Investment Team Intern

We are building Germany's leading tax advisory firm. Many business owners want a tax advisor who acts as a true sparring partner: proactive, responsive and strategic. What they often get is a service provider that books receipts and files returns, with little real advice. We're building the alternative.

Founded in 2025, Taxforce rethinks tax advisory from the ground up: AI-powered and highly automated, yet personal. We're starting with healthcare professionals, a complex and underserved segment, and we grow both organically and through M&A.

This is a €40B market in Germany alone, with processes that have barely changed in decades. AI now enables a fundamental shift, and there are no playbooks yet. We're writing them. We're a small, highly ambitious team in Berlin, backed by €5M from Tenet VC and founded by alumni of Goldman Sachs, Harvard Business School, Bain & Company, Y Combinator and the former Klarna Head of Engineering.

The role

You join the team that finds, evaluates, finances and integrates the tax firms that join Taxforce. You work directly with our founders on live deals and own your workstreams from first screening to closing and beyond.

Tasks

• Deal sourcing. Build and maintain a pipeline of tax firms that fit our focus, from research and screening to first outreach.

• Firm analysis. Turn DATEV reports, business analyses, annual accounts and payroll data into a clear picture of revenue, clients, team capacity and profitability.

• Models and valuation. Build and maintain valuation and financing models in Excel.

• Due diligence. Prepare and run due diligence workstreams, from data room to question lists.

• Financing. Prepare materials for banks and financing partners and keep the process on track.

• Decision papers. Write investment memos and presentations for founders and investors.

• Post-merger integration. Support the onboarding of acquired firms, from process documentation to cross-firm coordination.

Requirements

• Strong academic background. You have a very good Bachelor’s degree or are enrolled in a Master’s in business, economics, finance or a related field.

• First deal experience. You’ve interned in M&A, transaction services, private equity, investment banking, corporate finance or consulting.

• Financial fluency. You understand P&Ls, balance sheets and cash flows and quickly spot what doesn’t add up.

• Analytical mindset. You turn incomplete information into a clear recommendation.

• AI-native. You use AI tools to build analyses and models faster.

• German language skills. Sellers and banks speak German, so we require fluent German (C2) and English.

Benefits

• Work directly with experienced founders. Learn first-hand from a team with backgrounds at Goldman Sachs, Harvard Business School, Bain & Company and Klarna, and from a former Y Combinator founder.

• Buy-and-build from the inside. See how a group of tax firms is built at an early stage.

• At the table. Meet sellers, banks and investors and present your own analysis.

• Ownership from day one. Take on real responsibility early, on live clients, deals and projects.

• Front-row seat to AI in the real world. See how AI transforms a traditional industry and help build it.

• Steep learning curve. Work on real problems, ship quickly and build skills that prepare you to start your own company.

• A path to stay. Strong interns get an offer to continue as working student or full-time.

The details

Full-time internship for 3 to 6 months, start any time of the year, on-site in our Berlin office five days a week.

How to apply

Send us your CV and a few lines on why this role fits you. Our process has three steps: a 30-minute intro call, a short live case from our day-to-day work, and a conversation with the founders.