Tax manager after spending some time in-house

The work of in-house tax is intense 🥵. Very intense. I have been there, I have done it. Combining tax compliance and reporting with controversy, projects and business support. Day after day. In physical meetings, back-to-back Teams meetings, and in between catching up with 100 emails a day. Leaving little room for doing the real work. More time spent in the firefighting 🧯 zone than I would have hoped for.

On top of that, there is the rollercoaster of change which is existing in all multinationals. Every now and then large business restructurings and company-wide projects. SG&A rightsizing projects. M&A deals. New operating models, supply chain realignments, you name it, multinationals are doing it. Every year.

Well, this rollercoaster of change has a couple of additional dimensions for the tax team. Next to the business change, there is obviously the never-ending tax regulatory change. But also the macroeconomic and even the geopolitical changes are impacting in-house tax. It adds a couple of additional loopings to their rollercoaster.

The ride is getting scarier year after year. The risk exposure is increasing. Stakeholders are more demanding. Controversy is at an all-time high. The world continues to change. The ecosystem is digitizing.

There is only one way to deal with this. Transform your tax function. Now. Get started small, but get started today.