Senior Manager — SAP Finance Solution Architect (RTR & Global Tax Compliance)

Xylem is a Fortune 500 global water solutions company dedicated to advancing sustainable impact and empowering the people who make water work every day. As a leading water technology company with 23,000 employees operating in over 150 countries, Xylem is at the forefront of addressing the world's most critical water challenges. We invite passionate individuals to join our team, dedicated to exceeding customer expectations through innovative and sustainable solutions.

This role owns the design and governance of Record-to-Report processes, financial controls, consolidation, statutory reporting, and global tax compliance capabilities. The position ensures financial transactions are accurately recorded, reported, and aligned with regulatory requirements across all jurisdictions. As a key steward of financial integrity within the digital core, the role enables transparent and reliable financial reporting. The leader supports transformation efforts by standardizing finance processes while balancing local compliance requirements. Their expertise is essential for protecting the company's financial governance framework and ensuring business confidence in financial data.

Record-to-report solution architecture

● Own the end-to-end RTR design across the S/4HANA global template: Universal Journal, General Ledger,

Asset Accounting, Controlling, Product Costing, Profitability Analysis, Intercompany, and Consolidation.

● Own the global enterprise structure and finance master data design — chart of accounts, company codes,

ledgers, controlling areas, profit and cost center hierarchies, and reporting dimensions — with the discipline to

keep it stable as segments and acquisitions are added.

● Design the financial close: period-end architecture, close task orchestration, intercompany reconciliation and

elimination, foreign currency valuation, allocations, and close cycle time optimization.

● Own parallel accounting design across group and local GAAP requirements — ledger strategy, valuation

approaches, and the treatment of statutory differences.

● Design product costing and margin analysis for a manufacturing and engineered-products environment,

including standard costing, variance analysis, WIP, and service and project cost flows.

● Ensure finance design integrity across integration points — order-to-cash, source-to-pay, plan-to-manufacture,

and project systems all post to your ledger, and the design has to hold at every one of those seams.

Global tax and statutory compliance

● Own the global tax architecture across indirect tax (VAT, GST, sales and use), withholding tax, and the tax

determination logic embedded in transactional processes.

● Design and govern integration with tax engines and e-invoicing and e-reporting platforms, including country

mandates for real-time and near-real-time reporting

Own statutory and legal reporting design per country — local ledgers, statutory chart requirements, document

numbering, audit file formats, and regulatory submissions.

● Maintain the localization roadmap across deployment waves, tracking mandate changes and ensuring the

template absorbs them without fracturing.

● Partner with corporate tax, transfer pricing, and treasury on design decisions with financial and compliance

consequence, and translate their requirements into system design rather than accepting them as configuration

requests.

● Ensure finance controls and SOX requirements are designed in, working with the GRC architect so control

evidence is produced by the system.

Template governance and delivery

● Act as the design authority for finance: approve or reject template deviations, hold the standardization line, and

escalate rather than absorb when a segment pushes for local variation without statutory basis.

● Lead fit-to-standard workshops with global process owners and segment finance leadership, and drive process

harmonization decisions to closure.

● Support deployment waves through localization design, testing strategy, cutover finance validation, opening

balance verification, and hypercare defect resolution.

● Partner with the Data Migration and MDG leads on finance data — GL balances, open AR and AP, fixed

assets, and cost object conversion — where accuracy is audited, not merely tested.

● Lead a team of finance functional architects and consultants, and hold system integrator delivery accountable

for finance design quality.

Qualifications

Required

● 15+ years in SAP finance, with at least 8 years in S/4HANA Finance and 5+ years as a solution architect on

global programs.

● Deep expertise across S/4HANA Finance: Universal Journal, GL, Asset Accounting, Controlling, product

costing, margin analysis, and Group Reporting or consolidation.

● Proven RTR solution ownership on at least two global S/4HANA implementations, including multi-country,

multi-ledger, multi-currency design.

● Strong global tax and statutory compliance background — indirect tax determination, withholding tax,

localization, and e-invoicing mandates across multiple regions.

● Demonstrated experience integrating an external tax engine (Vertex, OneSource, Avalara, or equivalent) and

e-invoicing platforms.

● Accounting foundation — CA, CPA, MBA Finance, or equivalent — sufficient to hold a substantive

conversation with a controller, not only with a consultant.

● Track record of defending a global finance template against local pressure, with the judgment to distinguish

genuine statutory requirement from preference.

● Experience with financial close optimization and measurable close cycle reduction.

Preferred

● SAP Group Reporting, Central Finance, or BPC consolidation experience.

● SAP Analytics Cloud or Datasphere for financial planning and reporting.

● Treasury, in-house cash, or bank communication management.

● Project System and service cost accounting for an installed-base and aftermarket business.

● Manufacturing and engineered-products costing complexity: variant configuration, make-to-order, and

long-cycle projects.

● Experience integrating acquisitions into a common finance template and chart of accounts.

Success in the First 12 Months

A stable, documented finance template with an explicit and defended boundary between global standard and

statutory local requirement. A localization roadmap covering upcoming waves and known mandate changes.

Close cycle time baselined and improving in deployed entities. Finance controls designed in and evidenced

automatically. Clean opening balances and audited conversion results in every wave. And finance design

decisions made with speed and finality, so the program stops relitigating them.

Operating Principles You Will Work Under

● Products, not projects. Persistent teams aligned to value streams, funded by capacity rather than project

cycles, each paired with a business process owner accountable for the outcome.

● Clean core is non-negotiable. Extensions live on BTP, the core stays standard, and custom code is

governed at the point of creation.

● Paved road, not toll booth. Golden paths, reference architectures, and reusable patterns, with guardrails

enforced in the pipeline rather than in a design authority meeting.

● Compliance by default. Controls are designed into the platform and evidenced automatically, so control

integrity holds at deployment scale.

● Accountable for value, not volume. Success is measured in business process KPIs, adoption, and realized

value, not tickets closed or hours delivered.

● Intelligent enterprise by design. AI and agent enablement, and the data readiness that makes both credible,

are owned capabilities.

● Global template authority, local execution. Template integrity is held centrally through the current

deployment horizon, with a defined path to greater product-team autonomy.

Join the global Xylem team to be a part of innovative technology solutions transforming water usage, conservation, and re-use. Our products impact public