Director of Tax Technology

At bet365, we're one of the world's leading online gambling companies, revolutionizing the industry since 2000. Founded by Denise Coates CBE, we now employ over 9,000 people and serve over 100 million customers in 27 languages. Our focus on In-Play betting has solidified our market-leading position, offering an unmatched experience across 96 sports and 700,000 streaming events. With over 750 concurrent sporting fixtures at peak and more live sports streamed than anyone else in Europe, we handle over 6 billion HTTP requests daily and process more than 2 million bets per hour at peak. 

We empower our employees to push boundaries and explore new ideas, cultivating a culture that celebrates and rewards creativity. This offers employees a wealth of opportunities for growth, giving them the opportunity to make a real impact in the world of online gambling. As a forward-thinking company, we’re breaking new ground in software innovation too, redefining what’s possible for our customers worldwide. 

We are looking for an experienced tax technology professional to join the growing bet365 US Tax function in Denver, Colorado. This newly created Director of Tax Technology role reports directly to the Vice President of Tax and Tax Counsel and serves as a member of the US Tax function’s leadership team.

This role entails owning all tax technology matters for the bet365 US operating group while also partnering with the UK Tax team on all tax technology matters globally. Additionally, the Director of Tax Technology will serve as the primary tax business partner for all tax impacting product, technology, and data initiatives.  This role represents an excellent growth opportunity within the highly dynamic and technically challenging US online gaming industry.

The salary range for this is $215,000 - $300,000 annually.

• 8+ years of overall professional technical and/or technology experience within relevant technical subject matter areas (e.g., tax, accounting, finance, legal, payroll, etc.).
• 4+ years of tax technology experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, information technology or a related field.
• Experience partnering with technical subject matter experts to draft detailed technology business requirements is required.
• Ability to communicate complex technical information clearly to non-technical stakeholders, including executives.
• Significant participation in large scale technology implementation projects is required.
• Experience leading finance or tax transformation initiatives and technology implementation projects is a significant advantage.
• Experience directly developing and deploying technology solutions using data analytics and visualization tools (e.g., Alteryx, Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, KNIME, Data Bricks, RedShift, etc.) is a significant advantage
• Prior experience in technical tax roles is a major plus.
• Gaming industry or other highly regulated industry experience is a plus.

• Partnering with the Vice President of Tax and Tax Counsel and the other members of the tax leadership team to develop and deploy the future vision for the US Tax function.
• Owning all US tax technology matters including spearheading the development and implementation of a holistic tax technology strategy.
• Coordinating with the wider global tax team on tax technology matters.
• Serving as the primary tax business partner for all tax impacting product, technology, and data transformation and implementation initiatives.
• Partnering with tax technical teams to identify technology needs, develop business requirements, and implement solutions.
• Overseeing all tax data management and warehousing needs, including record retention and disclosure requirements.
• Analyzing tax data to support strategic decision making and audit defense.
• Owning testing, change management, and maintenance for all tax technologies.
• Monitoring the evolving tax technology landscape and continuously upskilling as needed to integrate emerging technology solutions into holistic tax technology strategy.
• Developing and deploying a tax technology upskilling program to help train and support other members of the tax function.

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