Role Overview :

We are seeking an experienced SAP Taxation Functional Consultant with 8+ years of strong SAP Finance/FICO experience and hands-on expertise in taxation processes. The consultant will be responsible for analyzing business and statutory tax requirements, translating them into SAP solutions, supporting implementations and rollouts, and resolving production incidents.

Key Responsibilities :

- Analyze business, finance and taxation requirements and translate them into SAP functional requirements and scalable solutions.

- Design, configure and support SAP Finance/FICO taxation processes, including tax determination, tax codes, postings and reporting requirements.

- Work on global taxation requirements, with exposure to GST, EU taxation, Brazil/LATAM taxation and Withholding Tax.

- Support SAP E-Invoicing requirements, including requirement analysis, solution mapping, integration touchpoints and issue resolution.

- Work closely with business stakeholders, tax teams, finance teams and technical teams to understand statutory and operational requirements.

- Provide functional specifications and solution guidance for SAP developments, interfaces, reports, forms and integrations where required.

- Support integration of SAP FI/FICO taxation processes with Sales & Distribution (SD) and Materials Management (MM).

- Analyze and resolve production incidents, identify root causes, provide fixes/workarounds and ensure timely closure.

- Participate in implementation, migration and/or rollout projects covering SAP Finance and taxation processes.

- Participate in workshops, requirement-gathering sessions, process walkthroughs, testing, defect resolution and deployment activities.

- Prepare and review functional test scenarios, test cases and results for taxation-related processes.

- Work in Agile delivery environments, participating in sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily discussions, reviews and retrospectives as applicable.

- Ensure solutions align with business processes, statutory requirements, internal controls and SAP best practices.

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including FI/CO, SD, MM, technical/ABAP, integration and business teams.

- Support documentation of business processes, functional designs, configuration decisions, test results and production fixes.

Core Functional & Technical Skills :

- SAP FI/FICO : Strong functional experience in SAP Finance, with taxation as a key area of expertise.

- Taxation : Hands-on understanding of SAP tax processes, tax determination, tax codes, tax postings and statutory requirements.

- Global Tax : Exposure to GST, EU taxation, Brazil/LATAM taxation and Withholding Tax.

- E-Invoicing : Understanding/exposure to SAP E-Invoicing solutions and related business/integration processes.

- FI - SD/MM Integration : Good understanding of integration between Finance, Sales & Distribution and Materials Management.

- Project Delivery : Experience in at least one SAP implementation, migration or rollout project.

- Agile : Practical experience working in Agile delivery environments and cross-functional teams.

- Incident Management : Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills for business/process issues and SAP production incidents.

Preferred Skills :

- Pharma domain experience is preferred.

- Brazil/LATAM taxation.

- EU taxation.

- Experience with global SAP template rollouts.

- Strong exposure to tax compliance and e-invoicing integrations.