Tax Leader Germany (m/f/d)
RemoteGermany
Job Summary
Lead end-to-end tax oversight for Germany across direct, indirect, transfer pricing, and withholding tax matters. Set direction for the German tax agenda, ensuring review and sign-off over key filings and deliverables while identifying and escalating material risks. Lead tax audits, disputes, and controversy matters, including strategy development and engagement with authorities and external advisors. Serve as the primary tax partner for senior Finance, Treasury, Legal, and business stakeholders on commercial transactions and strategic initiatives. Oversee external advisor engagements and drive operating discipline across German and regional tax activities. Provide tax leadership or support for other European jurisdictions as required. Fluency in English and German is required. This role is remote.
Required Qualifications
- University degree in tax, accounting, law, business administration or a comparable field
- qualification as a Steuerberater or equivalent experience
- Significant tax leadership experience within a multinational or similarly complex organization
- Strong German tax technical knowledge and experience across direct tax, indirect tax, and cross-border matters
- Proven people-leadership experience, with a demonstrated ability to motivate teams, develop talent, build capability, and drive performance through others
- Demonstrated ability to set direction, manage competing priorities, and deliver through a complex matrixed organization
- Experience reviewing and overseeing tax filings and deliverables prepared by internal teams and external providers
- Proven capability leading significant tax audits, disputes, and controversy matters
- Strong judgment and the ability to identify, assess, manage, and appropriately escalate material tax issues
- Strong stakeholder-management, influencing, and communication skills, including experience engaging with senior leadership
- Ability to operate independently, make decisions in complex or ambiguous situations, and maintain a no-surprises approach
- Ability and willingness to lead or support tax matters across a broader European portfolio, including jurisdictions outside Germany
- Fluency in English and German
Desired Qualifications
- Experience holding primary tax responsibility for Germany within a large multinational organization
- Experience leading tax matters across multiple significant European jurisdictions
- Strong familiarity with transfer pricing, international tax, and complex cross-border arrangements
- Experience supporting major commercial transactions, supply-chain activity, restructurings, or business transformations
- Experience building or reshaping teams, operating models, and governance processes
- Demonstrated track record of driving process improvement, standardization, and stronger tax controls
- Experience influencing senior stakeholders across Finance, Legal, Treasury, and business leadership
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