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

We are building Germany'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.

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, with the ambition to expand into many more industries over time.

Instead of pure compliance, we deliver real advisory and become long-term partners to our clients: from initial setup to established organizations.

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.

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 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.

We offer a high-ownership environment, direct feedback and mentoring, a collaborative team, and competitive salary all from our office near Boxhagener Platz.

Join early and help us redefine tax advisory.

Tasks

This is a working student role of around 16 to 20 hours per week, flexible around your studies.

As a Working Student in Tax & Finance , you'll work right in the middle of our operational and advisory tax work, on real clients, not example cases. You'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'll be close to the point where manual work turns into automation and you'll actively help us make our processes better:

Finance & controlling

• Take ownership of our invoicing and support funds and cashflow management
• Support the monthly internal bookkeeping and financial close
• Build and maintain reporting and controlling analyses over time

Tax Operational work

• Prepare ongoing financial accounting: receipt capture, booking, account reconciliation
• 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
• Support our digital mail and tax assessment processing through deadline control and smart document classification
• Structured client communication (document requests, follow-ups)
• Maintain client master data and support deadline contro

Tech & automation

• Test and document internal tools and workflows
• Contribute to automating recurring tasks (e.g. document classification, data extraction, integrations)
• Data preparation and simple analyses

Requirements

• Drive & ambition: You're excited to work motivated to work in a young team and thrive in fast-paced startup environments.
• Relevant studies: You're studying business administration, economics, law, tax or a related field, ideally with a focus on or strong interest in tax, accounting or finance
• First practical experience: You've gained hands-on experience through internships or working student roles (ideally in Tax, Accounting, Finance or Consulting)
• Care & accuracy: You work carefully and precisely, because in tax and finance every detail counts
• Structured & independent: You organise yourself well, prioritise between tasks and get things done without needing everything spelled out
• Tech-savvy: You'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
• Collaborative: You are a team player. Working together as a team and sharing knowledge comes naturally to you
• German language skills: We are a fast growing start-up with a diverse team. However, our customers do mostly speak German. Hence we require German language skills.

Benefits

• Learn from an experienced team: Work closely with founders and tax advisors and get direct feedback and mentoring from day one
• Ownership from day one : Take on real responsibility early and help shape how Taxforce is built across tax, finance, and operations
• Front-row seat to AI in the real world : See how AI is applied to transform a traditional industry and actively contribute to building an AI-driven product
• Steep learning curve: Work on real clients and real numbers, not example cases, and build skills that carry into your career
• Strong team environment : Join an ambitious, supportive team with direct feedback and a high level of trust and ownership
• Fair working student salary and a great office: Competitive pay and flexible hours around your studies, from our office near Boxhagener Platz

Office Policy: We work in the office, because we feel that is crucial to enable speed, learning, and compounding interests when working next to each other.