Accounting Manager, VAT Compliance

At Genmab, we are dedicated to building extra[not]ordinary® futures, together, by developing antibody products and groundbreaking, knock-your-socks-off KYSO antibody medicines® that change lives and the future of cancer treatment and serious diseases. We strive to create, champion and maintain a global workplace where individuals’ unique contributions are valued and drive innovative solutions to meet the needs of our patients, care partners, families and employees.

Our people are compassionate, candid, and purposeful, and our business is innovative and rooted in science. We believe that being proudly authentic and determined to be our best is essential to fulfilling our purpose. Yes, our work is incredibly serious and impactful, but we have big ambitions, bring a ton of care to pursuing them, and have a lot of fun while doing so.

Does this inspire you and feel like a fit? Then we would love to have you join us!

Genmab’s Global Finance team is seeking an experienced and motivated Accounting Manager to lead VAT compliance activities. This role is pivotal in ensuring accurate VAT reporting, maintaining strong internal controls, and driving process improvements across jurisdictions. You will work within a dynamic team of finance professionals and collaborate cross-functionally to support business operations.

Responsibilities

• VAT Compliance: Ensure compliance with VAT regulations across multiple jurisdictions. Monitor legislative changes and advise on implications. Identify gaps and work collaboratively to continuously improve and scale the E2E process to support Genmab’s continued commercial growth and expansion.
• VAT Reporting: Prepare and submit timely VAT returns, EU sales, and intrastate reports in coordination with external providers.
• VAT Accounting: Oversee monthly accruals and corrections, VAT related accounts offsets, import taxes and duties and specific VAT adjustments. Perform and review monthly close journal entries and account reconciliations and analyses, ensuring accuracy and completeness and SOX internal control compliance.
• Team Leadership & Support: Manage and coach a team of VAT and accounting professionals by providing guidance, reviewing and approving their work, and coordinating support for VAT-related projects.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Business partner and enhance ways of working with Finance, IT, Legal, Supply Chain, and Clinical Operations to provide VAT guidance and support. Coordinate closely with the Indirect Tax function and other cross functional stakeholders/process owners to continuously identify and implement improvement opportunities that enhance VAT compliance, quality, and operational efficiency.
• Internal Controls & Documentation: Develop and maintain SOPs and internal VAT related controls and operating effectiveness. Ensure organized record-keeping of VAT transactions for audit and SOX readiness.
• Audit Support: Liaise with internal and external auditors during VAT audits, providing necessary documentation and insights, and remediating improvement areas.
• Process Improvement & Automation: Lead cross functional process change management and ERP enhancements to optimize VAT logic and automate reconciliations. Support implementation of indirect tax platforms.
• VAT Governance: Maintain and enhance VAT policies, procedures, and documentation for existing and new processes and internal control changes.
• Additional responsibilities may be required to support business needs/priorities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required; CPA, CA, or MBA preferred
• 6+ years of experience in public and multinational accounting, with strong EU VAT expertise (including Danish VAT)
• Proven experience managing tax authority interactions and audits
• ERP experience (e.g., SAP FI/CO, Tax Engines) preferred
• Prior team leadership and coaching & talent development experience
• Strong analytical, reporting, and communication skills
• Fluent in English; Danish is a plus
• Comfortable managing multiple priorities and driving cross-functional initiatives
• Executive presence and ability to work effectively in a matrix environment

About You

• You are genuinely passionate about our purpose
• You bring precision and excellence to all that you do
• You believe in our rooted-in-science approach to problem-solving
• You are a generous collaborator who can work in teams with a broad spectrum of backgrounds
• You take pride in enabling the best work of others on the team
• You can grapple with the unknown and be innovative
• You have experience working in a fast-growing, dynamic company (or a strong desire to)
• You work hard and are not afraid to have a little fun while you do so!

Locations
Genmab maximizes the efficiency of an agile working environment, when possible, for the betterment of employee work-life balance. Our offices are crafted as open, community-based spaces that work to connect employees while being immersed in our powerful laboratories. Whether you’re in one of our office spaces or working remotely, we thrive on connecting with each other to innovate.

About Genmab
Genmab is an international biotechnology company with a core purpose to improve the lives of patients through innovative and differentiated antibody therapeutics. For 25 years, its hard-working, innovative and collaborative team has invented next-generation antibody technology platforms and harnessed translational, quantitative and data sciences, resulting in a proprietary pipeline including bispecific T-cell engagers, antibody-drug conjugates, next-generation immune checkpoint modulators and effector function-enhanced antibodies. By 2030, Genmab’s vision is to transform the lives of people with cancer and other serious diseases with Knock-Your-Socks-Off (KYSO®) antibody medicines.

Established in 1999, Genmab is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark with international presence across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. For more information, please visit Genmab.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.

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