About Nu

Nu is the leading digital bank in Latin America, serving 135 million customers across Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia. The company has been leading an industry transformation by leveraging data and proprietary technology to develop innovative products and services.

Guided by its mission to fight complexity and empower people, Nu caters to customers’ complete financial journey, promoting financial access and advancement with responsible lending and transparency. The company is powered by an efficient and scalable business model that combines low cost to serve with growing returns.

Nu’s impact has been recognized in multiple awards, including Time 100 Most Influential Companies, Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, and Forbes World’s Best Banks.

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About the role

Nubank is not just entering the US market — we are already here. For some years already we have a fully operational US C-corporation, with tax filing obligations across 13+ states, a growing engineering and technology workforce hub and a banking license on the horizon. We are on the threshold of becoming a bank in the United States, and you will be at the center of it all.

This role is for a builder — someone who doesn't just execute processes but creates them. You will be the first internal Tax professional embedded in the US, responsible for internalizing a function that is currently managed entirely through external advisors. You will design the governance framework, establish the controls, and define what US tax looks like at Nubank for years to come.

You will work directly with global leadership and a world-class external advisory team, with the full weight of a NYSE-listed company behind you and the agility of a startup in front of you. Few roles offer the rare combination of technical depth, structural authority, and the chance to genuinely leave your mark on a company at a defining moment in its trajectory.

If you are a seasoned US tax professional who wants to build, not just maintain — this is your role.

You'll be responsible for

Your day-to-day will be defined by the dynamism of a complex, fast-growing financial operation. As the first US Tax hire, your main challenges and activities will include:

• Building the Internal US Tax Function: Transitioning from a fully outsourced model to an internally governed function — establishing processes, controls, governance standards, and documentation frameworks for federal and state tax compliance from the ground up.

• Full Compliance Cycle: Leading the calculation, accounting, and technical review of federal and state direct taxes (corporate income tax, including federal estimated payments and state apportionment), and supporting the management of indirect taxes (sales & use tax, excise tax, and other transaction-based levies across multiple jurisdictions).

• Tax Filing and Payment Management: Owning the end-to-end calendar of tax filing deadlines and payment obligations across all federal, state, and local jurisdictions — including the timely review of estimated tax payments (Form 1120-W), coordination and submission of extension requests, and final returns. Maintaining a centralized compliance calendar to proactively manage due dates, avoid penalties, and ensure accurate payment amounts are reconciled against the general ledger.

• High-Precision Financial Reporting: Preparing and reviewing footnote disclosures for Effective Tax Rate (ETR) reconciliation under ASC 740, and managing the movement and projection of deferred tax assets and liabilities, including valuation allowance assessments.

• Mastery of Ancillary Obligations: Guaranteeing the flawless delivery of complex filings such as the federal consolidated return (Form 1120), state and local income tax returns, information returns (Forms 5471, 8858, 8865), and FBAR/FATCA filings, ensuring that all reported data faithfully reflects the underlying accounting reality.

• Stakeholder and Audit Management: Acting as the focal point for federal and state tax examinations and audits (internal and external), defending the company's tax positions before the IRS and state revenue authorities, and maintaining the SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley Act) control environment.

• Transfer Pricing Coordination: Managing Transfer Pricing workflows in partnership with external advisors, ensuring that intercompany operations comply with OECD guidelines and US Treasury regulations (IRC §482), including the preparation and maintenance of contemporaneous documentation.

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