International Tax Accountant, Twilio
Cloud communications software
Job no longer available
Cloud communications software
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To enable innovators across every industry - from emerging leaders to the world’s largest organisations - to reinvent how companies engage with their customers.
Role
Who you are
- You are someone who thrives in a fast- paced environment and can easily shift between the details and the “big picture”
- You love data and reconciliations with strong Excel and data analysis skills
- Ideally, you have 1-3 years of experience working on International Tax matters within a multinational environment
- Third level qualification in Tax or Accounting, or relevant experience
Desirable
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to influence and build effective working relationships with all levels of the organization
- A desire to maintain and enhance our unique culture and an ongoing desire to strive for continuous improvement by adding your talents to Twilio is highly desired
What the job involves
- This position is needed to work as part of a global specialist International Tax Team
- You will spend your time collecting, analyzing, interpreting and reporting on information for tax purposes, assisting with the completion of tax returns and transfer pricing submissions for international entities
- You will have the opportunity to use and develop your skills in a variety of tax applications, mainly related to financial reporting, compliance and tax optimisation work
- You will add value through your ability to understand and communicate to others, including non-specialists, about tax matters and their impact on the business, and balancing conflicting demands and working to tight deadlines
- Work as part of the International Tax team gathering, validating and compiling quantitative and qualitative tax information, from multiple internal and/or external sources, to ensure accuracy and completeness
- Carrying out financial and tax analysis and compiling reports for tax purposes including:
- Returns for Corporation Tax and Transfer Pricing filings
- Tax provisions for quarterly and annual US GAAP filings and Statutory Reporting and Accounts
- Internal forecasts and tax reviews
- Tax changes and their impact on the business
- Communicating and liaising with finance and business colleagues as necessary to check accuracy, give or obtain further information and/or resolve queries
- Ensuring tax information and interpretation is presented clearly, unambiguously and in a readily comprehensible and appropriate format for the audience and business purpose
- Contributing to robust tax processes, ensuring stringent financial control as well as compliance with Twilio policies and other regulatory requirements
- Contributing to a wide variety of projects and initiatives to enable business objectives to be met in a tax efficient way
Our take
Traditionally, it has been difficult for businesses to establish communications systems in-house. Twilio was founded from frustration with this expensive and cumbersome process, providing easy-to-use APIs to let businesses send and receive telephone and text communications.
From these beginnings, the company has expanded through acquisitions and product development to provide a suite of services around market data and customer engagement. It is now a market leader in this space, and has developed a customer base of more than 150,000 businesses including enterprise brands such as Deliveroo, Duolingo and Toyota.
With that said, aggressive expansion and lack of maturity in some of its products has impacted the company's efficiency, and like many of its peers it has been forced to restructure heavily to remain competitive. Coming out of this restructuring, the company will focus on profitability, streamlining decision making and R&D to put itself in good stead for future success.
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Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jul 2015
$130m
SERIES E
Jun 2013
$70m
SERIES D
Total funding: $250.7m
Company benefits
- Generous annual time off in all countries
- Comprehensive health programs
- Programs to help our employees plan for their retirement needs
- Generous maternity, paternity, and adoption leaves, as well as family medical care leave
- Build and present a Twilio app to earn your Twilio track jacket and receive $30 per month for e-books for continued learning and education
- Variety of snacks, drinks, and catered meals in each of our locations
- Work from home opportunities
Company values
- We are Builders: We love hard problems and believe in the indomitable power of people's ability to create a better world through ingenuity and resourcefulness. We reject the “can’t be done” and believe bold ideas and fearless iteration can resolve the most challenging problems for our customers and the world they operate in
- We are Owners: We take accountability and see things through. We take the long view, sweat the details, and think about how our work makes Twilio better every day. We recognize that we and others do our best work when we feel both empowered and accountable for outcomes
- We are Curious: We see ourselves as works in progress. We know that we don’t have all the answers, humbly seek the truth, and strive to get better every day. As individuals, as a company, and in our products, we seek continual progress over perfection and acknowledge shortcomings as a matter of fact. Progress comes not from avoiding mistakes or hard truths, but in learning from them
- We are Positrons: A positron is a positively charged electron. We are genuinely excited to serve and help others. We believe that positive energy is contagious and caring is critical. We seek to be bright spots for the people around us in every interaction, and we stand up and work for what we believe is good and right for our customers, our company, our communities, and the world at large
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Khozema Shipchandler
(CEO, not founder)Has been at the company since 2018, beginning as CFO then working as COO, President of Communications then CEO. Prior to this, spent 20 years at GE, ultimately as CCO of GE Digital.
People progressing
Joined as a Business Development Representative and promoted to Team Lead Account Representative after 2 years. After four more promotions, Gilmore now works as Senior Manager of Strategic Accounts.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Twilio
- Building diverse teams: We thrive when we welcome a diversity of identities, experiences, and perspectives to the team. We know that building diverse teams requires us to dismantle barriers and address the opportunity gap, and we are driving programs to do just that.
- Creating equitable experiences: Building more diverse teams is only part of the equation. It is equally important that we promote equity within our workplace as well
- Cultivating inclusive environments: Every team member plays a role in fostering an environment that is psychologically safe and inclusive. This is a significant responsibility for our managers and leaders, who hold influence and power. Therefore, we are driving educational and engagement opportunities to activate inclusive leadership behaviors throughout the organization
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