Senior Indirect Tax Manager

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

Job summary

Dyson seeks an experienced Senior VAT Manager for the EMEA region to oversee VAT compliance across European entities and advise the business on VAT matters. You will manage external advisors, supervise two VAT specialists, and ensure timely filings, payments, and reconciliations.

Lead VAT input on projects, build strong internal relationships, and guide teams through changing regulations in a fast-paced environment.

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 technical and operational VAT experience gained in‑house or in‑practice.
• Excellent verbal and written communicator.

Responsibilities

• Managing and overseeing VAT filings across multiple European entities and territories.
• Leading a team of two VAT specialists and coordinating data extraction from SAP ERP.
• Review and approval of all filings prior to submission to authorities.
• Ensure timely VAT payments and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Drive assurance reviews, process improvements, and VAT project support.
• Respond to non-standard requests from tax authorities, auditors, and internal clients.
• Provide VAT input for wider business projects and systems implementations.

Skills

VAT expertise

Compliance management

Stakeholder management

External advisory

SAP ERP

Education

Accounting/Tax degree

Tools

SAP ERP

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.

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 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

• 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.