Regulatory Counsel

**Build your future with Sovos.**

If you are looking for an opportunity where career-minded professionals can achieve success while bringing their best and whole selves to work each day, Sovos may be the company you have been looking for. Employees at Sovos operate on the leading edge of digital technology while working to improve lives and the communities in which we live and work. When we say Solve Tax for Good, we mean For Good in every sense of the word. Our organizational commitment is to provide a place where employees can thrive and progress in their careers while having the support behind them that only a global company can offer.

Sound like this might be the opportunity you have been looking for?

It’s not about what you have done somewhere else, it’s all about what you are capable of doing here.

**The Work You’ll Do**:
The EMEA Regulatory Analysis team for VAT, based in Portugal, Sweden, and Germany, offers interesting and challenging legal research work in a multinational environment within a cutting-edge information security and fiscal compliance space. With a team of seven regulatory counsels/specialists, currently with roots in Albania, Brazil, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, South Africa, Sweden and Venezuela, we enjoy cooperation and exchange with our fellow Regulatory Analysis teams in other regions. Together we provide the regulatory intelligence that powers our suite of products.

Our work includes global regulatory research within multiple jurisdictions, primarily relating to electronic invoicing and electronic tax reporting, which entails both tax and information security aspects. We monitor legislative and regulatory developments in our supported jurisdictions, and analyze the effects that any such changes could potentially have to our products and services. The Regulatory Analysis team works closely with Product Management to ensure that our products meet relevant legal requirements, and co-design future software solutions.
- What are my responsibilities going to be, more specifically?_
- Proactively and continually monitor legislative and regulatory developments concerning electronic document regulations, including e-invoices and tax reports, in different countries. These requirements are mainly related to indirect tax, accounting, and commercial legislation.
- Help determine the impact of regulatory changes on Sovos’ solutions and provide detailed, timely and accurate information regarding those changes to relevant colleagues, in order to implement such changes in Sovos’ solutions.
- Explain legal requirements in clear language for internal and external audiences e.g. by conducting workshops for relevant teams and customers, supporting customers by providing regulatory expertise, drafting regulatory documents and keeping the market informed through webinars and blog posts.

**What We Need From You**:

- 2-4 years of experience in one or more of the areas of Indirect Tax Law, VAT, Accounting or ICT/Information Security/Data Privacy and legal aspects thereof.
- Degree in Law.
- Excellent command of spoken and written English. Additional language skills such as Chinese, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Arabic, Spanish or other is a great merit.
- Highly analytical skills, strive for accuracy, and have the ability to clearly and concisely synthesize and communicate information. We place a high value on collaboration and look for team-players.

**What Does Sovos Offer You?**
- The tools to enhance your life - because we want you to enjoy your life outside of work_
- Possibility to work remotely
- An opportunity to work with a global team
- Bi-Weekly Meeting Free Days
- Mentoring Programs
- Globally recognised Training and Development programs
- Benefits
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- Sovos is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing an environment that celebrates diversity and where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and employees. We do not discriminate against race, colour, religions, national origin, age, sex, marital status, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic provided by law. At Sovos, all employees are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work._

**Company Background**

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