VAT Manager
What is required?
- Bachelor's or Master's level of academic working and thinking
- Experience in VAT compliance, advisory, and managing VAT reporting and audits
- Strong knowledge of VAT regulations, excellent analytical skills and attention to detail
- Good command of the English language, both verbally and in writing
- Detail-oriented, active, analytical, solution-driven and communicative
- Able to work independently and under pressure
What will you get?
- 36 to 40-hour working week
- 25 vacation days + 8% holiday pay
- Good training opportunities
- All necessary, compulsory training and education in the field
- Yearly Company Trip to a third country
- Pension scheme (50% Taxture - %50 employer contribution)
- Laptop, Mobile phone, Monitors, Keyboard, Noise-canceling headphones, and all office types of equipment needed, NS Business card
What will you do?
- 35% Client advisory on VAT matters
- 25% Compliance and reporting review
- 15% Internal coordination and knowledge sharing
- 15% Client relationship management
- 10% Monitoring legislative developments
This vacancy has been created based on interviews with employees to help you get a realistic preview of the job.
Vacancy
As VAT Manager at Taxture, you are responsible for advising clients on a wide range of complex VAT issues, both nationally and internationally. You will act as a trusted advisor to a diverse portfolio of clients, helping them navigate the evolving world of VAT regulations and compliance. Your role involves structuring transactions in a tax-efficient manner, identifying VAT risks and opportunities, and ensuring compliance with relevant laws and reporting obligations. You will liaise directly with clients, tax authorities and internal teams to deliver high-quality advice and practical solutions tailored to each situation.
In this role, you are also expected to stay up to date with legislative developments and proactively anticipate the impact of regulatory changes on your clients’ businesses. You will play a key role in developing and maintaining strong client relationships, managing projects from start to finish, and contributing to business development efforts. Whether it’s cross-border transactions, real estate, or supply chain management, you will use your VAT expertise to support clients across industries.
If you enjoy translating complex VAT regulations into practical advice for clients, and you find it a challenge to stay ahead in an ever-changing international tax landscape, then this is the job for you.
Working week
On an enjoyable workday, you’ve helped a client solve a complex cross-border VAT issue. You leave the day feeling accomplished and appreciated for your expertise.
On a less enjoyable workday, you’ve dealt with last-minute changes to a complex VAT filing. You stay focused and work through the details to keep everything on track.
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- Weekly team meeting
- Reviewing and discussing complex VAT returns with colleagues
- Lunch
- Client meeting regarding international supply chain and VAT issues
- Preparing advisory report on restructuring and VAT impact
- Coordinating with transfer pricing and legal teams on client matters
- Example of a weekly schedule*
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- Lunch
- Reviewing and approving VAT advisory drafts from junior consultants
- Researching and analyzing case law / new EU VAT directives
- Client call
- Drafting strategic memo for a new client
- Mentoring a junior colleague in coaching and development
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- Lunch
- Internal project update
- Work on a second opinion advisory for a client
- Preparing client presentation on VAT risks in international sales
- Attending an internal knowledge session
- Updating emails and managing administrative tasks
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- Lunch
- Quarterly meeting with partner
- Assisting with due diligence for M&A process
- Adjusting VAT structure for a multinational
- Preparing documentation for internal audit and quality control
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- Lunch
- Reviewing weekly results and updating client statuses
- Internal brainstorming session
- Informal team meeting
- Finalizing emails and cleaning up inbox
Firsthand experience
Growth
Taxture strives to foster an environment where employees contribute to the company’s success while achieving significant career growth. Valuing their team as their most precious asset, Taxture invests in individual success and development through training, mentorship, performance reviews, and opportunities for innovation and networking. Employee success and company success are intertwined at Taxture, and they are committed to supporting their team in every step of their career journey.
Working at Taxture
Taxture is an international consulting firm that has been providing tax advice, tax compliance, and transfer pricing services to its clients since 2009. The Amsterdam-based firm has also added legal advisory services to its offerings, enabling Taxture-Tax and Legal Services to offer its clients a comprehensive, high-quality service concept.
Taxture is a member firm of Andersen Global in the Netherlands.
- Taxture: office in Amsterdam
- Taxture: approx. 50 employees in the Netherlands
- Taxture approx. 65 employees worldwide
- Taxture: business professional
- Taxture: hybrid work options can be discussed
- Andersen Global®: over 15,000 professionals worldwide
- Andersen Global®: more than 2,000 global partners
- Andersen Global®: presence in over 425 locations, operates in more than 170 countries
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