Junior finance and tax manager

Bending Spoons; Madrid; Hybrid; EUR 66,000 - 108,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options at a discount

Flexible hours

Remote working

Learning & training budget

Top-tier health insurance

Job summary

Bending Spoons is seeking a talented, driven, and collaborative finance professional to tackle complex financial questions across accounting, corporate finance, tax, and business strategy in a multinational setting. You will evaluate acquisitions, incentive plans, intercompany arrangements, and accounting treatments to improve group performance.

Responsibilities span evaluating tax implications, designing transaction structures, and leading improvements in group operations with a focus on

Qualifications

• Reasoning ability: Given the necessary knowledge, you can solve complex problems with first principles and sharp structure.
• Drive: Highly ambitious, proactive, accountable for work and growth.
• Team spirit: Supportive, selfless, reliable, and transparent team player.
• Proficiency in English: Read, write and speak fluent/proficient English.

Responsibilities

• Financial analysis & decision-making: Build models, run valuations, and prepare recommendations across initiatives and group operations.
• Acquisitions & strategic projects: Handle financial and tax aspects of acquisitions and post‑acquisition integration.
• Accounting & tax operations: Oversee corporate income tax, VAT, and related tax filings and incentives.
• International operations & transfer pricing: Structure intercompany transactions and transfer pricing documentation.
• Group structure & reorganizations: Model financial and tax impact of holding structures and reorganizations.

Skills

Reasoning ability

Drive

Team spirit

Proficiency in English

Job description

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

In pursuit of this objective, we acquire and improve digital businesses, not to sell on, but to own and operate for the long term. The transformations we make are often deep—designed to speed up innovation, benefit customers, and strengthen business performance. Here, hierarchy is minimal and teams are small and talent-dense. We operate established products with the ambition, agility, and urgency of a startup. Across the company, we integrate AI deeply into how we work so that human judgment and machine intelligence reinforce each other.

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 tackle financial problems that sit at the intersection of accounting, corporate finance, tax, and business strategy. You’ll work on questions that span our businesses and geographies—from evaluating the financial and tax implications of an acquisition or a new incentive plan, to designing intercompany arrangements, analyzing accounting treatments, and improving how our group operates.

A few examples of your responsibilities

• Financial analysis & decision-making. Analyze complex business questions through a financial, accounting, and tax lens. Build models, run valuations, assess alternative scenarios, and turn your analysis into clear recommendations on topics ranging from new business initiatives to how we structure operations across the group.
• Acquisitions & strategic projects. Work on the financial and tax aspects of acquisitions and other strategic projects, from due diligence to post-acquisition integration. Assess potential risks and opportunities, coordinate with external advisors where specialist expertise is needed, and help design effective transaction structures and post-acquisition integrations.
• Accounting & tax operations. Own important accounting and tax matters across the group, from planning to compliance, covering corporate income tax, VAT, and other relevant taxes, including tax liability calculations, accounting and tax treatments, and filings. Work on topics such as equity incentive plans, contractors, welfare programs, and fringe benefits, and continuously improve the processes behind them.
• International operations & transfer pricing. Help shape how transactions and relationships between our international entities are structured. Analyze their financial and tax implications, manage transfer pricing activities and documentation, and work with internal stakeholders and external advisors to develop solutions that are effective and compliant.
• Group structure & reorganizations. Design how the group is organized. Evaluate holding structures, profit distributions, and internal reorganizations such as mergers, demergers, and entity simplifications. Model their financial and tax impact, and help define and execute the most effective setup.

What we look for

• Reasoning ability. Given the necessary knowledge, you can solve complex problems. You think from first principles, and structure your ideas sharply. You resist the influence of biases. You identify and take care of 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. You hold yourself to a high—and rising—bar.
• Team spirit. You give generously and without the expectation of receiving in return. You support the best idea, not your idea. You're 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 go to great lengths to hire individuals of outstanding potential—then, our priority is to put 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, too.
• Competitive pay and access to company equity at a discount. Typical annual salary offers range from £85,797 to £151,436 in London and from €66,065 to €107,837 elsewhere in Europe. The lower end of these ranges applies to candidates with little or no relevant experience, while exceptionally experienced candidates may receive offers of up to £398,287 in London or €303,108 elsewhere in Europe. Candidates offered a permanent contract may choose to receive part of their compensation in discounted company equity.
• All. 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.

Commitment & contract

Permanent or fixed-term. Full-time.

Location

Milan (Italy), London (UK), Madrid (Spain), Warsaw (Poland).

The selection process

In our screening process, we prioritize verifiable signals of excellence, regardless of seniority. There are no preferential paths beyond what your application demonstrates, and we evaluate every candidate through the same process. Some people hold back because they feel they lack experience or have an “imperfect” CV. If you like the role and believe you could excel over time, don’t self-reject. All applications go through our careers page, which is the only way to be considered. If you pass our screening, you’ll be asked to complete one or more tests. They are challenging, may involve unfamiliar problems, and can take several hours. To learn more about what to expect throughout the selection process, you can find additional information here. We set the bar high and won’t extend an offer until we’re confident we’ve found the right candidate. This is why a job may remain open for months or be reposted several times. We consider all applicants for employment and provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities—please let us know through this form.

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 we hold ourselves—and one another—to a high standard. While this tends to lead 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 expect you to spend most days in our Milan office during your first few months with us, 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 one of our offices, or remotely from approved countries—depending on what we agree at the offer stage.