Job Title:  Associate Director | Income Tax Laws | Ahmedabad | Business Tax

Tax

SAP FI / PAPM / GTS and Tax resource | Associate Director

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Your work profile

As an Associate Director in our Global Business Tax Team you’ll build and nurture positive working relationships with teams and clients with the intention to exceed client expectations: -

> SAP GTS

Job Descrption

Role Overview:

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior SAP Global Trade Services (GTS) professional to lead and support EU deployment projects. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in SAP GTS functionalities, EU customs processes, and regulatory compliance. This role involves working closely with business stakeholders to design, configure, and implement SAP GTS solutions tailored to European Union requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead SAP GTS implementation and deployment projects across EU regions.
• Collaborate with business teams to gather requirements and ensure compliance with EU trade regulations.
• Configure and integrate SAP GTS with customs self-filing systems such as:
• AGS (Netherlands)
• ATLAS (Germany)
• EMCS (Excise Movement and Control System)
• NCTS (New Computerized Transit System)
• Ensure smooth handling of customs declarations, excise duties, and transit processes.
• Provide guidance on EU regulatory requirements and trade compliance best practices.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues during deployment and post-go-live support.
• Train and mentor junior consultants and business users.
• Support upgrades and enhancements, including SAP GTS E4H migration.

Required Qualifications:

• 8–10 years of hands-on SAP GTS experience, including design, configuration, and deployment.
• Proven track record of EU-specific GTS implementations.
• Strong knowledge of EU customs regulations, excise processes, and transit systems.
• Experience with customs self-filing authorities (AGS, ATLAS, DMS) and related systems (EMCS, NCTS).
• Ability to work closely with business teams and translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with integration to ECC & SAP S/4HANA.
• Knowledge of global trade compliance trends and automation tools.
• Experience with SAP GTS E4H upgrade projects.

Soft Skills:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to work independently and in cross-functional teams.
• Adaptability to dynamic project environments.

> SAP FI / Global Next / Indirect Tax

Job Description:

1. Solution Design & Functional Leadership

• Drive global SAP FI and Indirect Tax solutions from a functional design perspective.
• Lead S/4HANA Tax solutions for Tax interfaces, with Global Next & Enterprise Cloud Determination
• Conduct design lead sessions and coordinate with peer SMEs.
• Partner with Project Managers for solution design and effort estimation.
• Contribute to and supervise development of functional specifications from a technical design perspective.
• Design and oversee development of reports, interfaces, enhancements, and forms of varying complexity.
• Perform prototyping to support requirements definition and design validation.

2. Stakeholder Management & Collaboration

• Collaborate with Process Experts, SMEs, and Product Managers to streamline Tax L&F requirements.
• Gather stakeholder requirements and translate them into functional solutions.
• Work closely with Design Leads and Delivery Leads to ensure new capabilities are applied effectively.
• Coordinate with Change Management and Release Management teams; collaborate via Azure DevOps.
• Manage batch job scheduling, period-end activities, and coordinate cross scrums, Direct and Tax teams.

3. Quality Assurance & Testing

• Perform quality assessments and peer reviews.
• Execute unit and integration testing, support user acceptance testing.
• Resolve defects during test cycles and provide post-go-live support.
• Create and review cutover activities and run books for operational readiness.

4. Support & Compliance

• Assist in resolving production issues with Support teams.
• Prepare audit and compliance reporting requirements.

Skills & Experience:

• Core Expertise
• 10+ year's experience in SAP / S4 end to end implementation projects.
• 5+ year's experience in ECC to S/4HANA transformation projects.
• 5+ Years experience in Global Next & OITD Private Cloud / Enterprise Cloud projects.
• Strong Functional knowledge on Tax and global tax regimes.
• Technical Skills
• Proficiency in SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) for tax risk visualization and reporting.
• Expertise in Global Next and OneSource Asset Integrity Projects.
• Expertise with SAP Tax Compliance for automated audits and risk detection using ML.
• Expertise in SAP DRC, HANA reporting, E-Invoicing & E-Reporting middleware systems.
• Expertise in working with AI tools
• Ability to debug issues and identify root causes (preferred techno-functional profile).
• Familiarity with cross integration modules like OTC, PGS, HM and FI modules.
• Functional & Leadership Skills
• Gravitas and excellent communication skills to engage senior finance stakeholders.
• Strong collaboration with process owners and finance leadership.
• Active participation in high-performing IT teams focused on business value delivery.
• Agile & Tools
• Solid understanding of Agile frameworks, Azure DevOps, and Power Platform Apps
• Experience planning and leading Agile initiatives and educating stakeholders.
• Integration & Compliance
• Experience with ERP-to-ERP interfaces and third-party application integration with S4.
• Skilled in tax audits, regulatory compliance, and discrepancy resolution.
• Ability to optimize tax liabilities through effective planning and structuring.

