Tax Lead DACH (m/f/d)

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Date: Jun 6, 2025

Location: Köln, DE

Company: AkzoNobel

About AkzoNobel

Since 1792, we’ve been supplying the innovative paints and coatings that help to color people’s lives and protect what matters most. Our world class portfolio of brands – including Dulux, International, Sikkens and Interpon – is trusted by customers around the globe. We’re active in more than 150 countries and use our expertise to sustain and enhance the fabric of everyday life. Because we believe every surface is an opportunity. It’s what you’d expect from a pioneering and long-established paints company that’s dedicated to providing sustainable solutions and preserving the best of what we have today – while creating an even better tomorrow. Let’s paint the future together.

For more information please visit www.akzonobel.com

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Our Akzo Nobel GmbH in Cologne is searching for a

Tax Lead DACH (m/f/d)

Your Responsibilties

• Lead and inspire the DACH Tax team
• Optimize the company’s overall tax position in the DACH region
• Ensure full and timely compliance with DACH tax requirements, including Transfer Pricing requirements
• Represent and defend the company’s tax interests during audits and interactions with local tax authorities
• Maintain constructive relationships with tax authorities
• Ensure compliance with the company’s Tax Control Framework and support the coordination and execution of global and regional tax processes, including Transfer Pricing, DAC6 reporting, tax planning, and tax risk assessments
• Provide tax and transfer pricing support for M&A transactions and internal restructurings
• Manage the DACH tax budget, ensuring both external spend and internal resource costs remain within target
• Identify and drive process improvement initiatives to enhance efficiency and reduce cost in tax operations

Your Qualifications

• University degree with a focus in Accounting, Finance, Taxation, or Law; a German tax advisor qualification (Steuerberater/in) is considered an advantage
• Extensive experience in a senior tax role within a multinational company, including leading tax teams
• Strong expertise in German tax law, including corporate tax, VAT, and indirect tax accounting
• In-depth knowledge of transfer pricing, with hands-on experience in German transfer pricing audits and documentation
• Demonstrated ability to interact with German tax authorities and manage tax audits (experience with Austrian and Swiss Tax Authorities a plus)
• Experience working with SAP; knowledge of HFM is a plus
• Strong sense of ownership, with the ability to independently manage and prioritize multiple tasks
• Proactive mindset with excellent problem-solving and decision-making skills
• Fluency in both English and German is required

Your Benefits at AkzoNobel GmbH

• Attractive remuneration
• Above-average pension scheme
• 30 vacation days
• External employee counselling on personal and professional issues
• The possibility of hybrid working
• Direct reporting line to the Group’s Head of Tax

We are looking forward to receiving your application in English including your salary expectations and your earliest availability date via our career page.

If you have any questions, please contact Maria Botha, maria.botha@akzonobel.com

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At AkzoNobel we are highly committed to ensuring an inclusive and respectful workplace where all employees can be their best self. We strive to embrace diversity in a context of tolerance. Our talent acquisition process plays an integral part in this journey, as setting the foundations for a diverse environment. For this reason we train and educate on the implications of our Unconscious Bias in order for our TA and hiring managers to be mindful of them and take corrective actions when applicable. In our organization, all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age or disability.

Requisition ID: 46917

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