About this role.
This International Tax Manager role supports Remote’s Finance team with personal income tax and social-security advisory work across active countries. The position assesses local tax exposure, tax-efficient salary and benefit structures, equity-related payments, and recurring client tax questions. It requires experience in international taxation, financial operations, large data sets, and stakeholder negotiation within a fast-paced global organization. The role operates asynchronously and independently, with a strong emphasis on documentation, automation, AI fluency, and cross-functional work with payroll. Although applications are welcomed broadly, the company prioritizes applicants from NORAM.
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Core skills
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Sample interview questions
I would begin by confirming the worker’s employment arrangement, residency, work location, compensation components, and relevant employer presence. I would then review local income-tax withholding, social-security, reporting, and treaty considerations, document the risk assessment, and align on implementation steps with payroll and legal stakeholders.
I would first identify the business decision that needs to be made, then explain the issue in plain language using a concise summary of the risk, available options, and recommended action. I would avoid unnecessary technical jargon while providing supporting detail and documentation for stakeholders who need it.
I would consider local income-tax treatment, employer and employee social-security costs, payroll withholding obligations, benefit taxation, equity treatment, reporting requirements, and employee experience. I would also assess operational feasibility so that recommendations can be implemented consistently and compliantly through payroll.
I triage requests based on compliance risk, employee impact, deadlines, and business urgency. I define the required facts and owners early, maintain a documented tracker, communicate expected turnaround times, and use standardized resources for recurring questions while escalating novel or high-risk issues appropriately.
I would use structured data to identify recurring questions, jurisdictional patterns, missing documentation, and process bottlenecks. From there, I would build reusable templates, decision trees, or automated reporting workflows, validate outputs with subject-matter review, and monitor results to ensure the process remains accurate as regulations change.
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!
The position
This is an exciting time to join Remote and make a personal difference in the global employment space as a International Tax Manager, joining our Finance team!
Requirements
- Collections professional with solid experience and proven performance, mainly consultancy environment
- Prior experience with international taxation and financial operations
- Experience with a global law firm, Fintech or start up company.
- Negotiation and influencing skills.
- Data driven communicator.
- Professional experience working with large data sets.
- Ability to handle multiple projects in a fast paced, hyper growth environment.
- It’s not required to have experience working remotely, but is considered a plus.
- Writes and speaks fluent English
- Demonstrates strong automation and AI capabilities and AI fluency.
Key responsibilities
- Assist with advisory projects on personal income tax and social security questions for all active countries
- Determine and assess best equity options and payments
- Moving forward work with the payroll department at determining the fund flow that will allow the tax efficiency regarding the salary packages and benefits in the different countries
- Assess on local tax exposures in the different countries upon the ongoing (personal income tax and social security perspective)
- Help the team with any tax question arising from clients
- Build documentation resources to address recurring and potential customer questions around tax
Practicals
- You’ll report to: Manager, Tax
- Direct reports: None
- Team: Personal Income Tax
- Location: For this position we welcome everyone to apply, but we will prioritise applications from the following locations as we encourage our teams to diversify; NORAM
- 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
$84,100—$105,100 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
- budget towards co-working spaces, learning and wellness (including gym memberships)
- mental health support services
- stock options
- home office budget & IT equipment
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.
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