Taxera Technologies

Founder @ Taxera Technologies 

inopsia

Founder

Bacardi

Responsible for the strategic direction and management of IT Finance globally, overseeing major transformational initiatives. Highlights include developing and implementing five-year global process simplification programme; deployment of new end-to-end consolidation and reporting platform; leading Tax and Statutory reporting transformation across 65 countries ; and spearheading digital government programme to ensure full compliance with changing reporting requirements by governments globally.

Director Global IT Finance and Enterprise Architecture

Novartis

Managed ERP and LIMS domains globally for 5B USD over-the-counter (OTC) division of multi-national pharmaceutical company, serving 155 countries. Led initiatives to significantly improve operational KPIs and reduce system downtime, improving quality, time-to-market and cost by 50%. Stabilised off-shore model to generate better value through team member retention. Recognised by SAP AG for designing innovative customer management solution that captures real-time information at points-of-sale to communicate and track immediate solutions for customers.

Global Head of ERP

Orange Communications SA

Obtained executive support and led end-to-end business transformation for Swiss telecommunications provider, enabled by SAP, encompassing sales and distribution, finance, and points-of-sale. Responsible for vendor selection, and major regineering and innovation of business processes in Finance, Commercial, Ecommerce, Logistics, HR, and Procurement. Designed and implemented SAP-enabled trading structure that resulted in savings of 100M CHF over a ten-year period.

Transformation Programme Manager

Systems and People

Provided counsel to tier one client base of Australian based IT services provider, including BHP Billiton, OI, NAB and Unisys . Managed market implementation of major global systems roll-outs, supporting with enterprise level technical architecture, solution definition, project management and technical team management

Senior Principal Consultant

Fujitsu Global

Senior SAP transformation partner specialising in SAP ERP and BI , working with clients including Roche Pharmaceuticals, Reliant Energy, Barclays Bank , Royal Mail and Rhodia Chemicals .

Transformation Program Manager

Procter & Gamble

Financial Controller

With over 20 years of experience in finance and IT, founder of Taxera Technologies, a global cloud tax platform that aims to create the #1 tax technology solution for multinational organizations around the world.

Throughout my career, I have led complex and strategic initiatives across various industries, such as FMCG, pharmaceutical, automotive, and telecommunications, to simplify and optimize business and tax processes, ensure compliance with changing reporting requirements, and leverage digital capabilities. Some of my highlights include developing and implementing a five-year global process simplification programme at Bacardi, deploying a new end-to-end consolidation and reporting platform at Novartis, and spearheading a tax transformation programme at Bacardi. I have also founded inopsia, a web3.js development company, to explore the potential of blockchain and smart contracts for business applications.

As an entrepreneur and a leader, I am driven by the vision of transforming the tax landscape with innovative and scalable cloud technology, while empowering and enabling businesses to achieve their goals. I am also committed to collaborating and partnering with stakeholders, customers, and teams, to deliver value and excellence in every project. At Taxera Technologies, I am proud to lead a talented and diverse team of experts, who share my mission and passion for tax innovation.

Paul Antunes

#AI in #Tax #Finance and #IT  — Progress, Pressure & Perspective

There’s something fascinating about how quickly AI has gone from “future trend” to “daily reality.”

In just a year, I’ve seen tax, finance, and IT teams move from cautious curiosity to active experimentation.

Small pilots. Process automations. AI tools for data validation or report drafting.
The momentum is real — and it’s not slowing down.

But with that progress comes a quiet pressure.

AI promises efficiency, yet it introduces new questions:
❓ Who owns the outputs?
❓ How do we explain decisions made by algorithms?
❓ Where’s the line between human oversight and machine intelligence?

In tax, AI is helping to clean and reconcile data faster than ever.

In IT, it’s reshaping architecture conversations — about data pipelines, security, and trust.
And in finance, it’s helping teams forecast, model, and plan in ways that once took days.

Still, every gain brings a responsibility.
We can automate, but we can’t abdicate.
AI can assist, but it can’t be accountable.

The companies who seem to be doing the best aren’t the ones rushing to “AI everything.”

They’re the ones building frameworks, not just workflows. ✅ 

They’re asking hard questions early — about data lineage, control, and ethics — before the tech is embedded too deep to change.

Because the real opportunity isn’t in using AI faster.
It’s in using it wiser.

That’s what separates transformation from turbulence.

#Innovation #Automation #DataEthics #DigitalTransformation #MachineLearning #FutureOfWork #ResponsibleAI #TechTrends #BusinessIntelligence #sap #taxtechnology #taxplatforms #s4hana Taxera Technologies

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Last week I spent a lot of time in conversations with organisations preparing for — or already deep into — their #SAP #S4HANA transformations. And something struck me that I can’t quite shake.

Across industries, leaders are fully aware of how fast the world is moving.

They see the #regulatory shifts, the rise of real-time data requirements, and the increasing sophistication of tax authorities. (Just this week, #ANAF in Romania openly discussed how they’re consolidating and cross-checking data at a scale we haven’t seen before, with audits for 500 large companies announced)

Yet many transformation programs are still focusing almost exclusively on the narrow questions:

“Do you cover this localisation?”
“Do you have tax determination?”
“Can you plug into our existing workflow?”

Important questions — of course. But they’re not the whole story.

What surprised me is how few teams are stepping back to consider the bigger picture:

❓️What will we need 12 months from now? 24 months? Five years?

How will we handle a world where tax authorities don’t just collect data — they connect it?
Where cross-checking is the norm, not the exception?
Where Excel simply won’t keep up?

The #tax authorities are already thinking this way. But in many transformation programs, the tax function still isn’t. Or they are being asked to do this with less than 1% of the overall programme budget.

Too many decisions are being made based on today’s pain points rather than tomorrow’s realities. Too many local or non-scalable solutions are being implemented into programs meant to last a decade.

The biggest shift we’re experiencing isn’t just e-invoicing, or even continuous transaction controls. It’s the data shift: the ability — and expectation — to reconcile, validate, and tell a coherent story across every touchpoint all the way from #vat into #tp and beyond.

And S/4 transformations are a rare moment where organisations can set themselves up to handle that shift gracefully… or end up revisiting the same questions sooner than they think.

My takeaway this week?

The companies that look beyond the immediate checklist — the ones whose tax, finance, and IT teams are thinking in years, not quarters — are the ones preparing not just for compliance… but for resilience.

Tax authorities will be present in every step of your daily operations, not at only month end. 

Are you getting ready for that level of scrutiny? 

If you’re in the middle of an S/4 journey, I’d love to hear: how far into the future are you planning for your tax capabilities?

#SAP #S4HANA #SAPTransformation #DigitalTransformation #TaxTechnology #TaxCompliance #IndirectTax #EInvoicing #CTC #RealTimeReporting #GlobalTax #FinanceTransformation #ERP #SAPFinance #S4Migration #FutureOfTax #TaxData #DataTransformation #TaxInnovation #romania

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