Indirect Tax Manager

Are you well-versed in dealing with indirect taxes, particularly VAT and energy taxes? Do you thrive in a global environment? Are you excited about the advantages of new digital solutions and motivated by collaborating with a diverse group of stakeholders?

If so, join our Corporate Tax team and help us ensure that our indirect tax framework is prepared for the future. Apply now for a life-changing career!

The position

The position is pivotal in professionalizing and enhancing our focus on transparent, efficient, and compliant indirect tax reporting and advisory at Novo Nordisk. As our business expands, the complexity of operations grows, and collaboration with colleagues will involve providing guidance on indirect taxes to various business areas within Denmark and globally.

Some of your responsibilities will be to:

• Act as a trusted internal advisor on indirect tax for the business, especially for Product Supply on expansion of production capacity
• Engage in the success of our tax technology strategy for indirect taxes, contributing to our transition towards SAP S/4 HANA and AI tax determination
• Enhance and optimize processes to ensure compliance and operational efficiency in indirect tax reporting and advisory

Qualifications
To be successful in this role, we expect you to have: 

• Master’s degree and solid experience from a similar position
• Proven experience with VAT advisory. It will be an advantage to have experience in the legislation on energy taxes, customs duties and excise duties
• Experience from both the private and public sectors
• Extensive knowledge on the legal requirements on indirect tax, especially in Denmark
• Fluency in English and Danish, both verbal and in writing

As a person, you possess strong communication and stakeholder management skills, analytical skills and well-founded documentation practices, including strong data handling and excel competencies.

You have a high level of drive and a strong sense of responsibility. You are pro-active and ensure compliance, timely delivery, and high quality. You can handle complexity and know how to make things simple and understandable to people at all levels in the organisation.

About the Department

In Novo Nordisk’s Corporate Tax department, we are 25 dedicated employees working in teams within transfer pricing, compliance, M&A tax, and indirect taxes. You will be part of the Indirect Tax Team which advise on VAT, customs duties, energy taxes and excise duties. You will refer to the Director of the team.

Further to this, you will be part of the Global Tax organisation encompassing around 66 employees worldwide.

Working at Novo Nordisk

We are a proud life-science company, and life is our reason to exist. We’re inspired by life in all its forms and shapes, ups and downs, opportunities and challenges. For employees at Novo Nordisk, life means many things – from the building blocks of life that form the basis of ground-breaking scientific research, to our rich personal lives that motivate and energise us to perform our best at work. Ultimately, life is why we’re all here - to ensure that people can lead a life independent of chronic disease.

Contact

For further information, please contact Marie Louise Hede, Indirect Tax Director at +45 30 79 83 08.

Deadline

8 December 2024.

You do not need to attach a cover letter to your application, but please include a few sentences about why you are applying in your resume or CV.

To ensure an efficient and fair recruitment process, please refrain from adding a photo in your CV.

Please note that only applications in English will be considered.

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants. 

At Novo Nordisk we recognize that it is no longer good enough to aspire to be the best company in the world. We need to aspire to be the best company for the world and we know that this is only possible with talented employees with diverse perspectives, backgrounds and cultures. We are therefore committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates the diversity of our employees, the patients we serve and communities we operate in. Together, we’re life changing.