Ford Motor Company

SAP S4 FICO/Tax Integration Product Designer

Ford Motor Company • $99K — $192K *
Dearborn, MI 48126In-Person
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience
  • 5+ years of S4/ECC [MM/FICO module] configurations/customizations experience
  • Experience preparing BRD/Functional Specification documents
  • Collaborative experience on integration projects
  • Strong communication skills in a global environment
  • Strong analytical skills for identifying business issues
  • Problem-solving aptitude with a solution-oriented mindset

Responsibilities

  • Manage S4 Tax product configurations across IERP & Non-IERP landscapes
  • Maintain S4-Vertex integration during new rollouts and upgrades
  • Collaborate with product managers to document business requirements
  • Optimize cloud-based design solutions with stakeholders
  • Identify updates needed for tax systems based on legislation
  • Analyze data lineage from transactions to tax returns
  • Support testing of complex tax scenarios and ensure system stability
  • Serve as primary contact for tax-related support tickets
  • Ensure compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley security protocols
  • Innovate and improve development and testing standards

Benefits

  • Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage
  • Flexible family care days and paid parental leave
  • Family building benefits including adoption and fertility treatments
  • Employee vehicle discount program and management leases
  • Tuition assistance for professional development
  • Active employee resource groups for engagement
  • Paid community service time and generous holiday schedule
  • Options to purchase additional vacation time
Full Job Description
Job Description

The IERP Tax Product Team manages & supports Tax related changes within S4 & its integration with Vertex-On-Demand [VoD] & Vertex TPE for Tax Determination and Reporting purposes. The team supports implementation of major releases, maintenance activities [production support, change requests] & other technical upgrades. The team works very closely with the tax systems experts in the office of tax council (OTC) to support the requirements of our global customers, both for existing applications and services, as well as for new projects.

Responsibilities

  • Responsible for S4 - Tax product configurations/customizations across IERP & other Non-IERP Landscape and Accounts Payables module specifically.
  • Maintain & Support S4-Vertex product integration for new release rollouts, major enhancements, technical upgrades etc.
  • Work with Business/Product manager to document and manage Product Requirements to create Business Requirements Documents (BRD) and Functional Specification Documents (FSD).
  • Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture/users for optimized end2end design cloud-based solution approach that meet both business needs and technical standards.
  • Identifying where current tax systems require updates to meet new legislative requirements.
  • Understanding the lineage of data from a source transaction (invoice) to a final tax return.
  • Ability to understand system "rules" or logic tables within S4/Integration with relevant tax engine [Vertex].
  • Support test cases, that validate complex tax scenarios (e.g., edge cases in tax jurisdictions or exemption certificates) and maintaining a robust regression testing to ensue system stability.
  • Acting as the primary point of contact for Support tickets, working with S4, Vertex and other interfaces from a tax standpoint.
  • Maintain and enforce S-Ox (Sarbanes-Oxley) compliance and application security protocols across the tax landscape.
  • Perform, control and innovatively improve application development, deployment and testing standards for the IERP Tax.
  • Proactively building a strong and trusting business relationship to global and local stakeholders.


Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
  • 5+ years of Design/Implementation/support experience in S4/ECC [MM/FICO module] configurations/customizations.
  • Good experience in preparation/alignment on BRD/Functional Specification documents with Business and hand-holding the technical team on the requirements & functional specifications.
  • Good experience working with integration projects and interface teams.
  • Passion for understanding the underlying business processes in the Office of Tax Council
  • Very good communication & collaboration skills in global environment
  • Strong analytical skills, and the ability to identify root cause of business concerns; understand & predict business 'motivators'
  • Solution-oriented and can-do-attitude; excellent problem-solving skills.


Preferred Qualifications:
  • Master's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
  • 7+ years of Design/Implementation/support experience in S4/ECC [MM/FICO module] configurations/customizations.
  • Experience in S4 Tax/ Vertex or any other tax engine integration specific experience will be an added advantage.
  • Experience in handling Technology integration roles across systems will be an added advantage.


You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder...or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:
  • Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
  • Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up childcare and more
  • Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
  • Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
  • Tuition assistance
  • Established and active employee resource groups
  • Paid time off for individual and team community service
  • A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year's Day
  • Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.


This position is a range of salary grades 7-8 and ranges from $99,600-$192,900.
Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.
For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/GSR

Visa sponsorship is available for this position.

Domestic relocation is available for this position.

This position is hybrid. Candidates who are in commuting distance to a Ford hub location may be required to be onsite four or more days per week.

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About Ford Motor Company

Ford Motor Company manufactures or distributes automobiles in addition to offering financial services. The company sells to dealerships for retail sales, and for sale to fleet customers, including commercial fleet customers, daily rental car companies, and governments. Ford’s vehicle portfolio includes automobiles, buses, tractors, and trucks. Retail financing includes retail installment sale contracts for new and used vehicles, and direct financing leases for new vehicles to retail customers, government entities, daily rental car companies, and fleet customers. Finance receivables in the non-consumer portfolio include products offered to automotive dealers. Ford’s environmental initiatives include compressed natural gas, flexible fuel vehicles, electric drive vehicles, Hydrogen, PC power management, and so on. Ford Motor Company was founded by Henry Ford in 1903 and is headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan.

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Learn more about Ford Motor Company
Size
183,000 employees
Market Cap
$44.8 billion
Industry
Manufacturing & Automotive
Net Income
-$1.2 billion
Founded
1903
5 Year Trend
-2.1%
Revenue
$127.1 billion
NASDAQ
F
* Ladders Estimates

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