Senior Director of Global Tax (Fintech)

Location: London or Cardiff offices, or distributed working within the UK with some travel to the London office.

Company

hirify.global is a UK digital bank offering personal and business accounts, savings, investments, pensions, credit cards, and other financial products.

What you will do

• Lead the Global Tax team of 10+ people and report to the Group Financial Controller, partnering with the MBL Chief Financial Officer and wider Executive team.
• Define global tax strategy, tax risk appetite, and reporting for the Audit and Risk Committee across the UK, Europe, and future markets.
• Advise on international expansion, market-entry structures, permanent establishment risks, local compliance, group reorganisations, mobility proposals, and systems implementations.
• Own Direct Tax, Indirect Tax, Employment Tax, Transfer Pricing, and Operational Customer Taxes across all locations.
• Manage relationships with HMRC and international tax authorities, including audits and Senior Accounting Officer compliance.
• Partner with product, engineering, commercial, and treasury teams on tax treatment for new products and design an AI-, workflow-, and automation-enabled tax operating model.

Requirements

• Qualified tax professional or accountant with CTA, ACA, ACCA, ADIT, or an international equivalent.
• Experience leading an in-house tax team at scale, ideally in banking, fintech, or a regulated multinational.
• Experience with cross-border tax issues, international structuring, and transfer pricing.
• Understanding of operational and customer taxes in financial services, including FATCA/CRS, withholding taxes, and interest reporting.
• Strong people leadership, coaching, and team-development experience.
• Ability to explain complex tax positions to product leads, commercial teams, auditors, and other non-tax stakeholders.
• Comfort working with ambiguity and making decisions without a standard blueprint.
• Interest in modern technology, data, and AI, including automating workflows, reducing human error, and modernising routine tax tasks.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible working hours with trust to work enough hours to perform the role effectively.
• Home-working setup with a company MacBook and additional support for fully remote workers.
• £1,000 annual learning budget for books, training courses, and conferences.
• Performance-linked incentive awards and additional employee benefits.
• Inclusive workplace focused on diversity, development, and helping people do the best work of their lives.

Hiring process

• Recruiter phone call lasting 30 minutes.
• 45-minute initial interview with the Hiring Manager.
• Four 45-minute role-specific, technical, leadership, and behavioural interviews; the average process takes 4–5 weeks.