Executive Assistant Emea jobs at Palo Alto in Netherlands, Amsterdam

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Your Career

We're seeking an exceptional and highly experienced Director, EMEA Income Tax to join our dynamic Tax team. This pivotal role requires prior experience as the Head of Tax for EMEA or a similar leadership position within a US multinational group. You'll bring a thorough understanding of relevant tax laws and the ability to offer strategic guidance on tax legislation and developments across a global scale. This role is based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and is expected to be onsite at least three days per week. You will report to the Senior Director, International Tax, Global Tax Planning, and Tax M&A, who is located in California, and continuously collaborate with our strong global tax team.

Your Impact

As the Director, EMEA Income Tax, you will be instrumental in shaping our tax strategy and operations in the region. You'll oversee all EMEA income tax matters, including planning, controversy and compliance, while serving as a strong partner to EMEA business leadership. This is a strategic role where you will:

• Build, lead, develop, and mentor a high-performing team of tax professionals, including two existing managers. Play a key leadership role within the Global Tax organization
• Develop and implement tax strategies that align with business objectives, aiming to optimize tax efficiencies across EMEA
• Create and maintain governance frameworks to ensure compliance with tax laws in these regions, working with executive and cross-functional teams to address compliance risks
• Serve as a key tax advisor to the business, drive business partnerships in the region and lead EMEA strategic projects
• Collaborate with the Global Tax team, EMEA accounting, finance, legal, and business teams, as well as outside service providers
• Providing strategic support on EMEA tax examinations and inquiries by local tax authorities.
• Supporting global expansion by partnering with regional leadership, leading the tax research of local country and regional tax requirements and recommendations
• Assisting in M&A and post-transaction integration activities
• Proactively monitor and interpret global tax developments that may impact the business, analyzing legislation (including OECD, UN Tax Committee, and Pillar 2 initiatives), participating in modeling scenarios, and effectively communicating potential impacts and strategic adjustments to relevant stakeholders
• Assisting with corporate tax issues related to global mobility, including Permanent Establishment (PE) risks, and overseeing employment tax risks
• Contribute to the design and implementation of automated tools to drive efficiency and process improvements. Identify and implement process improvements to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the tax function, leveraging technology and best practices
• Review of customer contracts for tax related items, aligned with our global policies and structure
• Support the company structure, including monitoring governance and the execution of DEMPE functions
• Collaborate closely with our Global Transfer Pricing team to implement, maintain and document our transfer pricing policies and practices in EMEA. This also includes participation in APAs we have or may seek in EMEA
• Assume overall responsibility for International income tax compliance and reporting of income tax. Work closely with our Tax Compliance team to provide support and guidance on regulatory requirements, supporting the quarterly tax provision process, and ensuring accuracy in current and deferred tax provisioning across EMEA. You'll also work closely with the accounting team to understand the provide a critical review of statutory accounts for any relevant tax matters

Your Experience

• 15+ years of progressive tax consulting, compliance, and reporting experience within Big 4 firms and multinational corporate tax departments (Tech Industry preferred). This includes extensive experience leading strategy, advising, driving, reviewing, and managing international tax compliance, reporting, controversy, and planning
• Deep international tax expertise with a US-headquartered multinational corporation, versed in US GAAP principles, and a strong understanding of international tax, transfer pricing concepts, rules, and regulations
• Excellent knowledge of income taxation of international operations and transactions, with the ability to lead the team in analyzing and responding to new tax statutes, regulations, rulings, and court decisions for planning and reporting
• Register Accountant or other recognized professional accounting qualification (e.g., ACA, ACCA, CTA, CPA) or equivalent European tax/accounting certification), or a Master's degree in Taxation/Law (LL.M. in Taxation)
• Strong analytical, research, organizational, and project management skills, including tax modeling, quantitative tax analysis, and the ability to translate complex issues into clear, actionable insights for colleagues and management
• Self-motivated, accountable, and collaborative, with a proven ability to manage multiple priorities and complex projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment while working effectively as part of a high-performing team
• Demonstrated capability to manage, develop, and mentor staff in a collaborative team setting.
• Skilled in performing tax research using online tools (e.g., BNA, CCH) and consulting with external tax service providers and internal tax advisory team members
• Proficient in Excel modeling, experienced with large data sets and pivot tables, and passionate about technology and AI tool adoption
• Excellent written and oral communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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Your Career

The Sr. Executive Assistant will actively support the day - to - day operations of the office and provide support to our VP, Global Technical Services.

