Global Direct Tax Transformation Tax Lead

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…