Indirect Tax Tech Transformation Lead
Fonoa
Full-time
On-site
Company Description
At Fonoa, we are transforming how digital-first companies stay tax compliant. We provide simple and modular API solutions that easily integrate into any existing workflow. Through our technology-first approach, we reduce manual processes, increase compliance and reduce the cost of operations when transacting and scaling internationally.
We are solving one of the largest yet unsolved problems in global e-commerce. Our tax automation software enables companies such as Uber, Zoom & Booking.com, to expand their international offerings more quickly and stay tax compliant.
Role Description
As an Indirect Tax Tech Transformation Lead at Fonoa, your primary responsibility will be to ensure that customers fully leverage Fonoa’s solutions to enhance their indirect tax strategies.
This involves managing a diverse portfolio of accounts and collaborating closely with both customers and internal stakeholders to ensure product adoption, value realisation, and successful renewals and expansion.
In this position, you will play a crucial role in supporting joint sales initiatives with Fonoa and our partners, focusing on customer onboarding, implementation project management, and the continuous adoption of Fonoa’s indirect tax solutions.
An essential aspect of your role will be to offer expert advice on Fonoa’s platform capabilities, with a deep understanding of where and how Fonoa’s solutions can be integrated within customers’ indirect tax processes to drive efficiency and value for their business.
This is a newly established function within Fonoa. As one of the inaugural Customer Success Managers, you will have the unique opportunity to shape and build the customer success strategy from the ground up.
What you will do:
At Fonoa, we seek candidates from a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We consider qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected status.
If you require a reasonable accommodation to search for a job opening, apply for a position, or participate in the interview process, please contact us at (people-ops@fonoa.com) and describe the specific accommodation needed due to a disability-related limitation.
Examples of reasonable accommodations include, but are not limited to:
Fonoa will not discharge or otherwise discriminate against employees or applicants for discussing or disclosing their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to compensation information as part of their essential job functions may not disclose this information to others who do not have access, unless it is:
As part of the recruitment process at Fonoa, we process your personal data in accordance with our Privacy Notice for Job Applicants. This notice explains how and why your data is collected and used, and how you can contact us if you have any concerns.
At Fonoa, we are transforming how digital-first companies stay tax compliant. We provide simple and modular API solutions that easily integrate into any existing workflow. Through our technology-first approach, we reduce manual processes, increase compliance and reduce the cost of operations when transacting and scaling internationally.
We are solving one of the largest yet unsolved problems in global e-commerce. Our tax automation software enables companies such as Uber, Zoom & Booking.com, to expand their international offerings more quickly and stay tax compliant.
Role Description
As an Indirect Tax Tech Transformation Lead at Fonoa, your primary responsibility will be to ensure that customers fully leverage Fonoa’s solutions to enhance their indirect tax strategies.
This involves managing a diverse portfolio of accounts and collaborating closely with both customers and internal stakeholders to ensure product adoption, value realisation, and successful renewals and expansion.
In this position, you will play a crucial role in supporting joint sales initiatives with Fonoa and our partners, focusing on customer onboarding, implementation project management, and the continuous adoption of Fonoa’s indirect tax solutions.
An essential aspect of your role will be to offer expert advice on Fonoa’s platform capabilities, with a deep understanding of where and how Fonoa’s solutions can be integrated within customers’ indirect tax processes to drive efficiency and value for their business.
This is a newly established function within Fonoa. As one of the inaugural Customer Success Managers, you will have the unique opportunity to shape and build the customer success strategy from the ground up.
What you will do:
- Adoption and Usage Best Practices: Recommend strategies for adoption and usage throughout the implementation and adoption phases to optimise customer engagement with Fonoa’s indirect tax solutions.
- Value-Driven Advocacy: Generate case studies and cultivate referenceable customers to foster Fonoa advocates, thereby maximising CLTV.
- Proactively Identify Paths to Growth: Identify opportunities for upselling and cross-selling to foster account growth.
- Customer Portfolio Management: Proactively oversee the customer portfolio from onboarding to renewal, aiming for high NPS and customer satisfaction.
- Account Health Monitoring: Ensure the success and achievement of desired outcomes at every stage by monitoring account health.
- Relationship Building: Establish strong connections with key customer stakeholders and executive sponsors to encourage program advocacy and adoption.
- Successful Implementation Facilitation: Align with customer needs and priorities to ensure the successful deployment of Fonoa’s tax solutions.
- Product Team Liaison: Serve as a bridge for customer product and development requests, delivering valuable insights to the Fonoa Product Team for ongoing product enhancement.
- 5+ years of related work experience in indirect tax process improvement experience or equivalent experience in business or industry
- Indirect tax (Sales/Use Tax, VAT) experience and/or corporate indirect tax compliance experience
- Previous experience or exposure to the tax process and operational assessments
- Clear communication skills, capable of engaging both technical and non-technical stakeholders (previous project management experience preferred)
- Curiosity and an aptitude for continuously upleveling your product and technical skills, including for API-first products
- A proven ability to build strong, collaborative relationships across various organisational levels, including with customer champions and C-suite executives
- A creative and entrepreneurial mindset, with the ability to think innovatively and a drive to execute with quality and speed
- A keen interest in a fast-paced, scale-up environment and are motivated by the opportunity to contribute to growth
- An adaptable and poised mindset when facing new situations or ambiguity, viewing challenges as opportunities
- Exceptional problem-solving skills, with the ability to distil complex issues into simple, understandable solutions
At Fonoa, we seek candidates from a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We consider qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected status.
- Status as a Veteran or Active Military Service Member,
- Predisposing genetic characteristics,
- Arrest record or conviction record, sexual and reproductive-health decision
- Credit history
- Familial status
- Caregiver status
- Height and weight
If you require a reasonable accommodation to search for a job opening, apply for a position, or participate in the interview process, please contact us at (people-ops@fonoa.com) and describe the specific accommodation needed due to a disability-related limitation.
Examples of reasonable accommodations include, but are not limited to:
- Receiving application materials in an alternate format
- Conducting interviews in an accessible location
- Being accompanied by a service animal
- Having a sign language interpreter present during interviews
Fonoa will not discharge or otherwise discriminate against employees or applicants for discussing or disclosing their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to compensation information as part of their essential job functions may not disclose this information to others who do not have access, unless it is:
- In response to a formal complaint or charge
- In furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or legal action
- Consistent with Fonoa’s legal obligations to disclose such information
As part of the recruitment process at Fonoa, we process your personal data in accordance with our Privacy Notice for Job Applicants. This notice explains how and why your data is collected and used, and how you can contact us if you have any concerns.