Business Partnering Tax, Digital & Advisory

Business partnering is a sensible approach when the tax function faces complex operational, staffing or regulatory challenges and, at the same time, requires greater flexibility, scalability and cost transparency. It is an ideal way to access specialist expertise ‘on demand’, reliably meet compliance and FISG requirements, ensure business continuity and knowledge transfer, and efficiently implement digitalisation and transformation projects.

Business partnering with WTS means that WTS acts as an “extension of your tax department”, taking on entire packages of tasks, specific areas and (sub-)processes within the tax function on a permanent basis – including advisory services, operational implementation and end-to-end process support. The collaboration is designed for the long term and ranges from individual tax services and co-sourcing models to the complete takeover of the tax function, seamlessly integrated into your operational business processes in each case. You are assigned a single point of contact who works in coordination with specialist teams of experts, ensuring that all tax services are provided “under one roof”. The aim is a stable, high-quality and flexible tax function with assured business continuity, a high level of compliance assurance, clear cost transparency, as well as access to the WTS network and modern digitalisation solutions.

We offer both project-based support and business partnering for almost all of our services. This covers our Tax, Digital and Financial Advisory service lines.

In summary, partnering with WTS offers, above all, flexibility, cost and quality assurance, proven expertise and resources, high compliance standards, as well as benefits derived from digitalisation and integrated support. In detail, this means:

• Maximum flexibility: From the procurement of individual services to the provision of a complete tax function, with increasing flexibility whilst maintaining consistently high quality.
• Cost reduction & cost transparency: Cost reduction through digitalisation and back-office structure, as well as cost predictability and full cost transparency.
• Ensuring business continuity & expertise: Ensuring business continuity and the preservation of existing expertise; WTS safeguards expertise and resources.
• Enhanced compliance security & FISG compliance: Increased compliance security and the guarantee of defined service, quality and compliance standards; FISG compliance.
• Availability of resources: Availability of resources at all times, including through the transfer of key (sub-)processes of the tax function, including staff, to WTS.
• Quality through a specialised network: Quality thanks to access to the WTS network and a specialist tax back office.
• Digitalisation advantage: Cost reduction and increased flexibility through digitalisation, as well as participation in WTS’s digitalisation developments.
• Benchmarking & organisational optimisation: Benchmarking of the structural and procedural organisation of the tax and finance function.
• Integrated, centralised support: A single point of contact who delivers results in collaboration with teams of experts; all tax services under one roof and seamlessly integrated.
• Long-term, scalable collaboration: Long-term contracts, more than 300 staff within the business partnering scope of services, tailor-made scope of services.

Business partnering is in our DNA and has been an integral part of our service offering for 20 years. We offer in-depth expertise in tax and finance processes and employ around 300 staff in our business partnering division. Our approach speaks for itself: numerous international corporate groups are among our long-standing clients.