Junior tax manager

At Bending Spoons, we’re striving to build one of the all-time great companies. A company that serves a huge number of customers. A company where team members grow to their full potential. A company that functions at unparalleled levels of effectiveness and efficiency. A company that creates value for shareowners at an extraordinary rate. And a company that does so while adhering to high ethical standards.

In pursuit of this objective, we acquire and improve digital businesses, not to sell on, but to own and operate for the long term. The transformations we make are often deep—designed to speed up innovation, benefit customers, and strengthen business performance. Here, hierarchy is minimal and teams are small and talent-dense. We operate established products with the ambition, agility, and urgency of a startup. Across the company, we integrate AI deeply into how we work so that human judgment and machine intelligence reinforce each other.

For a talented, driven, and collaborative individual, working at Bending Spoons is an opportunity to learn, make an impact, and progress their career at an exceptionally high rate. That’s our promise to such a candidate.

In this role, you’ll manage and optimize the group’s tax responsibilities, ensuring compliance with local and international tax laws and regulations. You’ll oversee tax filings, accounting and tax treatments at the group level, support key business decisions, and manage interactions with the Italian Revenue Agency and other authorities.

Responsibilities

• Tax planning & compliance. Oversee tax planning at the group level, ensuring full compliance with all relevant tax laws, including corporate income tax, VAT, and other local taxes.

• Transfer pricing. Manage annual transfer pricing compliance and documentation, coordinating with external advisors and internal stakeholders to ensure intercompany transactions comply with applicable Italian and international tax requirements.

• Tax operations. Manage comprehensive tax operations, including tax liability calculations, accounting and tax treatments, and tax return filings in coordination with external advisors, as well as the tax aspects of equity incentive plans, contractors, welfare programs, and fringe benefits.

• Tax due diligence. Coordinate with external advisors on tax due diligence in the context of acquisitions and other extraordinary transactions, assessing their tax implications and supporting tax-efficient structuring and integration.

• Tax developments & authorities. Monitor tax legislation and regulatory developments, identify opportunities for tax optimization and available incentives, and manage interactions with the Italian Revenue Agency, including voluntary compliance procedures, tax audits, inquiries, and rulings.

Requirements

• Reasoning ability Given the necessary knowledge, you can solve complex problems. You think from first principles, and structure your ideas sharply. You resist the influence of biases. You identify and take care of the details that matter.

• Drive You’re extremely ambitious in everything you do—and your initiative, effort, and tenacity match the intensity of your ambition. You feel deeply responsible for your work. You hold yourself to a high—and rising—bar.

• Team spirit You give generously and without the expectation of receiving in return. You support the best idea, not your idea. You're always happy to get your hands dirty to help your team. You’re reliable, honest, and transparent.

• Proficiency in English You read, write, and speak proficiently in English.