Tax Intern (FR & EN speaker) / Stagiaire Juriste Fiscaliste
Back Market
Bordeaux, France
Posted on Saturday, September 7, 2024
Back Market is the world’s leading refurbished electronics marketplace with a team of 650 people, powering operations in 21 countries (and counting!).
Named one of the World's Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company in 2019 and again in 2021, our mission is simple: empowering people to consume tech sustainably by offering folks a high quality, accessible, and more eco-friendly alternative to buying new electronics. Why? Refurbished tech helps lower our collective environmental impact . We have indeed contributed to avoid the production of more than 1,000,000 tons of CO2e worldwide since our launch in 2014.
Be part of an exciting and growing international adventure that will change the way the world consumes tech.
Job Description
The Tax Department at a glance:
The Tax department is part of Back Market’s legal team, a collaborative team who aims to support Back Market's growth worldwide. You will join this team and report directly to the Head of Tax. In short, you'll be his or her right (or left) hand man, getting into the practical life of an in-house tax counsel.
The Tax Department works closely with the Public Affairs, Accounting and Finance teams.
As a Tax Intern, you will help the Head of Tax in supporting Back Market’s global growth in compliance with tax laws. This role involves conducting legal research, ensuring monitoring, preparing and reviewing tax returns, assisting in tax audits.
Back Market is an online marketplace for refurbished electronic devices active in 18 countries worldwide!
Your Mission (If You Accept It): 🚀
Back Market is helping to address one of the biggest challenges of our time: climate change. We take this so seriously that we were awarded status as a “Société à Mission”, or company with a social mission, by the French government. We know we can’t tackle a global problem without a globally representative team so we are committed to embedding diversity, equity and inclusion principles in every aspect of our organization. But more importantly, being One Loving & Free Spirited Tribe is in our DNA as it is one of the five foundational values of our company since we got started way back in 2014. We are committed to hiring and supporting diverse teams of people from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We know our lofty goals cannot be reached unless everyone has a seat at the table along with the resources and opportunity to grow.
Named one of the World's Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company in 2019 and again in 2021, our mission is simple: empowering people to consume tech sustainably by offering folks a high quality, accessible, and more eco-friendly alternative to buying new electronics. Why? Refurbished tech helps lower our collective environmental impact . We have indeed contributed to avoid the production of more than 1,000,000 tons of CO2e worldwide since our launch in 2014.
Be part of an exciting and growing international adventure that will change the way the world consumes tech.
Job Description
The Tax Department at a glance:
The Tax department is part of Back Market’s legal team, a collaborative team who aims to support Back Market's growth worldwide. You will join this team and report directly to the Head of Tax. In short, you'll be his or her right (or left) hand man, getting into the practical life of an in-house tax counsel.
The Tax Department works closely with the Public Affairs, Accounting and Finance teams.
As a Tax Intern, you will help the Head of Tax in supporting Back Market’s global growth in compliance with tax laws. This role involves conducting legal research, ensuring monitoring, preparing and reviewing tax returns, assisting in tax audits.
Back Market is an online marketplace for refurbished electronic devices active in 18 countries worldwide!
Your Mission (If You Accept It): 🚀
- Perform legal research and ensure legal monitoring regarding tax laws in France, EU, UK, USA and APAC zone
- Assist in the preparation of VAT, Corporate income tax and local tax filings
- Assist in the preparation of our R&D tax credit submissions in France and in other countries
- Monitor payment and refunds of taxes
- Implement our transfer pricing policy and contribute to our transfer pricing documentation
- Contribute to the management of our marketplace compliance obligations (DAC7 and similar seller income reporting rules worldwide)Contribute to seller education in terms of tax compliance
- Apply and enrich KYB processes to fight against tax fraud
- Work closely with tech teams to automate certain tax processes and to built reports for our users
- Assist the Head of Tax in case of tax audits or litigations
- Answer operational questions about tax matters and build an internal knowledge base
- Ensure our compliance with environmental taxes (EPR regulations)
- You are an “EFB” student and/or have a DJCE / Master I or Master II in Tax Law
- Looking for a 6-months full-time internship from January to June 2025
- English and French are no-brainers (fully professional capability). If you’re extra cool and speak more languages, bonus points for you!
- You already have prior internship experience in a legal area, big plus if you have already been part of a tax team
- You are endowed with excellent communication skills and a strong capacity for analysis and synthesis
- Starting date is in January 2025
- Duration : 6 months (until June 2025)
- Location : Bordeaux, France
- You must have an internship agreement provided by your current French school
- Skills fit interview with the direct manager (on Zoom - 45min)
- Home assignment/ technical test
- Admin and Cultural fit interview with the HR and another person in the team (on Zoom - 45min)
- A meaningful job: through hard work, you will help avoid thousands of tons of electronic waste and fight against planned obsolescence. It counts!
- An attractive salary, multiple benefits (meal tickets, health insurance, etc...), internal events, etc…
- Be in an environment where you can make a difference: you will have the freedom to innovate and adopt new ideas!
- A booming scale-up: our environment is rapidly growing in Europe, the USA and in Asia!
- We embrace work life balance which includes flexible working hours and the opportunity to work from home.
- A lot of fun: you will have the opportunity to work in a fast-paced, open-minded and friendly environment.
Back Market is helping to address one of the biggest challenges of our time: climate change. We take this so seriously that we were awarded status as a “Société à Mission”, or company with a social mission, by the French government. We know we can’t tackle a global problem without a globally representative team so we are committed to embedding diversity, equity and inclusion principles in every aspect of our organization. But more importantly, being One Loving & Free Spirited Tribe is in our DNA as it is one of the five foundational values of our company since we got started way back in 2014. We are committed to hiring and supporting diverse teams of people from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We know our lofty goals cannot be reached unless everyone has a seat at the table along with the resources and opportunity to grow.