Tax Manager

About this role

Responsibilities

• You will review the CIT declarations and linked filings for your countries in scope. The actual declaration tasks are fully outsourced to external tax consulting firms.
• You will drive and manage tax compliance matters for the Group, including the implementation and oversight of a tax compliance monitoring solution. This involves tracking the tax declaration statuses for all legal entities and coordinating the timely filing of declarations in collaboration with local stakeholders, with a focus on Corporate Income Tax (CIT).
• You will coordinate and manage local tax audits, ensuring a smooth process and the protection of group interests and positions.
• During the year-end closing and quarterly statements, you will prepare and review the deferred and actual tax calculations for all consolidated legal entities in your scope.
• Develop and establish internal guidelines and drive the implementation of new requirements.
• Drive the continuous improvement of tax compliance measures, including automation and digitization of processes.
• You have between three and five years of experience working in international tax (either in a global tax advisory firm, the tax department of an industrial company, or a comparable position - apprenticeships and time as a working student count as well).
• You have successfully completed a university degree in economics or tax; alternatively, you have completed a commercial education or apprenticeship with qualified training.
• You have a general knowledge of European tax regimes, an analytical mindset, and a general understanding/comprehension of international tax principles and mechanisms.
• Ideally, you have a good knowledge or affinity for tax accounting processes.
• You develop a high sense of responsibility with an owner-mentality for your work field and know how to manage fast-close processes in an international group.

Requirements

• You have strong coordination skills. Experience in managing outsourced tax services or multinational engagements is a plus.
• You have good MS Office skills and respectively Google equivalents, especially in MS Excel. This position comes with multiple data-driven tasks.
• Fluency in German and English is required due to regular communication with local stakeholders and international teams.
• Flexible working arrangements
• LinkedIn Learning
• Sabbatical & special leave policies
• WeRoad partnership
• Birthday, 24th + 31st December off
• Short term EU work policy
• Mobility Credit
• Employee assistance program

About FREENOW

We are Freenow, the European taxi app with the broadest multi-mobility offering, available in 9 markets and over 180 cities. Our app gives millions of passengers the freedom to move with a wide choice of services including taxis, private hire vehicles, carsharing, car rental, e-scooters, e-bikes, e-mopeds and public transport.Headquartered in Hamburg and led by our CEO Thomas Zimmermann, we are on a mission to make urban mobility more efficient, sustainable and inclusive.Since July 2025 we have been part of Lyft, a global mobility platform connecting riders and drivers for billions of rides across North America and Europe. Together we are building a more caring and connected world, creating new opportunities for innovation, growth and impact.