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 fol