Job Description

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Job Description:

Collaborate with Innovative 3Mers Around the World

Choosing where to start and grow your career has a major impact on your professional and personal life, so it’s equally important you know that the company that you choose to work at, and its leaders, will support and guide you. With a diversity of people, global locations, technologies and products, 3M is a place where you can collaborate with other curious, creative 3Mers.

This position provides an opportunity to transition from other private, public, government or military experience to a 3M career.

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

Tax Technology Specialist serves as a subject matter expert supporting global indirect tax processes, tax determination solutions, and regulatory compliance initiatives. This role is responsible for maintaining and enhancing tax determination capabilities, analyzing tax calculation discrepancies, supporting system implementations, and partnering with business, tax, IT, and external vendors to ensure accurate and compliant tax processing across global operations.

The specialist plays a key role in supporting tax determination solutions, including OneSource Tax Determination (OTD), SAP tax-related processes, and emerging e-invoicing and digital reporting requirements.

Key Responsibilities

Tax Determination Support

• Triage and manage daily support tickets related to tax determination issues within SAP, ensuring timely assessment, prioritization, and resolution.
• Analyze, troubleshoot, and resolve tax calculation discrepancies between SAP and OTD to ensure accurate and compliant tax outcomes.
• Investigate and resolve tax determination issues associated with customer, vendor, material, exemption certificate, and other master data elements that impact tax processing.
• Support global indirect tax compliance requirements, including VAT, GST, sales and use tax, and other transaction-based taxes, by providing operational and system-related expertise.

System and Process Improvement

• Execute testing activities for tax-related system enhancements, upgrades, and implementations.
• Partner with IT and external vendors to identify root causes and implement sustainable solutions.
• Support OTD change management activities, including requirements gathering, development, testing, defect management, and deployment validation.

Project and Regulatory Initiatives

• Support global projects involving tax transformation, ERP implementations, e-invoicing, and digital reporting mandates.
• Participate in cross-functional initiatives involving Finance/Treasury, Global Business Services, Supply Chain, Procurement and IT teams.
• Coordinate testing and readiness activities for new country-specific tax requirements and regulatory changes.
• Contribute to the development of standard operating procedures, training materials, and knowledge documentation.

Your Skills and Expertise

To set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or higher from an accredited university with concentration in Accounting, Finance, Tax or Information Technology
• A minimum of 3 years of experience working with SAP in the areas of FI, SD, MM and Tax
• Bachelor level university college degree or higher in Tax or accounting preferred. In addition, a minimum of 3 years relevant working experience is normally required.

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:

• Knowledge of global Indirect Tax, particularly Value Added Tax, Goods and Services Tax, etc.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills, with a readiness to adapt to changing business environments.
• Experience using Alteryx.
• Familiarity with Snowflake data mining, agile and JIRA process, and qTest testing approach.
• Exhibited a sense of urgency in driving effective change and deliver results.
• Project Management/ERP deployment experience is a plus.

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