Payroll & Tax Specialist

**Making the impossible possible.**

Work with us and join our mission to spread artificial intelligence for enabling a green, fair, trusted, and safe world.

Axelera AI is not your regular deep-tech startup. We are creating the next-generation AI platform to support anyone who wants to help advance humanity and improve the world around us. Bringing together the smartest people in the industry, both remotely from 11 different countries and with offices in Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, the UK, headquartered at the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven.

Our people are the driving force behind our company, and we show that by removing all the constraints You have the freedom to do what you like, if you take responsibility for your results and respect your colleagues. We want you to have time to be you, so you always bring your A game.

**Your role**
We are looking for a payroll and tax specialist to strengthen our finance team in the Netherlands. We are looking for someone with a dynamic & can-do attitude, who loves to organize and structure things, is a strong project manager, has excellent communication skills and loves working with people from diverse cultures and backgrounds.

Your responsibilities include the following activities:

- Collaborate with HR on the monthly payroll run, checking the data provided by HR and ensuring its accuracy in implementation by external payroll provider
- Build and maintain relationships with payroll provider, tax advisors, and vendors for eg., pension and benefits
- Ensure tax & year-end statements are generated, accurate and communicated in time
- Lead approval and payment of expense claims using the expense platform
- Prepare monthly payroll reconciliations, journal and accrual reports
- Support finance team with month-end close and reporting activities related to payroll and expense claims

**Your profile**
- You have a Bachelors’/HBO degree or equivalent with 2-3 years of experience
- You are proficient with the Microsoft suite (Excel, Powerpoint etc) and are a fast learner of new tech tools. Experience with Netsuite would be a plus.
- You possess excellent communication & collaboration skills.
- You are able to thrive in a fast-paced working environment
- You can work well under pressure and are able to prioritize the right things. Experience with working in an international, fast-paced environment is a plus.
- In your previous experiences, you have demonstrated strong ownership of your projects and are resourceful in getting things done.
- This role requires presence in the Eindhoven office for a minimum of 2 days per week (with the option of also working from our Amsterdam office).

**What we offer**

This is your chance to shape and be part of a dynamic, fast-growing, international organization. We offer an attractive compensation package, including a pension plan, extensive employee insurance and the option to get company shares. An open culture that supports creativity and continual innovation is awaiting you. Collaborative ownership and freedom with responsibility is characteristic for the way we act and work as a team.