Job description
Connect to your Industry
The tax landscape is undergoing significant change; with changes to tax legislation, increased media focus and scrutiny, technology advancements, and the increasingly global reach of clients, all coming together to shape an exciting and challenging future in the market for tax services.
We encourage consideration of flexible ways of working, both formal and informal arrangements that allow for the best outcomes for our people and our clients. If this opportunity is of interest to you with some flexibility, please do discuss with us.
Connect to your career at Deloitte
Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients' become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.
What brings us all together at Deloitte? It's how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.
Connect to your opportunity
Deloitte's Tax Technology Consulting Team (TTC) has a market leading reputation; bringing together a unique blend of technology, tax technical and tax reporting experience to help businesses meet the challenges of multi-jurisdictional tax operations, including compliance, reporting, tax technology and tax risk management.
Within TTC, sits our rapidly growing S/4HANA Tax team is at the forefront of SAP-enabled business transformations. This proposition is uniquely positioned to be a key differentiator for the firm-wide SAP-enabled business transformation practice across UK and Europe.
This is a unique opportunity to broaden your skillset and become a future SAP Tax Solution Architect, guiding clients through the evolving tax and legal landscape.
Seize the opportunity to:
* Play a key role in large-scale S/4HANA Tax advisory projects for major clients undergoing complex business transformations.
* Gain exposure to cutting-edge tax technology within a strategic, commercial, and business context.
* Develop your consulting and functional skills while building your career as a future SAP Tax Solution Architect.
Core Responsibilities:
* Lead client engagements: Conduct workshops, analyse tax and business needs, and design optimal SAP tax solutions, considering alternative technologies.
* End-to-end process understanding: Assess tax touchpoints across entire business processes, ensuring comprehensive solution design.
* Solution architect: Design, build, and integrate tax requirements into SAP systems and broader tax technology landscapes.
* Impact assessment: Evaluate the business impact of technical decisions, balancing functionality with operational efficiency.
* Proactive risk management: Identify, manage, and mitigate project risks and issues, fostering strong client relationships.
* Documentation and communication: Contribute to proposals, process documentation, and project updates, ensuring transparency and stakeholder alignment.
* Compliance and risk awareness: Adhere to risk management and engagement acceptance protocols, upholding professional standards.
* Team player: Thrive in a diverse and inclusive team environment, actively contributing and valuing diverse perspectives.
Connect to your skills and professional experience
Essential:
* Proven track record of successful SAP tax solution design and end-to-end implementation in global settings.
* Strong client-facing consulting skills: gathering requirements, managing expectations, and building relationships.
* Understanding of SAP FI/SD/MM modules including the setup of underlying SAP business processes (e.g. intercompany billing, 3rd party drop-shipments, consignment etc) as well as their interplay with tax processes
* Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and project management skills.
* Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
* Ability to work effectively in matrix teams and manage diverse stakeholder groups.
Desirable:
* Good understanding of the tax touchpoints with additional SAP integrated modules/add-ons (e.g. VIM/Readsoft, Ariba/Coupa, Concur)
* Hands-on experience with SAP's technical components, ability to read SAP ABAP code and work with ABAPers to build custom developments (e.g. BADI, BAPI, userexits, IDOC etc).
* Strong data analysis skills (e.g. SQL, ETL tools, Alteryx/KNIME), ability to extract and analyse SAP tables/CDS views
* Experience with tax engines and their SAP integration (ONESOURCE, Vertex), SAP/VAT add-ons (Meridian) or building chain transaction related tax design is a plus.
* Experience with e-invoicing platforms/providers (e.g. Pagero, EDICOM, Sovos) is a plus.
Join our experienced team and help clients navigate the evolving tax and legal landscape with the right data, processes, and systems.
Connect to your business - Tax
Innovation and tax consultancy may not seem to go together, but that's exactly what you'll find at Deloitte. We're constantly seeking the new and working together to push the limits of what's possible. Discover a new kind of tax career that you can make your own.
Tax
Our comprehensive range of services encompasses everything from the completion of tax returns (corporation tax self-assessment) to complex consultancy assignments and strategic tax planning. We advise on corporate and general tax, international M&A, stamp tax, cross-border transfer pricing, reorganisations and reconstructions, and competent authority negotiations.
Personal independence
Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.
Connect with your colleagues
"Innovation and tax consultancy may not seem to go together, but that's exactly what you'll find at Deloitte. We're constantly seeking the new and working together to push the limits of what's possible. Discover a new kind of tax career that you can make your own."
"You never have to do it all on your own here. It's great to know that we're all in it together; we're much stronger that way and it's healthier for everyone too."
-Anita, Tax & Legal
Our hybrid working policy
You'll be based in London with hybrid working.
At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That's why we'll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you'll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You'll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.
Connect to your return to work opportunity
Are you looking to return to the workplace after an extended career break?
For this role we can offer coaching and support designed for returners to refresh your knowledge and skills, and help your transition back into the workplace after a career break of two years or more. If this is relevant for you, just let your recruiter know when you make your application.
Our commitment to you
Making an impact is more than just what we do: it's why we're here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.
We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we're nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we'll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it's only when you're comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.
Your expertise is our capability, so we'll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it's from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you'll learn every day. Through world-class development, you'll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you'll learn how to lead.
Connect to your next step
A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you'll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You'll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you'll never stop growing, whatever your level.
Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers
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