Our ideal candidate must have strong organizational skills, excellent verbal and written communication skills, and the ability to work autonomously. Experience in sales strategy and planning would be an advantage.

Your Impact

• Help manage the day - to - day operations of the office and the executives

• Provide general support to key visitors (internal and external)

• Manage agendas of the executives, including scheduling and coordinating meetings, appointments, and travel arrangements

• Provide general administrative support to the executives (e.g., expenses in Concur, etc. )

• Organize team meetings, team/company events, or customer events, including preparation, logistics, and follow - up as needed

• Help support short and long-term projects, selected initiatives, and communications

• Assist in resolving any administrative problems

Your Experience

• Bachelor's degree and/or higher professional education

• Strong communication skills in English, both written and verbal

• Good understanding of Google Applications (GSuite) & MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook)

• Well organized, well - structured, hands - on, result focused and service minded

• Accuracy in following instructions, record keeping and completion of reports or projects

• Ability to foster teamwork and a collaborative atmosphere

• Pro - active and enthusiastic person, who is willing to take initiative, feels at ease in an international and fast - paced environment and knows how to set priorities under pressure

• Problem solving – independently identifies and resolves problems in a timely manner; escalates when necessary

• Flexible, able to multitask and work with deadlines

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Your Career

Palo Alto Networks is a fast-paced, rapidly growing environment that will require flexibility to roll up your sleeves and participate in various capacities to deliver success. In this role, you will be working with senior executives and drive the administration day-to-day operations as assigned. You will be expected to handle all duties with a high degree of integrity, professionalism, and confidentiality.

Ultimately, you will contribute to the efficiency of our business by providing personalized and timely support to executive members. The person in this role would be highly motivated, takes initiative, and feels comfortable with ambiguity. They know how to ask the right questions to gain more detail, and can drive to execution efficiently and proficiently.

Your Impact

• Manage and prioritize calendars, schedules, and communications

• Arrange travel schedules that can quickly change and need adjustment

• Organize meetings, entertainment, and events

• Coordinate with internal and external teams

• Special projects as assigned in relation to travel services

• File expense reports and track reimbursement status for weekly expenses support ad-hoc requests, often on short notice

• Responsible for assisting in office duties such as answering phone calls, sending emails, ordering meals and greeting visitors

• Available and responsive to the global nature of the business - oftentimes extending into non-traditional office hours

Your Experience

• 2+ years executive administrative experience, or an equivalent combination of experience supporting c-level executives in the hi-tech industry

• Experience supporting a Sales leader is a plus

• Proficiency in Google Suite Products - Drive, Gmail, Calendar

• Outstanding organizational and time management skills

• Familiarity with office gadgets and applications (e.g. e-calendars and copy machines)

• Excellent verbal and written communications skills

• Focus on discretion and confidentiality

• Excellent reliability and attention to detail

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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Your Career

To be successful in this role, you must be able to complete tasks and projects quickly with little guidance, strategically approach complex problems, and you should be comfortable with managing multiple, complex projects in parallel.

You will be part of the EMEA people team and HR Global Operations team, reporting to the Director of HR Connect.

Your Impact

• Inspire the EMEA HR Operations team to deliver projects and process improvement that enhance, streamline and simplify employee and manager experiences throughout EMEA.

• Provide leadership, coaching, and guidance to the EMEA HR Operations Team across areas including offboarding, employee data changes, compliance, employee lifecycle programs (performance management, compensation planning), leaves (PTO, sick leave, LOAs), time tracking and more.

