The Role
Prepare and file international personal income tax returns, determine tax residency and liabilities across jurisdictions, calculate social security positions, analyze tax calculations, monitor deadlines, communicate with clients and tax authorities, review assessments, handle objections, and support end-to-end service delivery for a diverse client portfolio.
Summary Generated by Built In
To support the continued growth of our Employee Tax Compliance team in Leiden, the Netherlands, we are looking for an enthusiastic Tax Compliance Officer.
As part of our team of tax return specialists, you will be responsible for supporting a diverse client portfolio with the preparation and filing of personal income tax returns. Given the cross‑border nature of our clients’ work, you will also assess and determine their tax obligations across multiple jurisdictions.
This international focus ensures that each case is unique, making the role both challenging and varied, with no two clients, or days, being the same.
What a typical day looks like...
- Determining the tax residency and tax liability position of individual taxpayers;
- Preparing (complex) international personal income tax returns;
- Preparing and analysing personal income tax calculations for clients;
- Determining social security positions and related calculations;
- Communicating with clients and the Tax Authorities regarding status and progress;
- Actively monitoring statutory deadlines for the services provided;
- Reviewing tax assessments and preparing and handling objections;
- Responding to and corresponding with clients and the Tax Authorities;
- Being involved throughout the entire service delivery process.
What attributes make someone brilliant in this role…
- You are a true team player: positive, responsible and committed;
- 1–3 years of work experience in a similar role;
- Strong communication skills in Dutch and English, both verbal and written;
- A completed Dutch HBO or WO degree;
- An analytical, accurate and quality‑focused work approach;
- A strong sense of responsibility and engagement with your work;
- An efficient working style and a positive, critical view of your own processes.
About
Our Story From our entrepreneurial origins as a founder led start up, to a high performing global player working with some of the world's most recognisable brands, activpayroll has both a fantastic history and masses of future potential. Our story began in 2001, when our founder saw a gap in the market to support the oil and gas industry. Today, we are a leading global professional service organisation, providing integrated global and domestic payroll solutions, expatriate taxation services, global HR services and online HR people management tools to over 1,200 companies in more than 150 countries worldwide. We’ve Got YouHiring people is more than an investment of time and money – it’s an investment of trust. You trust us to help you realise your fullest potential, work with brilliant people and recognise your achievements. In return, we trust your abilities, we trust your instincts and are fully behind you to deliver the great work you are capable of - empowering you to make the tough calls and valuing your opinions, ideas and abilities.
Skills Required
- 1-3 years of work experience in a similar role
- Strong communication skills in Dutch and English, verbal and written
- Completed Dutch HBO or WO degree
- Ability to determine tax residency and tax liability across multiple jurisdictions
- Experience preparing and filing personal income tax returns, including complex international cases
- Analytical, accurate and quality-focused work approach
- Strong sense of responsibility and engagement with work
- Efficient working style and ability to critically evaluate own processes
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The Company
What We Do
Created to let your business work seamlessly in multiple countries by giving you complete clarity and confidence, activpayroll is global payroll, international payments, global mobility and HR in one. Pay your people compliantly, on time, every time, worldwide. Take control with accessible tech. Team up with global tax specialists to stay one step ahead of legislation and compliance. Strengthen your workforce with our strategic HR specialists, and work with a partner that gets your vision of global clarity. Wherever in the world your business takes you, we’ve got you.
