SAP S/4HANA Tax Transformation Project Manager

About The Role

Randstad Digital’s Consulting practice is supporting a large private company in the food and beverage manufacturing space on a major global SAP S/4HANA transformation. We are hiring a Senior SAP S/4HANA Tax Transformation Project Manager to support the client’s Corporate Tax team as they migrate from their current tax/ERP environment to SAP S/4HANA across multiple countries.

Responsibilities

• Lead project execution for SAP S/4HANA Corporate Tax transformation and deployment activities.
• Drive planning, governance, status reporting, risks/issues, action items, dependencies, and stakeholder follow-through.
• Support country rollout readiness as the program expands across multiple countries.
• Cook up coordination across Corporate Tax, Finance, IT, business stakeholders, consulting/SI partners, and other program teams.
• Support cutover, hypercare, training readiness, testing coordination, deployment planning, and post-go-live stabilization.
• Organize complex information into clear project plans, executive-ready updates, RAID logs, decision trackers, and action plans.
• Identify blockers, clarify ownership, escalate risks, and drive issue resolution before they impact deployment milestones.
• Operate with urgency and ownership in a complex, global, matrixed transformation environment.

Requirements

• Direct SAP S/4HANA transformation, deployment, rollout, implementation, or migration experience.
• Experience supporting Tax, Corporate Tax, Tax Technology, Finance/FICO, statutory tax, indirect tax/VAT, transfer pricing, or closely related SAP finance/tax workstreams.
• Strong project management experience in large-scale enterprise transformation programs.
• Experience with cutover, hypercare, testing, training readiness, go-live support, deployment planning, or country rollout activities.
• Ability to drive organization, accountability, and execution across multiple teams without needing every ownership path to be clearly defined upfront.
• Strong experience with project governance tools and artifacts such as RAID logs, RACI, action trackers, status reports, milestone plans, dependency trackers, and executive updates.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to synthesize complex information into clear, concise leadership messaging.
• Comfort working with senior stakeholders, consulting partners, business users, IT teams, and functional subject matter experts.
• Highly organized, proactive, detail-oriented, and able to operate in ambiguity.

Preferred Experience

• Big 4, Accenture, large consulting firm, SAP partner, or tax technology consulting background.
• Experience in Corporate Tax, Tax Technology, Operational Transfer Pricing, statutory tax, income tax, indirect tax/VAT, or tax transformation.
• Experience with SAP S/4HANA Finance, FICO, Central Finance, tax engines, tax reporting, or ERP tax process transformation.
• Experience with tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Power BI, Signavio, Smartsheet, Monday.com, SAP Activate, SAP Cloud ALM, ONESOURCE, Vertex, or similar platforms.
• Experience supporting global or multi-country SAP deployments, localization, or template rollouts.

This Role Is Not a Fit

• If you are a general SAP Project Manager without direct SAP S/4HANA deployment or transformation experience.
• You have SAP ECC experience but no meaningful S/4HANA implementation, migration, deployment, or rollout exposure.
• You are primarily a hands-on SAP solution architect or configuration consultant who prefers designing the solution over driving project execution.
• You have tax experience but no SAP S/4HANA transformation or deployment experience.
• You have PMO/status reporting experience but have not actively driven execution, ownership, risks/issues, and stakeholder alignment in a complex transformation.
• You need a fully defined structure before taking action.
• This role requires someone who can create structure, clarify ownership, and drive progress in ambiguity.

Ideal Candidate Profile

• The strongest fit is a consulting-caliber SAP S/4HANA Tax or Finance transformation leader who has supported complex deployments and can operate as a true driver.
• This person may come from a Big 4, Accenture, SAP partner, tax technology, corporate tax transformation, or enterprise ERP transformation background.
• They should understand the complexity of S/4HANA deployments and be able to help the client’s Corporate Tax team move through rollout, cutover, hypercare, training, country readiness, and executive reporting without getting lost in the complexity of the program.