Senior SAP Tax Analyst at Shell

What’s The Role

• As the Tax Senior Business Analyst – Direct Tax at Shell, you will be responsible for ensuring accurate and timely delivery of direct tax compliance, reporting, and advisory services.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Solution Design & Functional Leadership
• Drive global SAP FI and Direct Tax solutions from a functional design perspective
• Lead S/4HANA Tax Solutions for Direct Tax interfaces
• Conduct design lead sessions and coordinate with peer SMEs
• Partner with Project Managers for solution design and effort estimation
• Contribute to and supervise development of functional specifications from a technical design perspective
• Design and oversee development of reports, interfaces, enhancements, and forms of varying complexity
• Perform prototyping to support requirements definition and design validation
• Stakeholder Management & Collaboration
• Collaborate with Process Experts, SMEs, and Product Managers to streamline Tax L&F requirements
• Gather stakeholder requirements and translate them into functional solutions
• Work closely with Design Leads and Delivery Leads to ensure new capabilities are applied effectively
• Coordinate with Change Management and Release Management teams; collaborate via Azure DevOps
• Manage batch job scheduling, period-end activities, and coordinate cross scrums, Direct and Indirect Tax teams
• Quality Assurance & Testing
• Perform quality assessments and peer reviews
• Execute unit and integration testing, support user acceptance testing
• Resolve defects during test cycles and provide post-go-live support
• Create and review cutover activities and run books for operational readiness
• Support & Compliance
• Assist in resolving production issues with Support teams
• Prepare audit and compliance with reporting requirements

What You Bring

• Core Expertise
  • Extensive years of experience in SAP Direct Tax (Corporate Tax & Withholding Tax) determination and reporting
  • Proven years of experience in ECC to S/4HANA transformation projects
  • Experience in Property Tax Management System (PTMS)
  • Strong understanding of corporate tax, income tax, and global tax regimes
• Technical Skills
  • Proficiency in SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) for tax risk visualization and reporting
  • Expertise in SAP PaPM for transfer pricing automation and margin monitoring
  • Experience with SAP Tax Compliance for automated audits and risk detection using ML
  • Ability to debug issues and identify root causes (preferred techno-functional profile)
  • Expertise in working with AI tools
  • Familiarity with Asset Accounting and Revenue Accounting integration (added advantage)
• Functional & Leadership Skills
  • Gravitas and excellent communication skills to engage senior finance stakeholders
  • Strong collaboration with process owners and finance leadership
  • Active participation in high-performing IT teams focused on business value delivery
• Agile & Tools
  • Solid understanding of Agile frameworks, Azure DevOps, and Power Platform Apps
  • Experience planning and leading Agile initiatives and educating stakeholders
• Integration & Compliance
  • Experience with ERP-to-ERP interfaces and third-party application integration with S4
  • Skilled in tax audits, regulatory compliance, and discrepancy resolution
  • Ability to optimize tax liabilities through effective planning and structuring

What We Offer

You bring your skills and experience to Shell and in return you work with talented, committed people on one of the most important challenges facing our planet. You’ll have the opportunity to develop the skills you need to grow in an environment where we value honesty, integrity, and respect for one another.

You’ll be able to balance your priorities as you become the best version of yourself.

• Progress as a person as we work on the energy transition together.
• Continuously grow the transferable skills you need to get ahead.
• Work at the forefront of technology, trends, and practices.
• Collaborate with experienced colleagues with unique expertise.
• Achieve your balance in a value-led culture that encourages you to be the best version of yourself.
• Benefit from flexible working hours, and the possibility of remote/mobile working.
• Perform at your best with a competitive starting salary and annual performance related salary increase – our pay and benefits packages are considered to be among the best in the world.
• Take advantage of paid parental leave, including for non-birthing parents.
• Join an organisation working to become one of the most diverse and inclusive in the world. We strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientation, and life experiences to apply.
• Grow as you progress through diverse career opportunities in national and international teams.
• Gain access to a wide range of training and development programmes.