Tax Technology Manager

Job Description

What You’ll Do

• Responsibilities Tax department role with people management responsibility; primary liaison with Finance Systems Architecture and broader Finance/IT delivery teams; role locations: Bangalore, India and Wroclaw, Poland.
• Owns the tax technology and reporting enablement roadmap from a Tax perspective (intake, prioritization, business case, scope
• outcomes) and provides strong program management to drive cross-functional execution with partner teams.
• Interprets tax policy and compliance requirements and translates them into clear functional requirements, data definitions, and controls
• designs reusable approaches to address similar reporting requirements across jurisdictions and entities.
• Partners with Finance Systems Architecture and IT delivery teams on solution architecture decisions, ensuring tax requirements are correctly embedded
• defines acceptance criteria, supports testing/UAT from the Tax standpoint, and approves that tax policy needs are met (implementation/configuration owned by delivery teams).
• Owns tax data and reporting pipelines (source-to-report) including standard data mapping, reconciliations, and workpaper outputs
• governs design and ongoing enhancements delivered through partner teams to improve traceability, data quality, and cycle times.
• Defines and maintains tax policy-driven controls, documentation standards, and audit-ready evidence requirements for tax data, reporting pipelines, and tax-relevant system outputs
• partners with control owners on SOX/ITGC alignment.
• Monitors regulatory and business changes (e.g., e-invoicing/e-reporting mandates, new filing requirements) and leads impact assessment, requirement definition, and prioritization
• ensures sustainable, repeatable solutioning for recurring reporting needs.
• Establishes governance routines (steerco, design reviews, risk/issue forums) and communicates status, risks
• decisions across Tax, Finance Systems Architecture
• delivery teams, drives adoption through clear guidance and training on standards and processes.
• Partners on vendor and solution evaluations to ensure fit to tax policy and compliance requirements
• contributes to selection criteria, tax functional design, and service expectations while delivery teams execute implementation.
• Leads and develops a high-performing team focused on tax requirements governance, tax data/reporting standards, and compliance enablement; provides coaching, performance management, and capability building.
• Defines program and operational metrics (e.g., time-to-close, exception rates, data quality, reusability/standard adoption) and drives continuous improvement through standardization and repeatable solution patterns.
• What you need to bring: Education and Experience Required: First-level university degree or equivalent experience in Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field
• advanced degree preferred.
• Typically, 8+ years of experience spanning tax, finance systems, data/analytics, and/or technology delivery; experience supporting global tax processes strongly preferred.
• Typically, 2+ years of people management experience and demonstrated strength in program management (driving cross-functional roadmaps, governance, dependencies, and executive communication).
• Knowledge and Skills: Strong understanding of tax process domains (direct and/or indirect) and how tax requirements translate into systems, data, and controls.
• Strong familiarity with tax technology platforms and/or tax engines (e.g., Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE, Vertex, Avalara, Sovos, SAP tax solutions) and end-to-end data flows/integrations to ERP systems
• able to define tax functional requirements and validate outcomes.
• Strong data skills (e.g., SQL, data modeling, reconciliations) and experience governing automated data/reporting pipelines
• comfortable partnering with engineering/analytics teams using ETL/automation and visualization tools (e.g., Alteryx, Power BI, Python or similar).
• Exceptional program management skills (roadmap planning, governance, dependency management, risk/issue management, and change management) with the ability to lead without direct control over implementation teams.
• Controls mindset and experience designing and operating process/IT controls (e.g., SOX, audit support, documentation standards) in a regulated environment.
• Proven ability to partner effectively with Finance Systems Architecture and technical teams, translating tax policy into scalable requirements, data models, and repeatable solution patterns.
• Strong people leadership skills, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and building capabilities across tax requirements governance, data, and reporting.
• Working knowledge of finance and accounting concepts that interact with tax (e.g., close processes, master data, chart of accounts, and provision-related data flows).
• Excellent problem-solving skills with a long-term mindset—drives root-cause analysis and designs solutions that scale and can be reused for similar reporting requirements.
• Additional Skills: Accountability, Accountability, Active Learning, Active Listening, Bias, Big Data Analytics, Coaching, Commercial Acumen, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Customer Centricity, Design Thinking, Digital Transformation, Empathy, Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A), Follow-Through, Growth Mindset, Intellectual Curiosity (Inactive), Internal Controls, Long Term Planning, Management of Change, Managing Ambiguity, Numerical Data Analysis, Policy Management, Problem Solving Mindset {+ 4 more} What We Can Offer You: Health & Wellbeing We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.
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