Senior Payroll Tax Manager

About Airwallex Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software, we empower over 250,000 businesses worldwide – including Brex, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN and many more – with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts, payments, spend management and treasury, to embedded finance at a global scale. Proudly founded in Melbourne, we have a team of over 2,300 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 27 offices around the globe. Valued at US$11 billion and backed by world-leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Visa, Mastercard, Robinhood Ventures, Sequoia, Salesforce Ventures, DST Global, and Lone Pine Capital, Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If you’re ready to do the most ambitious work of your career, join us.   Attributes We Value We hire successful builders with founder-like energy who want real impact, accelerated learning, and true ownership. You bring strong role-related expertise and sharp thinking, and you’re motivated by our mission and operating principles . You move fast with good judgment, dig deep with curiosity, and make decisions from first principles, balancing speed and rigor. You're humble and collaborative; turn zero‑to‑one ideas into real products, and you “get stuff done” end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here, you’ll tackle complex, high‑visibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you, let’s build what’s next.

The Global Payroll team at Airwallex is responsible for delivering accurate, timely and compliant payroll for employees across all of our entities and markets worldwide. They partner closely with Legal and local People Operations to navigate country-specific regulations, optimise our HR and payroll systems, and drive automation, controls and process improvements as we scale. This team plays a critical role in the overall employee experience, ensuring every team member is paid correctly while enabling data-driven insights on people costs and supporting Airwallex’s global expansion.

We are looking for a Senior Manager, Payroll Tax to own and evolve Airwallex’s global payroll tax strategy and operating framework. You will be the subject matter expert for employment tax, payroll withholding, employer social security, benefits-in-kind, equity compensation and related reporting obligations across our entities and jurisdictions. You will work closely with Global Payroll, People Operations, HR, Finance, Legal, Accounting, Global Mobility, HRIS and external advisers to ensure payroll tax is accurate, compliant and scalable. You will also help strengthen controls, improve data quality and use automation to reduce manual work across the payroll tax lifecycle. This role is based in Singapore.

Own Airwallex’s global payroll tax strategy, policies and operating framework across entities and jurisdictions. Establish standards for payroll tax governance, ownership, controls, documentation, escalation and audit readiness. Monitor legislative and regulatory developments affecting employment tax, payroll withholding, employer social security, benefits-in-kind, equity compensation and related reporting. Partner with Global Payroll to ensure accurate and timely payroll processing, tax calculations, reconciliations, payments, year-end reporting and statutory filings. Oversee payroll tax compliance across multiple jurisdictions, including income tax reporting, employer contributions, social security, pension obligations and local levies. Review payroll registers, tax calculations, payroll journals and reconciliations, ensuring discrepancies are identified and resolved before filing or payment deadlines.