International Tax Manager
Job Summary
Allocator One Group: is a global investing platform redefining how institutional capital reaches private markets. We operate through two synergistic businesses:
- Allocator One backs exceptional first- and second-time fund managers around the world as an anchor investor effectively acting as seed-investor platform for emerging VC funds.
- Infra One our fund-ops and tech arm provides the regulatory administrative and tech infrastructure that allows those new funds to scale rapidly and globally. We are already live and serving customers in the UK US Austria Germany and launching Singapore India and Luxembourg imminently.
Together we deliver both the capital and the structure fund managers needand in doing so build a global ecosystem of platforms people and ideas that reshape private markets.
Why this role is different:
Unlike an advisory firm role you will have end-to-end ownership of a real fund platform - seeing transactions from structuring through to LP reporting. You will work directly with investment and finance teams help build the tax function from the ground up and have meaningful exposure to four jurisdictions and a growing international investor base. This is a role for someone who wants to go deep on fund taxation rather than broad across multiple client mandates.
This Role:
This is a senior individual contributor role covering the full international tax compliance coordination for our fund platform across all four jurisdictions - Austria Germany the United Kingdom and the United States. While your core expertise and primary ownership sits in the German and Austrian tax landscape you will coordinate external tax advisors across all jurisdictions act as the internal tax expert for our finance and investment teams and ensure seamless timely compliance across the entire platform.
This is not a tax return preparation role. You are the internal owner of the tax compliance process - you coordinate review challenge and ensure delivery.
Tasks
Germany & Austria (primary ownership):
- Own the end-to-end tax compliance process for all German and Austrian fund structures including GmbH & Co. KG funds and affiliated carry vehicles
- Coordinate external tax advisors in Germany and Austria; prepare documentation packages and critically review their output
- Manage the German individual investor tax assessment process for Fund-of-Funds structures
- Prepare and review investor tax letters for German and Austrian LPs
- Ensure timely OeKB publication (Austria) and submission to German tax authorities
- Review and instruct Mehr-/Weniger-Rechnungsposten; provide accounting guidance to the finance team on tax-related journal entries
UK & US (coordination and oversight):
- Coordinate external tax advisors in the UK and US; prepare documentation packages and review output
- Monitor and track UK and US compliance deadlines (SA800 CT600 Form 1065 K-1 ERS filings)
- Serve as the internal point of contact for UK and US tax matters escalating technical issues to external advisors and flagging risks to management
- Coordinate investor tax reporting for UK and US fund structures including tax letters and LP reporting schedules
Across all jurisdictions:
- Build maintain and own the global tax compliance calendar across all funds vehicles and jurisdictions
- Coordinate FATCA compliance
- Advise the accounting team on tax aspects of complex transactions including portfolio company dividends distributions exits and restructurings - in plain business language
- Handle ad hoc tax queries from LPs management and other stakeholders - with the ability to explain complex tax matters clearly and practically
- Coordinate international tax structuring projects alongside external advisors
Requirements
Must have:
- Degree in Tax Law Business Law Finance or equivalent
- 5 - 8 years of experience in a Big Four firm or specialised tax advisory practice with a clear focus on fund or partnership taxation
- Deep expertise in German Personengesellschaftsbesteuerung in particular GmbH & Co. KG structures
- Strong experience with transparent partnership structures used as investment vehicles including carried interest waterfall mechanics and LP reporting
- Solid grounding in international tax law: tax treaties (DBAs) withholding taxes ATAD CFC principles cross-border dividend and distribution flows
- Experience working with international investors (institutional LPs family offices DFIs) and preparing investor-facing tax communications
- Ability to explain complex tax matters in plain business language - to non-tax colleagues investors and management
- Pragmatic structured approach to work; strong project management and prioritisation skills
- Fluent in German and English - both written and spoken at professional level
- Strong accounting awareness; ability to translate tax conclusions into booking instructions
Nice to have:
- Steuerberaterexamen (completed or in progress)
- Knowledge of UK or US fund structures (LLP LP LLC taxation)
- Austrian tax knowledge (UGB KStG EStG)
- Familiarity with ERS reporting or US partnership tax (Form 1065 K-1)
- Working knowledge of CRS/FATCA reporting obligations
Benefits
What we offer:
- Senior individual contributor role with direct exposure to a multi-jurisdictional fund platform
- Full remote working flexibility - Austria Germany UK or US based
- Direct reporting line to Head of Fund Finance with close collaboration with senior management and investment team
- Competitive compensation
- Opportunity to shape and grow with a fast-expanding international platform
Why Allocator One Group:
- Ownership: Design the entire fund accounting system from scratch. Your architecture will serve 20 50 funds.
- Team building: Hire and mentor fund accountants and treasury specialists as the platform grows.
- Learning curve: Exposure to global fund structures cross-jurisdictional tax and institutional investor reporting.
- Strategic impact: Fund accounting data directly informs investment committee decisions and platform risk management.
- Equity upside: Early-stage role with meaningful equity; directly tied to platform success.
About Company
Emerging VC funds often demonstrate superior market performance compared to established VC funds. Despite the proven outperformance of their funds first-time fund managers typically struggle to get their funds off the ground:Allocator One backs exceptional first- and second-time fund ... View more