JOB SUMMARY

Tax Solution Implementation
•    Interpret and apply the agreed global tax design framework to country-specific scenarios across multiple jurisdictions
•    Make informed decisions on tax treatment where design documentation requires interpretation or country nuances create ambiguity
•    Serve as the subject matter expert for indirect tax (VAT/GST) and withholding tax requirements within the P2P process
•    Support configuration and testing of tax determination logic within SAP Ariba and integrated tax engines

Country-Specific Tax Requirements
•    Analyze country-level tax regulations and determine how they map to the global design
•    Identify gaps or conflicts between the standard design and local tax requirements
•    Work with local tax teams and finance stakeholders to validate country-specific tax treatments
•    Document country variations and exceptions to the global tax model

Stakeholder Collaboration
•    Partner with SAP Ariba functional leads, technical teams, and integration specialists to ensure tax requirements are properly implemented
•    Liaise with in-country tax teams, shared services centers, and centers of excellence to gather requirements and validate solutions
•    Communicate tax implications clearly to non-tax stakeholders including procurement, AP, and finance operations teams
•    Escalate design issues or significant deviations requiring governance review

Quality Assurance & Compliance
•    Review test scenarios to ensure comprehensive coverage of tax determination logic
•    Validate that withholding tax calculations, tax code assignments, and reporting outputs meet regulatory requirements
•    Support user acceptance testing with country tax and finance teams
•    Ensure e-invoicing and tax reporting requirements are appropriately addressed in the solution design

Documentation & Knowledge Transfer
•    Maintain clear documentation of tax design decisions, country-specific interpretations, and rationale
•    Develop training materials and guidance for end users on tax-related processes
•    Support change management activities to ensure smooth adoption of new tax processes

Regulatory & Business Conduct 
•    Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct. 
•    Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.

Key Stakeholders
•    Global Process Owner Requisition to Pay
•    Global Process Owner Tax
•    Head of Design and Operationalisation P2P
•    Head Tax Programme and Change Delivery

Qualifications
Tax Expertise
•    Strong technical knowledge of indirect taxes (VAT/GST) with exposure to multiple international tax regimes
•    Understanding of withholding tax requirements in a cross-border context
•    Familiarity with e-invoicing and tax compliance trends (clearance models, real-time reporting)
•    Ability to interpret tax legislation and apply it to P2P business processes

SAP & Technology Experience
•    Experience with SAP Ariba modules, particularly in tax determination workflows
•    Understanding of P2P processes including requisitioning, PO management, goods receipt, and invoice processing
•    Exposure to SAP ERP tax configuration is advantageous
•    Familiarity with BRFplus or similar rule engines is a plus

Implementation Skills
•    Proven experience in global tax transformation or ERP implementation programs
•    Ability to translate tax requirements into functional specifications for technical teams
•    Experience working in a large-scale, multi-country implementation environment
•    Strong problem-solving skills with ability to make pragmatic decisions under time pressure

Collaboration & Communication
•    Excellent stakeholder management across tax, finance, procurement, and IT functions
•    Ability to communicate complex tax concepts to non-tax audiences
•    Experience working with geographically dispersed teams across multiple time zones
•    Comfortable navigating matrix organizations and influencing without direct authority

Preferred Qualifications
•    Professional tax qualification (CTA, ADIT, or equivalent) or accounting qualification (CPA, CA, ACCA)
•    Experience in financial services or similarly complex, highly regulated industries
•    Prior exposure to SAP S/4HANA or SAP datasphere integration
•    Knowledge of change management principles in transformation programs
•    Experience with Agile or hybrid project delivery methodologies

Our Ideal Candidate

•    Finance & Accounting 
•    Continuous Improvement 
•    Project Management
•    Knowledge in ERP system (Ariba)
•    Indirect and Withholding Tax
•    Communication skills
•    Commercial Risk Management

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.