Tax Manager / Steuerreferent (m/w/d)

WPP
Germany
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Finance & AccountingSkills: ["Structured work","Independent work","Strategic thinking","Analytical thinking","Interpersonal skills","Cross-functional collaboration"]

Own tax compliance and reporting for German holding companies and operating agencies, ensuring timely filings and review of tax notices. Serve as the key point of contact for group companies, tax authorities, and external advisors. Support M&A and reorganization structuring, post-acquisition integration, and transfer pricing documentation alongside audits. Identify tax risks, improve tax processes and systems, develop policies, and train local finance teams in a global environment.

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WPP
13 hours ago

Tax Manager / Steuerreferent (m/w/d)

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Job Summary

Own tax compliance and reporting for German holding companies and operating agencies, ensuring timely filings and review of tax notices. Serve as the key point of contact for group companies, tax authorities, and external advisors. Support M&A and reorganization structuring, post-acquisition integration, and transfer pricing documentation alongside audits. Identify tax risks, improve tax processes and systems, develop policies, and train local finance teams in a global environment.
Location: Germany
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Finance & Accounting

Key Responsibilities

  • •Manage the annual tax return cycle (income, withholding, and indirect taxes), review tax assessments, and ensure timely tax reporting.
  • •Act as the central contact for group companies, tax authorities, and external tax advisors on ongoing tax matters.
  • •Support M&A and reorganization transaction structuring with internal M&A/Legal teams and external advisors; help simplify group structure.
  • •Oversee tax integration and structuring after acquisitions.
  • •Identify tax risks, continuously optimize tax processes and systems, create tax policies, and train local finance teams; coordinate transfer pricing documentation and support audits with the transfer pricing team.

Pay and Benefits

Schedule:4-Day Week

Key Requirements

  • •Experience as a tax expert in company taxes with a structured, independent way of working.
  • •Strong commercial understanding with strategic and analytical thinking.
  • •Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work in a cross-functional, global team.
  • •Fluent German and English (written and spoken).
  • •Completed degree in business administration or law (ideally with a focus on taxes), or alternatively a finance degree or long-term experience in corporate tax; ideally passed tax advisor exam (CTA qualified or German Steuerberaterexamen).
Education:
Skills:Structured workIndependent workStrategic thinkingAnalytical thinkingInterpersonal skillsCross-functional collaboration
Certifications:SteuerberaterexamenCTA
Languages:GermanEnglish

Company Brief

WPP
Global marketing and communications services group offering advertising, media investment management, branding, public relations, and digital services to multinational clients across industries.
Industry: Advertising Media Groups
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: London, United Kingdom
Founded: 1971
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