VAT Senior Consultant

Want to join a dynamic, innovative team and help grow the VAT department? Leyton is the place to be!

With 27 years of experience and 4, 000+ professionals globally, we combine a multinational reach with a local feel, offering a supportive, inclusive, and
- oriented workplace.

Take your career to the next level and join our Porto office and make an impact on our ongoing success story!

How You’ll Contribute

• Serve as the primary point of contact for clients, preparing reports, advisory emails, and recommendations tailored to their VAT compliance needs.
• Develop and maintain long‑term, trust‑based relationships with clients and networks, ensuring profitable and collaborative engagements.
• Assist Team Leaders/Managers with complex business issues, providing insights that add value beyond compliance.
• Contribute to the implementation, improvement, and development of technical projects related to Indirect Tax.
• Demonstrate the ability to assimilate new knowledge quickly and apply it effectively to client work.
• Ensure efficiency in clients’ VAT compliance processes, validating VAT declarations and proceeding with the respective submissions in each respective tax authorities’ platforms.
• Oversee VAT registrations and deregistration at the request of clients.
• Liaise with tax authorities in jurisdictions where clients have strategic transactions, managing information requests and audits on their behalf.
• Ensure all deliverables meet both statutory deadlines and agreed client timelines.
• Contribute to the team’s productivity, motivation, and cooperation through clear communication and support.

What You Bring to the Team

• Technical precision with strong attention to detail and accuracy.
• Analytical mindset with excellent problem‑solving and critical‑thinking skills.
• Collaborative spirit and ability to thrive in a team‑oriented environment.
• Integrity and professionalism, demonstrating responsibility, confidentiality, and ethical conduct.
• Proactive and forward‑thinking, with a self‑starter attitude and innovative approach to challenges.

Is this You?

• Academic Degree in Tax, Law, Economics, Finance or similar financial/legal fields of study.
• More than 3 years of professional experience focused in Indirect Tax; experience with E‑invoicing projects is highly valued.
• Background in a consulting environment is really valuable.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, Power
  Point and Outlook.
• Full English proficiency. Other languages will be valued in the recruitment process.

Why work for us?

• Permanent contract and career plan in a leading company undergoing rapid growth and expansion.
• Full‑time position with flexible hours.
• Intensive working hours during the month of August.
• Teleworking in accordance with company policy.
• Employee benefits, including health insurance and flexible remuneration.
• Unlimited free fruit, coffee and herbal teas in the offices.
• No work on your birthday.