Careers

Position Overview

Have you been working in consulting and/or in an in-house role in the indirect tax function? Dreaming about putting your commercial talents at work on your own deals while at the same time be a knowledgeable partner for VAT technical discussions with our prospects and clients? Do you feel it is time to trade in your business suit for sneakers? Do you want to be part of the future of VAT technology?

We are looking for a commercial VAT talent that is flexible to fly out on a regular basis and join our sales team visiting prospects and clients in Europe and the US. Having the legal VAT and practical finance knowledge, you will be acting as the VAT liaison between the prospect and our sales team. You can think creatively how to align different processes to optimize the VAT recovery for our clients. You are the type of person that blows away the typical picture of a VAT advisor. You instantly mingle well with delegates at events and at the same time have the natural ability to act professionally and create trust at C-level.

Key Responsibilities of the role

• Join our sales team on onsite meetings
• Bring the required VAT expertise that is expected at a multinational level
• Provide VAT knowledge support for our Sales Development, Sales & Customer Success teams
• Contribute to the RFP processes
• Be our ears and eyes for new product requests from customers
• Customize and improve the demo for the different sales opportunities
• Be a full part of the VAT knowledge team to share your experience and insights to optimize our processes
• Work with our partners to train them on VAT and recognize new commercial opportunities
• Build and maintain relationship with the different tax authorities
• Speak at conferences and events on behalf of VATBox and generate leads
• Work closely with Marketing on messaging per region, country and industry

Desired Skills and Experience

• Big 4 / lawyer training in international indirect taxation.
• Minimum of 4 years working experience in the VAT field.
• Able to combine a commercial mindset with delivery of good quality work.
• Proficient user of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and be skilled in the preparation of presentations, documents, reports and use of spreadsheets.
• A background in an in-house function would be a strong +.
• Experience with VAT issues in multinational companies.
• Eager to learn and develop into the technology area.
• Comfortable in the dynamic atmosphere of a tech company in an international setting.
• Fluency in English (written & spoken) – additional language a distinctive advantage – German speaker a clear +.
• Master in Accountancy, Fiscal Economics, Fiscal law or similar.
• Stress resistant and able to meet strong deadlines.
• Adaptive to work flexible working hours.
• Building quickly networks in an outside the company

Additional Information

• Working hours: 32-40 hours per week
• Travel: ~15-25%
• Competitive compensation package

If you believe to possess these skills, then we would very much like to hear from you!

Any further questions contact Leslie Peuler at: leslie@vatbox.com or via phone on +31 20 810 222 2.

We’re looking for a talented and passionate Outbound Sales Development Representative to join our team. A gifted hunter to fuel the sales pipeline for international markets.

Main purpose of job

You will represent the front line of the company’s sales and marketing efforts, playing a significant role in growing the business by starting the sales process.

Responsibilities:

• Achieve Quarterly quotas of meetings set and qualified opportunities generated.
• Follow-up on marketing-generated leads (including leads from the website, digital campaigns, events, press and other on-going marketing programs)
• Work alongside field sales to proactively prospect solutions into industry and regionally targeted accounts. This includes: research and strategize an approach to create interest and engage.
• Profile potential prospects via predetermined criteria
• Become an expert in engaging and converting prospects over the phone
• Identify and understand the needs of targeted outreach
• Maintain accurate and current information on prospects and interaction activities in company-wide CRM system.
• Learn & Maintain in depth knowledge of products and marketing messaging to effectively and persuasively demonstrate the solution and articulate the value proposition of products in a clear and compelling way.

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of sales development experience
• Proven experience in selling B2B SaaS solutions to C-level executives.
• Proven experience working with Europe or US SME market
• A ‘hunter’ mentality – comfortable prospecting & cold-calling
• Outstanding communication and LISTENING skills
• Ability to articulate solutions to a wide range of organizational and functional levels.
• Interest in working in a start-up, fast paced technology environment.
• Result-driven persona with a drive to exceed sales targets
• Good time management with strong organizational skills.
• Native English speaker with excellent verbal and writing skills

Here is how you apply: Send your CV to hr@vatbox.com

Location: Germany, France or UK

As a central part of VATBox’s global sales team, the dominant responsibility for a sales manager is to actively add value to the winning of new business for VATBox. Your role will be to generate new business revenue by managing and converting sales opportunities and driving revenue from existing customers. Ideally you will have the relevant business and technical experience to enable you to fully engage in discussions at c-suite level for large and multinational organizations. Our solution is a SaaS platform, meaning you will be interested in fully understanding how our technology works. Self-motivation and a strong personal desire to succeed as well passion for technology and customers.

