SAP Specialist

Description

Summary: The SAP Specialist– Tax & Finance translates complex finance and tax requirements into functional SAP specifications, ensuring correct implementation and compliance with Colombian regulations. Highlights: 1. Critical bridge between business stakeholders and technical development teams 2. Focus on Colombian tax regulations and local fiscal compliance within SAP 3. Support, optimize, and evolve end-to-end processes within the SAP ecosystem ### **Description** The SAP Specialist– Tax \& Finance serves as the critical bridge between business stakeholders and technical development teams, translating complex finance and tax requirements into functional SAP specifications and ensuring their correct implementation. This role carries a strong emphasis on Colombian tax regulations and local fiscal compliance, including electronic invoicing (facturación electrónica), DIAN requirements, withholding taxes (retención en la fuente), industry and commerce taxes (ICA), and VAT (IVA) management within SAP. The analyst will work closely with Finance, Tax, Commercial, and IT teams to support, optimize, and evolve end\-to\-end processes within the SAP ecosystem, ensuring that system configurations accurately reflect both business needs and regulatory obligations.### **In this role, you will…** * Act as the point of contact between Finance, Tax, Commercial teams, and SAP/IT, translating business needs into functional specifications. * Conduct workshops and interviews with business stakeholders to gather, document, and validate requirements for tax and finance processes. * Prepare Functional Design Documents (FDDs), process flow diagrams and gap analyses to support system enhancements, rollouts, and regulatory changes. * Advise on SAP best practices aligned with business goals and Colombian legal requirements. * Configure and maintain SAP FI/SD/MM modules with a focus on tax\-relevant settings, including tax codes and condition types, pricing, account determination, master data, withholding tax, FI integration, VAT (IVA), and ICA. * Support the implementation and continuous improvement of electronic invoicing in compliance with DIAN regulations (UBL 2\.1 and applicable updates). * Manage SAP billing and invoicing configurations to ensure fiscal documents meet Colombian legal standards. * Support rebate, consignment, and returns processes from a tax and billing perspective. * Lead or support User Acceptance Testing (UAT) activities including test planning, scenario design, defect tracking, and sign\-off coordination. * Monitor changes in Colombian tax legislation and DIAN regulations, assessing their impact on SAP configurations and business processes. * Ensure compliance with DIAN, SARLAFT, withholding certificates generation, and exógena reporting. * Collaborate with external auditors and internal audit teams to support fiscal reviews and regulatory audits. * Manage SAP incidents via ITSM tools (e.g., ServiceNow, JIRA) ensuring SLA adherence. * Analyze root causes of recurring issues and implement solutions to prevent recurrence. * Track KPIs for billing accuracy, tax compliance, and efficiency, reporting the results with actionable improvement plans. * Identify and lead continuous improvement initiatives that optimize O2C and finance processes, reducing manual effort and error rates. * Develop and maintain comprehensive functional documentation such as SOPs, guides, test scripts etc. * Train end users and super users on SAP tax and finance processes, ensuring understanding of compliance requirements and system usage. ### **For this role, you'll need...** * Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field. * Proficiency in ServiceNow, JIRA, Salesforce, or Zendesk for incident and project management. * Availability to travel for project rollouts or client\-site activities within LATAM. * Proficiency in Spanish and English, required for collaboration with global teams and documentation. * Minimum 4\-6 years of hands\-on experience as an SAP Functional Analyst or SAP SD/FI Consultant, with demonstrated focus on tax and finance processes. * Deep knowledge of SAP SD (pricing, billing, rebates, consignment, returns, customer master data). * Strong understanding of SAP FI integration with SD and MM (account determination, tax postings, document flow). * Proven experience configuring tax codes, withholding taxes, and condition types in SAP. * Hands\-on experience with SAP electronic invoicing implementation and validation (DIAN compliance). * Deep understanding of the Colombian tax framework: IVA, retención en la fuente, ICA, timbre, and exógena reporting. * Familiarity with DIAN regulatory requirements, UBL electronic invoice standards, and fiscal document management. * Knowledge of SARLAFT compliance controls is a plus. * Experience with SAP S/4HANA implementations or migrations, particularly in LATAM rollouts. * Certifications in SAP SD or SAP FI, PMP, or Six Sigma (Green/Black Belt). * Knowledge of additional LATAM tax regulations (e.g., Chile, Mexico, Brazil) is a plus. * Familiarity with Salesforce CRM for commercial process integration with SAP. ### **About Align Technology** **Your growth and well\-being:** At Align, every smile matters. We’re committed to helping you thrive by supporting the health, growth, and well\-being of our team members through a variety of tools and programs. While specific offerings may vary by location and role, Align employees can typically expect:* Health and well\-being programs to keep you thriving in both body and mind. * Employee\-exclusive discounts on Invisalign products. * Learning opportunities through online learning resources and support for your individual development plans. * Inclusive, global workplace that fosters collaboration, recognition and belonging. Country and/or role specific details will be shared with you by your recruiter during the interview process. **Discover Align:** We are a global community of game\-changers and smart team players, united by our belief in the power of a smile. Our dynamic team of exceptional employees is dedicated to transforming the industry and creating extraordinary outcomes every day. Align’s core values of agility, customer, and accountability are more than words to work by, they are words we live by. The actions we take every day speak to who we are as a company and our focus on being truly impactful. We celebrate our differences, and the many ways we support one another— ultimately creating a more inclusive organization and world as we continue transforming smiles and changing lives. We foster a culture where thinking differently and seeking new experiences are not just encouraged but celebrated. With the Align Mindset, we empower each other, ensuring every voice is heard and valued in an inclusive environment that inspires creativity and collaboration. At Align, we believe in the power of a smile, and we know that every smile is as unique as our employees. As we grow, we are committed to building a workforce rich in diverse cultural backgrounds and life experiences, fostering a culture of open\-mindedness and compassion. We live our company values by promoting healthy people and healthy communities, all with the intent of changing millions of lives, one unique smile at a time. As part of our commitment to innovation, Align Technology includes exocad and Cubicure, companies that enhance our offerings and extend our impact to industry transformation. Eager to learn how we embrace our global differences and nurture employee well\-being? **Explore Align's culture here!** Want to discover more about **exocad** and **Cubicure**? Click on their names for additional information. **Applicant Privacy Policy:** Review our **Applicant Privacy Policy** for additional information. **Equal Opportunity Statement:** Align Technology is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities in all our practices, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, marital status, protected veteran status, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other legally protected category. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the country for which they are applying, and employment eligibility will be verified as a condition of hire.