**Axial Tax Process Expert (Indirect Tax Process Integration)**
**Location: Warsaw/Mississauga/Lisbon/Barcelona/Chennai**
**Hybrid model: 3 days per week from office**
- Join a global leader and make a more meaningful impact to patients' lives_
**Introduction to role**:
Join us as an Axial Tax Process Expert (Indirect Tax Process Integration) where you will be responsible for integrating Indirect Tax processes and technologies (e.g. Tax Determination solutions) into wider business process, supporting the Axial Tax Process Architect (Indirect Tax). This role is an outstanding opportunity to ensure that opportunities for integrated process enhancement and modernisation are delivered and that the overall process and technology design meets business objectives and regulatory requirements.
**Accountabilities**:
Lead the integration of the Indirect Tax Determination solution into core business and finance processes, including within S/4HANA and related systems, e.g. ensuring that S/4HANA is making best use of Tax Engine throughout all business processes. Designing and building tax integration processes to sit within other business process area's global template designs to continue AZ's journey of enhancing Indirect Tax processes and allowing adoption of a 'right first time' approach to Indirect Tax determination. You will understand the transformation opportunities S/4HANA can provide and bring this to bear throughout the design. You will work across all Enterprise Process areas with key partners to integrate best-in-class Indirect Tax solutions into their business areas and to ensure that impacted S/4HANA users are trained to operate Indirect Tax solutions within their overall new processes.
Contribute to the design and definition operational tax processes that will be embedded across business areas focussing on processes that operate financial and logístical processes within S/4HANA (and non-core S/4HANA systems) to ensure appropriate operation and data usage to enable calculation of Indirect Taxes. Act as a source of knowledge for Indirect Tax process integration and inclusion of determination systems, defining and presenting current and future business improvement needs and opportunities.
Provide expertise with regards to Indirect Tax touchpoints throughout AZ's business and process design for Indirect Tax and support the Enterprise Process Architect, Tax (Indirect Tax). Ensuring that the processes maximise opportunities for improvements and covers all areas for a successful transition to future state.
Develop key Indirect Tax global process design activities that will generate the golden template; scope definition, identification of the standard process and identify wider business processes that will integrate with those processes.
**Essential Skills/Experience**:
- Bachelor's degree (or equivalent experience) in relevant field
- Previous experience with system driven Indirect Tax Determination and/or Tax Engines
- Understanding of Indirect Tax process integration areas within business processes
- Significant experience in Business Improvement
At AstraZeneca, we are one purpose-led global organisation. We are the enablers and innovators, ensuring that we can fulfil our mission to push the boundaries of science and discover and develop life-changing medicines. We take pride in working close to the cause, opening the locks to save lives, ultimately making a massive difference to the outside world.
The Axial Programme will be powered by S/4HANA, a new ERP system, which will be implemented right across the organisation and will provide our business with standardised processes, enhanced financial management, common data and real time reporting, transforming the way we work through our entire supply chain - from bench to patient.
Our current technology is used by more than 20,000 employees daily, is foundational to all AZ entities and is central to most core business processes. This programme provides the opportunity for real transformation and to shape the way of working globally for many years to come.
At AstraZeneca we're dedicated to being a Great Place to Work. Where you are empowered to push the boundaries of science and unleash your entrepreneurial spirit. There's no better place to make a difference to medicine, patients and society. An inclusive culture that champions diversity and collaboration, and always committed to lifelong learning, growth and development. We're on an exciting journey to pioneer the future of healthcare.
