Accounting & Tax Technology Director

Accounting & Tax Technology Strategy Leader

This role is responsible for defining and driving the global Accounting & Tax technology strategy, ensuring a scalable, compliant, and cost-effective technology landscape that supports growth, efficiency, and consistent service delivery. The role provides strategic leadership over A&T platforms, AI and automation adoption, and application estate governance, acting as a central control point to enable standardisation, integration, and value creation across countries while meeting local regulatory and operational needs.

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TMF Group is a leading provider of employee, financial and legal administration services, helping clients invest and operate safely around the world. Our 11k+ experts in 125+ offices across 87 jurisdictions worldwide serve corporates, financial institutions, asset managers, private clients and family offices, providing the combination of accounting, tax, payroll, fund administration, compliance and entity management services essential to global business success.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop a forward-looking, competitive A&T technology roadmap, allowing for market and technology trends. The roadmap should support increased revenue, improved margin, consistent delivery outcomes and the launch of new go-to-market offerings
• Oversee the A&T product managers in the selection, implementation and integration of a suite of technology solutions that meet the needs A&T and its clients
• Drive the implementation of AI and automation across the A&T service lines
• Drive the consistent adoption and good usage of A&T solutions by the business
• Represent A&T requirements in the development of the TMF Client Portal Strategy
• Oversee solution selection exercises, contractual negotiations and ongoing vendor management
• Ensure compatibility and integration across A&T applications and adherence to TDA requirements
• Rationalise and consolidate A&T application estate, ensuring value for money solution selection
• Act as a control point within the A&T community in technology solution selection, reducing duplicative functionality across solutions and countries
• Maintain country-level A&T application landscapes, allowing a singular view of the technology setup by country. This will apply in countries and locations serviced by both TMF and its Subcontractors
• Support the countries in the design of a solution estate that meets local compliance and operational requirements whilst minimising complexity
• Drive initiatives for continuous process improvement and increased automation.
• Provide oversight to and assure major A&T technology programmes, ensuring programmes define and manage scope, budget, plan and deliver specified outcomes

Key Requirements

• Proven experience defining and owning enterprise‑scale technology roadmaps aligned to commercial objectives (revenue growth, margin improvement, delivery consistency)
• Strong leadership capability overseeing product managers and cross‑functional teams, including solution selection, implementation, and system integration
• Demonstrated success driving AI and automation initiatives across business service lines at scale
• Ability to drive adoption and effective usage of technology solutions across diverse stakeholder groups
• Experience representing business requirements in the development of client‑facing digital platforms
• Expertise in solution sourcing (build vs buy), vendor selection, contractual negotiations, and ongoing vendor management
• Solid understanding of application architecture, integration, and governance, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and requirements
• Proven track record in application estate rationalisation and consolidation, delivering value for money and reducing duplication
• Experience acting as a central governance and control point for technology…