Manager - Digital Tax Compliance

WESCO; Bracknell; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Wesco seeks a senior tax professional to own global e-invoicing, e-reporting and digital tax compliance. The role collaborates with Tax, IT, Finance, AP/AR, Operations and Legal to translate regulations into technical specs and integration designs.

You will lead testing, governance, and post-go-live stabilization, while shaping data quality standards and controls across multiple country frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the global tax subject matter expert for e-invoicing, e-reporting, and digital tax compliance requirements.
• Monitor emerging global e-invoicing and digital reporting mandates and assess impacts on business processes, systems, and compliance obligations.
• Translate regulatory requirements into tax business requirements, functional specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria for implementation teams.
• Partner with Tax, IT, Finance, AP, AR, Operations, Legal, and external solution providers to ensure tax requirements are properly designed and implemented.
• Define and validate invoice content, data quality standards, reporting requirements, XML and API mappings, and compliance controls for global e-invoicing mandates.
• Lead tax-related testing activities, including SIT, UAT, regression testing, and validation of e-invoice outputs, tax calculations, and digital reporting requirements.
• Lead global e-invoicing tax workstreams, including roadmap execution, deliverables, risks, dependencies, governance, escalation, and post-go-live stabilization.
• Support tax data governance and control monitoring with reporting validation, reconciliation, exception-management, and audit-ready documentation standards.
• Identify tax compliance risks, control gaps, and process impacts, and recommend mitigation strategies.
• Provide tax compliance guidance, issue resolution, and tax sign-off for e-invoicing and digital reporting implementations and system changes.
• Maintain global e-invoicing compliance documentation, repositories, and implementation standards while supporting continuous improvement and standardization initiatives.

Job description

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the global tax subject matter expert for e-invoicing, e-reporting, and digital tax compliance requirements.

• Monitor emerging global e-invoicing and digital reporting mandates, including PEPPOL, ViDA, KSeF, SDI, CFDI, NF-e, ZATCA, SAF-T, and comparable country frameworks, and assess impacts on business processes, systems, invoice data, and compliance obligations.

• Translate regulatory requirements into tax business requirements, functional specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria for implementation teams.

• Partner with Tax, IT, Finance, AP, AR, Operations, Legal, and external solution providers to ensure tax requirements are properly designed and implemented.

• Define and validate invoice content, data quality standards, reporting requirements, XML and API mappings, and compliance controls necessary to support global e-invoicing mandates.

• Lead tax-related testing activities, including SIT, UAT, regression testing, and validation of e-invoice outputs, tax calculations, and digital reporting requirements.

• Lead global e-invoicing tax workstreams, including roadmap execution, deliverables, risks, dependencies, stakeholder governance, issue escalation, and post-go-live stabilization.

• Support tax data governance and control monitoring by establishing reporting validation, reconciliation, exception-management, and audit-ready documentation standards.

• Identify tax compliance risks, control gaps, and process impacts, and recommend practical mitigation strategies.

• Provide tax compliance guidance, issue resolution, and tax sign-off for e-invoicing and digital reporting implementations and system changes.

• Maintain global e-invoicing compliance documentation, requirements repositories, and implementation standards while supporting continuous improvement and standardization initiatives.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in Accounting, finance or related field is required; Masters Degree is preferred.

• 6 years required, 8 years preferred of indirect tax, VAT, GST, tax technology, or tax transformation experience in a multinational organization or public accounting environment.

• 6 years required, 8 years preferred of supporting e-invoicing, e-reporting, digital reporting, or related tax compliance initiatives., including demonstrated experience with multinational implementations and major continuous transaction control or clearance regimes.

• 3 years required, 5 years preferred of gathering, documenting, and translating tax and regulatory requirements into business and system requirements.

• 3 years required, 5 years preferred of leading cross-functional tax technology workstreams, managing implementation risks and dependencies, and coordinating internal and external resources in support of enterprise-wide ERP or other systems initiatives and Finance transformation initiatives

• Ability to multitask, prioritize responsibilities, complete work timely and accurately, and work independently and as part of a team.

• Strong organizational, analytical, documentation, and problem solving, project leadership, data analysis, and risk management skills.

• Strong understanding of indirect tax concepts, including VAT, GST, sales and use tax, and invoice compliance requirements.

• Strong stakeholder management, written, verbal, and presentation skills with the ability to communicate effectively across Tax, IT, Finance, and Operations teams.

• Proficiency with Jira, Microsoft Office applications, and tax technology platforms; experience with ERP systems (Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, or similar) and tax engines (ONESOURCE, Vertex, Avalara or similar) preferred, e-invoicing platforms or service providers (such as EDICOM, Sovos, Pagero, or similar), PEPPOL access-point models, middleware, and API-based integrations preferred.

• Ability to travel 0%-25%.

At Wesco, we build, connect, power and protect the world. As a leading provider of business-to-business distribution, logistics services and supply chain solutions, we create a world that you can depend on.

Our Company’s greatest asset is our people. Wesco is committed to fostering a workplace where every individual is respected, valued, and empowered to succeed. We promote a culture that is grounded in teamwork and respect. With a workforce of over 20,000 people worldwide, we embrace the unique perspectives each person brings. Through comprehensive benefits (https://www.wesco.com/us/en/our-company/careers/work-at-wesco.html#benefits) and active community engagement, we create an environment where every team member has the opportunity to thrive.

Founded in 1922 and headquartered in Pittsburgh, Wesco is a publicly traded (NYSE: WCC) FORTUNE 500® company.

Wesco International, Inc., including its subsidiaries and affiliates (“Wesco”) provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, religion, color, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, or other characteristics protected by law. US applicants only, we are an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Los Angeles Unincorporated County Candidates Only: Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act.

This posting is for a current, active vacancy intended for immediate hire.