The Senior SME is a key role, responsible for ensuring tax compliancy across the landscape of Ingka and especially in SAP for the Indian market, but also with other markets across the globe. Primary focus is on Indirect Tax, but Direct Tax is also of interest. This role builds strong collaboration with teams, and stakeholders, across multiple business functions. You will work with digital teams within Business Support domain, collaborate across Digital domains, Business Functions, in delivering full scope of the solutions, with zero defects, on time and within budget. This role takes an agile, practical approach to delivering outcomes while staying focused on tax compliance and business value delivered. You are passionate about fulfilling new requirements and delivering outcome to our business stakeholders as well as technology service operations. You are a strong communicator, both verbal and written, and can drive a common understanding of requirements, statuses, challenges based on data and logic in a timely and effective manner. In addition, you are energized by working both independently and interdependently and cross functions. Last but not least you share and live the IKEA culture and values.
For this role we believe you have Formal qualifications in computer science or any engineering equivalent. Minimum 10 years of hands-on experience as SAP FI and Tax Consultant. Experience in working in an Agile and DevOps working set-up. Experience with leading in change
You have knowledge in the following areas:
• Extensive knowledge of SAP architecture and how Indirect Tax is designed in SAP • Strong knowledge of Indian tax legislation, such GST, SEZ, and of tax legislation in Asian, European and American markets • Strong knowledge of SAP interfaces with external tax engines • Strong knowledge of e-invoicing and e-reporting and SAP DRC
• Should have set up Tax legislation in retail companies • Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or other related areas • Good knowledge of how to assess the enterprise application portfolio-landscape and consult on tool optimization(s). • Ability to participate in multi-vendor governance, change advisory boards (CAB), competency assessment in the subject and competency maturity planning for the team • Ability of agile working and continuous improvement within the software engineering function, encouraging simplicity, efficiency, ownership and accountability • Ability to lead, coach, motivate and develop self and team members • Ability to actively acquire new knowledge and skills and champion new methods, digital systems and processes to improve performance • Experience with external tax engines such as Vertex and OneSource • Experience with Vertex Accelerator
Your responsibilities
YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
Accountable for technical delivery on Tax COE Indirect Tax set up within our digital organization. Help the teams drive a technology strategy, adhere to modern software engineering and service management principles, utilize the proper tools, and automate everything to enable the specified business outcomes.
You will be:
• Assist in defining tax configuration policies, standards, and procedures to ensure data integrity and consistency across SAP systems. • Prepare the solution architecture design and implementation of SAP Tax solutions, in S/4 HANA and DRC. • Handson activities – Design, build, test and deploy SAP Tax solutions. Review work of junior team members. • Oversee AMS activities with help of outsourced vendor • Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including IT, business analysts, and process development team to gather requirements and ensure alignment with tax compliancy and business needs. • Stay updated on industry trends and emerging technologies related to SAP DRC, PAPM, and provide recommendations for continuous improvement. • Collaborate with external vendors and consultants as needed for SAP implementation and support • Manage Outsourcing partner for day to day jobs • Help build a digital mindset and a service engineering culture that is accountability and orientated with results.
Together as a team
We’re the ones who make it possible for people to have a smarter life at home and a hassle-free and rewarding shopping experience. Together we work to find new digital solutions for every business need to help make IKEA a great and efficient place to work. We like to think of ourselves as innovative and modern, and we believe that nothing would actually work without us.
