Lead VAT Accountant

Dyson Institute; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Dyson Institute is seeking a Lead VAT Accountant to support the EMEA VAT team, overseeing VAT compliance across multiple European entities. You will work with external advisors, review filings, and drive improvements in controls and reporting.

We value analytical, solution-minded professionals with SAP and accounting familiarity, capable of collaborating across functions in a fast-paced, global environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in a VAT function within a large organisation.
• Experience with VAT in one or more European jurisdictions.
• SAP knowledge and a background in accounting is advantageous.
• Analytical, numerical and detail-oriented mindset with strong Excel skills.
• Excellent time management, collaboration and proactive problem solving.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate with external advisors to prepare and submit monthly VAT filings across multiple European entities and territories.
• Extract data from SAP ERP, analyze and report to advisors for filings.
• Review and approve filings prepared by external advisors for submission to authorities.
• Initiate VAT payments after filing and ensure deadlines are met.
• Oversee controls, cash tax management and VAT balance sheet reconciliations.

Skills

VAT expertise

Analytical thinking

Excel skills

Communication

Tools

SAP

Job description

About Us

Dyson is growing fast, and our ambition is huge – more categories, more locations, and more people. Pioneering technology takes more than just inventive engineers. At Dyson, we take a problem-solving approach to everything we do. Our Tax team manages and balances complex tax challenges across our global business. The Group Tax function is focused on supporting all areas of the business with growth plans and day-to-day operations, along with meeting our tax compliance obligations.

About The Role

We are looking for an individual to join our EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) VAT team. As a Lead VAT Accountant, you will support the Senior VAT Manager for EMEA in overseeing the VAT compliance for the region and providing VAT advise and support to the business.

Your specific responsibilities

• Working with external advisors to ensure the timely preparation and submission of monthly VAT filings (VAT return, Intrastat, EC Sales Lists etc) across multiple European entities and territories.
• Monthly extraction of financial data from our SAP ERP system, analysing it to ensure complete and accurate information is reported, for onward provision to external advisors who will prepare the necessary filings.
• Review and approval of filings prepared by external advisors, for subsequent submission to governmental authorities.
• Initiating VAT payment requests following submission of the returns, ensuring payments are made by the necessary deadline.
• Oversight of compliance control processes, including cash tax management and forecasting, and preparation of VAT balance sheet reconciliations to a set deadline.
• Play a key role interfacing between advisors and the business to investigate queries and validate treatments.
• Working with other teams to drive improvement in their processes to deliver improved controls and more efficient VAT reporting.
• Drafting responses to non-standard requests received from external stakeholders, tax authorities, external auditors and other areas of the business etc.

About You

• An individual with three years plus experience of working in a VAT function, ideally within a large organisation.
• Existing experience of VAT in one or more European jurisdictions is required.
• Knowledge of SAP and a background in accounting advantageous.
• Analytical and accurate, inquisitive, a problem-solver, numerical, with good Excel skills and an eye for detail.
• An excellent time manager, multi-tasker, communicator, collaborator, influencer, pro-active and able to take initiative.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, complex, ever-changing environment.

Reward

At Dyson, Reward goes beyond just salary and bonuses. Through a comprehensive package of Financial, Lifestyle, and Health Benefits, we provide support tailored to every stage of life and the moments that matter most.

Working Policy

Our campus culture is built on connection-collaboration in person, shared creativity, and hands-on learning. That’s why we don’t offer a hybrid arrangement. Working side by side powers our best ideas, fuels belonging, and keeps us pushing boundaries together.

#LI-KH1 Dyson is an equal opportunity employer. We know that great minds don’t think alike, and it takes all kinds of minds to make our technology so unique. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other any other dimension of diversity.

At Dyson we are focused on solving the problems that others have ignored; solving them first using our technology and ingenuity. In order to achieve this we need to pioneer technologies that are different and authentic. This is the core of what we do and who we are. We must strive to create the future, every single day by developing new things, different things, things that go against the grain with a diverse and global team of ingenious minds.

Dyson employs 14,000 people and is present in more than 80 countries. And while we are growing fast we want Dyson to remain a start-up in spirit with the freedom of experimentation and learning, constantly reinventing our products as well as reinventing how we work, how we sell and how we support our owners. At the same time we are working through the James Dyson Foundation, James Dyson Award and Dyson Institute to inspire future engineers and pioneering a new approach to engineering education. Underlining everything we do in this diverse environment is the need to always show respect, supporting each other as one team to overcome whatever challenges we encounter. We drive empowerment, development and equality in an inclusive environment for our people around the world. The future doesn’t just happen, we look to make it happen, to achieve leaps through pioneering new ideas.