Freelance Tax Advisor
Octopus Energy
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇩🇪 Germany
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Advise on the tax treatment of salary sacrifice products in Germany
- Ensure full compliance with German payroll and tax regulations
- Support set up and ongoing ad-hoc development of our electric car salary sacrifice product
- Translate tax rules into clear logic for our pricing and payroll calculation tools
- Collaborate with product, legal, and engineering teams
Requirements
- Proven experience in payroll taxation and salary sacrifice (Gehaltsumwandlung) schemes
- Strong understanding of German income tax and social security laws
- Ability to communicate complex tax topics clearly to non-experts
- Business proficient English
- Fluent German
Benefits
- 💰 Wondering what the salary for this role is? Just ask us! On a call with one of our recruiters it's something we always cover as we genuinely want to match your experience with the correct salary. The reason why we don't advertise is because we honestly have a degree of flexibility and would never want salary to be a reason why someone doesn't apply to Octopus - what's more important to us is finding the right octofit!
- 🏆 Octopus Electric Vehicles, part of the Octopus Energy Group, won the Sunday Times best company to work for in 2024. We were named 6th out of the top 100 start-ups to work for by Tempo in 2025 and on Glassdoor we were voted 50 best places to work in 2022. Our Group CEO, Greg has recorded a podcast about our culture and how we empower our people. We’ve also been placed in the top 10 companies for senior leadership
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
payroll taxationsalary sacrifice schemesGerman income tax lawssocial security laws
Soft skills
communicationcollaboration