Tax Manager

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Located in the financial heart of Frankfurt, WPP Deutschland Holding GmbH & Co. KG serves as the central hub for critical functions like finance, legal, and especially tax, supporting a prestigious network of renowned advertising agencies within the German WPP group. You'll be part of the WPP Group, a true global powerhouse and the world's leading force in media, communications, experience, commerce, and technology.

As a multi-billion Euro enterprise with a significant global footprint, WPP's operations span across 110 countries, generating substantial annual turnover. This immense scale translates directly into a dynamic and highly complex international tax landscape.

For a Tax professional in Frankfurt, this means a unique opportunity: to apply your expertise within a strategically vital corporate environment, managing high-value and intricate tax matters. You will act as a key strategic partner to our agencies, directly contributing to the financial health and success of leading global brands and navigating the sophisticated tax challenges inherent in a global market leader.

Why we're hiring:

As a Tax Manager, you will support the Tax Director Germany in all tax matters of the German holding companies and the operating agencies. As part of the global tax team, you will form an important interface between the tax department and our group companies in Germany. You will work closely with the local and global finance teams and external consultants to identify and address local tax issues.

You will report to the Tax Director Germany and work closely with the International Tax Director (Europe) based in London to support the Group's financial and strategic objectives from a tax perspective. This role gives you the opportunity to gain interesting experience by being involved in a wide range of tax projects, from tax compliance to strategic planning, allowing you to continuously develop and expand your tax expertise.

You will have the opportunity to work with experienced professionals in finance or through cross-departmental work and develop your skills in a global environment.

What You'll Be Doing:

Tax compliance and reporting in the area of corporate taxes, in particular income taxes, withholding taxes, transfer pricing and indirect taxes.

• Establish and maintain close working relationships with internal stakeholders, external tax advisors and the tax authorities.


• Management of the annual tax return cycle for the German income tax group, including coordination with the local finance teams and external tax advisors to ensure the timely submission of returns.


• Management and reconciliation of tax assessments and tax payments, review of tax calculations.


• Ensuring timely reporting of financial information for tax reporting purposes (e.g., for tax provisions and external annual audits).


• Support of group companies in tax audits.


• Processing of enquiries from the group companies and the tax authorities.


• Cooperation with the Transfer Pricing Team in the preparation of transfer pricing documentation.

M&A / Reorganisations

• Close cooperation with external advisors and WPP's internal M&A and legal teams to structure transactions.


• Monitoring of post-acquisition integration and structuring.


• Tax support and cooperation with the group companies in connection with the simplification of the group structure.

Controls & Risk Management

• Supporting Group companies in identifying and managing/avoiding tax risks by driving initiatives to continuously improve tax processes, controls and systems.


• Creation of guidelines.


• Training of finance teams.

What you'll need:

• Experience as a tax professional in business taxes and the ability to work in an organised and independent manner.


• Strong economic understanding as well as strategic and analytical thinking.


• Very good interpersonal skills as well as the ability to work as part of a cross-functional global team.


• Very good knowledge of German and English, both written and spoken.


• Successfully completed business administration or law studies (ideally with a focus on taxes), alternatively a successfully completed degree in finance or many years of experience in corporate tax law.


• Tax advisor exam (CTA qualified) ideally.

Who you are:

• You’re open: We are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views. We are open-minded: to new ideas, new partnerships, new ways of working.


• You’re optimistic: We believe in the power of creativity, technology and talent to create brighter futures or our people, our clients and our communities. We approach all that we do with confidence: to try the new and to seek the unexpected.


• You’re extraordinary: we are stronger together: through collaboration we achieve the amazing. We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; we deliver extraordinary every day.

What we'll give you:

• Passionate, driven people – We champion a culture of people that do extraordinary work.


• Scale and opportunity – We offer the opportunity to create, influence and deliver projects at a scale that is unparalleled in the industry.


• Challenging and stimulating work – Unique work and the opportunity to join a group of creative problem solvers. Are you up for the challenge? 

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