Workings Student Tax & Finance (f/m/d) - AI Tax Startup

<p>We are building Germany&#39;s leading Tax Advisory firm. Taxforce was founded based on a simple observation: Many business owners want a tax advisor who acts as a true sparring partner: proactive, responsive, and strategic. What they often get instead is a service provider: booking receipts and filing tax returns, with little real advisory.</p> <p>We’re building the alternative.</p> <p>Founded in 2025, Taxforce rethinks tax advisory from the ground up: AI-powered and highly automated, yet personal. We’re starting with healthcare professionals, a complex and underserved segment, with the ambition to expand into many more industries over time.</p> <p>Instead of pure compliance, we deliver real advisory and become long-term partners to our clients: from initial setup to established organizations.</p> <p>This is a €40B market in Germany alone, with processes that have barely changed in decades. AI is now enabling a fundamental shift and there are no playbooks yet. We’re writing them.</p> <p>We’re a small, highly ambitious team in Berlin, backed by €5M from Tenet VC and founded by alumni of Goldman Sachs, Harvard Business School, Bain &amp; Company and the former Klarna Head of Engineering. You’ll work directly with the founders, take on real responsibility from day one, and see how AI transforms a real-world industry.</p> <p>We offer a high-ownership environment, direct feedback and mentoring, a collaborative team, and competitive salary all from our office near Boxhagener Platz.</p> <p>Join early and help us redefine tax advisory.</p> <h2 id="tasks">Tasks</h2> <p><em>This is a working student role of around 16 to 20 hours per week, flexible around your studies.</em></p> <p><strong>As a Working Student in Tax &amp; Finance</strong>, you&#39;ll work right in the middle of our operational and advisory tax work, on real clients, not example cases. You&#39;ll support our tax advisors along the entire value chain: from ongoing bookkeeping to preparing tax returns to hands-on research. Because tech and tax work together at Taxforce, you&#39;ll be close to the point where manual work turns into automation and you&#39;ll actively help us make our processes better:</p> <p><strong>Finance &amp; controlling</strong> </p> <ul> <li>Take ownership of our invoicing and support funds and cashflow management</li> <li>Support the monthly internal bookkeeping and financial close</li> <li>Build and maintain reporting and controlling analyses over time</li> </ul> <p><strong>Tax Operational work</strong></p> <ul> <li>Prepare ongoing financial accounting: receipt capture, booking, account reconciliation</li> <li>Prepare annual financial statement packages and business analyses: Provide simple input on tax returns and pre-filings (income tax, business taxes) at draft level, where you get feedback and develop new skills</li> <li>Support our digital mail and tax assessment processing through deadline control and smart document classification</li> <li>Structured client communication (document requests, follow-ups)</li> <li>Maintain client master data and support deadline contro</li> </ul> <p><strong>Tech &amp; automation</strong></p> <ul> <li>Test and document internal tools and workflows</li> <li>Contribute to automating recurring tasks (e.g. document classification, data extraction, integrations)</li> <li>Data preparation and simple analyses</li> </ul> <h2 id="requirements">Requirements</h2> <ul> <li><strong>Drive &amp; ambition:</strong> You&#39;re excited to work motivated to work in a young team and thrive in fast-paced startup environments.</li> <li><strong>Relevant studies:</strong> You&#39;re studying business administration, economics, law, tax or a related field, ideally with a focus on or strong interest in tax, accounting or finance</li> <li><strong>First practical experience:</strong> You&#39;ve gained hands-on experience through internships or working student roles (ideally in Tax, Accounting, Finance or Consulting)</li> <li><strong>Care &amp; accuracy:</strong> You work carefully and precisely, because in tax and finance every detail counts</li> <li><strong>Structured &amp; independent:</strong> You organise yourself well, prioritise between tasks and get things done without needing everything spelled out </li> <li><strong>Tech-savvy:</strong> You&#39;re comfortable using AI tools and can implement small automations yourself and you have no problem with learning new tools and skills on the go</li> <li><strong>Collaborative:</strong> You are a team player. Working together as a team and sharing knowledge comes naturally to you</li> <li><strong>German language skills:</strong> We are a fast growing start-up with a diverse team. However, our customers do mostly speak German. Hence we require German language skills.</li> </ul> <h2 id="benefits">Benefits</h2> <ul> <li><strong>Learn from an experienced team:</strong> Work closely with founders and tax advisors and get direct feedback and mentoring from day one </li> <li><strong>Ownership from day one</strong>: Take on real responsibility early and help shape how Taxforce is built across tax, finance, and operations</li> <li><strong>Front-row seat to AI in the real world</strong>: See how AI is applied to transform a traditional industry and actively contribute to building an AI-driven product</li> <li><strong>Steep learning curve:</strong> Work on real clients and real numbers, not example cases, and build skills that carry into your career </li> <li><strong>Strong team environment</strong>: Join an ambitious, supportive team with direct feedback and a high level of trust and ownership</li> <li><strong>Fair working student salary and a great office:</strong> Competitive pay and flexible hours around your studies, from our office near Boxhagener Platz</li> </ul> <p><strong>Office Policy:</strong> We work in the office, because we feel that is crucial to enable speed, learning, and compounding interests when working next to each other.</p>