Senior Controversy and Advocacy Specialist in Tax

Imagine a future where you’re at the front edge of tax legislation and controversy matters with importance for Ørsted and the global green energy transformation

Join us in this role where you’ll take charge of controversy and advocacy matters in Tax. We offer a dynamic and challenging job where you’ll have every opportunity to develop your competences within international tax, domestic tax, and controversy strategy management. You’ll be part of an energetic, ambitious, and inspiring organisation in a high-paced environment. Our work is focused on supporting the green energy transformation, and tax is a respected and valued discipline across business lines. Working for us, you’ll gain extensive business insight and experience great trust.

Welcome to Tax  
You’ll be part of the M&A Tax team where you, together with your colleagues, will work in a leading in-house tax team and be exposed to a wide variety of complex and challenging tasks. Tax is a part of our company-wide Finance department and is responsible for tax across the business, including domestic and international corporate taxes, tax forecasting, structuring, transfer pricing, VAT, and other indirect taxes.  You’ll be based at our offices in Gentofte in Denmark. As a team, we’re curious, ambitious, and perseverant, and you’ll be working closely together with highly motivated and dedicated colleagues.

You’ll play an important role in:

• monitoring ongoing tax policy and legislative initiatives with a view to assessing the impact for the group
• engaging with policymakers and legislators on legislative initiatives with an impact on Ørsted to ensure alignment between tax policy and energy policy
• cementing our position as a frontrunner in responsible and sustainable tax practices by participating in conferences, drafting articles, and supporting our engagements in the public debate
• being a subject matter expert on interpretation of complex tax regulations to support the other functions in Tax
• supporting on drafting requests for binding rulings, advance pricing agreements, mutual agreement procedures, etc.
• supporting tax audits and tax controversies by e.g. drafting motions and responses and supporting strategy and procedural matters.

To succeed in the role, you:

• have a relevant master's degree such as cand.jur., cand.merc.jur., or another relevant international degree
• have relevant experience from in-house positions with law firms, tax advisors, trade federations, 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. 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 you’re expected to do some travelling in relation to your work, e.g. participate in conferences.

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.