SAP PAPM

Job Description (JD): SAP PaPM

Scope Overview

The scope of SAP PaPM for the purpose of this SoW covers six use cases, specifically:

IT‑TP, IT‑SE, Asset Capitalization, FTP, AE, and NOC Poland.

The activities below enumerate the scope for each of the six use cases across the build, test, and deploy phases.

Activities & Responsibilities

1. Data Sourcing

• Sourcing of:
• Transaction data
• Allocation keys (drivers)
• Data needed for allocation key calculation
• BTP Development team would be responsible for using BTP IS to read the files and store them in PaPM tables
• Deloitte PaPM Team will be responsible to read the data and perform the calculations

2. Data Harmonization

• Data quality verification, harmonization, and template‑based enrichment prior to central processing rules
• Data quality issues would be identified as part of the implementation

3. Core Logic Modelling

• IT‑TP, IT‑SE, Asset Capitalization, FTP, AE, and NOC Poland models as per Business Design Document

4. Traceability Reports

• Data output configuration within SAP PaPM
• Transparency reports explaining movements within SAP PaPM
• Development of reports or queries in SAP PaPM

5. Accounting Derivation

• Creation of accounting derivation rules table within PaPM for posting back from SAP PaPM
• PaPM postings to S/4
• Usage of PaPM remote function adapter

6. User Groups Configuration

• PaPM user group definition
• PaPM function assignment to PaPM user groups
• Roles and respective authorizations are not in the signed‑off business design document

7. Test (SIT)

• Unit testing
• Defect correction
• Creation of test cases

8. DEV > UAT Transports Preparation

• Preparation of transports for Development and Test environments

9. User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

• User acceptance testing support of up to 4–5 weeks
• Defect correction
• Test cases created by Deloitte for Unit testing and SIT could be used as the basis for UAT
• UAT for each module would be planned in the project plan

10. PROD Transports Preparation

• Preparation of transports
• Governance team has provided approval

11. Documentation

• Technical documentation of all logic performed in SAP PaPM

12. Hypercare

Post go‑live application management support for the first month‑end period after go‑live, limited in time and effort to the following activities:

• Defect corrections
• Error or performance troubleshooting
• Change management fine‑tuning
• Punctual user assistance

Location and way of working

·       Base location: All locations

·       Hybrid is our default way of working. Each domain has customised the hybrid approach to their unique needs.

Your role as an Associate Director

We expect our people to embrace and live our purpose by challenging themselves to identify issues that are most important for our clients, our people, and for society.

In addition to living our purpose, Associate Director across our organization must strive to be:

·       Inspiring - Leading with integrity to build inclusion and motivation

·       Committed to creating purpose - Creating a sense of vision and purpose

·       Agile - Achieving high-quality results through collaboration and Team unity

·       Skilled at building diverse capability - Developing diverse capabilities for the future

·       Persuasive / Influencing - Persuading and influencing stakeholders

·       Collaborating - Partnering to build new solutions

·       Delivering value - Showing commercial acumen

·       Committed to expanding business - Leveraging new business opportunities

·       Analytical Acumen - Leveraging data to recommend impactful approach and solutions through the power of analysis and visualization

·       Effective communication – Must be well abled to have well-structured and well-articulated conversations to achieve win-win possibilities

·       Engagement Management /Delivery Excellence - Effectively managing engagement(s) to ensure timely and proactive execution as well as course correction for the success of engagement(s)

·       Managing change - Responding to changing environment with resilience

·       Managing Quality & Risk - Delivering high quality results and mitigating risks with utmost

integrity and precision

·       Strategic Thinking & Problem Solving - Applying strategic mindset to solve business issues and

complex problems

·       Tech Savvy - Leveraging ethical technology practices to deliver high impact for clients and for

Deloitte

·       Empathetic leadership and inclusivity - creating a safe and thriving environment where everyone's

valued for who they are, use empathy to understand others to adapt our behaviours and attitudes to become more inclusive. 

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 SAP FI / PAPM / GTS and Tax resource | Associate Director