Tax Consultant

HOLY; Berlin; Hybrid; EUR 90.000 - 140.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Central office in Berlin Mitte

Flexible working hours

Career growth opportunities

Startup culture with flat hierarchies

Pretty fast-paced, ambitious team

Zusammenfassung

HOLY is seeking an in-house tax lead to own tax topics across the group in Germany and beyond. You will translate complex tax requirements into actionable guidance for the business and help scale tax processes for fast growth.

You will own VAT, corporate income tax, and trade tax, coordinating with Accounting and Legal. A hands-on, proactive partner who can build scalable tax controls will thrive here.

Qualifikationen

• 4+ years of relevant tax experience (in-house and/or tax advisory).
• Strong knowledge of the German tax landscape.
• Familiarity with VAT / indirect tax across Europe is a plus.
• Excellent communication skills in German and English.

Aufgaben

• Manage day-to-day tax across the group (VAT, CIT, trade tax).
• Lead VAT/indirect tax topics, registrations, returns, and data quality improvements.
• Coordinate filings with internal stakeholders and external advisors.
• Support month-end and year-end close with audit-ready documentation.
• Act as a business partner to assess tax implications of initiatives and contracts.
• Drive scalable tax processes, templates, and self-serve tooling.
• Monitor regulatory changes and translate them into practical guidance and training.

Kenntnisse

Tax knowledge

Analytical skills

Excel / Google Sheets

Communication skills

German language

English language

Ausbildung

Degree in tax, finance, or law

Steuerberater (strong plus)

Jobbeschreibung

• At HOLY, Tax is a growth enabler, not a back-office blocker. We’re looking for a pragmatic, business-minded inhouse tax wizad to own our tax topics end-to-end and help us scale across markets with speed and confidence
• The mission of the role is to translate complex tax requirements into clear, actionable guidance for the business — ensuring compliance, optimizing outcomes, and building scalable processes while enabling bold, high-speed decision-making
• Own day-to-day tax management across the group (e.g. VAT, corporate income tax, trade tax), partnering closely with Accounting and Legal
• Lead VAT / indirect tax topics, including registrations, periodic returns, reconciliations, and improvements to processes and data quality
• Coordinate filings and deadlines with internal stakeholders and external advisors, ensuring accurate and on-time submissions
• Support month-end and year-end close (e.g. tax provisions) with clean, audit-ready documentation
• Be a proactive business partner for cross-functional teams by assessing tax implications of new initiatives, contracts, promotions, and market entries
• Drive scalable tax processes and controls, including documentation standards, templates, and tooling to make tax “self-serve” where appropriate
• Monitor regulatory changes and translate them into practical guidance, training, and process updates for the organization

Benefits

• Join a successful and growing company
• Huge impact and career growth
• Awesome team of colleagues who are ambitious, funny, down-to-earth, and authentic
• Startup culture with flat hierarchies, fast pace, and personal development
• Central office in Berlin Mitte, flexible working hours, and much more

You thrive in a fast-paced environment, bring strong ownership, and communicate clearly with both finance experts and non-finance stakeholders

You can balance compliance rigor with pragmatic decision-making, and you enjoy improving processes as the company scales

You are a hands-on, structured problem-solver who sees tax as a key element to build the business — not to slow it down

Excellent communication skills in both German and English are a must

4+ years of relevant tax experience (in-house and/or tax advisory), ideally in a fast-growing B2C/D2C company in Germany

Business-oriented, pragmatic mindset with a clear “get-it-done” attitude

Confidence working with accounting data and systems + solid Excel / Google Sheets skills

Degree in tax, finance, law, or comparable qualification (Steuerberater:in is a strong plus)

Strong practical knowledge of the German tax landscape.

Familiarity with VAT / indirect tax topics in a European context is a plus

Experience working with external advisors and auditors; ability to manage timelines and deliver high-quality outputs