Tax Technology and Transformation - Indirect Tax - SAP/ERP Implementer - Manager

About the role

Tax Technology and Transformation provide services to help companies address the challenges posed by existing and emerging technologies, particularly the increasing data burden, by enhancing efficiency and transforming tax functions into cost-effective operations. Key offerings include: digital tax transformation, tax applications-as-a-service, tax data improvement, analytics enhancement, Core ERP Tax enablement (design, configuration, and integrations).

Responsibilities

• Help client tax departments operate at peak efficiency and productivity and better position them to take advantage of tax saving opportunities that might otherwise go undetected.
• Transfer control of tax decision-making from the transaction processing personnel and outside vendors to the tax specialists within our client's tax department.
• Implement automated indirect tax calculation and compliance solutions.
• Configure and support indirect tax integration in SAP using external tax engine or native SAP across Finance (R2R), Order-to-Cash (O2C) and procure-to-Pay (P2P) processes.
• Design and develop customizations in SAP-based integrations with third-party tax engines (Vertex, Thomson Reuters, Sovos, etc.) based on customer requirements.
• Analyze client’s SAP tax requirements and provide innovative solutions based on industry experience and best practices.
• Support the development of data analytics solutions focused on indirect tax.
• Support the implementation of global digital tax reporting solutions.
• Lead requirements gathering and design workshops focused on tax automation in SAP using native tax functionality or SAP ERP integrations with external tax engines.
• Create and execute unit, system, and integration test cases.
• Support production cutover and post-go-live activities.
• Provide regular status updates and technical guidance to project leadership.

Requirements

To qualify for this role, you must have:

• A Bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems (MIS), Computer Science or Engineering and approximately 6 years of related work experience in indirect tax process improvement experience or equivalent experience in business or industry; or a master's degree and approximately 4 years of related work experience preferred.
• 6+ years of overall experience with SAP ERP technologies (ECC and S4).
• 5+ years hands-on techno functional experience with SAP ERP modules (R2R, O2C and P2P).
• Approved technical certification.
• Proven experience integrating SAP ERP with third-party tax engines.
• Experience supporting or implementing VAT and transaction tax solutions.
• Familiarity with SOAP and REST APIs (SOAP UI, Postman).
• Excellent communication skills and experience working with US-based clients.
• Work on high-impact enterprise tax and ERP transformation projects.
• Indirect tax (Sales/Use Tax, VAT) experience and/or corporate indirect tax compliance experience preferred.
• Excellent managerial, leadership, organizational, and verbal/written communication skills.
• Relevant experience in one or more of the following specialty areas: indirect tax software products such as Vertex, ONESOURCEStrong understanding of enterprise tax processes and automation.
• Willingness to travel domestically up to 40%.

Skills and Attributes

• Knowledgeable technical professionals with an excellent general knowledge of both international and domestic tax.
• Strong business acumen and a firm strategic vision.
• Excellent managerial, leadership, organizational, and verbal/written communication skills.
• Experience with Java, XML, or enterprise integration technologies.
• Experience in configuring Third party tax engines like ONESOURCE or Vertex.
• SAP ABAP with hand-on experience in development of RICEFW objects.
• Experience in integrating third-party invoicing tools like Ariba/Coupa/VIM with SAP ERP.
• Exposure to infrastructure or performance tuning concepts.
• SAP certifications.

Benefits

The base salary range for this job in all geographic locations in the US is $142,600 to $261,500. The base salary range for New York City Metro Area, Washington State and California (excluding Sacramento) is $171,200 to $297,200. Individual salaries within those ranges are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills and geography.