Lead Expert Tax (m/w/d)

The role

You will act as the company-wide technical authority for your field, handling the most complex cases and shaping methods and standards. You will empower professionals across all locations through training and sparring without disciplinary leadership. You will also represent the company externally through publications and lectures.

What you will do

• Handle the most difficult cases and special topics in your area
• Act as the company-wide escalation point for your field
• Keep the company updated on case law, legislation, and design practice
• Shape technical standards and methods company-wide including templates and audit schemes
• Empower professionals across all locations through sparring and training
• Act as a technical sparring partner for business owners and management
• Represent the field externally through publications, lectures, and professional formats
• Personally bind the most strategically important clients to the company
• Initiate complex cross-departmental topics

Required qualifications

• Passed the Steuerberater-Examen
• Built company-wide relevant technical authority in a special field
• Represented your field externally through publications, lectures, a professional title, or cited positions
• Shape methods and standards beyond your own desk
• Empower other professionals
• Make complex subject matter tangible for clients, colleagues, and the public
• Remain operationally competent in ongoing client work
• Work with AI as a tool and shape its technical use

Nice to have

• A doctorate or habilitation with practical standing
• Experience in maintaining a technical line across multiple locations

Benefits

• Exam promotion with 25,000 EUR qualification budget and three months of release
• 100% coverage of childcare costs
• EGYM Wellpass
• Company pension scheme
• Job ticket with 90% subsidy
• Home office equipment and a device of your choice from the catalog
• One book per month from the Vogel canon
• AI tools without token limits or budget caps
• 28 days of vacation
• Daily lunch and dinner provided

Before you apply

• The application process typically includes a written task, a 30-minute interview, a joint working session on a real problem, and an on-site meeting with the team and dinner

About the company

Vogel is one of Germany's leading medium-sized business consultancies, family-run in the second generation since 1959. It operates at three locations: Aalen, Bopfingen, and München.