Tax Operations & Knowledge Specialist

About us

Blue dot is a market pioneer, developing the first technology-based and dynamically updated financial platform for employee-driven transactions in the market. The all-in-one Blue dot Tax Platform harnesses digitization, tax compliance, and automation to process and analyze VAT, Taxable Employee Benefits, and Corporate Income Tax employee expense data. We provide our technology to a large portfolio of Fortune 500 clients, while partnering with global brands like SAP, PwC, KDS, and many more. Blue dot is fully dedicated to providing its clients with value, not only in terms of additional financial and time savings, but especially in the reaching the highest level of data compliance.

The company is at an exciting inflection point, coming from the combination of technology breakthrough, expanded offering beyond VAT/GST to Taxable Employee Benefits and Corporate Income Tax, and new strategic global partnership agreements with industry leader

Becoming a member of the Tax Knowledge Team

We have an open position for a Tax Operations & Knowledge Specialist in Blue dot’s Tax Team. As the title suggests, it a broad role with different responsibilities and therefore especially of interest for current Big 4 indirect tax advisors that would like to go past delivering the memo to a client, but actually work in detail on designing and implementing solutions that help our clients to improve the quality and efficiency of their processes. You will be in direct contact with the clients and are expected to manage your own projects, taking into account both the tax compliance and commercial value.

The Tax Team is touching many of the key processes and solution capabilities within Blue dot and is acting as the interface between the legal requirements and solution settings, content and knowledge development within the organization. One of the key responsibilities will be to keep our system settings up-to-date…. globally. Also, you will be closely involved in the onboarding process of new clients, understanding their requirements and properly configure these in the solution and ensuring the expected value from the solutions is delivered to these clients.

The tax team is a diverse team, with different nationalities. The place of work for this position is flexible to a certain extent, although it has our preference to have someone joining our Dutch office, which is located on a short bike or tram ride from Amsterdam or to work from Warsaw (Poland), where the other part of the team sits. We do facilitate the relocation of foreign applicants to the Netherlands.

The position allows you to develop and further enrich your experience in the field of tax technology and legal tax systems globally, while working directly with some of the biggest companies globally

Responsibilities

1. Onboarding new clients

• Understand the global footprint of the client and their supply-chain model

• Understand the client’s finance and tax process

• Manage the project of onboarding these new clients to our solutions with the required level of customization

2. Onboarding and maintaining countries

• Collect the local legal requirements for our developers to add new countries to our solutions.

• Track legal updates for our currently supported countries and define the requirements for our developers to make the required changes to the system

• Understand and be able to explain more complex concepts such as e-invoicing requirements to our developers and be closely involved in testing new features.

3. Sales support

• Act as the subject matter expert during new business opportunities.

• Support on creating articles, blogposts and webinars from a tax content perspective.

4. Client support

• Assist our account managers on answering more complex tax-oriented questions from our existing clients

• Support clients in their system customization to increase the value they are getting from the system

• Brain-storm on the requirements for new features requested by clients

5. Training

• Support in the onboarding from a tax knowledge perspective of new employees

• Support in keeping the internal country specific tax documentation up-to-date

Requirements

• Professional Tax advisor experience in one of the Big 4 or a similar professional firm;

• Minimum of two years of relevant working in experience in EU VAT / Indirect taxation;

• Educational level: minimum Bachelor or equivalent, or a very specific relevant working experience

• Language: Proficient in English. Candidates with proficient French or German language skills will be accelerated in the interview process.

• Personal Skills set: multi-tasker; pro-active; an eye for detail; ability to communicate in a professional corporate business manner; self-starter; natural drive for process improvement; not afraid to reach out to new business contacts / third parties by phone; take pride in closing a process to the end; taking ownership.

Position

• Tax Operations & Knowledge Specialist

• FTE: 32-40 hours p/w. or 0,8 FTE – 1 FTE

• Work location: Amstelveen (Amsterdam) – the Netherlands, Warsaw – Poland or remote.

• Reporting to senior tax manager

• International work field

• Solution configuration for international clients

• Direct contact with clients and possibility to lead own projects

• Internal Tax Expert

• Young, dynamic and international team of former tax advisors

• Possibility to work on tax technology first-hand

Foreign applicants / Highly skilled migrants / Highly skilled students

• 30% income tax exemption – foreign applicants may be eligible for a temporarily 30% income tax exemption. If you are eligible, Blue dot will support the application process.

• Highly skilled migrants – Blue dot is recognized by the IND as an official sponsor for Highly skilled migrants and will support the application process if the candidate meets the conditions.

• Foreign students – Blue dot is recognized by the IND as an official sponsor for foreign students that want to work during or after their studies and will support the application process if the candidate meets the conditions.