Tax Specialist

Employer

Crucell (www.crucell.com) is a global biopharmaceutical company focused on the research, development, production and marketing of vaccines, proteins and antibodies to combat infectious and other diseases. They are covering new ground, developing new techniques for creating medicines. Innovative science and operational excellence are key to their success. Currently they are combating eleven major infectious diseases with their range of marketed vaccines in the paediatric, travel and endemic and respiratory fields.

Since February 2011 Crucell is part of the Johnson & Johnson family of companies. Johnson & Johnson employs 2300 people in the Netherlands. Crucell will operate as the center for vaccines within the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical group.

Crucell employs about 1700 people worldwide from a range of different backgrounds and is growing fast. They have quite an international workforce, with employees from countries around the globe. Crucell has its headquarters in Leiden, the Netherlands. Within Crucell talented, entrepreneurial people are working in a dynamic culture in which innovation and a ‘can do’ state of mind are the central points.

Position

At the Leiden site a new position of Tax Specialist has arisen. The tax department is responsible for all Dutch related tax matters of the Johnson & Johnson  companies in the Netherlands. This includes Janssen Biologics, Crucell, J&J Medical, Janssen Cilag, Mentor and J&J Consumer. The tax department is furthermore responsible for the tax matters of Crucell worldwide. The current tax department consists of a tax director and a transfer pricing manager. The department develops and executes the tax strategy, including transfer pricing, is end responsible for tax compliance and tax accounting.  The tasks of the Tax Specialist will include:

• General support tax team, for national and international tax matters;
• Improve, maintain and manage tax control framework;
• Manage internal tax reporting systems and tools;
• Manage and improve tax compliance processes NL (preparing and filing the tax return is outsourced).
• Maintain relationship with external advisors and tax authority.

Candidate

The ideal candidate has a degree in tax some 4-6 years of relevant experience as a corporate tax specialist within consultancy, in-house tax or at the tax authorities. You have strong corporate income tax knowledge, and affinity with tax accounting or tax control framework.  You are a hands-on team player with strong interpersonal and communication skills. You have a proactive approach, you are result driven and able to independently operate within the organization. Fluency in English is a prerequisite.

Contact

Are you interested in this diverse in-house tax manager position please contact Rogier Ploeger (rogier.ploeger@theresource.nl) or Anneke Stoeken (anneke.stoeken@theresource.nl).