Lead Tax Manager (International Tax)

Are you ready to thrive in an international environment? SimCorp is offering an exciting opportunity to become a pivotal part of our finance team as the Lead Tax Manager, International Tax.   

WHAT MAKES US, US 

Join some of the most innovative thinkers in FinTech as we lead the evolution of financial technology. If you are an innovative, curious, collaborative person who embraces challenges and wants to grow, learn and pursue outcomes with our prestigious financial clients, say Hello to SimCorp!  

At its foundation, SimCorp is guided by our values — caring, customer success-driven, collaborative, curious, and courageous. Our people-centered organization focuses on skills development, relationship building, and client success. We take pride in cultivating an environment where all team members can grow, feel heard, valued, and empowered. 

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WHY THIS ROLE IS IMPORTANT TO US 

The Lead Tax Manager will be an integral part of our tax team, a specialized subset within Group Finance. Our team is responsible for overseeing the tax and transfer pricing compliance and strategy across all 40+ SimCorp entities.  

Based at our headquarters in Copenhagen or Warsaw (one of our key finance locations), this role offers an exciting opportunity to shape SimCorp's tax strategy and ensure compliance across our global operations.  

We’re looking for a skilled Tax Manager, who will be responsible for providing day-to-day tax support to our stakeholders for various markets ensuring full compliance with all local and internationally applicable tax rules. The countries covered will mainly include EMEA, but also potentially Americas and APAC.   The exact countries will be based on your experience and interest.  

Reporting directly to the Global Head of Tax, your primary responsibility will be to oversee comprehensive tax operations, ensuring compliance and efficiency across SimCorp entities. In this vital role, you will adopt a comprehensive approach to managing tax compliance, tax controversy and tax advisory to stakeholders.  

WHAT YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR 

• Tax Compliance - Provide timely support to our stakeholders including business, legal, and within the finance team, covering all aspects of tax with a focus on reviewing and managing the tax matters for various countries. This includes reviewing tax returns, monitoring compliance deadlines and assisting in tax reporting at quarterly and year-end reporting to ensure fully compliant.

• Tax Audits - Manage the tax audits in the various jurisdictions in close corporation with the local financial controllers and rest of the Tax Team colleagues.   

• Risk management – Assess and monitor potential tax risks and support analysis of Uncertain Tax Positions to ensure accurate information in our Financial Statements.   

• Advisory - Work closely with Group Finance, subsidiary finance teams, external tax advisors, and tax authorities to provide tax advice in all matters of relevance for tax compliance and ensuring that tax is accounted for correctly in our local financial statements.   

• Manage external tax service providers - oversee tax service providers and liaise with our statutory auditors on tax matters.   

• Keeping up-to-date with Tax Law Developments and changes in the jurisdictions where Simcorp operates.   

WHAT WE VALUE 

Most importantly, you can see yourself contributing and thriving in the position described above. How you gained the skills needed for doing that is less important. We expect you to be good at several of the following and be able to - and interested in - learning the rest: 
 

Experience and Education:   

• Minimum 5 years international tax experience in industry or consultancy with emphasis on working with multinational groups for various markets.    

• Relevant education such as lawyer, CPA, economist or education from tax administration or any combination thereof.  

Skills and Knowledge:  

• Solid international tax knowledge about corporate income tax and indirect tax in a global organization with comprehensive understanding and experience in dealing with various direct and indirect taxes topics that may affect day-to-day business operations.   

• Knowledge of the Danish tax system is beneficial.  

• Proven ability to manage complex tax projects and deliver results.  

• Act as an owner with a proactive approach to driving changes and improvements in tax practices.  

• Effective analytical and interpersonal skills with the ability to build solid relations with internal stakeholders and teams.  

• High attention to detail and the ability to work independently.   

• Good general accounting/finance skills and experience. Experience with financial systems (ERP, consolidation tools and management reporting tools) is beneficial. 

• Advanced communication skills, with fluency in English (both verbal and written).  

NEXT STEPS 

Please send us your application in English via our career site as soon as possible, we process incoming applications continually. Please note that only applications sent through our system will be processed.  

At SimCorp, we recognize that bias can unintentionally occur in the recruitment process. To uphold fairness and equal opportunities for all applicants, we kindly ask you to exclude personal data such as photo, age, or any non-professional information from your application. Thank you for aiding us in our endeavor to mitigate biases in our recruitment process. 

For any questions you are welcome to contact Alina Wiejak, Talent Acquisition Manager, at Alina.Wiejak@simcorp.com.  

If you are interested in being a part of SimCorp but are not sure this role is suitable, submit your CV anyway. SimCorp is on an exciting growth journey, and our Talent Acquisition Team is ready to assist you discover the right role for you. The approximate time to consider your CV is three weeks.  

We are eager to continually improve our talent acquisition process and make everyone’s experience positive and valuable. Therefore, during the process we will ask you to provide your feedback, which is highly appreciated. 

WHO WE ARE 

For over 50 years, we have worked closely with investment and asset managers to become the world’s leading provider of integrated investment management solutions. We are 3,000+ colleagues with a broad range of nationalities, educations, professional experiences, ages, and backgrounds.  

SimCorp is an independent subsidiary of the Deutsche Börse Group. Following the recent merger with Axioma, we leverage the combined strength of our brands to provide an industry-leading, full, front-to-back offering for our clients.  

SimCorp is an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to building a culture where diverse perspectives and expertise are integrated into our everyday work. We believe in the continual growth and development of our employees, so that we can provide best-in-class solutions to our clients. 

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