With over 20 years of experience at the intersection of finance, IT, and tax compliance, I’m passionate about transforming how global organizations manage tax and regulatory complexity through technology.

As the Founder of Taxera Technologies, I lead a global team building a cutting-edge cloud tax platform designed to be the world’s leading tax technology solution — empowering multinational businesses to simplify compliance, enhance transparency, and drive operational efficiency.

Throughout my career, I’ve led complex, cross-industry transformations across FMCG, pharmaceutical, automotive, and telecommunications sectors — optimizing business and tax processes, ensuring alignment with evolving reporting standards, and leveraging digital capabilities to scale impact.

As both an entrepreneur and leader, I’m driven by a vision to reshape the tax landscape through innovation, compliance excellence, and collaboration. At Taxera, I’m proud to lead a talented and diverse team of professionals who share my mission — to make tax technology smarter, simpler, and more human.

Paul Antunes

Bacardi

Global Enterprise Architect Lead

 Senior Manager, IT Programs, SAP Development & SAP Commerce Cloud architect

Jumping in the new Digital Factory initiative, acting as enterprise architecture for all technologies, and providing best-in-class advice for SAP related activities. 
Owning some of the tools, such as the MAM solution (Appaloosa).

Upskill of the 'old' ABAP development team to SAP development team, to include all new technologies (Fiori, UI5, oData, XS) and expanding domains to low-code platform, beginning with Microsoft PowerApps.

Co-owner of SAP SCP for all the areas directly related with development: web IDE, transport strategy, theme editor, portals...

IT Manager - SAP Development, Digital Factory and Enterprise Architecture

Part of the internal team designing the strategy of moving into HANA, starting by Suite on HANA with target of S/4, but slow due to product's current status.

Project manager of the migration of current ECC system to Suite on HANA. Team of 10 people and big consultancy firm as partner for the technical piece.

Part (passive) of the Agile coalition, driving the company to agile methodologies in all technologies, with great target of moving also SAP, as new web approach will clearly need it.

Manager, IT Programs, Application Development - Global IT PMO 

Define ABAP standards, quality policies and good practices of development 
Control internal & external development teams: nearshore, onshore and offshore.

Use all the standard SAP tools available to control the quality and the quantity of code: CDMC, CCLM, SQL Monitor, UPL.
Big exposure to SAP Solution Manager 7.1 for the usage and configuration of this tools, sometimes self-trained and sometimes with the participation of SAP experts.

Great exposure to the testing world, using HP ALM as main tool, and very junior in the test management area.

Creation of dashboards and KPIs to inform all IT Community and Top management about system situation: performance problems, usage rates, custom code health.

Hands-on participation in critical projects for the company, and by helping specific areas especially in the performance aspects (parallel processing, regular ABAP and SQL traces, redefinition of processes -many times with reverse engineering...-).


Project Manager in the SAP Upgrade Project (EHP) following the full PPM methodology, being also the technical lead of it, becoming after a PM Menthor for other technology projects.

Associate Manager, IT Programs, Application Development - Global IT PMO

Ziran IT Business Consulting

Responsable del área de desarrollo SAP durante 3 años, hasta que la situación personal me forzó a dejarlo. Coordinación de recursos, formación interna y externa. 
Consultoría avanzada en ABAP: ABAP clásico, sapscript, smartforms, adobe forms, bsp, webdynpro, webservices...
En FI, BW, HR...

Consultor Senior ABAP (FI, HR, BW) - BSP -WEB Technologies

Responsable del área de desarrollo SAP durante 3 años, hasta que la situación personal me forzó a dejarlo. Coordinación de recursos, formación interna y externa. 
Consultoría avanzada en ABAP: ABAP clásico, sapscript, smartforms, adobe forms, bsp, webdynpro, webservices...

Responsable del área de desarrollo

CCS (Centro de Cálculo de Sabadell)

Consultor técnico SAP, especialista en desarrollo web y BSP. Area de FI y de BC. 
Implantación y mejora del IS-U: Simhotel

Consultor SAP Senior - área de programación

INSA

Consultor senior en el área de desarrollo SAP, con especialidad en conexiones "hacia  y hasta" SAP desde sistemas externos: idocs, extranets, intranets, RFC, etc.

Consultor Senior de Desarrollo

Camper

Programación ABAP, enlace del sistema SAP con otros desarrollos que también hacía yo en Visual Basic 5.0, 6.0 y .NET, y en Clipper/Cobol.

Programador SAP

Rafael Llabres is a developer and a team lead, willing to share his experience with others, and although he really loves programming in any environment, where he most feels comfortable is in SAP.
In the 90's he started his career in the Oracle world, but soon he changed to Camper, where he discovered the good old fashioned AS/400 and COBOL, and there he had his first experience with SAP version 3.1I! That was a great school where he could develop his talent as a junior expert connecting SAP to any technology: Clipper, Visual Basic and even .NET.
Rafael decided then to leave the comfortably of the final client and follow the exciting SAP technology. He changed to the consultancy world, IBM/INSA, where he acquired seniority and began to lead small teams.
SAP was improving hard, so he changed to CCS and collaborated with SAP developing the hospitality solution under the new web paradigm: the brand new Business Server Pages.
That led him to Ziran IT, a newly Mallorca local consultancy firm, where he again followed technology. He had been exposed to FI, MM, SD, FICO, WM, PP, and now he had in front BW and HR. In parallel, Rafael's curiosity made him self-learn and apply to the customers of Ziran all kind of web technologies: PHP, JSP, Javascript (Sencha).However, the most important piece of that time is that Rafael learnt on people management, as he was the responsible of the development area, the people and their careers.
And then Bacardi entered in his life,  with the challenge of moving to the PMO area, out of his area of comfort, a place where to use his experience to design strategies, low hands-on but strong mentoring, and the big challenge of project management.
However, the company started the journey to HANA, and so he's been in contact with all this new exciting universe SAP is opening and all those new acronims: SOH, SCP, HTML5, Fiori, OData....
Rafael is a global citizen, willing to work across multiple cultures, waiting for a challenging opportunity.

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