Tax Operations Intern

We are building Germany's leading tax advisory firm. Many business owners want a tax advisor who acts as a true sparring partner: proactive, responsive and strategic. What they often get is a service provider that books receipts and files returns, with little real advice. We're building the alternative.

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, and we grow both organically and through M&A.

This is a €40B market in Germany alone, with processes that have barely changed in decades. AI now enables a fundamental shift, and there are no playbooks yet. We're writing them. 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 & Company, Y Combinator and the former Klarna Head of Engineering.

The role

You work right in the middle of our tax work for doctors’ and dentists’ practices. You support our tax advisors on live mandates from day one. Because tech and tax work together at Taxforce, you also help turn manual steps into automation.

Tasks

• Ongoing bookkeeping. Prepare financial accounting for our practices in DATEV: receipt capture, booking, account reconciliation.
• Year-end and returns. Prepare annual financial statement packages and give draft-level input on tax returns, with feedback from our tax advisors.
• Deadlines and documents. Support our digital mail and tax-assessment processing, deadline control and client master data.
• Client communication. Run structured document requests and follow-ups with our practices.
• Automation. Test our internal tools and help automate recurring steps such as document classification and data extraction.

Requirements

• Relevant studies. You’re studying business, economics, law, tax or a related field, with a strong interest in tax and accounting.
• First practical experience. You’ve worked in a tax firm, accounting or audit, as an intern, working student or trained Steuerfachangestellte/r.
• Care & accuracy. You work carefully and precisely, because in tax every detail counts.
• Structured & independent. You organise yourself well and get things done without everything spelled out.
• Tech-savvy. You use AI tools comfortably and enjoy building small automations. DATEV experience is a plus.
• German language skills. Our clients speak German, so we require fluent German (C2) and good English.

Benefits

• Learn hands-on from tax advisors. Work side by side with experienced tax advisors on real mandates, with direct feedback and mentoring.
• Ownership from day one. Take on real responsibility in live client work early on.
• Front-row seat to AI in the real world. See how AI changes the daily work of a tax firm and help build it.
• Healthcare insight. Understand how medical and dental practices work financially, a segment few tax firms truly know.
• A path to stay. Strong interns get an offer to continue as working student or full-time.

The details

Full-time internship for 3 to 6 months, start any time of the year, on-site in our Berlin office five days a week.

How to apply

Send us your CV and a few lines on why this role fits you. Our process has three steps: a 30-minute intro call, a short live case from our day-to-day work, and a conversation with the founders.