Platform Product Subject Matter Expert (SME) TAX

Expert in TAX platform products and responsible for implementation and support of a standardized TAX platform that is scalable to support our Maersk Integrator journey.

You could be:

• A TAX technical consultant who wants to lead an end-to-end implementation of a new TAX technology platform globally, or
• A chartered accountant or TAX functional consultant with flair for technology and experience with SAP, who wants to get closer to the TAX solution, or
• A software engineer who has been developing SAP and/or TAX engine solutions, but would like to get closer to the business processes and challenges, or
• Someone who is working as a Platform Product Subject Matter Expert today and need some new challenges.

Job Purpose:

The Platform Product Subject Matter Expert owns Maersk’s Global TAX technology platform. She/he works closely with our Global Indirect TAX business team and our internal TAX engineers to design, develop and maintain a TAX technology platform, that serves our business’ needs and is scalable to support our Maersk Integrator journey. The Platform Product Subject Matter Expert leads and drives the implementation of the TAX technology platform roadmap and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders within Global TAX as well as across other finance areas.

Role Responsibilities:

• Own the Indirect TAX technology platform, roadmap and backlog
• Understand business and end-user’s needs and translate them into technical requirements/specifications for build
• Select the best solution option and solve platform design challenges in collaboration with engineers
• Understand the current vs the new solution and related business and end-user impact
• Own Indirect TAX data and support migration and validation
• Develop test scenarios and test cases and support end-users with testing
• Support test issue resolution 
• Drive business cut-over activities
• Support hyper care issue resolution
   

Person Specification:

• You have a personal drive, take ownership and work independently
• You have an end-to-end process mindset and solid experience with Indirect TAX and Accounts Receivable processes.
• You have a technical understanding of and can navigate in SAP (ECC/S4)
• You have either been part of a software delivery organization or been leading software implementation projects, so that you understand the cycle of software delivery
• You can apply agile analysis technics and transforming business requirements into technical specifications.
• You have experience with test case preparation and test execution.

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