Head of Accounting, Tax & Customs Excellence (m/f/d)

  • Location

    Frankfurt / Main

  • Employment level

    Manager

  • Function

    10

  • Working time

    Full-time or Part-time

  • Publishing date

    05-30-2026

  • Application deadline

    06-12-2026

Head of Accounting, Tax & Customs Excellence (m/f/d)

  • Location

    Frankfurt / Main

  • Employment level

    Manager

  • Function

    10

  • Working time

    Full-time or Part-time

  • Publishing date

    05-30-2026

  • Application deadline

    06-12-2026

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Tasks

  • Responsibility for continuous improvement and transformation of accounting, tax and customs. Targeting compliance, quality improvement, efficiency gains and error reduction
  • Bridging regulations, process and systems to ensure consistent way of working in accounting, tax and customs
  • Responsibility for data & process governance, developing and implementing a KPI framework for the Accounting & Tax function relating to data quality, process efficiency, compliance rate, system stability, degree of automation
  • Building & operating an integrated analytics capability covering accounting, tax (tech) & customs topics
  • Serving as LH Group’s Tax Compliance Management Officer to protect the Executive Board & Senior Management. Development, implementation & monitoring of a groupwide Tax Compliance Management System. Tax Lobbying for regulatory topics of a TCMS with political decision-makers, tax administrations including representation of LH Group in political committees.
  • Responsibility for the Internal Control System (ICS) within Accounting, Tax & Customs together with functional teams

Behind the scenes

Welcome to Lufthansa!

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Requirements

  • University degree [economics, legal] with accounting, tax as core area
  • Certified Tax Advisor, Chartered Accountant, CPA or similar
  • Deep knowledge of economic tax doctrine, accounting regulation as well as legal
    methodology to interpret and analyze the regulations
  • Strong proximity to the subject
  • Minimum of 15 years in tax, accounting business, thereof a minimum of 10 years in
    international corporate set-ups
  • Excellent knowledge of relevant law (tax, accounting), well-grounded knowledge of
    administrative law, company law, national and international commercial law 
  • Very good knowledge of the hierarchical composition and the working procedures of tax
    administrations in core countries for  LH-group and on EU-level
  • Focus on decision and implementation
  • Neutrality and objectivity towards companies / business units in terms of solutions.
  • Strong project management skills
  • Experience in handling financial auditors
  • Ideally transformation and/or tax/ accounting technology skills
  • Ideally leadership experience in multinationals with shared service set-up
  • Fluent in German and English 

Company

About Deutsche Lufthansa AG

The Lufthansa Group is an aviation group with operations worldwide. As the biggest airline group by revenue, it plays the leading role in its European home market. With 100.000 employees, the Lufthansa Group generated revenue of EUR 39,597m in the financial year 2025. The Lufthansa Group consists of the business segments Passenger Airlines, Logistics, MRO and Additional Businesses and Group Functions.
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