Director of Tax and International Finance

About This Role

This role involves leading tax and international finance functions, ensuring high-quality delivery, strengthening governance and controls across various jurisdictions, and ensuring compliance with tax and statutory obligations. The Director will also be responsible for continuity of the current operating model while enhancing risk management, accountability, and the use of data and systems. A key priority is to lead continuous transformation across Tax and International Finance, working with stakeholders to leverage technology and drive change.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for Tax across the business, from strategy to delivery
• Develop and deliver the Tax strategy, governance, and risk management framework, ensuring Tax implications are considered in all jurisdictions
• Manage relationships with Tax authorities globally, working in partnership with regional finance managers, including audit management
• Manage topics such as new country entry, permanent establishment risk, funding strategies, VAT optimization, Tax reporting, transfer pricing, and other consequences of international operations
• Oversee the preparation, review, and timely submission of key tax filings and tax accounting outputs, with clear accountability between Tax and Financial Control
• Lead the international finance team, providing strategic direction, technical support, and a strong connection to the wider finance function
• Own the control environment and risk oversight for regional finance activity across MENACA, APAC, the Americas, and Africa, ensuring clear standards and expectations are set and met
• Strengthen central oversight of regional finance activity, reducing key-person dependency and improving resilience, documentation, and continuity of knowledge
• Ensure alignment across Tax, statutory reporting, transfer pricing, treasury-related processes, and group audit requirements
• Lead the travel team to ensure effective, service-orientated, and well-controlled operations, including policy compliance, supplier management, duty-of-care support, and reporting
• Work with relevant stakeholders to ensure travel policy and processes remain proportionate, practical, and aligned with the global operating model
• Improve spend visibility, policy compliance, exception management, and manage the performance of travel suppliers and the travel management company
• Identify opportunities to simplify processes, reduce manual intervention, improve workflows, and strengthen the quality, consistency, and accessibility of Tax and finance data
• Develop clear management information and risk reporting that enables senior stakeholders to understand material tax, international finance, and travel risks, trends, and priorities
• Build capable, engaged teams with clear objectives, accountability, development plans, and succession resilience