Senior Tax Specialist (Business Support & Indirect Tax Governance)

Job Description

We help the world run better

At SAP, we enable you to bring out your best. Our company culture is focused on collaboration and a shared passion to help the world run better. How? We focus every day on building the foundation for tomorrow and creating a workplace that embraces differences, values flexibility, and is aligned to our purpose-driven and future-focused work. We offer a highly collaborative, caring team environment with a strong focus on learning and development, recognition for your individual contributions, and a variety of benefit options for you to choose from.

PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES

We are seeking an experienced and dynamic tax professional to join the EMEA & MEE Tax Team in the role of Tax Business Support and Indirect tax Governance. This role provides strategic tax support to commercial and sales teams, focusing on complex deals, new business models, and market expansion. It also plays a key role in tax governance, helping to standardize and automate processes such as deal approvals, billing workflows, and tax clauses. The successful candidate will work cross-functionally, to ensure tax is embedded in the design of deals, billing processes and digital transformation initiatives.

EXPECTATIONS AND TASKS

The key responsibilities for this role include:

• Partner closely with Sales, Commercial, Legal, and Finance teams to provide timely tax input during deal structuring and negotiation.
• Review and advise on the tax implications of commercial contracts, pricing models, and customer terms.
• Ensure tax risks are appropriately managed within the internal deal approval process.
• Evaluate and advise on direct and indirect tax considerations related to the launch of new products, services, or delivery models.
• Analyze the tax implications of entering new geographic markets or establishing new business entities.
• Conduct risk assessments for Permanent Establishment (PE), withholding tax, and VAT/GST exposure.
• Monitor and analyse global developments in DST and other digital economy-related tax measures.
• Lead or support projects focused on the automation and standardization.
• Provide tax input into the design and rollout of new billing models, ensuring alignment with tax compliance requirements.

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

• Education in Tax, Finance or Accounting.
• A CPA, qualified Tax Advisor or similar certification with focus on taxation.
• Experiences in Tax advisory or deal support roles ideally in a multinational corporation or Big 4 environment.
• Experience with tax in commercial contexts, including contract reviews, new billing models and market expansion.
• Solid understanding of global tax regimes including corporate tax, indirect tax and DSTs.
• Familiarity with digital transformation and tax automation tools.
• Growth Mindset. Self-driven.
• Team player with good interpersonal and communication skills, strong assertiveness.
• Fluency in English.
  
  

WORK EXPERIENCE

• At least 5 years working experience in tax or finance function within Multinational Organisation or similar.
  
  

What you can expect is professional onboarding, exciting career progression, a diverse work environment providing growth opportunities, learning & development possibilities, and an international business network for you to leverage. Interesting non-work related activities (volunteering, charity, sport events,..). This role is based at the ultra-modern Metronom office building directly above the Nove Butovice metro station. The location encompasses SAP's vision for the perfect work-life balance by featuring uniquely decorated relaxation rooms, parents' and kids' room

BENEFITS

Yearly bonuses, sick days paid and sick leaves fully refunded, flexible start/end of working hours, contributions to the pension/life insurance, meal vouchers, holidays 5 weeks, educational courses, coaching and mentoring opportunities, free massage, cafeteria plan, free fitness studio, generous shares program, etc.

​Bring out your best

SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, you can bring out your best.

We win with inclusion

SAP’s culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone – regardless of background – feels included and can run at their best. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better and more equitable world.
SAP is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provide accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with SAP and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an e-mail with your request to Recruiting Operations Team: Careers@sap.com
For SAP employees: Only permanent roles are eligible for the SAP Employee Referral Program, according to the eligibility rules set in the SAP Referral Policy. Specific conditions may apply for roles in Vocational Training.

EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability:

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.
Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

Requisition ID: 415030 | Work Area: Finance | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.