What are the responsibilities and job description for the Tax Lead, USA position at Taptap Send?
Our Mission
Reduce inequity by helping immigrants move money home, and become the leading cross-border fintech for emerging markets.
The Team
Taptap Send is backed by top VCs (Spark, Canaan, Reid Hoffman, Breyer Capital, etc.), rapidly growing and a great place for those looking for both impact and a fast-paced tech startup environment. Read more about the journey in Reid Hoffman’s words or TechCrunch article
Launched in 2019, Taptap is tapping into a transformative shift in global finance: from banks to phones. While this has affected wealthier countries as well, it has been nothing short of a revolution for the emerging markets where the overwhelming majority of population had been unable to access digital finance previously. Taptap Send allows immigrants to send money home instantly and with no fee*, saving money in the process. With a formal market size of >700B alone, we’ve got a lot more saving to do for our users. Our mission is to reduce inequity by helping immigrants move money home, and become the leading cross-border fintech for emerging markets. And that’s just the beginning...
Spark Capital, Canaan, Reid Hoffman, Breyer Capital (Jim Breyer), Unbound (Shravin Mittal), Wamda (Fadi Ghandour), Firstminute Capital, Slow Ventures (Sam Lessin), Helios Partners (Souleymane Ba), Crossbeam Ventures (Ali Hamed), Nikesh Arora, Samih Toukan, and many other context-specific angels
Role
We’re hiring a US Tax Lead to shape the tax foundations of the business as we grow across markets and products.
You’ll join a growing tax team, working across global structuring, planning, compliance oversight, and launch execution.
The role sits with the Finance Director and includes regular interaction with C-suite leaders, driving discussions on tax risks, structural choices, and long-term planning. As a member of a developing function, you’ll also shape how the team evolves as we scale.
We’re looking for someone who has meaningful experience in these areas already - someone who can provide direction, drive best practice, and steer how tax supports the business.
Key Responsibilities
Experience & Skills
Impact first
Team next
Accept reality
Propose solutions
Win with grit
Be proactively candid, with yourself and others
Love the particular
Own it
Create positive energy
Maybe, even have fun
Taptap Send is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce. All employment decisions are decided on the basis of qualifications, experience and business need. We strongly encourage applications who are members of underrepresented communities to apply.
If you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process, please do not hesitate to let us know. Any information you provide us in this respect will only be used to accommodate your requirements.
Note: we recognize imposter syndrome is real - any candidate that does not perfectly fit every characteristic of this role is still strongly encouraged to apply.
Reduce inequity by helping immigrants move money home, and become the leading cross-border fintech for emerging markets.
The Team
- > Founded by Harvard grads / 3rd-time founders --- also founded Segovia (successful exit) and GiveDirectly (>300M revenue, fastest-growing NGO).
- > Top performers from top and varied organizations (e.g., Bain, Bolt, Google, McKinsey, SafeBoda, Uber, Zipline) --- we like moving fast, and we hire people that do as well.
- > Driven by mission, guided by values (see below) – in deed, not just word.
- > Team as global as the mission, >30 languages from 25 countries (i.e., if you’re interested in learning to make Chicken Moambe, we’re the place).
Taptap Send is backed by top VCs (Spark, Canaan, Reid Hoffman, Breyer Capital, etc.), rapidly growing and a great place for those looking for both impact and a fast-paced tech startup environment. Read more about the journey in Reid Hoffman’s words or TechCrunch article
Launched in 2019, Taptap is tapping into a transformative shift in global finance: from banks to phones. While this has affected wealthier countries as well, it has been nothing short of a revolution for the emerging markets where the overwhelming majority of population had been unable to access digital finance previously. Taptap Send allows immigrants to send money home instantly and with no fee*, saving money in the process. With a formal market size of >700B alone, we’ve got a lot more saving to do for our users. Our mission is to reduce inequity by helping immigrants move money home, and become the leading cross-border fintech for emerging markets. And that’s just the beginning...
- We charge fees for transfers on fixed exchange rate corridors (e.g., XOF, XAF).
Spark Capital, Canaan, Reid Hoffman, Breyer Capital (Jim Breyer), Unbound (Shravin Mittal), Wamda (Fadi Ghandour), Firstminute Capital, Slow Ventures (Sam Lessin), Helios Partners (Souleymane Ba), Crossbeam Ventures (Ali Hamed), Nikesh Arora, Samih Toukan, and many other context-specific angels
Role
We’re hiring a US Tax Lead to shape the tax foundations of the business as we grow across markets and products.
You’ll join a growing tax team, working across global structuring, planning, compliance oversight, and launch execution.
The role sits with the Finance Director and includes regular interaction with C-suite leaders, driving discussions on tax risks, structural choices, and long-term planning. As a member of a developing function, you’ll also shape how the team evolves as we scale.
We’re looking for someone who has meaningful experience in these areas already - someone who can provide direction, drive best practice, and steer how tax supports the business.
Key Responsibilities
- US Tax Ownership
- Identify opportunities for US tax efficiency, including incentives, credits, elections, and planning levers.
- Manage US tax outsourcing partners, ensuring high-quality delivery, clear scopes, and effective coordination with internal teams.
- Own end-to-end US tax compliance, including oversight of the consolidated US return and all US-specific tax obligations.
- Produce forward-looking assessments of the US tax position, highlighting emerging risks and expected changes.
- Group Structure & Tax Planning
- Drive the effectiveness of the group’s global tax structure - assessing overall tax efficiency, identifying unnecessary tax leakage and risks, and recommending structural or operational improvements.
- Lead global tax planning initiatives, including international structuring, cross-border tax impacts, transfer pricing considerations, and profit repatriation.
- Stay ahead of emerging global tax changes (US and international) and translate these into practical implications, risk assessments, and recommended actions.
- Geographical Expansion & Product Launches
- Provide early, practical tax guidance for new market launches - shaping structuring decisions and ensuring tax requirements are incorporated effectively.
- Work closely with Control and market teams through launch execution to ensure tax processes are compliant, scalable, and aligned with the overall group tax strategy.
- Assess tax implications of new products, defining compliance obligations, business impact, and any required structural or operational changes.
Experience & Skills
- Experience in a US-headquartered global business or in advising similar multinational groups, with a strong grounding in tax strategy and international planning.
- Proven depth in international tax, including cross-border structuring, transfer pricing, and the practical design of tax-efficient entity and profit flows.
- A track record of supporting new market or product launches, applying sound judgment to ambiguous situations and making clear, practical recommendations.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to break down complex tax issues and frame them clearly for non-specialists before moving into detail.
- Ownership mindset - moves things forward without heavy oversight.
- Ability to translate tax risks, trade-offs, and decisions into clear, actionable guidance for non‑tax stakeholders.
- Comfortable making judgment calls under uncertainty.
Impact first
Team next
Accept reality
Propose solutions
Win with grit
Be proactively candid, with yourself and others
Love the particular
Own it
Create positive energy
Maybe, even have fun
Taptap Send is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce. All employment decisions are decided on the basis of qualifications, experience and business need. We strongly encourage applications who are members of underrepresented communities to apply.
If you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process, please do not hesitate to let us know. Any information you provide us in this respect will only be used to accommodate your requirements.
Note: we recognize imposter syndrome is real - any candidate that does not perfectly fit every characteristic of this role is still strongly encouraged to apply.