Senior Tax Manager (m/f/d) Real Estate Transactions

In this position, you will offer sophisticated tax support for real estate transactions within intricate international multi-tier structures and platforms, while developing and implementing innovative tax strategies.

Additionally, you will play a key role in providing continuous tax support for the existing portfolio during the holding phase, emphasizing compliance and efficiency.

Key Responsibilities

Buy & Sell transactions

Deliver state-of-the-art tax support for real estate transactions, particularly within complex international multi-tier structures and platforms.

• Critically evaluate external tax advisers' findings from tax due diligence.
• Ensure tax‑efficient structuring while safeguarding investors' reputational risks.
• Assert secure legal positions during contract negotiations (e. g., SPA, side letters) with external assistance, while also providing pragmatic recommendations in case of disagreements.
• Demonstrate adequate understanding of IRR modeling (post‑tax).
• Facilitate effective tax handover to other departments (Accounting, tax advisers of investors, etc.). Tax support of the existing portfolio in the holding phase.
• Tax Support for Existing Portfolio in Holding Phase
• Ensure tax compliance with legally required documentation (e. g., TP studies) for investment companies and investors.
• Identify potential tax risks, possibly with external assistance, and coordinate risk mitigation measures, including alignment with Group Centers.
• Monitor tax developments.
• Initiate and execute restructuring measures, ensuring alignment with various stakeholders (investors, Group Centers, etc.)
• Key Requirements
• University degree in Business Administration, Finance, or a fully qualified lawyer and/or (German) tax adviser
• 4-7 years of relevant professional experience in a tax advisory firm, tax department, or tax authorities
• Outstanding proficiency in English and German
• Strong knowledge of German national and international tax law, particularly in real estate matters
• Exceptional finance modeling and analytical skills
• Solution-oriented approach to complex tasks and processes
• Excellent negotiation, communication, and presentation skills

Benefits

• Onboarding: A mentor, a buddy program and a global welcome event will help you getting started.
• Learning: A large portfolio of continuous learning opportunities will help you staying relevant in your current role and growing into future workplace demands.
• Working place: An open and international working environment with a diverse and inclusive culture will inspire your everyday work.

A working model which balances remote and office based work will give you the flexibility to organize the way you work.

• Benefits: A company pension scheme, well-being initiatives, sports offers and other local benefits will allow you achieving a positive work life balance.

A leading global real estate investor and manager, PIMCO Prime Real Estate is a PIMCO company and part of the PIMCO real estate platform, focusing on the Core and Core+ segments of the market and managing the Allianz Group’s $85B real estate mandate.

We manage a global investment portfolio c. $90B AUM, with an international team of c. 450 employees working in 16 offices in Belgium, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, the UK and the U.

PIMCO’s real estate platform is one of the largest and most diversified in the world, with $174B in assets and a broad set of solutions that leverage decades of expertise across public and private equity and debt markets.

Allianz Group is one of the most trusted insurance and asset management companies in the world.

Caring for our employees, their ambitions, dreams and challenges, is what makes us a unique employer.

Together we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and has the confidence to explore, to grow and to shape a better future for our customers and the world around us.

At Allianz, we stand for unity: we believe that a united world is a more prosperous world, and we are dedicated to consistently advocating for equal opportunities for all.

And the foundation for this is our inclusive workplace, where people and performance both matter, and nurtures a culture grounded in integrity, fairness, inclusion and trust.

We therefore welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, social class, disability or sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected under applicable local laws and regulations.

Let's care for tomorrow.

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