Emerging Travel Group (or ETG) is a travel tech company, globally known for the brands RateHawk, ZenHotels and RoundTrip, spanning over 220 markets worldwide. We are well recognized and trusted across Europe, UK, Latin America and now are heading towards hitting the top of the North American market.
Our mission is to create, distribute, and operate the most convenient travel products. We constantly innovate and break the rules of the highly complex travel industry to make travel more widely available for individuals, more rewarding for professionals, and simpler for everyone.
We are growing rapidly and right now we are looking for a Head of Tax to join our Financial Department.
Job Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor a team of senior tax professionals, fostering a collaborative and high-performance work environment.
- Develop and implement global tax strategies that align with the company’s financial objectives and comply with international tax laws and regulations.
- Ensure compliance with tax laws and regulations in all jurisdictions where the company operates, including the US and European market.
- Manage relationships with tax authorities and external advisors.
- Monitor changes in tax legislation and assess their impact on the company’s operations.
- Drive continuous improvement in tax processes and systems to enhance efficiency and accuracy.
Key Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in a related field, postgraduate or equivalent is nice to have.
- CPA, direct and proven experience in the US market.
- Leadership and background in finance with significant tax compliance and advisory experience for global/multinational companies. Coming from the travel industry is a big plus.
- Deep international knowledge of tax legislation and accounting principles, especially in the US, Europe, and UK. Demonstrates a comprehensive understanding of tax laws and accounting standards in the key regions.
- Results-driven with a track record of achieving strategic goals and improving business outcomes.
- Skilled in explaining complicated tax issues clearly to those without a tax background (non-tax professionals).
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex financial data, and tax rules/laws and regulations.
- Develop and implement creative solutions to challenges.
- Work independently with a high level of accountability.
- Advanced or Fluent in English (both written and spoken), ensuring effective communication with international colleagues.
- Preferably located in Europe.
- Freedom to work with the innovative product the way you want to.
- Competitive salary with bonus.
- An ambitious and supportive team who love what they do, appreciate each other, and grow together.
- Flexible schedules and opportunity to work remotely.
- Opportunities for self-development (incl. selective coverage of 50% of tuition fees).
- Internal training programs.
- Full coverage of business trip expenses (if your role requires it).
- Mental Health Day off.
- Discounts on hotels and other services.
Top Skills
What We Do
RateHawk.com is an innovative B2B online booking engine featuring hotels, air tickets, transfers, and car hire. It is designed to be the ultimate day to day booking tool for travel professionals.
We scan the globe for the best accommodation providers, hand-pick the strongest ones and pass on the best offers in the B2B hotel booking market. The rates and availability are taken from more than 180 global wholesalers, consolidators, OTAs and DMCs all brought together into one booking tool. In addition to these, we have over 67 000 properties contracted directly. This allows us to provide our clients located in over 190 source markets with more than 2 000 000 properties all over the world.
Combining innovative technologies and extensive professional experience, RateHawk provides travel industry players with the world’s most relevant, responsive and user-friendly hotel booking backend technology.
Customers are on the pedestal of our world — everything is built around their needs. All our decisions and considerations, whether commercial, technological or operational, should be driven by utmost care for our customers and agents.
We have teams specialising in supporting and developing our product, providing great customer service and developing our partner networks. We share common values and are hugely results driven. Our shareholder mentality, collaborative culture and worldwide presence constantly create new opportunities for our team of employees to continually learn and grow in their day to day work.
Our goal is to ensure that our customers and our partners are always offered the best prices for any type of accommodation and air tickets in any geography.
