Mars Global Indirect Tax Data & North America Lead

Job Description:

The Mars Global Indirect Tax Data & North America Lead is responsible for leading North America indirect tax requirements and the global indirect tax data strategy within a SAP S/4

HANA transformation program. The role serves as the primary Tax SME for U.S. and Canada indirect tax processes, tax determination, tax reporting, tax data governance, and tax technology solutions, including ONESOURCE Tax Engine, ONESOURCE Compliance, and related reporting platforms. The individual partners with Tax, Finance, Master Data, IT, Data & Analytics, Shared Services, Procurement, Supply Chain, and System Integrators to ensure tax-sensitive data is accurately captured, governed, and made available to support indirect tax determination, compliance reporting, audit readiness, and business intelligence.

The role is accountable for North America indirect tax deployment activities while establishing global data standards supporting indirect tax compliance across all regions.

• 10+ years of indirect tax experience in multinational corporations, Big Four firms, or tax technology consulting environments.
• Deep expertise in U.S. sales and use tax and Canadian GST/HST, PST, and QST requirements.
• Significant experience with ONESOURCE or Vertex Tax Engine
• Significant experience with indirect tax return reporting platforms.
• Experience supporting SAP ECC and SAP S/4
  
  HANA transformation programs.
• Strong understanding of indirect tax reporting, reconciliations, and audit support processes.
• Experience with tax master data, tax data analytics, and data governance programs.
• Knowledge of Procure-to-Pay, Order-to-Cash, Intercompany, Inventory, and Record-to-Report processes.
• Experience gathering requirements, reviewing solution designs, and leading business testing activities.
• Strong understanding of tax-related data structures within SAP S/4
  
  HANA.
• Experience supporting multi-country deployments within a global template model.
• Strong stakeholder management skills across Tax, Finance, IT, Data Governance, Master Data, and Shared Services organizations.
• Proven ability to manage complex cross-functional transformation initiatives.
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Tax, Information Systems, or related discipline.
• CPA, MST, CMI, MBA, or other relevant professional certification preferred.
• Preferred SAP S/4
  
  HANA Transformation
  
  Experience:
  • Led North America indirect tax work streams within a global SAP S/4
    
    HANA deployment.
  • Designed and implemented ONESOURCE Tax Engine integrations with SAP S/4
    
    HANA.
  • Implemented ONESOURCE Compliance, SAP DRC, or other indirect tax reporting solutions.
  • Defined tax data governance standards for global ERP transformations.
  • Developed tax reporting and analytics capabilities leveraging enterprise data platforms.
  • Led tax testing, deployment readiness, cutover, and hypercare activities.
  • Collaborated with Master Data, Data Governance, Finance, and IT teams to improve tax data quality.
  • Established scalable indirect tax operating models supporting global template deployments.
  • Supported audit readiness and indirect tax compliance initiatives across multiple jurisdictions.

• Serve as the primary SME for U.S. and Canadian indirect tax requirements within the SAP S/4
  
  HANA program.
• Lead North America requirements gathering, design reviews, testing, and deployment activities.
• Define business requirements for sales and use tax, GST/HST, PST, QST, and other indirect tax obligations.
• Partner with Finance, Procurement, Sales, Supply Chain, and Shared Services teams to ensure indirect tax compliance requirements are embedded into business processes.
• Support tax-related design decisions across P2P, O2C, Intercompany, Inventory, and R2R…