Head of Tax
ARQ is a financial services platform that lets users in Latin America hold global currencies, make cross-border payments, invest in international markets, and spend worldwide with a card.
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About ARQ ( Prev DolarApp )
ARQ serves travelers, investors, and professionals across Latin America who need access to global currencies and financial markets. Users can hold digital dollars and euros, receive and send international payments via dedicated US and European account details, invest in US stocks and ETFs, and spend globally with a card at market conversion rates. The platform is available across Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, and Brazil.
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About the Role
You will architect international tax frameworks and lead global tax strategy, governance, compliance, and reporting. You will oversee corporate and indirect tax obligations, transfer pricing, tax provisions, fintech-specific obligations, and tax-efficient cross-border operations. You will work with Product and Engineering on automated tax logic and lead internal tax staff and external advisors.
Requirements
- Big 4 tax advisory experience focused on financial entities and in-house leadership at a scale fintech or neobank
- Knowledge of Latin American tax structures, regulations, and double-taxation treaties
- Experience with split-payment mechanics, cross-border value flows, and digital transaction withholdings
- Ability to translate legal tax requirements into technical logic for engineering execution
- Experience structuring cross-border tax strategies for high-growth technology firms approaching public transitions
Responsibilities
- Define and own global tax strategy and governance
- Report tax matters, exposures, and planning opportunities to executive stakeholders
- Monitor tax legislation and regulatory changes across operating jurisdictions
- Oversee corporate tax filings, payments, compliance calendars, withholding obligations, and tax refunds
- Maintain entity tax registrations, residency statuses, and filing obligations
- Design and maintain transfer pricing policies and documentation
- Manage tax residency, permanent-establishment, treaty, withholding, and cross-border financing matters
- Oversee VAT, GST, and other indirect-tax compliance
- Ensure e-invoicing and digital reporting compliance
- Own tax provisions and disclosures under IFRS, US GAAP, and local GAAPs
- Manage tax balances, audit queries, tax forecasts, and effective tax rate
- Ensure compliance with financial-account information reporting and customer-transaction tax obligations
- Build and lead the tax team and manage external tax advisors
- Train Finance, Product, Sales, and Legal teams on tax matters
Benefits
- Sign-on stock options bonus
- Discretionary performance bonus in stock options
- Paid annual leave
- Private health insurance
- Latest technology to work with