Global Head of Tax

A career at Booksy means you’re part of a global team focused on helping people around the world feel great about themselves, every day. From empowering entrepreneurs to build successful businesses, to supporting their customers to arrange “me time” moments, we’re in the business of helping people thrive and feel fantastic.

Working in a rapidly growing and evolving company comes with its own set of opportunities and challenges. If you prefer a stable environment with fully established processes and structures, we want to be honest, you won’t always find that here. However, if you’re a driven self-starter who enjoys building structure, taking ownership, and partnering with the business in a fast-growing, global scale-up, then you’ll likely thrive at Booksy.

The Global Head of Tax is a senior leadership role responsible for the overall ownership, strategy, and execution of the company’s global tax function. This leader will set the global tax vision, serve as the primary tax advisor to executive leadership, and ensure that tax strategy supports business growth while maintaining strong compliance and risk management across all jurisdictions.

This role is ideal for a leader who thrives in complex, international environments and is comfortable balancing strategic leadership with hands-on execution as the tax function continues to scale.

Key Responsibilities

Global Strategy & Executive Partnership

• Own and drive the global tax strategy, ensuring alignment with business objectives, growth plans, and evolving regulatory requirements.
• Act as the company’s primary tax advisor to executive leadership, including the CFO and senior finance leaders, on complex and high-impact tax matters.
• Partner with Finance, Legal, M&A, and business leaders to ensure tax considerations are embedded in strategic initiatives, new market entry, and product expansion.

Risk Management & Compliance Oversight

• Own the company’s global tax risk framework, identifying, assessing, and mitigating tax risks across all jurisdictions.
• Ensure strong global compliance processes for corporate income tax, indirect taxes, withholding taxes, and transfer pricing, supported by effective controls and governance.
• Oversee audits, inquiries, and negotiations with tax authorities globally, serving as the senior escalation point when needed.

International Tax & Complex Transactions

• Lead complex international tax initiatives, including:
• Transfer pricing strategy and documentation
• Global structuring and restructuring
• Mergers, acquisitions, and integrations
• Expansion into new markets and new revenue models
• Provide leadership on cross-border tax planning while maintaining an appropriate and transparent risk posture for the company.

Team Leadership & Function Scaling

• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing global tax organization, including internal team members and external advisors.
• Design the long-term operating model for the tax function, determining the right balance of in-house expertise, shared services, and external providers.
• Foster a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and strong business partnership.

Process, Systems & Continuous Improvement

• Drive process standardization, documentation, and automation to improve efficiency, scalability, and audit readiness.
• Partner with Accounting and Finance Systems teams to ensure tax requirements are embedded in upstream processes and financial systems.
• Own tax-related data strategy to improve reporting, forecasting, and risk visibility.

Governance & Financial Management

• Own the global tax budget and resource planning for the function.
• Establish governance frameworks, policies, and escalation protocols related to tax matters.
• Monitor global legislative and regulatory developments, proactively assessing business impact and recommending actions.
  

Requirements

• Based in the UK.
• Advanced degree in Law, Accounting, Finance, Economics, or a related field, and/or relevant professional qualification (e.g., CPA, CTA, or equivalent).
• Extensive progressive experience in tax, including significant leadership responsibility over global tax operations and strategy.
• Deep expertise in US federal, state, and local taxation, combined with strong knowledge of international tax regulations and OECD frameworks.
• Demonstrated success in developing and executing global tax strategies that support business growth while managing risk.
• Significant experience leading complex international tax projects, transactions, and audits.
• Proven people leader with experience building, mentoring, and scaling global teams.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to translate tax strategy into commercial outcomes.
• Excellent judgment and decision-making skills in complex, high-impact situations.
• Exceptional communication and influencing skills with executive-level stakeholders.
• Fluent in English (B2 level or higher); additional language skills are a plus.
• Experience operating in international, matrixed, and fast-growing organizations.
  
  

Benefits

Benefits

• This is a fully remote position within the UK, we take pride in being a globally distributed team
• A holiday allowance of 25 days + public holidays + your birthday day off
• Vitality Private Medical Cover (including dental and optical) with self-funded top up options for dependents
• Access to Worksmile wellbeing app
• Enhanced salary sacrifice pension scheme. Employee contributes 5% and Booksy matches at 5 %
• Life assurance (4 x your annual salary)
• Lifestyle discounts available through Vitality Program

A bit about Booksy:

A career at Booksy means you’re part of a global team focused on helping people around the world feel great about themselves, every day. From empowering entrepreneurs to build successful businesses, to supporting their customers to arrange 'me time' moments, we’re in the business of helping people thrive and feel fantastic.  

Working in a rapidly growing and evolving company comes with its own set of opportunities and challenges. If you prefer a stable environment, with clear processes and structures then, we've got to be honest, you won't always find that here. However, if you're a driven self-starter, with initiative and the motivation to grow your career in an environment that's rapidly changing as we scale-up globally, then the chances are that you'll love it at Booksy.

Our diversity and inclusion commitment:

We work in a highly creative and diverse industry so it goes without saying that we strive to create an inclusive environment for all. We welcome people from all backgrounds and are committed to fair consideration in our hiring process. If you have any accessibility needs or require reasonable adjustments during the interview process, please contact us at [email protected], so we can best support you.

How AI helps us find great people

Think of our AI tool as a really smart assistant for our recruitment team. Its job? To help us move faster, stay consistent, and make sure no great candidates are overlooked.Every application goes through the same AI review to help us spot skills that match the role - but don’t worry, AI never makes the decisions. Real people do. Our recruiters and hiring managers handle every final call. And we regularly review how the tool is used to keep things fair, ethical, and compliant with data protection laws. Curious about how it works? You can always ask how AI was used in your application - it won’t affect your chances in any way. If you have questions, just drop us a note - we’re happy to explain more.