Assistant Manager – Indirect Tax
Dodo Payments · Posted Oct 14
Global Merchant of Record and billing platform for SaaS and AI-first companies
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About the role
Dodo Payments helps digital businesses and SaaS companies sell globally, which increases indirect tax obligations across countries and US states. This role will help build and run the company's indirect tax and compliance function from the ground up, tracking sales and tax exposure and setting up the processes, controls, and tools the function runs on. The Assistant Manager – Indirect Tax will determine registration needs with the Head of Finance, assess permanent establishment risk, manage monthly sales tax/VAT/GST reporting and filing, and build a network of external advisors and registration agents.
What you will do
- Get sales tax/VAT/GST registrations done where needed globally, directly or through external agents, and maintain a register of tax IDs and filing deadlines.
- Prepare an initial view on whether a permanent establishment (PE) is needed in a country and validate it with external advisors.
- Prepare monthly/quarterly sales tax/VAT/GST reports, reconcile them to the books, and ensure returns are filed and paid on time.
- Identify, compare, and manage vendors and advisors who can assist with registrations and filings.
- Track sales tax/VAT/GST changes (rates, thresholds, rules) in registered countries and states, and update setup and processes accordingly.
- Research the sales tax treatment of new product categories before supporting them and share guidance with the team.
- Answer sales tax queries from merchants and customers, collaborating with the CX team when needed.
- Build simple trackers and checklists to make the process repeatable as the company scales.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 2–5 years of experience in indirect tax, with hands-on work on VAT/GST and/or US sales & use tax compliance.
- Hands-on experience with tax registrations and filing recurring VAT/GST or sales tax returns, ideally for more than one country.
- Good understanding of, or strong willingness to quickly learn, US economic nexus (post-Wayfair), EU OSS/IOSS, UK VAT, and digital services tax rules for non-resident suppliers.
- Basic understanding of permanent establishment (PE) concepts and tax treaties.
- Strong Excel and data skills: comfortable building jurisdiction-level tax reports from large transaction datasets and reconciling them to the books.
- Experience coordinating with external advisors, CA firms, or compliance vendors.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience in a CA firm’s indirect tax / global VAT team, or in-house at a SaaS, fintech, payments, or Merchant of Record company.
- Familiarity with Global Tax, registration, and other corporate tax compliances.
- Exposure to tax notices, audits, or authority queries.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Dodo Payments
Dodo Payments is a global Merchant of Record (MoR) and billing platform designed for SaaS, AI-first, and digital product businesses. The platform streamlines cross-border commerce by taking care of legal and financial responsibilities, global tax calculations, compliance, invoicing, and local payment processing across more than 150 countries. It empowers developers, solopreneurs, and scaling enterprises to monetize globally without setting up local entities.
- Industry
- Payments
- Company size
- 50-100 employees
- Founded
- 2024
- Location
- Bengaluru, India
- Funding stage
- Seed
Funding
Seed · $2.1M raised
- 2025-02-01Seed$1M
- 2025-12-24Pre-Seed$1.1M
Leadership
Co-Founder & CEO
Ayush Agarwal
Co-Founder & CPTO
Recent coverage
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