Tax Assistant Product Manager
- Kochi, Kerala
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Business Process Documentation - Assist in understanding and documenting business processes, workflows, and requirements to ensure ERP components align with organizational goals
- Functional Specifications Development - Support the preparation and maintenance of functional specifications for SAP and non-SAP Tax components, including user stories, use cases, and acceptance criteria for new features and enhancements
- Compliance Monitoring - Support reviews of proposed solutions within the SAP product suite to ensure compliance with global and local legal, statutory, and regulatory tax requirements
- Stakeholder Liaison - Act as a supporting liaison between business/finance stakeholders and the technical team, facilitating effective communication and mutual understanding of requirements
- Product Lifecycle Management - Assist with tracking product updates and enhancement, supporting demand intake, requirements gathering, validation activities, and preparation of materials required securing business sign-off
- Tax Product Roadmap - Contribute inputs to Tax product roadmaps by consolidating feedback from member firms and preparing summaries; roadmap ownership and prioritisation decisions remain with senior product managers
- Testing and Validation - Drive requirements review, validation activities, test case reviews, and user acceptance testing for new features with tax implications
- Incident and Service Request Management - Assist in managing functional incidents and service requests by performing initial analysis, gathering information, documenting issues, and escalating appropriately. Track incidents through their lifecycle and support communication updates prepared by senior incident owners
- Financial Impact Assessment - Assist with data collection and preliminary analysis to support senior team members in assessing financial impacts of incidents or processing issues
- Error Analysis - Analyze batch failures and prepare draft summaries of findings for review by senior stakeholders
- Team Development and Performance Monitoring - Contribute to team knowledge sharing activities, documentation, and process improvements; proactively build tax systems and product knowledge
- Controls and Governance Support - Establish and maintain controls and feedback systems to monitor departmental operations
- Bachelor's degree in finance, business, computer science or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience
- 4+ years of relevant experience in a large business system environment, performing business analysis, business development, and/or project systems management with a preferred focus on SAP tax module as well as third-party tax engine (Onesource preferred, or Vertex) integration with SAP, as well as SAP ECC FI (Tax, new GL, AP, AR, FA), SD, MM, VIM
- Working knowledge and experience with capabilities of Onesource Reporting as well as SAP ECC VAT Reporting
- Exposure to supporting Tax interfaces and Tax application operations for a global professional services organization (Big 4 experience an advantage but not required)
- SAP certification preferred
- History of working credibly with senior stakeholders
- Exceptional verbal and written skills including strong cross-cultural communication and the ability to draft effective communications
- Ability to work with people in a variety of cultures, countries, and time zones
- Creative and self-starter mindset with strong analytical and quantitative skills to operate without direct supervision on multiple complex projects and tasks, and their shifting priorities in parallel.
- Effective listening skills and display openness to other people's ideas and thoughts.
- Ability to effectively manage escalations, conflicts, and challenging situations or individuals while maintaining composure under pressure.
- Strong influencing skills to collaborate effectively and efficiently across the global firm.
- English language skills - exceptional written and verbal communication.
- Flexibility to work out of regular office hours to cater to the global organization needs.