Key responsibilities      

• Manage and maintain a high volume of sales opportunities with the aim of winning new business from companies that have all the attributes of a profitable VATBox client
• Manage opportunities from the initial introduction through to successful closure and ongoing relationship management
• Qualify opportunities to assess the true nature of the opportunity and our likelihood of success
• Own and maintain all opportunities in a sales pipeline and report this to management on a weekly basis
• Manage complex clients and multiple stakeholders towards a focused outcome by eliminating ambiguity, and through consistently delivering the VATBox value proposition in a clearly aligned and differentiated manner
• Work closely with world-wide sales and marketing colleagues and make recommendations on, and adhere to, the existing sales protocol
• Drive development of the local sales and marketing plan in conjunction with the local market leader and be a pivotal supporter of the group
• Network externally and participate in industry events and conferences to raise the profile of VATBox and build a pipeline of opportunities

Skills and Experience

• Proven experience of working in a B2B sales role (at least 3 years)
• Bachelor’s degree (finance or technology studies – a plus)
• Previous experience in a financial/accounting role or with SaaS – a plus
• Experience working for a technology start-up
• Fluency in English
• Exceptional communication and influencing skills at c-suite level
• Confident negotiator and commercially astute
• Excellent presentation skills, via the web and in face
• Adept at building and sustaining internal and external relationships
• A strong desire to over-achieve high targets, success Independent and self-motivated
• Consistent and proven track record of success and achievement
• Familiarity of working within the given Market is a must

Here is how you apply: Send your CV to hr@vatbox.com

The CM is responsible for ensuring continuity of revenue from assigned accounts, as well as actively seeking expansion opportunities and is measured on revenue and attrition targets. The position will form part of a multi-disciplined team who are comprised of consultants and program managers, our customers are mainly large global enterprises. Your Customer Successes skills will be leveraged to ensure that VATBox becomes a trusted business partner to our clients.

Requirements:

• A college degree.
• Proven ability in achieving revenue targets on assigned accounts.
• Proven ability to manage relationship with our customer’s executive sponsors.
• Experience in selling/managing accounts within financial organizations is a plus.
• Minimum of 4+ years Account Management experience, within Enterprise market segment.
• Proven ability to understand business/financial reports and to extract insights that will enable account optimization and generate business opportunity.
• Flawless English (written and spoken), and another major European language (German, French, Italian) is an advantage.
• Consistent track record of success and achievement.

Here is how you apply: Send your CV to hr@vatbox.com

Requirements:

• MSc. from a known university in either on applied mathematics, Computer Science or Computational Neuroscience – PhD an advantage
• Expertise in one of the following: Computational Neuroscience, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, deep learning
• Familiarity with natural language processing an advantage
• Familiarity with OCR engines and data extraction an advantage
• Proven experience in leading research from scratch board to production

Here is how you apply: Send your CV to hr@vatbox.com

Are you looking to put your A-player skills to work for a fast-growth company with a revolutionary product and visionary leadership? If so, then we want you! VATBox hires only the best; together we are changing the future of financial technology. We have a professional and dynamic team and an amazing, collaborative work culture. VATBox is seeking new team members ready to jump on the express train. You will be working on:

1. Full VAT recovery cycle from fetching invoices via API to processing and submission.
2. You will define and implement the system architecture using deploy-able micro-services on top of AWS. These shall support ever growing scale via streams and message queues with scale out abilities using Kubernetes.

Responsibilities:

Designing and implementing different micro services mostly from scratch on top of Kubernetes using CI/CD over AWS.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of experience with Java

Technologies:

• Experience with Java Spring boot
• Java 8 and up – Java 10 an advantage
• SQL and Non-SQL DB (e.g. Mongo, Redis, Elastic Search)
• Familiar with Reactive approach and REST – e.g. Kafka, SQS, Rabbit MQ
• Web App and Admin solution – an advantage
• Familiar matric logging solution – e.g Grafana, ELK, Data Dog
• Experience with Agile approach, Continuous Integration/Delivery

Nice to have:

• Experience with designing, coding, and releasing micro-services – Significant advantage
• TDD/CI/CD experience development

Here is how you apply: Send your CV to jointheteam@vatbox.com