SAP Product Manager for Tax

EY GDS (Global Delivery Services) means 40.000 specialists providing globally IT, HR, finance, project management and strategic business services to EY member firms. In addition we deliver support and solutions to clients from all over the world.

Finance Infrastructure is an internal EY Finance organization that is part of EY’s Global Controllership. Finance Infrastructure helps support several key Finance Products including Mercury (which is EY’s SAP centric platform supporting Customer to Cash processes). Finance Infrastructure is part of the Mercury Support Team (MST) which is an organization jointly owned by the business and IT.

The opportunity

SAP Product Managers play a key role in both driving and enhancing the benefit and value from the Mercury solution. Product Managers collaborate with the business to elicit requirements and translate them into viable technical and/or process solutions aligned with the overall organization strategy and road map. The Product Manager will facilitate the tax product alignment and standardization and will support the development and validation of designated enhancements designed to enable ongoing product transformation, efficiency and the achievement of identified KPIs.

Your key responsibilities

The SAP Product Managers’ scope of responsibility includes supporting their functional area to ensure the success of the technical and process solutions across a large global client base. In this capacity, they may direct team members toward a common solution, coordinate the activities with other functional and technical teams and work with the global clients to understand the necessary requirements for product and service improvement.

• Oversees all aspects of the process and product or sub-product
• Develops and delivers presentations to help clients understand their product’s functionality
• Creates executive summaries to help clients understand the functional and financial impacts of issues
• Manages impacts to other processes and products
• Oversees product update and enhancement full lifecycle
• Provides technical solutions leveraging Onesource and/or SAP functionality to drive proper tax determination and reporting
• Provides major incident oversight and communicates status to the business in a timely manner
• Understands and assesses the financial impacts of incidents related to disrupted product processes – assisting the business work through complex errors and reconciliations
• Conducts analyses of lifecycle work performed by Product Management Team and IT to identify design flaws and realize process efficiencies

Skills and attributes for success

In this role, the SAP Product Manager will have responsibility for the Tax functions. From a technology perspective, this role covers SAP integration with Thomson Reuters’ Onesource and/or native SAP for indirect & withholding tax determination, as well as Onesource, SAP ECC, and SAP BW products for tax reporting. From an industry perspective, this role covers global tax policies and procedures in a professional services environment. 

To qualify for the role you must have

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, business, computer science or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience
• 8+ years of experience in a large business system environment, performing business analysis, business development, and/or project systems management with a preferred focus on SAP Tax module as well as third-party tax engine (Onesource preferred, or Vertex) integration with SAP, as well as SAP ECC FI (Tax, new GL, AP, AR, FA), SD, MM, VIM
• Working knowledge and experience with capabilities of Onesource Reporting as well as SAP ECC and BW reporting
• Working expertise of indirect and withholding law, statutory filing and compliance, and audit requirements across the EMEIA area
• Ability to rely upon and build a network of SMEs to assist in conducting research and validating business requirements
• Solid communication skills, and prior experience working with key business stakeholders/leadership
• Project management training, practical application, business analysis, sales, marketing, business development or relationship management experience is preferred

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Direct experience with technical execution of indirect tax procedures and withholding tax configuration for European, Middle Eastern, and South Asian countries
• Direct experience in complex management activities, such as business development, application development/deployment
• Direct experience in managing staff and budget
• Fluency in language(s) other than English used across the EMEIA area

What we look for

The Product Manager acts as an ambassador for the technical solution in their respective functional area(s) across Mercury. The Product Manager will provide expertise and guidance in relation to technology-enabled business products. They will own the integration of their Mercury designated specialty with other modules and will assist in managing initiatives, projects and third-party consultants working within their functional area.

What working at EY offers

Reward statement plus an outline of the culture and environment in this part of the firm. If not covered elsewhere, this may include language about the interesting, varied and important work; the freedom and autonomy you’ll have in the role; the feedback you will receive that you can learn from to achieve mastery at something; opportunities for personal growth and career advancement; or who and how you will be connected to others.

If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

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