Global Transfer Pricing & Withholding Tax Specialist

Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany; San Juan; On-site; PHP 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany is seeking a Business Process Expert for Transfer Pricing and Withholding Tax within the Life Science ERP Program. You will help design, harmonize and deploy tax and intercompany processes across Tax, Finance and IT as part of the SAP S/4HANA template rollout.

You will collaborate with stakeholders across functions and regions, support go‑live activities, testing and post‑go‑live improvements, and drive scalable, compliant solutions worldwide.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Tax, Finance, Accounting, Business Administration or related field.
• 3+ years of experience in multinational companies or Shared Services.
• Experience in business process design, transformation, system implementation or continuous-improvement projects is required.

Responsibilities

• Analyze and document current-state and target-state processes for Transfer Pricing, Withholding Tax and Intercompany transactions; identify gaps and risks.
• Contribute to tax design decisions and template deployment; assess country-specific requirements for global/global regional/local solutions.
• Translate business and tax requirements into clear process specifications, functional requirements, data needs and test scenarios.
• Support standardized processes for Intercompany invoicing and settlement, tax determination, withholding-tax handling, tax reporting and related master data.
• Coordinate fit-gap analysis, solution validation, testing, defect resolution and deployment readiness; report progress to the owner.
• Maintain process governance, controls, roles, escalation paths, and design records; develop work instructions and process docs.

Skills

Transfer Pricing

Withholding Tax

Intercompany processes

SAP S/4HANA

Project management

Stakeholder management

Analytical skills

English fluency

Education

Bachelor's degree in Tax/Finance/Accounting/Business Administration

Tools

SAP S/4HANA

Job description

Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany is seeking a Business Process Expert for Transfer Pricing and Withholding Tax within the Life Science ERP Program. You will help design, harmonize and deploy tax and intercompany processes across Tax, Finance and IT as part of the SAP S/4HANA template rollout.

You will collaborate with stakeholders across functions and regions, support go‑live activities, testing and post‑go‑live improvements, and drive scalable, compliant solutions worldwide.