André Jaekel

Partner, German Certified Tax Advisor, graduate in business administration

Profile

André is a Partner for Operational Transfer Pricing at Optravis in Germany. He has over 15 years of experience providing transfer pricing services and projects to multinational companies in various industries. He is the product owner of the Optravis Service Charge Tool.

He gained most of his experience while working for a Big4 company, where he was responsible for both regular and technology-driven transfer pricing projects. Before joining Optravis, Andre led a transfer pricing technology team as a Senior Manager.

He also worked in the international tax department of a leading multinational insurance company for over three years, where he was responsible for transfer pricing optimization and automation.

André is a certified German tax advisor and holds a degree in business administration.

Experience

• Product lead of the Optravis Service Charge Tool
• Implementation of the Optravis Service Charge Tool and Transfer Pricing Management Tool
• Proof-of-Concept projects
• End-2-end transfer pricing implementation (compliance and data driven)
• Automation and optimization of transfer pricing setting and documentation processes
• Data analytics and Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
• I/C data cleansing
• Co-development and implementation of data analytic dashboards
• Co-development of prototypes using machine learning and chat bot technology
• Analysis, planning, implementation, documentation and defense of transfer pricing structures
• Optimization of transfer pricing processes considering controlling, tax and IT aspects
• Business restructuring, evaluation
• TP dispute resolution (APA, MAP, tax audit defense)
• Project Lead on various transfer pricing projects