Product Compliance Advisor

Summary

Join Xero as a subject matter expert in regional regulatory compliance, ensuring Xero's products adhere to local government regulations. You will define and execute operating models and risk frameworks, proactively manage compliance obligations, and coordinate reviews of future product features. This role involves advising product teams and senior leadership, translating complex regulatory details, and mentoring other experts. You'll need extensive experience in public practice and a strong understanding of regional regulatory requirements. The position offers a competitive salary and the opportunity to work within a global team.

Requirements

• Qualified accountant and current member of professional body (e.g., CPA, CA)
• Recognised as the subject matter expert of regional regulatory requirements impacting product
• Extensive specialist understanding of regional regulatory requirements that impact or drive data and returns flowing in/out of the tax authorities (broadly around income/corporation tax, sales tax, payroll and related cyber security and privacy requirements)
• Extensive specialist knowledge of regional requirements around accounting and reporting obligations
• Exceptional communication skills (written and verbal)
• Ability to translate complex technical regulatory detail into natural english, providing in-depth evaluation and interpretation to advise key stakeholders such as product and technology leadership teams, business analysts and developers
• Confident and accurate decision making skills when working on significant and specialist, often poorly defined problems, that require significant expertise to define a solution
• Thrive on managing your own time and approach to work, with a ruthless prioritization of time and projects, a strong results & delivery attitude and equally happy with independent vs team based work
• The ability to build strong networks, including remotely
• 7+ years experience in public practice with focus on taxation, compliance or business services

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the operating model and risk frameworks by which Xero reviews its product against current and proposed legislation in region, working closely with stakeholders from Product, Technology, GTM, Legal, Risk and other groups
• Proactively understand and manage compliance and regulatory obligations for your areas of responsibility
• Ensure Xero understands and meets its ongoing obligations to the relevant government agencies and professional bodies that enable us to operate in the compliance space (i.e. income tax, transactional tax, payroll and reporting) within your region of expertise
• Co-ordinate and consolidate the review of future product features and functionality (typically with a 1-3 year outlook), providing input during the planning phase, to ensure they align with current and proposed legislation and regulatory requirements
• Work with product teams to help them understand relevant requirements and translate these into accurate technical specifications
• Be a leader and mentor within the internal community of regulatory and product subject matter experts, supporting those in other regions performing a similar function and our in-region specialists
• Support M&A teams on awareness of regulatory requirements that may impact their proposals
• Assist the product team and extended business with day-to-day regulatory compliance queries

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years working collaboratively in technology, software or with Revenue Agencies is advantageous
• Extensive experience in writing technical advice addressing complex specialist issues, with in-depth analysis, evaluation and interpretation, often requiring the ability to gain acceptance or change of thinking
• Experience advising a broad range of stakeholders including senior leadership, external customers, technical peers
• Experience with risk assessments and product roadmaps is helpful

Benefits

$106,800 - $146,900 a year