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Hopper · 7 hours ago

Senior Tax Manager

United States

Full-time

Remote

Mid, Senior Level

4+ years exp

Hopper is a company redefining how people travel by building a customer-friendly travel marketplace. They are seeking a Senior Tax Manager to oversee North American tax compliance, reporting, and planning, ensuring accurate filings and coordinating with external advisors to support the company's rapid growth.

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Responsibilities

Ensure timely and accurate compliance of all indirect tax filings (Sales, Hotel/Lodging GST/HST/QST, Gross Receipts & Excise). Specifically, lead registrations, co-manage tax policy and product taxability decisions with legal team, and own end-to-end filings, payments, and reconciliations across all North American filings

Prepare and review U.S. and Canada federal, state, and provincial income tax returns, estimated payments, and extensions

Partner with engineering/product teams to identify qualifying activities, gather substantiation, and prepare defensible U.S. R&D (Form 6765) and Canadian SR&ED (T661/T2SCH31) claims

Liaise with external advisors (Avalara, Accounting Firms and similar) and auditors to support compliance and reporting needs

Support legal team in coordinating end-to-end responses to any federal, state & local examinations—manage IDRs, data pulls, and walkthroughs; preparing substantiation; and interfacing with auditors, advisors, and counsel

Prepare monthly indirect tax provision and annual income tax provision under ASC 450 and 740

Support tax disclosures for financial statements and management reporting

Work with the Legal team to monitor legislative changes in tax law and assess implications for Hopper’s business

Research hotel partner and/or customer tax issues and provide recommendations to the business

Partner with Finance and Legal on new product launches, state/intl. nexus issues, and tax-efficient structuring

Build proactive relationships with Legal, Product, Finance/FP&A, and Hotel teams to embed tax into day-to-day decisions, surface risks/opportunities early, and strategic initiatives

Liaise with the Tax Engineering team to implement and QA changes to Hopper’s tax logic for travel transactions ,providing tax technical input to ensure accurate tax determination across complex booking flows

Partner cross-functionally to anticipate tax implications of new features and markets

Develop and support implementation of tools and automation to streamline tax workflows

Develop scalable processes for compliance as the company expands into new jurisdictions

Maintain documentation and controls to support audits and internal governance

Qualification

Tax ComplianceIncome Tax KnowledgeASC 450 KnowledgeASC 740 KnowledgeAvalara ExperienceNetsuite ExperienceExcel ProficiencyResearch SkillsAnalytical SkillsProblem-Solving Mindset