• Work closely with the other regional HR Ops teams, EMEA People Business Partners and other key stakeholders such as legal, finance, payroll, compensation & benefits, HRIS, and vendors.

• Continuously seek ways to improve the processes that are in place - looking to disrupt the tech, processes, current ways of working and procedures to optimize our service delivery and enhance the employee experience.

• Optimize day-to-day management of workday for the region with a strong focus on improving workday to strive for consistency across all EMEA countries. Strong partnership with the People Tech (who owns workday) team to drive improved employee and manager experience is critical.

• Proactively analyze operational insights for the EMEA HRC team to develop plans to improve documentation, self-service solutions that decrease overall case volume for the HR Operations Team and improve the team productivity.

• Understand our broader HR strategy in the context of the business and EMEA perspective, and processes to architect, develop and implement scalable, flexible solutions that meet EMEA compliance needs and drive global consistency elsewhere.

Your Experience

• Team Management Experience: 4+ years managing and growing a diverse, potentially remote and multilingual team is crucial for a regional HR operations leader.

• Workday Proficiency: Experience with Workday across various HR modules is highly relevant for managing HR operations.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Working with global HR teams is essential for a regional manager to ensure alignment and achieve shared objectives.

• Organizational Change Management: Experience with large-scale organizational change and project management is relevant for navigating and implementing HR process improvements and transformations. Demonstrated ability to fully define the business problem and design value driven solutions to enhance our service delivery capabilities.

• HR Compliance Knowledge: Familiarity with EMEA HR laws and regulations is critical for ensuring compliance within the region.

• Analytical and Problem-Solving Skills: Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and organizational abilities are essential for managing complex HR operations.

• Communication and Interpersonal Skills: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills are necessary for effective team management, cross-functional collaboration, and stakeholder management.

• Discretion and Professionalism: Handling confidential information with discretion and demonstrating professionalism are fundamental requirements for an HR leadership role.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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Your Impact

• Oversee the daily renewal operations of assigned direct reports (8–15) and districts/regions within EMEAL.
• Develop an account management strategy and outreach plan that fosters positive customer engagement, supports long-term success, and drives account growth.
• Ensure a high level of team engagement to facilitate timely customer account renewals.
• Take full accountability for the team's success, developing it into a highly motivated and professional unit.
• Motivate direct reports to drive pipeline development and revenue growth through renewal sales efforts, leveraging the ecosystem and key stakeholders.
• Provide accurate forecasting to leadership, delivering committed targets on a weekly, monthly, and quarterly basis to Directors and VPs.
• Coach and develop team members through bi-weekly one-on-ones, mentoring, and performance management.
• Support and supervise direct reports in closing large deals.
• Evaluate and document team performance based on key metrics and leadership-defined goals.
• Monitor and report weekly outbound renewal efforts to track team performance.
• Collaborate with Sales Leaders to develop strategies that achieve sales targets and uncover high-value opportunities.
• Maintain accurate reporting through Salesforce.com and other tools to ensure visibility into team performance.
• Provide escalation support for renewals within assigned districts and as needed.

Your Experience

• 5 + years of experience in:
  • Managing a team of Renewal Representatives responsible for increasing ARR bookings or similar subscription-focused offerings.
  • Leading teams of 8–15 members across on-site and remote work environments.
  • Hiring, developing, and retaining talent through leadership and performance management.
• Proven track record in change management methodologies and individual coaching/mentorship.
• Strong understanding of SaaS/subscription-based renewal models, applications, and sales techniques.
• Experience with channel/partner sales models, renewals, and upsell strategies.
• Demonstrated ability to consistently achieve renewal and sales team goals through effective leadership.
• Adaptability to quickly learn new technology and adjust to evolving business needs.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to build and maintain cross-functional relationships.
• Strong organizational and analytical skills, with the capability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Google Suite, and Salesforce.com.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.