Tax Manager

Are you a tax specialist with a passion for financial markets? Do you thrive in fast-paced, collaborative environments? Are you entrepreneurial, analytical, and flexible—someone who is results-driven and performs well under pressure? Ready to draw on your broad expertise while diving deep when needed? Then you might be exactly who we’re looking for.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

As a Tax Manager, you’ll develop a deep understanding of our unique trading business and support Optiver across corporate, transfer pricing, and trading tax matters. You’ll collaborate closely with other tax teams, as well as with finance, compliance, legal, trading, and technology teams.

More specifically, your responsibilities will include:

• Supporting the Dutch-based operations and global team from a (Dutch) corporate income tax, international tax and/or TP perspective. This includes advising on reorganizations, transformations, M&A transactions, tax audits, and tax filings (the preparation of tax returns is done by another team member) from a tax technical perspective.
• You will be trained to become an expert on Optiver’s securities trading business and financial markets enabling you to be a specialist in trading-related tax matters.
• Working alongside the Global Head of Transfer Pricing on transfer pricing projects and documentation, and advising on (international) tax projects.
• Managing and informing key business stakeholders on tax implications related to ongoing or new projects and business initiatives.

WHO YOU ARE

• An academic degree in Dutch tax law or economics.
• Strong knowledge of Dutch corporate and international tax, with a broad interest in tax matters.
• 5-7 years’ experience in the Tax team of a multinational and/or an international consulting practice.
• A strong interest in financial markets.
• Proven ability to manage complex international tax projects and transactions.
• Ability to balance business and control interests.
• Strong stakeholder management skills.
• A proactive, sharp, confident, analytical, structured, flexible, and quality-focused mindset.
• The ability to anticipate and manage multiple and shifting priorities.
• Excellent organizational and planning skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in both Dutch and English.
• A team player mindset with a good sense of humor.
• Experience with transfer pricing is preferred.

WHAT YOU’LL GET

You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, where you’ll be surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem solvers. Motivated by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle the toughest problems in the financial markets.

In addition, you’ll receive:

• A performance-based bonus structure unmatched anywhere in the industry. 
• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 50 different countries
• 25 paid vacation days in your first year, increasing to 30 from your second year onwards.
• Training opportunities, discounts on health insurance, and fully paid first-class commuting expenses.
• Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and dinner, world-class barista coffee, in-house physio and chair massages, organized sports and leisure activities, and Friday afternoon drinks.
• Training and continuous learning opportunities, including access to conferences and tech events.
• Competitive relocation packages and visa sponsorship where necessary for expats.

WHO WE ARE

At Optiver, our mission is to continuously improve the market. By providing liquidity and accurate pricing in various financial instruments, to multiple exchanges across the world, we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets.

HOW TO APPLY

Apply directly via the form below, if you have any questions feel free to contact our Recruitment team via [email protected].

Please note:

• We do not require any assistance from third-parties including agencies in the recruitment of this role.
• We cannot accept applications via email.

DIVERSITY STATEMENT

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion.