Tax Director

Tax Director

As the Tax Director, you are responsible for setting the global tax strategy and its implementation /compliance at Backbase. Through your role, you ensure Backbase is in control of all taxes and timely compliance with all tax-related obligations. You lead a team of tax specialists/controllers/accountants, develop policies & frameworks, identify global tax risks, implement tax maintaining tools, optimize existing processes, etc. You are a subject matter expert and a tax advisor at Backbase.

What you'll do

Who you are

• University degree in tax law or fiscal economics;
• More than 12 years of work experience, including several years as senior tax

advisor / Big -4 experience;

• Good understanding of Transfer pricing and driving rulings with the tax office.
• Excellent understanding of Dutch corporate income tax, VAT, and international

taxes,including WHT;

• Good understanding of accounting concepts, tax accounting, and processes;
• Advanced knowledge of tax accounting and financial reporting processes;
• Able to communicate highly tax technical concepts to non-specialists (sales,

legal, HR) clearly and comprehensively;

• Experience in driving WBSO, R&D Credit, Innovation box rulings;
• Excellent command of Dutch and English, both verbal and written.

Functional/technical skills

• Setting out medium- and long-term tax strategy, given international, regional,

and country-specific developments, also in the context of the discussions around the fair taxation of the digital economy- in conjunction with the evolution of the business;

• Develop, monitor, and maintain the tax design for Backbase's corporate structure, especially in light of international tax developments such as BEPS 2.0: Pillar 1 and 2;
• Be the subject matter expert on tax matters within Backbase (CIT, VAT, WHT,

Wage Tax);

• Act as key tax advisor and provide tax support to business (Sales), business support (Finance/HR), and the overall Backbase;
• Developing and maintaining a clear, effective, and efficient Tax policy and Tax Control Framework;
• Optimizing Transfer Pricing structures, and supporting documentation

(including master and local files & compliance);

• Identifying, assessing, reporting, and managing global tax risks;
• Monitoring and managing the global tax positions and tax rate;
• Manage the team in clearing the tax numbers during the year-end external

audit and tax return filings and ensure that the Financial records in NetSuite

reflect the correct tax positions (including deferred tax);

• Manage tax audits and legislation, including negotiations with local tax authorities;
• Develop, implement, and maintain tax (reporting) tools;
• Ensuring Backbase controls all taxes and promptly complies with all tax-related

obligations like long- and medium-term budgeting, accounting, reporting, analytics, filing, audits, and settlements;

• Drive, tax technology initiatives;
• Liaise with tax advisers in all jurisdictions and ensure effective use of external

advisors- in terms of quality and costs.