Associate Director, S/4HANA, Tax Technology

• Play a key role in large-scale S/4HANA Tax advisory projects for major clients undergoing complex business transformations.
• Gain exposure to cutting-edge tax technology within a strategic, commercial, and business context.
• Develop your consulting and functional skills while building your career as a future SAP Tax Solution Architect.

Core Responsibilities:

• Lead client engagements: Conduct workshops, analyse tax and business needs, and design optimal SAP tax solutions, considering alternative technologies.
• End-to-end process understanding: Assess tax touchpoints across entire business processes, ensuring comprehensive solution design.
• Solution architect: Design, build, and integrate tax requirements into SAP systems and broader tax technology landscapes.
• Impact assessment: Evaluate the business impact of technical decisions, balancing functionality with operational efficiency.
• Proactive risk management: Identify, manage, and mitigate project risks and issues, fostering strong client relationships.
• Documentation and communication: Contribute to proposals, process documentation, and project updates, ensuring transparency and stakeholder alignment.
• Compliance and risk awareness: Adhere to risk management and engagement acceptance protocols, upholding professional standards.
• Team Leader: Cultivate a diverse and inclusive team environment, fostering collaboration, valuing diverse perspectives, and empowering team members to contribute their best.

• Proven track record of successful SAP tax solution design and 3-4 end-to-end implementation in global settings.
• Experience with end to end integration of at least one e-invoicing platforms/providers (including but not limited to SAP DRC, Pagero, EDICOM, Sovos etc.).
• Deep functional expertise of SAP FI/SD/MM modules including the setup of underlying SAP business processes (e.g. intercompany billing 3rd party drop-shipments, consignment etc) as well as their interplay with tax processes.
• End to end implementation experience with at least one tax engine / its SAP intergration (e.g. ONESOURCE, Vertz) or SAP / VAT add-ons (e.g. Meridian) or building chain transaction related tax design using native SAP.
• Understanding of the tax touchpoints with additional SAP integrated modules/add-ons (e.g. VIM/Readsoft, Ariba/Coupa or their competitors).
• Experience in scoping and pricing large scale engagements.
• Strong client-facing consulting skills: gathering requirements, managing expectations, and building relationships.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and project management skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to work effectively in matrix teams and manage diverse stakeholder groups.

Desirable:

• Understanding of the wider SAP ecosystem and how it can benefit Tax (e.g. BTP, PaPM, SAC).
• Hands-on experience with SAP's technical components, ability to read SAP ABAP code and work with ABAPers to build custom developments (e.g. BADI, BAPI, userexits, IDOC etc) and a good understanding of integration technologies (e.g. APIs).
• Strong data analysis skills (e.g. SQL, ETL tools, Alteryx / KNIME, ability to extract and analyse SAP tables / CDS views).

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