Mars Global Direct Tax Transformation Tax Lead

Job Description:

The Mars Global Direct Tax Transformation Tax Lead is responsible for defining and leading the enterprise direct tax strategy, operating model, data architecture, and technology requirements within a global SAP S/4

HANA transformation program. The role serves as the senior Tax representative for US GAAP tax reporting, tax provision, corporate income tax compliance, and local non-US tax reporting requirements.

This role partners with Global Tax, Regional and Country Tax teams, Finance, Controllership, Data and Analytics, and IT to ensure that SAP S/4

HANA, Central Finance (CFIN), enterprise data lake capabilities, and supporting tax technologies provide complete, accurate, and tax-ready financial data. The lead establishes the global design principles, controls, governance, and analytical capabilities needed to improve tax reporting, compliance, forecasting, audit readiness, and access to legal-entity-level data.

• 10+ years of experience in direct tax, tax accounting, tax compliance, tax technology, or tax transformation.
• Significant leadership experience within a multinational corporation, major consulting organization, or Big Four environment.
• Deep knowledge of US GAAP income tax accounting, including ASC 740 tax provision requirements.
• Strong understanding of current and deferred tax, effective tax rate reconciliation, uncertain tax positions, tax account roll forwards, and financial statement disclosures.
• Experience with local non-US corporate income tax compliance and country-specific tax reporting requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to translate global and local direct tax requirements into finance, data, technology, and control designs.
• Experience leading direct tax work streams within SAP S/4
  
  HANA or comparable global ERP transformation programs.
• Strong understanding of SAP S/4
  
  HANA Finance, including the Universal Journal, ledgers, company codes, charts of accounts, profit centers, cost centers, and intercompany data.
• Practical experience with SAP Central Finance and the use of CFIN to harmonize data from SAP and non-SAP systems.
• Experience defining enterprise data lake requirements, tax data models, data products, data lineage, and data quality controls.
• Experience working with large and complex financial datasets across multiple ERP systems, legal entities, ledgers, currencies, and jurisdictions.
• Experience designing tax reporting and analytical solutions using SAP Analytics Cloud, Databricks, Alteryx, or comparable technologies.
• Understanding of data integration, transformation, mapping, reconciliation, and reporting architectures.
• Experience with tax provision, tax compliance, tax reporting, or tax data management platforms.
• Strong knowledge of Record-to-Report, financial close, consolidation, intercompany accounting, statutory reporting, and legal entity reporting processes.
• Experience defining and operating tax controls within a SOX or comparable internal-control environment.
• Proven success leading global requirements gathering, solution design, testing, deployment, and stabilization activities.
• Ability to balance global template standardization with legitimate local tax compliance requirements.
• Strong governance, program management, risk management, and executive communication capabilities.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior Tax, Finance, Data, and IT stakeholders without relying solely on direct authority.
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Tax, Information Systems, Data Analytics, or a related discipline.
• CPA, CA, ACA, ACCA, MST, JD, MBA, or equivalent advanced qualification preferred.

• Lead the global direct tax transformation workstream for the SAP S/4
  
  HANA program.
• Define the direct tax transformation strategy, roadmap, operating model, and global design principles.
• Represent Global Direct Tax in SAP S/4
  
  HANA, CFIN, data lake, finance architecture, and enterprise data governance decisions.
• Define requirements for US GAAP tax provision, tax accounting, effective tax rate analysis, and tax-related financial statement disclosures.
• Define financial data and reporting requirements for local non-US corporate income tax compliance, tax returns, and supporting schedules.
• Translate direct tax policies and reporting requirements into business, data, process, system, and control requirements.
• Define tax data requirements at the legal entity, company code, ledger, account, profit center, cost center, business unit, jurisdiction, and transaction levels.
• Ensure…