Director of Corporate Taxation for the Tax Administration

As Director General for Corporate within the Tax Administration you will become a member of the management board of Denmark's largest agency. You will be responsible for 840 employees and managers who every day work to ensure the collection of taxes and duties from Denmark's companies. Thus the corporate area constitutes a central part of ensuring the financing of the Danish welfare state.

Your responsibility as Director General for Corporate

The Corporate area is in contact with all Danish companies every year – from the largest groups to the smallest private limited companies – and helps ensure that companies, foundations and associations pay the correct taxes and duties on time. The area has about 840 employees distributed across four under-directorates.

As Director General for Corporate you must be a strong leader and have a professional profile that can build on the good results and the well-functioning collaboration with companies and internal and external stakeholders.

Companies in Denmark are characterized by being professional players that each year contribute a large tax revenue in corporate tax and VAT, etc. As Director General you will help make it easier for companies to report correctly through the right solutions, guidance and appropriate control, with the companies' legal certainty at the center.

You must create the framework for efficient operation and development of your area and build on a good and close stakeholder collaboration within the framework of the Tax Administration's overall strategy. This must be done in close dialogue and collaboration with your fellow directors, under-directors, the Ministry of Taxation and Growth's department and other stakeholders.

Digitalisation and globalisation place large, new demands on the collection of corporate taxes, and it will be your task to ensure that tasks, systems and processes follow societal development and changed requirements from eg the Parliament and the EU. You must be able to ensure and lead the modernization of complex system complexes, implementation of new directives and develop processes in your area for the benefit of companies in and outside Denmark.

As Director General you report to the Director of the Tax Administration, Thomas Hjortenberg. You will become part of the board of directors, which in addition to the director of the Tax Administration consists of the Director Generals for each of the Tax Administration's seven areas. You must be a role model for the organization and together with the rest of the management lead based on our values: professionalism, responsibility, collaboration and foresight.

You can read more about the Tax Administration's organization here.

Our upcoming Director General

This is an exciting and developing top leadership position, where we would like to see that:

• You have experience with top management and are driven by creating visible results for both daily operations and strategic and organizational development
• You have a strong analytical capacity and can communicate professionally and technically complex issues at a strategic and political level
• You have understanding of and preferably experience with the interaction between IT development, operations and strategy in a politically led organization
• You are attentive, open, collaborative and good at engaging in dialogue with your own management chain, partners and stakeholders
• You work strategically with the development of your organization and can see how tax payment can be tailored to the needs of businesses in an increasingly digital environment.

We also emphasize that you have a relevant education, preferably academic at a relevant master's level. Experience from the tax or business sector is an advantage, but not a requirement. In addition you should have experience leading other leaders.

Contact and terms of employment

Please submit your application with CV and examination papers via the link “Apply for the position” no later than Monday 26 October 2026. The start date is 1 January 2027 or as soon as possible.

We expect to conduct interviews in weeks 45 – 47. We cooperate with the consulting firm Genitor in the recruitment process, and you should allocate time for a test and a second interview if you proceed in the recruitment process.

If you have questions about the position or the recruitment process, you are welcome to contact the Director Thomas Hjortenberg. You can contact Thomas Hjortenberg through the secretary, Trine Merete Thrue Hansen, at [email protected] or tel. 72 37 96 40.

You can also contact Genitor Partner, Hanne Christensen at tel. 25117137.

Prior to employment we will obtain references and a criminal record check.

If you progress to employment in the recruitment process, be aware that we will conduct an investigation to determine whether you have debts that have been assigned for collection by the public sector. We also check whether you have any resolved control and/or criminal cases in the tax and duties area. Your employment is conditional on us not finding information about you that is incompatible with employment in the Tax and Growth Ministry's group.

You should be aware that your employment is conditional on you being security cleared and maintaining this security clearance during your employment in the position. If you are already security cleared in another public authority and you are offered the position, we would like to take over your security clearance from your current workplace if the conditions for this are met.

Salary and terms of employment are negotiated in accordance with the framework agreement on contract employment of senior managers in the state. The position is placed in salary group 3, corresponding to salary frame 39. The position is expected to be filled on a permanent basis.

You will be employed in the Ministry of Taxation and Growth with its associated institutions. Your workplace will be either Hannemanns Allé 25, 2300 Copenhagen S or Lyseng Allé 1, 8270 Højbjerg.

If you are a government employee, apply to His Majesty the King.

Application deadline: 26 October 2026

Location: Hannemanns Allé 25, 2300 Copenhagen S or Lyseng Allé 1, 8270 Højbjerg