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Senior SAP S/4HANA Tax Consultant (Indirect & Direct Tax)
Location: London (Hybrid)
Salary: Competitive + benefits
Company: Global FMCG
About the Role
This is a senior opportunity within a major global ERP transformation programme, supporting the organisation’s move to SAP S/4HANA. You’ll act as the Tax SME across both Indirect and Direct Tax, ensuring the delivery of robust, scalable, and compliant tax processes that underpin a successful S/4 transition. Your work will directly influence solution design, data readiness, testing quality, and cross-functional integration — enabling a future-proof tax landscape aligned to S/4 best practice.
Ensure delivery of solution design and supports end-to-end business processes across Indirect and Direct Taxes.
Key Responsibilities
- End-to-end ownership of SAP S/4HANA tax process design across Indirect & Direct Tax.
- Requirements gathering, traceability, solution optioning, and recommendation documentation.
- Deliver SAP configuration and oversee bespoke elements including extensions, integrations, and workflows.
- Partner with external SIs to ensure deliverables meet programme expectations.
- Coordinate all testing phases — Unit, SIT, UAT, Regression.
- Assist all testing stages: Function Unit Testing, System Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Regression Testing.
- Support data migration, cutover readiness, and hypercare.
- Ensure cross-functional alignment with Finance, Operations, Marketing, MDM and adjacent workstreams.
- Proactively identify risks, issues, and dependencies, ensuring timely escalation.
- Contribute to end-user training preparation and delivery.
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What You’ll Bring
- Strong hands-on SAP S/4HANA implementation experience across Indirect & Direct Tax.
- Deep understanding of excise regimes, taxation systems, tax engines, e-invoicing, profit tax deductibility, and integration to FI/MM/SD.
- Experience working with external consultants/SIs in large-scale ERP programmes.
- Ability to foresee cross-functional impacts across Operations, Finance, Marketing, MDM.
- Strong documentation, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Knowledge of SAP testing cycles, methodologies, and technical architecture.
- Bachelor’s degree in IT, Engineering, Business Systems, or related field (SAP certification beneficial).
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Why Join
- Play a pivotal role in a global S/4HANA transformation.
- Influence tax design decisions that shape long-term business capability.
- Work with senior stakeholders across a complex global matrix.
- Hybrid working, competitive package, and strong career progression.
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