Senior or Associate Lead VAT Specialist in M&A Tax

Imagine a future where you’re working with complicated domestic and cross-border VAT challenges and high-profiled M&A transactions 

Join us in this role where you’ll have a one-of-a-kind opportunity to boost your career. In this highly interesting position, you’ll be on the front edge of the energy transformation and provide VAT input for green energy projects that will shape the future. The team consisting of highly motivated and dedicated colleagues is responsible for delivering high-quality tax and VAT advice on a large number of investment opportunities, partnerships, and other M&A transactions supporting the green energy transformation.  

Welcome to Tax 
You’ll be part of the M&A Tax team where you, together with your colleagues, will be part of a leading in-house tax team and exposed to a wide variety of complex and challenging tasks. Our work is focused on supporting the green energy transformation and tax is a respected and valued discipline across business lines. We offer a dynamic and challenging job where you have every opportunity to develop your competences within VAT. You’ll be part of an energetic, ambitious, and inspiring organisation in a high-paced environment. As a team, we’re highly motivated and dedicated in working closely together with the commercial teams and other stakeholders. Working with us, you‘ll gain extensive business insight and experience great trust. 

You’ll play an important role in:  

• providing high-quality VAT input and recommendations on investment opportunities and M&A transactions in existing and new markets globally in line with applicable legislation and our tax policy 

• being proactive in driving processes with internal stakeholders in Tax, Finance, Procurement, and other functions 

• supporting the indirect tax compliance team as a VAT expert, incl. advising on VAT registrations and establishment of VAT groups 

• advising on energy taxes on ad hoc basis 

• reviewing contracts and other relevant material and manage contact with tax lawyers and tax advisors 

• participating in meetings and calls with partners, counterparties, and tax authorities. 

To succeed in the role, you:  

• have a relevant master's degree or another relevant international degree 

• have extensive VAT advisory experience from in-house positions with law firms, VAT advisors, or tax authorities 

• have a proactive and systematic approach to your work tasks 

• are a team player 

• speak and write English fluently. 

Maybe you’ve read the above and can see you have some transferable skills, even though they don’t quite match all the points. You may, for example, be skilled in VAT compliance but have limited advisory experience. If you think you can bring something to the team, we still encourage you to apply.  

Join a global leader in renewable energy 
Ørsted is a growing green energy major and global leader in climate action. With us you’ll play a part in driving change towards a green energy future. You’ll grow your talent in a fast-paced and high-growth industry where you have plenty of opportunities to learn and develop through challenging assignments and industry-leading experts. Here, you can perform in a friendly work environment based on trust, respect, and collaboration. 

Shape the future with us 
Send your application to us as soon as possible. We’ll be conducting interviews on a continuous basis and reserve the right to take down the advert when we’ve found the right candidate. 

As an applicant or employee, you may request reasonable work and position accommodation or adjustments via accomodation@orsted.com. 

Please note that for your application to be taken into consideration, you must submit your application via our online career pages and answer the screening questions relevant for your country.