Head of Tax Compliance & Reporting

Join us in this role where you’ll spearhead the development and implementation of global direct and indirect tax compliance strategies, ensuring adherence to all relevant regulations. You will lead a dedicated team, providing strategic advice and enabling continuous development of relevant highly skilled tax specialists to deliver tax efficient in-house solutions and support the green transformation.

Welcome to Global Tax Compliance & Reporting
You will be leading the Global Tax Compliance & Reporting team where you, together with your colleagues, will ensure quality of compliance with international tax laws and regulations. This role maintains an efficient and effective organization enabling continuous development of the team and the tax compliance and tax accounting processes. The team’s primary tasks include handling all direct and indirect tax compliance requirements, cooperating with internal and external stakeholders and ensuring a strong international network of contacts in finance functions throughout the Business Units and Group.

As a team, we value collaboration, integrity, and innovation. We believe it is essential to promote mutual trust in the corporate tax system, and our ambition is to apply best practices and act in accordance with applicable legislation on tax computation and tax reporting to ensure that we pay the right amount of tax at the right time in the countries where we operate.

You’ll play an important role in:

• Managing global tax compliance and reporting functions with a total of 20 colleagues globally
• Defining, developing, communicates and implements direct and indirect tax strategy and tax risk control framework
• Ensuring close corporation with other teams including Group Finance, Accounting, M&A Tax, Transfer Pricing and Digital Tax Solutions
• Providing user-friendly information about our tax positions and strategic tax advice to senior management
• Maintaining day to day relation with tax authorities and manage direct and indirect tax audits globally
• Fostering a strong culture of compliance and integrity.

To succeed in the role, you:

• Have an extensive knowledge of global tax laws and regulations
• Have an extensive experience in global tax compliance and reporting, or equivalent experience
• Are a strong leader with excellent communication skills
• Possess strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Take ownership and are able to manage multiple priorities
• Demonstrate a commitment to continuous learning and development.

Maybe you’ve read the above and can see you have some transferable skills, even though they don’t quite match all the points. If you think you can bring something to the team, we still encourage you to apply.

Shape the future with us
Send your application to us as soon as possible. We’ll be conducting interviews on a continuous basis and reserve the right to take down the advert when we’ve found the right candidate.

As an applicant or employee, you may request reasonable work and position accommodation or adjustments via [email protected].

Please note that for your application to be taken into consideration, you must submit your application via our online career pages and answer the screening questions relevant for your country. We don't take applications or inquiries from external recruiters or agencies into account for this position.

About the job
Application deadline:
22 February 2025

Location:
Gentofte, DK

Field of work:
Finance and controlling

Employment type:
Permanent

Work hours:
Full-time

Workplace:
Hybrid (office and home-working)

Imagine a future with Ørsted

About Ørsted
- We develop, construct, and operate offshore and onshore wind farms, solar energy farms, storage facilities, and bioenergy plants in Europe, Asia, and North America.

- Our vision is to create a world that runs entirely on green energy.

- We’ve been ranked as one of the world’s most sustainable energy companies for the past six years.

- We’re headquartered in Denmark.

- We have over 8,600 employees, working in 15 countries and growing.

An inclusive team
Ørsted wants all employees to have the same opportunities for impact and growth, regardless of age, nationality, disability, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation or beliefs. We’re committed to secure an inclusive work environment characterised by a respect for all people so everyone feels free to openly share their input and ideas.