SAP PAPM Senior Consultant (Functional/ Technical), S/4HANA Tax (NSE)

Do you have a passion to work for global clients of Deloitte Tax and transform their current state of tax to the next generation of tax functions? Are you ready to take the next step in your career to find new methods and processes to assist clients in improving their tax operations? Are you ready to fulfill your potential and want to have a significant impact to global initiatives? If the answer to all of the above is “Yes,” come join Tax Management Consulting group in Deloitte India (Offices of the U.S), a service line of Deloitte Tax LLP!

Deloitte Tax Services India Private Limited commenced operations in June 2004. Since then, nearly all of the Deloitte Tax LLP (“Deloitte Tax”) U.S. service lines have obtained support through Deloitte Tax in India. Deloitte Tax in India offers you opportunities to learn U.S. taxation, a much sought-after career option.

At Deloitte, we are leading clients through the tax transformation taking place in the marketplace. We offer a broad range of fully integrated tax services and add greater impact to clients by combining technology and tax technical resources to uncover insights and smarter solutions for navigating an increasingly complex global environment.

Work you’ll do

We are looking for an innovative SAP PaPM Senior Consultant who can design, develop and implement PaPM module that meet business needs, along with ensuring that our clients’ can keep pace with the changing tax and legal landscape.

Your role will entail leading engagements including being responsible for stakeholder management, project delivery lead and growing the team. Typical elements of the project involve gathering business requirements, analysing supply-chains and business processes to assess the required functional specifications, evaluating the current systems landscape and proposed future state in order to identify gaps and improvement areas, helping with vendor selections, involved in the build and test of the technology solutions, along with overseeing development/ managing junior team members.

To be successful in this role, you should be able to align the global Tax and Legal landscape with the business’ activities and proposed wider business processes.  You will be the lynchpin between the Tax Function and IT Function, ensuring that we build the best SAP PaPM design for Tax for the client.  This will require the ability to explain complex terms to a variety of different stakeholders, and in a way that is relevant to each stakeholder group.

You will also need to integrate with the wider client project team (whether that is delivered by Deloitte Consulting or another Systems Integration partner). This will involve an understanding of how the tax design interacts with other process flows and also the inter-personal skills to build the required relationships.

Key responsibilities -

ü  Evaluating the client’s tax and business requirements to build the optimal SAP Tax design and/ or supplement with the right mix of alternative tax technology solutions

ü  Actively involved in the design, build and integrate tax requirements and processes into SAP systems architecture (or wider tax technology solutions) to meet clients’ requirements

ü  Experience building using modules within SAP, in particular PAPM and SAC, would be beneficial (but not essential)

ü  Assess business impact of functional and technical choices made, and help resolve technical problems as and when they arise

ü  Develop/ maintain good working relationships with key client and internal stakeholders and keep them informed of challenges/ risks/ issues with technical solutions being implemented

ü  Provide regular updates to key stakeholders on product development processes, costs and budgets, achievements against plan etc.

ü  Continually research current and emerging technologies (SAP or others) and propose changes as part of Deloitte’s S/4HANA Tax Value Proposition

ü  Help build internal efficiencies and accelerators for the proposition

Qualification and Experience Required –

ü  MBA or Chartered Accountant or Bachelor’s in Finance/Accounts from reputed University with overall experience in Finance, Accounting and/or Taxation

ü  3-7 years of Experience in SAP or SAP4HANA

ü  Experience in PaPM along with the relevant project work

ü  Outstanding knowledge of SAP PaPM, SAP HANA, SQL Script, SAP BW, 4HANA as well as SAP HANA studio

ü  Experience of project methodologies – Agile, Waterfall, etc. and how tax engine deployment fits in each one.

ü  Experience with SAP migration process and testing process.

ü  Experience of creating and preparing demos and ad-hoc slides for a range of audiences at clients.

ü  Efficient communication and stakeholder management skills

ü  Strong organisation and leadership skills

Preferred –

ü  Good understanding on SAP especially in its integration of other modules (knowledge of S/4HANA is advantageous)

ü  Knowledge of Tax touchpoints within SAP (S/4HANA advantageous), and wider tax technology solutions

ü  Working knowledge of Tax procedures, Tax conditions, GL set up, tax codes, access sequences, conditions records, intercompany tax configuration

Location- Hyderabad