Tax Technology Manager

About the role

A client is hiring a Tax Technology Manager to own the technology and data that support its Group Tax function across multiple jurisdictions. The role covers extracting and structuring tax data from ERP and finance systems, building analytics that highlight trends and anomalies, supporting tax modelling and audit defence, and leading the controlled introduction of AI within the tax team.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the Group Tax technology and data roadmap from design through to delivery, prioritising initiatives, building business cases and tracking realised benefits.
• Direct the extraction and structuring of tax data from ERP and finance systems, maintaining data quality fit for Group Tax review.
• Build standardised templates and tools for reviewing tax positions and filings, detect and resolve exceptions and inconsistencies.
• Build analytics covering corporate tax, VAT, withholding tax, transfer pricing and Pillar Two, surfacing anomalies and emerging trends.
• Assess, prioritise and manage AI use cases, ensuring outputs are validated, documented and supported by user training.
• Prepare data for scenario modelling and sensitivity analysis, support effective tax rate analysis and Pillar Two impact assessments.
• Build and maintain dashboards and trackers on compliance, report to senior management on tax exposures, audits and deadlines, and maintain audit-ready records.
• Ensure tax data and reporting requirements are built into ERP implementations and upgrades, and work across Tax, Finance, IT and the wider business.
• Manage external vendors and advisers on tax technology projects and deliver training and enablement to the tax team.

Required profile

• Fluent written and spoken English.
• Professional qualification in tax, accounting or finance, or a degree in information systems, data or technology with clear tax exposure.
• In-house experience within a multinational central or group tax function preferred; consulting backgrounds considered where delivery has been hands-on.
• Advanced understanding of the data requirements for corporate tax, VAT, transfer pricing and Pillar Two.

Required skills

• Hands-on ERP experience; SAP strongly preferred.
• Strong skills in data preparation and analytics tools.
• Proven ability to turn tax review and audit defence needs into data specifications and analytics, backed by solid project management.