Tax Technology Manager

Tax Technology Manager

This role has been designed as 'Hybrid' with a requirement that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.

Who We Are

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.

Job Description

In the Finance and Corporate Strategy team we ensure that the business’s capital strategies are operationally supported and strategically focused. This is how we work to secure the greatest return on investment for the global company. By gathering and analysing financial data we can influence decisions within the business, drive initiatives, and help ensure alignment with our wider objectives. Join us redefine what’s next for you.

Job Family Definition:

Leads and evolves the Tax department’s tax technology, tax data, and reporting enablement capabilities to support accurate, timely, and controlled tax compliance, reporting, and planning. Serves as the primary liaison between Tax and Finance Systems Architecture to translate tax policy and compliance requirements into scalable data and reporting solutions (including reusable pipelines, data definitions, and control frameworks). Owns tax data governance and the long-term strategy to standardize and solution recurring reporting requirements, reducing manual effort and improving audit readiness. This position requires strong tax technical knowledge and expertise that combined with strong program management skills and proficiency and understanding of systems architecture.

Management Level Definition:

People manager role within the Tax department, applying deep tax technology, tax policy, and program leadership expertise to drive cross-functional outcomes within established controls. Leads a team of professionals responsible for tax requirements governance, tax data standards, and tax reporting pipelines, and partners closely with Finance Systems Architecture, Finance, and IT delivery teams that build/configure/implement systems. Accountable for end-to-end program management (intake, prioritization, roadmap, resourcing, milestones, risk/issue management, stakeholder communication) to ensure tax requirements are correctly interpreted, documented, and embedded into sustainable solutions.

Additional Guidance/Criteria: Maintains a long-term view to design reusable approaches for similar reporting requirements across regions/entities, strengthening data quality, controls, and repeatability while minimizing one-off solutions.

What you’ll do

Responsibilities:

• Tax department role with people management responsibility; primary liaison with Finance Systems Architecture and broader Finance/IT delivery teams; role locations: Bangalore, India and Wroclaw, Poland.

• Owns the tax technology and reporting enablement roadmap from a Tax perspective (intake, prioritization, business case, scope, and outcomes) and provides strong program management to drive cross-functional execution with partner teams.

• Interprets tax policy and compliance requirements and translates them into clear functional requirements, data definitions, and controls; designs reusable approaches to address similar reporting requirements across jurisdictions and entities.

• Partners with Finance Systems Architecture and IT delivery teams on solution architecture decisions, ensuring tax requirements are correctly embedded; defines acceptance criteria, supports testing/UAT from the Tax standpoint, and approves that tax policy needs are met (implementation/configuration owned by delivery teams).

• Owns tax data and reporting pipelines (source-to-report) including standard data mapping, reconciliations, and workpaper outputs; governs design and ongoing enhancements delivered through partner teams to improve traceability, data quality, and cycle times.

• Defines and maintains tax policy-driven controls, documentation standards, and audit-ready evidence requirements for tax data, reporting pipelines, and tax-relevant system outputs; partners with control owners on SOX/ITGC alignment.

• Monitors regulatory and business changes (e.g., e-invoicing/e-reporting mandates, new filing requirements) and leads impact assessment, requirement definition, and prioritization; ensures sustainable, repeatable solutioning for recurring reporting needs.

• Establishes governance routines (steerco, design reviews, risk/issue forums) and communicates status, risks, and decisions across Tax, Finance Systems Architecture, and delivery teams, drives adoption through clear guidance and training on standards and processes.

• Partners on vendor and solution evaluations to ensure fit to tax policy and compliance requirements; contributes to selection criteria, tax functional design, and service expectations while delivery teams execute implementation.

• Leads and develops a high-performing team focused on tax requirements governance, tax data/reporting standards, and compliance enablement; provides coaching, performance management, and capability building.

• Defines program and operational metrics (e.g., time-to-close, exception rates, data quality, reusability/standard adoption) and drives continuous improvement through standardization and repeatable solution patterns.

What you need to bring

Education and Experience Required:

• First-level university degree or equivalent experience in Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field; advanced degree preferred.

• Typically, 8+ years of experience spanning tax, finance systems, data/analytics, and/or technology delivery; experience supporting global tax processes strongly preferred.

• Typically, 2+ years of people management experience and demonstrated strength in program management (driving cross-functional roadmaps, governance, dependencies, and executive communication).

Knowledge and Skills:

• Strong understanding of tax process domains (direct and/or indirect) and how tax requirements translate into systems, data, and controls.

• Strong familiarity with tax technology platforms and/or tax engines (e.g., Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE, Vertex, Avalara, Sovos, SAP tax solutions) and end-to-end data flows/integrations to ERP systems; able to define tax functional requirements and validate outcomes.

• Strong data skills (e.g., SQL, data modeling, reconciliations) and experience governing automated data/reporting pipelines; comfortable partnering with engineering/analytics teams using ETL/automation and visualization tools (e.g., Alteryx, Power BI, Python or similar).

• Exceptional program management skills (roadmap planning, governance, dependency management, risk/issue management, and change management) with the ability to lead without direct control over implementation teams.

• Controls mindset and experience designing and operating process/IT controls (e.g., SOX, audit support, documentation standards) in a regulated environment.

• Proven ability to partner effectively with Finance Systems Architecture and technical teams, translating tax policy into scalable requirements, data models, and repeatable solution patterns.

• Strong people leadership skills, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and building capabilities across tax requirements governance, data, and reporting.

• Working knowledge of finance and accounting concepts that interact with tax (e.g., close processes, master data, chart of