Director, S/4HANA, Tax Technology

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Job description

Connect to your Industry

The tax landscape is evolving, with changes to tax legislation, increasing digital reporting mandates, a drive for greater transparency, technological advancements, and the increasingly global reach of clients, all coming together to shape an exciting and challenging future in the market for tax services. We encourage consideration of flexible ways of working, both formal and informal arrangements that allow for the best outcomes for our people and our clients. If this opportunity is of interest to you with some flexibility, please do discuss with us.

Connect to your career at Deloitte

Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients' become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

What brings us all together at Deloitte? It's how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other , foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most .

Connect to your opportunity

Deloitte's Tax Technology Consulting team (TTC) is a market leader, uniquely combining consulting, technology, tax technical expertise, and reporting capabilities. As a single European team, we help businesses navigate the complexities of multi-jurisdictional tax operations, encompassing compliance, reporting, technology, and risk management.

Our rapidly growing Tax ERP team is at the forefront of SAP and Oracle enabled business transformations, providing a key differentiator for Deloitte's firm-wide Technology & Transformation (T&T) practice across the UK and Europe. This leadership role offers the opportunity to significantly expand your skillset and influence the future as a Director within Deloitte.

Seize the opportunity to:

• Lead high-performing teams in complex finance and ERP transformations, expanding Deloitte's Tax ERP market share.
• Secure new business through strong networking and commercial acumen.
• Provide strategic direction and team oversight, aligned with firm objectives.
• Build and maintain strong client relationships
• Develop and implement innovative solutions
• Mentor junior team members.

Core Responsibilities:

• Strategic Leadership: Provide leadership support into defining and executing the strategic vision for the Tax ERP team, aligning with Deloitte's overall business goals.
• Business Development: Identify and pursue new business opportunities, leveraging your network and industry expertise.
• Team Management: Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team, fostering collaboration and a positive work environment.
• Client Relationship Management: Build and maintain strong relationships with key clients, acting as a trusted advisor and thought leader.
• Project Delivery: Oversee the successful delivery of complex Tax ERP projects, ensuring adherence to timelines, budgets, and quality standards.
• Financial Management: Manage project budgets and profitability, ensuring the financial health of the team.
• Risk Management: Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks, ensuring compliance with Deloitte's risk management framework.
• Thought Leadership: Contribute to the development of innovative solutions and thought leadership within the Tax ERP domain.
• Lead client engagements: Act as the delivery lead on large and complex Tax ERP projects, incl. leading client workshops, analysing tax and business needs, and designing optimal tax technology solutions, incl. considering alternative technologies.
• End-to-end process understanding: Assess tax touchpoints across entire end-to-end business processes (incl. cross-stream integration with other functional workstreams, such as order to cash, source to pay, record to report etc.), ensuring comprehensive solution design.
• 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: Lead and drive client delivery, pursuits and opportunities, incl. contributing 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.

Connect to your skills and professional experience

Core skills required:

• Proven track record of successful ERP tax solution design, having undertaken a minimum of 4-5 end-to-end implementations in global settings.
• Has a minimum of one of the following:
• SAP, 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; and/or
• Oracle, deep functional expertise of Oracle (Cloud ERP), including the set-up of underlying business processes (e.g. TP and intercompany, order management, or supply chain, etc), as well as their interplay with tax processes in wider ERP and EPM modules.
• End to end implementation experience with at least one tax engine (e.g. Thomson Reuters, Vertex, Avalara, SOVOS etc.) incl. integration with one of the ERPs, either SAP or Oracle; or ERP / VAT add-ons (e.g. Meridian, Taxmarc etc.); or building chain transaction related tax design using native ERP.
• Understanding of the tax touchpoints with additional ERP integrated modules/add-ons (e.g. VIM/Readsoft, Ariba/Coupa or their competitors).
• Experience with end-to-end integration of at least one or more of i) e-invoicing or e-reporting platforms/providers (including but not limited to SAP DRC, Pagero, EDICOM, SOVOS etc.); ii) indirect tax compliance technology; iii) direct tax engine and/ tax reporting solution; iv) operational transfer pricing solution; or other tax technology software.
• 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.
• Proven track record of building and developing juniors, to build high performing teams.
• Ability to work effectively in matrix teams and manage diverse stakeholder groups.

Connect to your business - Tax

Innovation and tax consultancy may not seem to go together, but that's exactly what you'll find at Deloitte. We're constantly seeking the new and working together to push the limits of what's possible. Discover a new kind of tax career that you can make your own.

Tax

Our comprehensive range of services encompasses everything from the completion of tax returns (corporation tax self-assessment) to complex consultancy assignments and strategic tax planning. We advise on corporate and general tax, international M&A, stamp tax, cross-border transfer pricing, reorganisations and reconstructions, and competent authority negotiations.

Personal independence

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.

Connect with your colleagues

"Innovation and tax consultancy may not seem to go together, but that's exactly what you'll find at Deloitte. We're constantly seeking the new and working together to push the limits of what's possible. Discover a new kind of tax career that you can make your own.You never have to do it all on your own here. It's great to know that we're all in it together; we're much stronger that way and it's healthier for everyone too." - Anita, Tax

Our hybrid working policy

You'll be based in London with hybrid working.

At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That's why we'll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you'll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You'll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.

Connect to your return to work opportunity

Are you looking to return to the workplace after an extended career break?

For this role we can offer coaching and support designed for returners to refresh your knowledge and skills, and help your transition back into the workplace after a career break of two years or more. If this is relevant for you, just let your recruiter know when you make your application.

Our commitment to you

Making an impact is more than just what we do: it's why we're here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.

We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we're nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we'll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it's only when you're comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.

Your expertise is our capability, so we'll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it's from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you'll learn every day. Through world-class development, you'll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you'll learn how to lead.

Connect to your next step

A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you'll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You'll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you'll never stop growing, whatever your level.

Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers

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