Indirect Tax Manager

About Mixpanel

Mixpanel is an event analytics platform for builders who need answers from their data at their fingertips—no SQL required. When everyone in the organization can see and learn from the impact of their work on product, marketing, and company revenue metrics, they are poised to make better decisions.

Over 9,000 paid customers, including companies like Netflix, Pinterest, Sweetgreen, and Samsara, use Mixpanel to understand their customers and measure progress. Our commitment is to provide the most comprehensive and reliable analytics platform accessible and trusted by all.

Locations Considered: San Francisco Bay Area, San Diego, Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago, Denver, or Austin.

About the Team

The Operational Finance Team is responsible for a variety of tasks that are instrumental in keeping the business running on a day-to-day basis. There are six teams within the Operational Finance Function each serve a specific purpose to the company: (1) Accounting and Accounts Payable - Accurately records all vendor related transactions and keeps our vendors paid, (2) AR Team - provisions all customers access to Mixpanel and ensure proper revenue recognition and records all customer payments and ensures we get paid on time, (3) Payroll - prepares payrolls for all employees world wide. (4) Deal Desk - facilitates in the contract review and execution of customer contracts and assists the sales team to accelerate the deal cycle. (5) Procurement - oversees and facilitates the source-to-pay process with an objective of efficiency and cost savings.

About the Role

Mixpanel is looking for someone to be the first tax hire, with the primary focus being indirect tax, with a heavy focus on international indirect tax. They should have strong experience with a variety of indirect and International tax operations and can drive process improvements. This person should work well independently, as well as have the ability to work well with stakeholders and communicate the benefits of tax initiatives. In this role, strong accounting, analytical, and research skills will be required, along with excellent written and oral communication skills. We are looking for an Indirect Tax Manager who will direct and manage multiple operations related to taxes while also participating in the preparation of recurring obligations. This role will manage specific indirect tax-related functions in addition to compliance-related activities and plan, manage, and develop overall aspects of the company's tax process. This role will report to the Corporate Controller.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate and coordinate with outside tax consultants the preparation, review, and submission of all required company tax filings, including: Sales Tax, 1099, VAT/GST, withholding taxes, and other indirect taxes.
• Manage and facilitate indirect tax-related audits and projects: preparing responses, creating schedules, reviewing memos, etc.
• Develop and implement strategic tax planning for all necessary indirect and international taxes.
• Plan for and develop the overall return calendar and coordinate timing and inputs with the tax team.
• Maintain and prepare all general ledger accounts and oversee the preparation and recording of all required tax-related filings, journal entries, and reconciliations (includes Corporate Taxes).
• Maintain effective control procedures over all aspects of the tax process.
• Find and implement opportunities for process improvement in company tax procedures.
• Monitor legislative and regulatory tax law developments, communicate the effects of these developments to management and the tax team, and create strategies to capitalize on changes to taxation legislation.

We're Looking For Someone Who Has

• Extensive corporate tax knowledge, familiar with International Taxes, local and indirect taxes (both US and internationally)
• Strong knowledge of tax code, compliance, and procedures for corporations.
• Familiarity with Indirect taxes - U.S. and internationally.
• Strong communication, organizational and interpersonal skills.
• The Tax Manager must be proficient with the following software/tools: ◦ Strong skills and experience with Word, Excel.
• Preferred candidates have a current CPA license and a master’s degree in an accounting/tax discipline.
• We are looking for a candidate with 5+ years of experience in indirect tax manager or public accountant role.

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Benefits and Perks

• Comprehensive Medical, Vision, and Dental Care
• Mental Wellness Benefit
• Generous Vacation Policy & Additional Company Holidays
• Enhanced Parental Leave
• Volunteer Time Off
• Additional US Benefits: Pre-Tax Benefits including 401(K), Wellness Benefit, Holiday Break

*please note that benefits and perks for contract positions will vary*

Culture Values

• Make Bold Bets: We choose courageous action over comfortable progress.
• Innovate with Insight: We tackle decisions with rigor and judgment - combining data, experience and collective wisdom to drive powerful outcomes.
• One Team: We collaborate across boundaries to achieve far greater impact than any of us could accomplish alone.
• Candor with Connection: We build meaningful relationships that enable honest feedback and direct conversations.
• Champion the Customer: We seek to deeply understand our customers’ needs, ensuring their success is our north star.
• Powerful Simplicity: We find elegant solutions to complex problems, making sophisticated things accessible.

Why choose Mixpanel?

We’re a leader in analytics with over 9,000 customers and $277M raised from prominent investors: like Andreessen-Horowitz, Sequoia, YC, and, most recently, Bain Capital. Mixpanel’s pioneering event-based data analytics platform offers a powerful yet simple solution for companies to understand user behaviors and easily track overarching company success metrics. Our accomplished teams continuously facilitate our expansion by tackling the ever-evolving challenges tied to scaling, reliability, design, and service. Choosing to work at Mixpanel means you’ll be helping the world’s most innovative companies learn from their data so they can make better decisions.

Mixpanel is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity. At Mixpanel, we are focused on things that really matter—our people, our customers, our partners—out of a recognition that those relationships are the most valuable assets we have. We actively encourage women, people with disabilities, veterans, underrepresented minorities, and LGBTQ+ people to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance or other similar laws that may be applicable, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. We’ve immersed ourselves in our Culture and Values as our guiding principles for the impact we want to have and the future we are building.