What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Tax Manager, North America position at Arrive?
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As Arrive, we guide customers and communities towards brighter futures and more livable cities, it isn’t a challenge just anyone could take on. Luckily, we have something to help us make it happen. Our people and our values. We Arrive Curious, Focused and Together. Just as our entire brand is inspired by the North Star, the shining light leading travelers to their destinations since time began, our values guide us. They help us be at our best. For our customers. For the cities and communities we serve. For ourselves. As a global team, we are transforming urban mobility. Let’s grow better, together.
The Role
As the North America (NA) Senior Tax Manager, you will join the global Group Tax function as the regional lead and a vital business partner for our North American operations. In this senior role, you will hold regional ownership over all tax matters, driving tax optimization, ensuring robust tax risk management, and embedding strong tax governance aligned with our overarching Group Tax Strategy. Reporting directly to the UK-based Head of Group Tax, you will collaborate extensively with key stakeholders across Finance, Legal, Treasury, and Operations, as well as external advisors. This role offers an exceptional opportunity to make a tangible impact by shaping the regional tax landscape, leading system implementations, and ensuring our scalable growth across a dynamic global mobility platform.
Tax Optimization
Arrive, including brands like EasyPark, Flowbird, RingGo, ParkMobile and Parkopedia, is a leading global mobility platform. Present in over 90 countries and 20,000 cities, the company helps people and decision-makers make smarter decisions about urban mobility and ease the experience of travel worldwide. Arrive delivers a unique combination of the core ingredients to make cities more livable: from smart payments and optimized car parks to data-driven traffic reduction and support for reinvestment in public transport and green space. It’s about more than function, it’s about saving time and simplifying the experience of travel for everyone. Travel is more than a journey, it’s how you Arrive.
As Arrive, we guide customers and communities towards brighter futures and more livable cities, it isn’t a challenge just anyone could take on. Luckily, we have something to help us make it happen. Our people and our values. We Arrive Curious, Focused and Together. Just as our entire brand is inspired by the North Star, the shining light leading travelers to their destinations since time began, our values guide us. They help us be at our best. For our customers. For the cities and communities we serve. For ourselves. As a global team, we are transforming urban mobility. Let’s grow better, together.
The Role
As the North America (NA) Senior Tax Manager, you will join the global Group Tax function as the regional lead and a vital business partner for our North American operations. In this senior role, you will hold regional ownership over all tax matters, driving tax optimization, ensuring robust tax risk management, and embedding strong tax governance aligned with our overarching Group Tax Strategy. Reporting directly to the UK-based Head of Group Tax, you will collaborate extensively with key stakeholders across Finance, Legal, Treasury, and Operations, as well as external advisors. This role offers an exceptional opportunity to make a tangible impact by shaping the regional tax landscape, leading system implementations, and ensuring our scalable growth across a dynamic global mobility platform.
Tax Optimization
- Drive effective tax rate (ETR) optimization for North America in line with the Group’s Tax Strategy and risk appetite.
- Provide proactive tax input into business model changes, new products, and commercial initiatives to ensure tax-efficient outcomes.
- Lead tax analysis and structuring related to strategic projects, geographical expansion and changes to the operating model.
- Act as tax lead for system implementations and automation initiatives (e.g. sales tax systems), ensuring tax efficiency and scalability.
- Partner with Treasury and Group Tax on matters relating to financing structures, intercompany transactions and cash flows impacting the region.
- Own tax risk management for North America across all taxes, including remediation of historic risks and the identification, assessment and escalation of material go forward tax risks.
- Lead the management of tax audits, inquiries and disputes in the region, coordinating with external advisors and Group Tax as needed.
- Ensure appropriate controls and processes are in place to mitigate risks related to corporate income tax, transfer pricing, indirect tax and employment taxes.
- Monitor and assess tax risks arising from new business models, regulatory changes and geographical expansion.
- Ensure audit and exit readiness, including supporting documentation and consistent tax positions across jurisdictions.
- Own and implement the Group’s Tax Governance Framework in North America, ensuring consistent application of policies and standards.
- Own the end-to-end corporate income tax position for North America, including compliance, provisions and interaction with Group Consolidation with input from external advisers.
- Lead the application of the Group’s Transfer Pricing framework in the region, including documentation and compliance with input from external advisers.
- Ensure effective indirect tax governance, including Sales and Use Tax and Canadian indirect taxes with input from external advisers.
- Act as the regional counterpart to Group Tax leadership, supporting global reporting requirements and governance processes.
- Work closely with Local Accounting and Group Consolidation to ensure clear roles, responsibilities and high-quality tax reporting, supported by the Group Tax function.
Arrive, including brands like EasyPark, Flowbird, RingGo, ParkMobile and Parkopedia, is a leading global mobility platform. Present in over 90 countries and 20,000 cities, the company helps people and decision-makers make smarter decisions about urban mobility and ease the experience of travel worldwide. Arrive delivers a unique combination of the core ingredients to make cities more livable: from smart payments and optimized car parks to data-driven traffic reduction and support for reinvestment in public transport and green space. It’s about more than function, it’s about saving time and simplifying the experience of travel for everyone. Travel is more than a journey, it’s how you Arrive.