Wolt
Manager, Tax Technology — VAT (Wolt & Deliveroo Tax Platform & Business Projects)
Berlin, Germany; Helsinki, Finland; London, United Kingdom. Posted a month ago
The role
You will lead tax platform and business projects for Wolt and Deliveroo, turning VAT and business requirements into configured, tested tax capabilities. You will also manage and develop the offshore team that delivers this work day to day.
What you will do
- Lead tax platform and business projects across Wolt and Deliveroo, including new product, market, partnership launches and legislative changes
- Gather business and VAT requirements and translate them into tax-system functional requirements
- Review BRDs, PRDs and TDDs for VAT implications and give functional tax input to Tax Engineering
- Define testing requirements and oversee validation across unit, integration, E2E, shadow and post-launch phases
- Align tax engine priorities with Wolt and Deliveroo international market roadmaps and report status to leadership
- Trace VAT-relevant data from upstream systems through Vertex to downstream reporting and compliance
- Serve as senior functional tax leader, escalating risk and driving cross-functional alignment
- Manage and develop the team: allocate workload, set QA checkpoints, and provide knowledge transfer
Required qualifications
- 8+ years of indirect tax or indirect tax technology experience
- Several years working directly in VAT regimes
- Ability to translate VAT requirements into system requirements
- Hands-on experience implementing or configuring Vertex O Series and reviewing Vertex configurations and testing documentation
- Hands-on experience implementing or configuring ERP tax integration (e.g. NetSuite) with Vertex
- Experience with multi-country VAT implementations and EU VAT compliance
- People-leadership experience, including managing, coaching, workload delegation and quality oversight
- Ability to review technical design documents and provide functional tax expertise
- Understanding of how tax data flows from transaction systems through a tax engine to reporting
- Program or project management experience across dependent teams, including plans, milestones and dependency maps
- Experience with SQL or Snowflake for data self-serve, issue investigation or testing validation
- Experience with API testing tools such as Postman or SOAP UI and the ability to read XML and JSON logs
Nice to have
- Familiarity with US sales and use tax, food and beverage, and retail tax context
- Familiarity with non-US indirect tax regimes
- Familiarity with Marketplace Facilitator laws
- Experience managing offshore teams across time zones
Before you apply
- Recruiters will never ask you to pay money or share sensitive financial information during hiring
About the company
Wolt delivers food and, increasingly, almost anything, in over 500 cities across 30 countries. The company joined forces with DoorDash in 2022.