Tax Manager
Microsoft
Tax Manager
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
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Overview
The Tax & Customs Process and Technology Team (“TCPT”) Indirect Tax is a global team that centrally partners with stakeholders across Microsoft to optimize global indirect tax processes, develop and maintain best in class system and tools, and enhance governance and controls to support Global Indirect Tax in managing risk and exposure across reporting and compliance.
The Tax Manager will be a member of the TCPT Indirect team, providing global support to the Indirect Tax function(s). The role will also bridge cross-functional projects across TCPT, collaborating to ensure optimal end-to-end solutions related to tax planning, compliance, provision, and audit across the global indirect tax space. As a member of the broader TCPT team, this role will partner with team members on key cross-functional initiatives including data governance, documentation, and adoption of emerging Microsoft technologies.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 2+ years post-graduate tax technology, data management, or indirect tax work experience
O OR Master's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science, or related field
o OR equivalent experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Proficiency with Indirect Tax engine software (e.g.: Vertex, OneSource)
- Experience with solution design, testing, production environments, documentation, user guides, and troubleshooting
- Proficiency with the Microsoft Power Platform, data transformation, and visualization tools (e.g.: Microsoft Fabric Suite)
- Familiarity with data visualization tools (Power BI)
- Process Design & Continuous Process Improvement
- Agile and/or project management experience
- Analytics & Reporting
- Cross-group collaboration and stakeholder management
- Knowledge of data best practices + proficiency with large relational datasets
- Prior experience within a finance business unit and/or tax function
- Proven success managing multiple projects across a fast-paced and continually changing environment
- Highly organized, self-motivated and require minimal supervision
Responsibilities
- Assist with the design, improvement, and implementation of process and/or solution capabilities that support indirect tax determination, reporting, and compliance
- Assist with the design, improvement, and implementation of Microsoft’s global tax engine (Vertex)
- Operating and enhancing the technology and applications (Microsoft stack, custom, and third party) as needed by tax teams
- Maintain the relationship with internal and external stakeholders as it relates to delivering statutory and go-to-market requirements across the indirect tax platform required by the tax department to ensure compliance
- Maintain the relationship with internal and external stakeholders as it relates to gathering financial information required by the tax department
- Ongoing monitoring and evaluation of indirect tax processes and tools for further automation, efficiency, and governance
- Close partnership with tax teams in support of key compliance and filing processes during monthly, quarterly, and year end cycles
- Assisting with prototyping and developing innovative solutions that leverage agentic AI and machine learning to drive operational efficiencies across indirect tax technology (e.g.: CoPilot Studio, Azure, Fabric, etc.)