TMF Group

Global corporate administration: accounting, payroll, HR

Accounting & Tax Technology Director

Enterprise ApplicationsUpdated on Nov 3

Full-timeNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

Proven experience defining and owning enterprise-scale technology roadmaps aligned to commercial objectives, including revenue growth, margin improvement, and delivery consistency.
Broad experience across multiple Accounting and Tax pillars.
Strong leadership capability overseeing product managers and cross-functional teams, including solution selection, implementation, and system integration.
Demonstrated success driving artificial intelligence and automation initiatives across business service lines at scale.
Ability to drive adoption and effective usage of technology solutions across diverse stakeholder groups.
Experience representing business requirements in the development of client-facing digital platforms.
Expertise in solution sourcing, including build-versus-buy decisions, vendor selection, contractual negotiations, and ongoing vendor management.
Solid understanding of application architecture, integration, and governance, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and requirements.
Proven track record in application estate rationalization and consolidation, delivering value for money and reducing duplication.
Experience acting as a central governance and control point for technology decision-making across regions or business units.
Ability to maintain and govern country-level application landscapes, providing transparency across in-house and subcontracted delivery models.
Strong understanding of balancing global standardization with local compliance and operational needs.
Experience driving process optimization and increased automation.
Experience providing oversight and assurance of major technology programs, including scope, budget, planning, and outcome delivery.

Responsibilities

Develop a forward-looking, competitive Accounting and Tax technology roadmap that accounts for market and technology trends and supports revenue growth, improved margins, consistent delivery outcomes, and new go-to-market offerings.
Oversee Accounting and Tax product managers in selecting, implementing, and integrating technology solutions that meet business and client needs.
Drive artificial intelligence and automation implementation across Accounting and Tax service lines.
Drive consistent adoption and effective use of Accounting and Tax solutions across the business.
Represent Accounting and Tax requirements in developing the client portal strategy.
Oversee solution selection exercises, contractual negotiations, and ongoing vendor management.
Ensure compatibility and integration across Accounting and Tax applications and adherence to Technology and Digital Architecture requirements.
Rationalize and consolidate the Accounting and Tax application estate, ensuring value-for-money solution selection.
Act as a control point for technology solution selection within the Accounting and Tax community, reducing duplicate functionality across solutions and countries.
Maintain country-level Accounting and Tax application landscapes to provide a unified view of technology setups across countries and locations serviced by TMF and subcontractors.
Support countries in designing solution estates that meet local compliance and operational requirements while minimizing complexity.
Drive continuous process improvement and increased automation.
Oversee and assure major Accounting and Tax technology programs, ensuring scope, budget, and plans are managed and specified outcomes are delivered.

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About TMF Group

TMF Group is a leading provider of employee, financial and legal administration services, helping clients invest and operate safely around the world. Our 11k+ experts in 125+ offices across 87 jurisdictions worldwide serve corporates, financial institutions, asset managers, private clients and family offices, providing the combination of accounting, tax, payroll, fund administration, compliance and entity management services essential to global business success.

Discover the Role

Lead the evolution of TMF’s global Accounting & Tax technology landscape by defining and driving a forward-looking technology strategy that delivers a scalable, compliant, and cost-effective ecosystem. This senior role oversees A&T platforms, AI and automation adoption, and application governance, acting as a central control point to standardize solutions, drive integration and user adoption, and ensure value-for-money technology investments. Working across countries and service lines, the role enables growth, operational efficiency, consistent service delivery, and the development of innovative go-to-market offerings while balancing global standards with local regulatory and operational requirements.

Key Responsibilities

Develop a forward-looking, competitive A&T technology roadmap, allowing for market and technology trends. The roadmap should support increased revenue, improved margin, consistent delivery outcomes and the launch of new go-to-market offerings
Oversee the A&T product managers in the selection, implementation and integration of a suite of technology solutions that meet the needs A&T and its clients
Drive the implementation of AI and automation across the A&T service lines
Drive the consistent adoption and good usage of A&T solutions by the business
Represent A&T requirements in the development of the TMF Client Portal Strategy
Oversee solution selection exercises, contractual negotiations and ongoing vendor management
Ensure compatibility and integration across A&T applications and adherence to TDA requirements
Rationalise and consolidate A&T application estate, ensuring value for money solution selection
Act as a control point within the A&T community in technology solution selection, reducing duplicative functionality across solutions and countries
Maintain country-level A&T application landscapes, allowing a singular view of the technology setup by country. This will apply in countries and locations serviced by both TMF and its Subcontractors
Support the countries in the design of a solution estate that meets local compliance and operational requirements whilst minimising complexity
Drive initiatives for continuous process improvement and increased automation.
Provide oversight to and assure major A&T technology programmes, ensuring programmes define and manage scope, budget, plan and deliver specified outcomes

Key Requirements

Proven experience defining and owning enterprise‑scale technology roadmaps aligned to commercial objectives (revenue growth, margin improvement, delivery consistency)
Broad experience across multiple Accounting & Tax pillars
Strong leadership capability overseeing product managers and cross‑functional teams, including solution selection, implementation, and system integration
Demonstrated success driving AI and automation initiatives across business service lines at scale
Ability to drive adoption and effective usage of technology solutions across diverse stakeholder groups
Experience representing business requirements in the development of client‑facing digital platforms
Expertise in solution sourcing (build vs buy), vendor selection, contractual negotiations, and ongoing vendor management
Solid understanding of application architecture, integration, and governance, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and requirements
Proven track record in application estate rationalisation and consolidation, delivering value for money and reducing duplication
Experience acting as a central governance and control point for technology decision‑making across regions or business units
Ability to maintain and govern country‑level application landscapes, providing transparency across in‑house and subcontracted delivery models
Strong understanding of balancing global standardisation with local compliance and operational needs
Continuous improvement mindset, with experience driving process optimisation and increased automation
Experience providing oversight and assurance of major technology programmes, including scope, budget, planning, and outcome delivery

What’s in it for you?

Pathways for career development

Work with colleagues and clients around the world on interesting and challenging work.
We provide internal career opportunities, so you can take your career further within TMF.
Continuous development is supported through global learning opportunities from the TMF Business Academy.

Making an impact

You’ll be helping us to make the world a simpler place to do business for our clients.
Through our corporate social responsibility program, you’ll also be making a difference in the communities where we work.

A supportive environment

Strong feedback culture to help build an engaging workplace.
Our inclusive work environment allows you to work from our offices around the world, as well as from home, helping you find the right work-life balance to perform at your best.

We’re looking forward to getting to know you!

About the Company

TMF Group

Global corporate administration: accounting, payroll, HR

TMF Group provides outsourced administrative services for multinational companies, including accounting, tax, HR, payroll, and corporate secretarial duties. Its product works through a global network of offices in over 80 jurisdictions, delivering back-office, compliance, and regulatory tasks to help companies operate across borders. The company differentiates itself by its large international footprint, breadth of services, and long track record of growth through acquisitions, creating a one-stop back-office partner for global businesses. TMF Group’s goal is to support clients in running compliant, efficient operations worldwide by acting as their behind-the-scenes administrative backbone.

Company size: 10,001+
Company stage: Not listed
Total funding: Not listed
Headquarters: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Founded: 1988

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