

• Start date: As soon as possible

Application process

• Interview with recruiter

• Interview with future manager

• Interview with team members (no managers present)

• Bar Raiser Interview

• Prior employment verification check

Remote's Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. We do not agree to or encourage cheap-labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in-location rates. We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent-hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries.

At first glance our salary bands seem quite wide - here is some context. At Remote we have international operations and a globally distributed workforce. We use geo ranges to consider geographic pay differentials as part of our global compensation strategy to remain competitive in various markets while we hiring globally.

Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location, and our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay for the successful candidate in this role is dependent upon many factors such as location, transferable or job-related skills, work experience, relevant training, business needs, and market demands. The base salary range may be subject to change.

At Remote, we foster internal mobility as a key element of our culture of employee growth and development, supported by a compensation philosophy that guarantees pay equity and fairness. Therefore, all compensation changes associated with an internal move will be reviewed by the Total Rewards & People Enablement team on a case by case basis.

The annual salary range for this full-time position is**$37,350—$94,600 USD**

Benefits

Our full benefits & perks are explained in our handbook at remote.com/r/benefits. As a global company, each country works differently, but some benefits/perks are for all Remoters:

• work from anywhere

• flexible paid time off

• flexible working hours (we are async)

• 16 weeks paid parental leave

• mental health support services

• stock options

• learning budget

• home office budget & IT equipment

• budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces

How you’ll plan your day (and life)

We work async at Remote which means you can plan your schedule around your life (and not around meetings). Read more at remote.com/async.

You will be empowered to take ownership and be proactive. When in doubt you will default to action instead of waiting. Your life-work balance is important and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first, and fit work around your needs.

If that sounds like something you want, apply now!

How to apply

• Please fill out the form below and upload your CV with a PDF format.

• We kindly ask you to submit your application and CV in English, as this is the standardised language we use here at Remote.

• If you don’t have an up to date CV but you are still interested in talking to us, please feel free to add a copy of your LinkedIn profile instead.

Not only do we encourage folks from all ethnic groups, genders, sexuality, age, abilities, disability status and any other under-represented group to apply, but we prioritize a sense of belonging. We have 4 ERGs (Women, Disability, Queer, Minorities in Tech) who meet regularly with the People team. During your interviews and beyond, we ask & encourage anybody who needs an accommodation to request one from their recruiter.

We will ask you to voluntarily tell us your pronouns at interview stage, and you will have the option to answer our anonymous demographic questionnaire when you apply below. As an equal employment opportunity employer it’s important to us that our workforce reflects people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences and this data will help us to stay accountable. We thank you for providing this data, if you chose to.

At Remote, we embrace AI as a valuable tool while prioritizing human creativity and authenticity. We look forward to meeting candidates who balance innovation with genuine expertise and experience. To learn more about Remote's AI guidelines check see here.

*Please note we accept applications on an ongoing basis. *