Headquartered in Southern California, Skechers has spent 30 years helping men, women and kids everywhere look and feel good. Developing comfort technologies is at the foundation of all that we do—delivering stylish, innovative, and quality products at a reasonable price. From our diverse footwear offering to a growing range of apparel and accessories, Skechers is a complete lifestyle brand.

With international business representing over half of our total sales, we have product available in more than 180 countries and significant opportunities for continued expansion worldwide. We sell our collections direct to consumers through more than 4,450 Skechers stores around the globe and Skechers e-commerce sites, as well as through a network of third-party partners.

A MULTI-BILLION-DOLLAR GLOBAL LEADER IN THE FOOTWEAR INDUSTRY.

Skechers is a globally growing footwear, apparel, and accessories company where you will see your work have an immediate impact from day one.  Our applications analyst team is focused on maintaining existing applications and modernizing our tech stack to support the constant growth and daily needs of the Skechers business. Our team culture values innovative thinking, diversity, creativity, listening and working collaboratively with all team members.

We are seeking a Tax Technology Product Manager to help implement and support our tax and e-invoicing technology solutions as we modernize our wholesale, e-commerce and retail operations globally.  You will partner with Skechers business stakeholders to implement configuration changes, ensure compliance with government-specific requirements, manage data mappings, work with vendors and oversee integrations into upstream/downstream systems.  

Skechers leverages Thomas Reuters ONESOURCE for taxes and Edicom as our e-invoicing platform. While system-specific knowledge is not required, a background in tax technology or e-invoicing systems is required. Candidates w/ a CPA, tax law degree or experience working at tax technology software vendors are strongly preferred.

ESSENTIAL JOB RESULTS-

• Work with Finance and Tax teams to identify Skechers’ technology needs to support our business in a rapidly changing external tax regulatory landscape
• Collaborate with Finance and Tax teams to ensure tax systems reflect current regulatory requirements and audit results
• Help lead the implementation, maintenance, and documentation of our tax and e-invoicing applications 
• Engage on tax and e-invoicing integration projects with varying degrees of complexity and business criticality partnering closely with tax and non-tax business partners (Finance, ERP, Order Management Systems, POS, etc).
• Provide data for auditors and various stakeholders
• Demonstrate an understanding of sales tax concepts and effectively apply knowledge to develop and maintain tax and e-invoicing systems and data flow
• Identify opportunities for process improvements, automation, efficiency gains and application of tax process and technology best practices by using new and existing technologies
• Create E2E workflow process diagrams, wireframes, mapping documents, functional specifications, ERDs, use cases, user stories and logical data models
• Create data mappings and document specifications to support integrations with internal and external systems like Thomson Reuters, Edicom, Manhattan Active Omni (MAO), Boomi, ERP, Oracle Cloud Financials, etc.
• Gather and analyze specific payload examples where issue occurred
• Publish and consume APIs for integrations with third parties using Postman or similar tools
• Use JIRA/Confluence to document integration requirements, workflow processes, issues, meeting notes and test cases
• Other duties as assigned

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES-

• Yes

JOB REQUIREMENTS-

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field.  Equivalent experience is acceptable.
• 7+ years of work experience in tax or e-invoicing technology
• Experience in Tax applications (such as ONESOURCE, Vertex, or Avalara) or E-Invoicing applications
• Experience in Product Mapping (Harmonized and Non-Harmonized Tax Codes) for various countries, preferred
• Experience supporting full Agile and Waterfall software development lifecycles (including understanding business processes, gathering user requirements, design, testing, deployment and training)
• Knowledge and hands-on creation of key artifacts including use cases, user stories, workflows, ERD, user acceptance criteria, configuration stories, business/functional/technical specifications, timelines, roadmaps, Gantt charts and presentations.
• Experience in triaging application issues for multiple systems
• Experience with API and Integrations, preferred
• Must have ability to communicate, motivate and organize projects throughout the company
• Advanced analytical capability
• Advanced written, verbal and interpersonal skills
• SQL knowledge and experience, preferred
• Advanced experience in Jira, Confluence, Excel, Alteryx, preferred

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.  The skills, abilities and physical demands described are representative of those duties that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities, who are otherwise qualified for the job position, to perform the essential functions.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Pay range for this position is $100,000 - $167,000 per year.