Group tax director

Bending Spoons; Remote; EUR 188.000 - 382.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A digital business innovator seeks a tax manager to lead the global tax strategy, ensuring compliance and optimizing processes across jurisdictions. Responsibilities include overseeing international tax planning and liaising with advisors. Ideal candidates possess strong reasoning ability, drive, and teamwork skills. This is a full-time role with competitive pay and great growth opportunities. The position can be based in Milan, London, or remotely in approved countries, fostering a culture of high ambition and collaboration.

Leistungen

Flexible hours

Remote working options

Unlimited learning and training support

Top-tier health insurance

Generous parental support

Yearly retreat

Qualifikationen

• Demonstrated ability to solve complex problems logically.
• High level of ambition with a strong sense of responsibility.
• Collaborative team member who supports others.
• Fluent in reading, writing, and speaking English.

Aufgaben

• Oversee international tax compliance and planning.
• Calculate tax liabilities and manage returns.
• Ensure proper tax treatment of employee benefits.
• Conduct due diligence for acquisitions.
• Stay current on tax law and identify savings opportunities.

Kenntnisse

Reasoning ability

Drive

Team spirit

Proficiency in English

Jobbeschreibung

At Bending Spoons, we’re striving to build one of the all-time great companies. A company that serves a huge number of customers, where team members grow to their full potential, functions at unparalleled levels of effectiveness and efficiency, creates value for shareholders at an extraordinary rate, and does so while adhering to high ethical standards.

To achieve this objective, we acquire digital businesses with untapped potential and make them as successful as possible by leveraging our platform—our expertise, technologies, data, brand, talents, and culture. The proceeds are then reinvested into making our platform more powerful and into acquiring new businesses, combining capital‑allocation discipline with hands‑on execution.

For a talented, driven, and collaborative individual, working at Bending Spoons is an opportunity to learn, make an impact, and progress their career at an exceptionally high rate. That’s our promise to such a candidate.

In this role, you’ll take ownership of Bending Spoons’ global tax landscape—leading, optimizing, and innovating how we manage our tax responsibilities across multiple jurisdictions. You’ll ensure rigorous compliance with international regulations while shaping strategies that enable smart growth. From guiding key business decisions and complex transactions to building world‑class processes, you’ll play a pivotal role in safeguarding and strengthening our platform.

A few examples of your responsibilities

• Oversee international tax compliance and planning, including federal, state, and local income, franchise, and sales taxes, as well as transfer pricing.
• Calculate tax liabilities, prepare and file returns, and manage the tax aspects of equity plans and contractor arrangements.
• Ensure proper tax treatment of employee benefits and welfare programs.
• Conduct tax due diligence for acquisitions and structure transactions efficiently.
• Stay current on tax law changes, identify savings opportunities (e.g., R&D credits), and liaise with tax authorities and advisors.

What we look for

• Reasoning ability. With the necessary knowledge, you can solve complex problems. You think from first principles and structure your ideas sharply, resist biases, and pay attention to the details that matter.
• Drive. You’re extremely ambitious in everything you do and your initiative, effort, and tenacity match the intensity of your ambition. You feel deeply responsible for your work and hold yourself to a high—and rising—bar.
• Team spirit. You give generously and without expectation of return, support the best idea, not your own, and are always happy to get your hands dirty to help your team. You’re reliable, honest, and transparent.
• Proficiency in English. You read, write, and speak proficiently in English.

What we offer

• Incredibly talented, entrepreneurial teams. You’ll work in small, result‑oriented, autonomous teams alongside some of the brightest people in your field.
• An exceptional opportunity for growth. We hire individuals of outstanding potential and place them in the ideal position to thrive. Spooners in their 20s lead products worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and if you’ve got what it takes, you’ll soon be playing an essential role in major projects.
• All of these benefits. Flexible hours, remote working, unlimited backing for learning and training, top‑of‑the‑market health insurance, a rich relocation package, generous parental support, and a yearly retreat to a stunning location. We help each Spooner set up the conditions to do their best work.
• Competitive pay. For a candidate with considerable relevant experience, the annual salary on offer ranges from £196,764 to £398,287 in London and from €188,848 to €381,878 elsewhere in Europe. Compensation varies by location and expected impact and grows rapidly with experience. For exceptional capability, we may offer compensation beyond the usual ranges. If you’re offered a permanent contract, you’ll also receive some pay in company equity at a discounted price. If relocating to Italy, you may enjoy a 50% tax cut.

Commitment & contract

Permanent or fixed‑term. Full‑time.

Location

Milan (Italy), London (UK) or remote in selected countries.

Before you apply

If you’ve applied before but didn’t receive an offer, we recommend waiting at least one year before applying again.

Bending Spoons is a demanding environment. We’re extremely ambitious and hold ourselves—and one another—to a high standard. While this leads to extraordinary learning, achievement, and career growth, it also requires significant commitment.

To help you ramp up quickly and set yourself up for success, we recommend spending your first few months working from our Milan office, regardless of your long‑term work location. It’s the best way to rapidly absorb our company culture and build trust with your new teammates. We’ll support you with generous travel and accommodation assistance. After that, you’re welcome to work from our offices in Milan or London, or remotely from approved countries—depending on what we agree on at the offer stage.

If the role speaks to you and you’re excited to give your best, we’d love to hear from you. Apply now—we can’t wait to meet you.