Indirect Tax Specialist

taxwire.com; Deutschland; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company-covered benefits

Paid time off

Job summary

Taxwire is hiring an Indirect Tax Specialist to perform high-volume filings and registrations across US sales tax and Global VAT. You will work directly with our Tax Lead and Operations Lead, handling deadline-driven, detailed work with a path toward automation.

The role demands accuracy, organization, and a continuous-improvement mindset, with long-term opportunities to grow into a Compliance Team Manager as the team scales.

Qualifications

• Detail-driven and reliable; credibility depends on accuracy and deadlines.
• Organized; can manage hundreds of tasks across jurisdictions.
• Continuous-improvement mindset; seeks faster, more reliable cycles.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and file high volumes of US state and local sales tax returns and European VAT returns.
• Manage filing calendars and ensure deadlines are never missed.
• Work with tax authorities and Departments of Revenue to resolve notices, rejections, portal issues, and questions.
• Maintain accurate records and audit trails.
• Complete sales tax and VAT registrations across jurisdictions.
• Gather and organize information and documentation for registrations.
• Send clear follow-ups to collect missing information from customers.
• Track registration status and follow up with jurisdictions.
• Maintain portal access and account details across states and countries.
• Spot recurring issues and inefficiencies.
• Suggest workflow and tooling improvements.
• Provide structured feedback to product & engineering to drive automation.

Skills

Detail-oriented

Organized

Continuous improvement

Accounting basics

Excel

English fluency

High-volume execution

Tools

Tax portals

Excel

Job description

About Taxwire

Taxwire is building the last global indirect-tax platform finance teams will ever need. We help companies understand their tax exposure, calculate and collect the right amount, automate registrations and filings, and stay compliant as they grow across jurisdictions.

Indirect tax is high-stakes, fragmented, and unforgiving. Rules change constantly, vary by product and location, and create real financial risk when companies get them wrong.

We hire people with high ownership, strong judgment, and low ego. Everyone at Taxwire is expected to understand the customer, solve messy problems end to end, and build systems that scale. We move quickly because our customers depend on us to get it right.

We’ve raised approximately $25 million, serve hundreds of SMB and mid-market companies, and continue to win customers away from legacy providers. We’re proud to have had zero churn to date.

If you want to solve a massive, permanent problem alongside experienced tax experts and product builders, Taxwire is the place to do it.

About the role

Working hours are flexible, with meaningful daily overlap with US East Coast or West Coast business hours. Filing cycles are deadline-driven and include busy periods; we care about outcomes, not the exact hours you keep.

We're hiring an Indirect Tax Specialist to work directly with our Tax Lead and Operations Lead to execute high-volume compliance work — filings and registrations — across both US sales tax and Global VAT.

This is a hands-on execution role. You will file a lot of returns. You will complete a lot of registrations. The job rewards focus, patience, organization, and accuracy across hundreds of tasks. If you take pride in getting things right at scale, you'll do well here.

Long-term, you'll help us automate this work with in-house AI tooling and by partnering with our engineering team. But, make no mistake, today this job involves a lot of detailed, deadline-driven dirty work.

If you mainly want research, advisory, or strategic tax work, this is not the role.

We're open to multiple experience levels. The right candidate may enter as a specialist or senior specialist, with a path toward Compliance Team Manager as we scale.

What you’ll do

Filings execution:

• Prepare and file high volumes of US state and local sales tax returns and European VAT returns

• Manage filing calendars and ensure deadlines are never missed

• Work with tax authorities and Departments of Revenue to resolve notices, rejections, portal issues, and questions

• Maintain accurate records and audit trails

Registrations & account maintenance:

• Complete sales tax and VAT registrations across jurisdictions

• Gather and organize the information and documentation for each registration

• Send clear, written follow-ups to collect missing information from customers when needed

• Track registration status and follow up with jurisdictions

• Maintain portal access and account details across states and countries

Operational improvement:

• Spot recurring issues and inefficiencies

• Suggest workflow and tooling improvements

• Provide structured feedback to product & engineering to drive automation

What you need

• Detail-driven and reliable. Our credibility depends on accuracy. You catch errors before they ship and don’t miss deadlines.

• Organized. You can manage hundreds of moving tasks across jurisdictions without losing track of any of them.

• Continuous-improvement mindset. You don’t just complete the work; you look for ways to make the next cycle faster and more reliable.

• 3–6 years of relevant experience with hands-on accounting or indirect-tax compliance work

• Experience preparing and filing US sales-tax returns and working inside tax portals

• Familiarity with accounting fundamentals

• Strong Excel skills and comfort handling structured financial data

• Fluent written and spoken English

• Comfort with high-volume, repetitive execution work

Nice to have

• European VAT filing experience

• Experience with both US sales-tax and VAT filings

• Sales-tax or VAT registration experience

• An accounting background or qualification

• Experience at a filing or compliance provider, shared-services team, accounting firm, or Big Four firm

• Experience in high-throughput operations where accuracy and deadlines were the bar

Why work at Taxwire

• Work directly with Tax and Operations leadership on a global compliance platform

• Help turn hands-on compliance workflows into scalable, AI-assisted systems

• Grow from specialist or senior specialist toward Compliance Team Manager as the team scales

Why you shouldn’t work at Taxwire

• You primarily want research, advisory, or strategic tax work

• You dislike high-volume, repetitive, deadline-driven execution

• You can’t maintain meaningful overlap with US business hours

Benefits

• Company-covered benefits

• Paid time off