Strategy & Operations Manager
TLDR
Leverage your Big 4 expertise to develop international tax and compliance solutions while enhancing operational workflows and driving continuous improvement.
About Us
In 1914, antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton posted an ad for a job in London that read, “Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in event of success”
While our wages are not low and we are not limiting our hiring to men only, we believe in the sentiment Shackleton expressed.
Commenda is a hardcore company looking to build a suite of products and services that save the free world and end the Democracy Tax. We are the world’s best way for businesses to interact with governments around the world. We're venture-backed and ambitious.
What We're Looking For
We're looking for a Strategy and Operations Manager to join our team. In this role, you'll leverage your Big 4 expertise to help develop and operate our software and service delivery platforms for international tax, accounting, and corporate secretarial functions. Working directly with our leadership team, you'll translate complex compliance requirements into scalable solutions and operational excellence.
Key Responsibilities
- Collaborate with leadership to develop strategic roadmaps for our international tax, accounting, and corporate secretarial software solutions
- Design and optimize operational workflows that enhance our service delivery capabilities
- Translate complex regulatory requirements into functional product specifications
- Partner with product, engineering, and customer success teams to ensure our solutions meet client needs
- Implement operational metrics and reporting frameworks to drive continuous improvement
- Lead cross-functional initiatives to enhance efficiency and scalability
- Provide subject matter expertise on international tax and compliance processes
- Help define best practices and standardize approaches across jurisdictions
Requirements
- 2-4 years of experience in international tax, accounting, or corporate secretarial services at a Big 4 firm
- Strong understanding of global compliance requirements across multiple jurisdictions
- Experience with process optimization, operational planning, or technology implementation
- Excellent analytical skills with the ability to translate complex compliance concepts into practical solutions
- Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal
- Experience working with cross-functional teams and presenting to senior leadership
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or related field; professional certifications a plus
- Willingness to work in an intense, high-growth, hardcore environment
Benefits
- Global travel opportunities (we have offices in the US, UK, Singapore, UAE, and India--we expect our teams to travel from time to time)
- Competitive salary & equity opportunity as an early employee
- Private healthcare
- Monthly self-improvement stipend
Benefits
Health Insurance
Private healthcare
Monthly self-improvement stipend
Commenda is the world's first global tax, accounting, and legal compliance tool. Incorporate new entities, calculate and file global tax liabilities, and monitor your presence worldwide in a single, unified platform. Plus, connect with high-quality local service providers in any country where you operate.We set out to build Commenda with a big goal: solve the Democracy Tax. In free markets like India and the United States, there is a long list of compliance tasks businesses have to complete to guarantee everyone plays by the rules. In unfree countries, like China, the cost of doing business is simply the cost of the cheapest bureaucrat. These unfree countries have had an advantage over the free world for too long. At Commenda, we are working to fix this, to give the edge back to the free world, and to level the playing field for all founders and businesses. We believe that any business should be able to operate anywhere in the world fairly and easily. Join the team that will save global capitalism. Join Commenda.