Tax Consultant

• At HOLY, Tax is a growth enabler, not a back-office blocker. We’re looking for a pragmatic, business-minded inhouse tax wizad to own our tax topics end-to-end and help us scale across markets with speed and confidence
• The mission of the role is to translate complex tax requirements into clear, actionable guidance for the business — ensuring compliance, optimizing outcomes, and building scalable processes while enabling bold, high-speed decision-making
• Own day-to-day tax management across the group (e.g. VAT, corporate income tax, trade tax), partnering closely with Accounting and Legal
• Lead VAT / indirect tax topics, including registrations, periodic returns, reconciliations, and improvements to processes and data quality
• Coordinate filings and deadlines with internal stakeholders and external advisors, ensuring accurate and on-time submissions
• Support month-end and year-end close (e.g. tax provisions) with clean, audit-ready documentation
• Be a proactive business partner for cross-functional teams by assessing tax implications of new initiatives, contracts, promotions, and market entries
• Drive scalable tax processes and controls, including documentation standards, templates, and tooling to make tax “self-serve” where appropriate
• Monitor regulatory changes and translate them into practical guidance, training, and process updates for the organization

Benefits

• Join a successful and growing company
• Huge impact and career growth
• Awesome team of colleagues who are ambitious, funny, down-to-earth, and authentic
• Startup culture with flat hierarchies, fast pace, and personal development
• Central office in Berlin Mitte, flexible working hours, and much more

You thrive in a fast-paced environment, bring strong ownership, and communicate clearly with both finance experts and non-finance stakeholders

You can balance compliance rigor with pragmatic decision-making, and you enjoy improving processes as the company scales

You are a hands-on, structured problem-solver who sees tax as a key element to build the business — not to slow it down

Excellent communication skills in both German and English are a must

4+ years of relevant tax experience (in-house and/or tax advisory), ideally in a fast-growing B2C/D2C company in Germany

Business-oriented, pragmatic mindset with a clear “get-it-done” attitude

Confidence working with accounting data and systems + solid Excel / Google Sheets skills

Degree in tax, finance, law, or comparable qualification (Steuerberater:in is a strong plus)

Strong practical knowledge of the German tax landscape.

Familiarity with VAT / indirect tax topics in a European context is a plus

Experience working with external advisors and auditors; ability to manage timelines and deliver high-quality outputs