Senior Indirect Tax Manager

Dyson GmbH; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Dyson is seeking a Senior VAT Manager for the EMEA region to lead VAT compliance across multiple European entities. You will manage a small team, coordinate with external advisors, and ensure timely filings and payments.

The role requires a degree in accounting or tax, strong VAT technical experience, and excellent communication to partner with the business and auditors. Dyson emphasizes a comprehensive rewards package and an on-site working policy.

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent, with an accounting and/or tax qualification.
• Proven record of managing large compliance programmes across multiple jurisdictions.
• Ability to partner with and to hold to account external advisors.
• Strong VAT technical and operational experience gained in-house or a mix.
• Excellent verbal and written communicator with stakeholder abilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead the VAT team for the EMEA region and oversee monthly VAT filings.
• Manage two VAT specialists and coordinate data extraction from SAP.
• Review filings prepared by external advisors prior to submission.
• Ensure timely VAT payments and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Drive process improvements and respond to external audits.
• Provide VAT input to cross‑functional projects and systems implementations.

Skills

VAT expertise

Stakeholder management

People leadership

Communication skills

Education

Degree in accounting or tax

Tools

SAP ERP

Job description

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 experienced individual to lead the VAT team for the EMEA region. As Senior VAT Manager for EMEA, you will be responsible for overseeing the VAT compliance for the region and providing VAT advise and support to the business. This includes:

• Managing and 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 and where necessary, responding to audits.
• Managing a team of two VAT specialists to ensure the 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.
• Ensuring the review and approval of all filings prepared by external advisors, prior to its submission to governmental authorities.
• Ensuring all VAT payments are made by the required deadlines to tax authorities, following submission of the returns.
• Ownership and approval of all VAT balance sheet reconciliations and other compliance oversight controls.
• Interfacing with the business in carrying out assurance reviews and testing to identify weaknesses and improvements while driving change in other teams’ processes to deliver improved controls and more efficient VAT reporting.
• Responding to non-standard requests received from external stakeholders, including tax authorities, external auditors and other areas of the business.
• Leading VAT technical input of wider business projects with VAT and systems implementation with other key stakeholders.

About You

We're looking for someone who is:

• Educated to degree level or equivalent, with an accounting and/or tax qualification.
• Proven record of managing large compliance programmes across multiple jurisdictions.
• Ability to partner with and to hold to account external advisors.
• Strong technical and operational VAT experience gained in-house or a combination of in-house and in-practice.
• An excellent verbal and written communicator.
• Proven ability to build relationships across the business, lead people and manage multiple stakeholders.
• 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.

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.