Categories: Pharmaceutical, IT, SAP, Tax Technology

Job Description

Senior Specialist, S/4 Functional Team - Integrated Delivery - SAP Tax

The Opportunity

• Based in Hyderabad, join a global healthcare biopharma company and be part of a 130- year legacy of success backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.
• Be part of an organisation driven by digital technology and data-backed approaches that support a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products.
• Drive innovation and execution excellence. Be a part of a team with passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making, and which creates custom software, allowing us to tackle some of the world's greatest health threats.

Our Technology Centres focus on creating a space where teams can come together to deliver business solutions that save and improve lives. An integral part of our company’s IT operating model, Tech Centres are globally distributed locations where each IT division has employees to enable our digital transformation journey and drive business outcomes. These locations, in addition to the other sites, are essential to supporting our business and strategy.

A focused group of leaders in each Tech Centre helps to ensure we can manage and improve each location, from investing in growth, success, and well-being of our people, to making sure colleagues from each IT division feel a sense of belonging to managing critical emergencies. And together, we must leverage the strength of our team to collaborate globally to optimize connections and share best practices across the Tech Centres.

Role Overview

The Indirect Tax Technical Delivery Specialist will assume responsibility for developing new solutions or enhancing existing solutions in the Global Indirect Tax product areas to address the core application backlog across the Tax product domain.  They will report to the SAP Platform Tax Technical Delivery Lead. They will partner and build key relationships with the Finance Value Team Lead, and the Tax Management Product and Product Line leads to deliver technical solutions for the company’s Corporate Tax department.  They will address emerging automation and analytical needs of the Global Corporate Tax Team. They will gain a deep understanding of the business processes, systems, and data that support strategic processes and programs related to our Indirect Tax product group.  They will work with a high-performing team of software engineers to deliver robust technology solutions. They will also share knowledge and collaborate with others in areas of technical expertise.

What will you do in this role

• Work as part of a Team of developers to manage the application stack and ensure delivery on project backlog.
• Utilize expertise in Indirect Tax products such as OneSource, Vertex, SAP Tax, Ariba Tax, Concur Tax, Compliance and VAT reporting and the core business processes supported to deliver solutions to the business.
• Coordinate with client facing product management team and business stakeholders to ensure that solutions meet requirements.
• Demonstrate strong working knowledge of modern development practices and technology stack on the cloud.
• Partner with other IT organizations to ensure alignment with Platform teams, IT architecture, IT Risk management, support organizations in delivering projects.
• Contribute as a senior developer on critical initiatives, share best practices, technical expertise and collaborate and earn the trust and respect of the product team.
• Demonstrate ability to focus on key priorities and lead and collaborate effectively to deliver on IT commitments.
• Strive to be a valued member of the extended IT Delivery and Product team.

What should you have

Education Minimum Requirement:

• Bachelor's Degree in IT, Computer Science, or related field

Required Skills & Experience:

• Minimum of 4 years of relevant experience working in a multinational corporation's IT or Tax function supporting indirect tax technology solutions.
• Experience working with large technical teams
• Demonstrated expertise in the design, implementation, configuration, and sustainment of SAP ECC or S/4 tax functionality and integration with an external Tax engine, specifically, Thomson Reuters’ OneSource for Indirect Tax.
• OneSource configuration, & testing experience is nice to have.
• Vertex, SAP Tax experience nice to have.
• Knowledge of the SAP suite of products and the interfaces required for indirect tax determination and reporting, including Ariba, Concur, and compliance reporting packages.
• Indirect Tax determination and reporting:  Expertise in the design, implementation, configuration using: eReporting, SAF-T (Standard Audit File for Tax), DART (Data Retention Tool), etc in an SAP and Thomson Reuters OneSource Determination environment using SAP DRC (Document and Reporting Compliance), CPI, etc.
• Strong technical experience in working with SAP ABAP development teams and implementation of custom solutions and integrations related to indirect tax.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end STS, OTC, FBM, and SCM finance processes and life cycles
• Proficient with Agile software development and, DevSecOps approaches
• Excellent written and verbal communications and collaboration skills.
• Exposure to SAP SD/MM and experience working on Finance applications is a plus
• Demonstrates an executive presence through good communication and professionalism
• Proven record of excellent performance
• Experience working in a collaborative, matrixed environment desired
• Experienced in requirements gathering, customer interaction, detailed documentation of requirements, solutions and functional specifications, including the creation of process and data flows
• Practical exposure on withholding tax process

Our technology teams operate as business partners, proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver services and solutions that help everyone be more productive and enable innovation.

Who we are

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for lives, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

What we look for

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.

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Required Skills:

Data Engineering, Data Visualization, Design Applications, OneSource, ONESOURCE Income Tax, ONESOURCE Tax Provision, SAP Concur, Software Configurations, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Solution Architecture, System Designs, System Integration, Testing, Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE, Thomson Reuters OneSource Indirect Tax, Vert.x

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Regular

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Job Posting End Date:

01/31/2026

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