Across European businesses the challenge of accurately calculating VAT on every transaction across your organisation has never been bigger due to the increasing complexity, regulatory requirements and risk associated with VAT. If your ERP system cannot accurately determine the VAT treatment, you can’t issue an invoice which can impact sales, your cashflow as well as customer relationships.

Fortunately, SAP run businesses have an advantage. For companies with more simplified operations, SAP’s VAT function will meet their needs, however, for companies with more complex operations and/or growing, VAT complexity increases and an integrated tax solution providing expanded automation, reporting and remittance capabilities, enable businesses to meet the challenges head on.

Join our interactive panel of Indirect Tax experts as they discuss how to effectively:

  • Navigate cross-border VAT complexity

  • Manage multi-party transactions

  • Handle complex exception rules

  • Get on top of real time VAT reporting

  • Stay up to date with legislative requirements and changes

  • Integrate tax technology within your SAP S/4HANA migration

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Corporate Panelists

Joyce Edgar, Senior Director, Global Indirect Tax, NewsCorp / Dow Jones & Company

Joyce has been initially with Dow Jones and now NewsCorp for 8 years.  She was previously the in-house indirect tax director for an oil and gas company, and prior that spent 5 years with EY as and Indirect Tax consultant and 13 years with HMRC, 6 as a VAT officer.  Dow Jones implemented SAP S/4 HANA in 2019 and is still working through issues to make it more user friendly.

Jerome Cacace, Tax Technology & Systems Manager, Ford Motor Company

Jerome has spent 22 years with Ford Motor Company of which 15 years as Tax Technology Manager. Previously, he spent 10 years as managing director of a reprographics company in central London catering to marketing, design and architectural practices. He also served 4 years as the CEO of the British Baltic Chamber of Commerce. He is a graduate member of the Institute of Export with an MSc in Computer Science.

Erik Bouman, Tax Technology Advisor, IKEA

Erik Bouman is tax technology advisor at IKEA, supporting 36 countries with tax technology. He is working on automating and improving indirect tax problems and projects with a small dedicated team. He was previously tax technology counsel at LyondellBasell. He has previous experience as an SAP consultant.

Ingeborg Molenaar, EMEA Indirect Tax Lead, Cargill

Ingeborg started as Country VAT manager (Netherlands) with Cargill in 2013, and she’s the EMEA Indirect Tax Lead as of summer 2016. Her Current large projects: Change of business model & supply chain for our Food Ingredients Business, creation of a Data Warehouse for VAT & Intrastat, Implementation of 1 large new SAP and the implementation of a VAT Compliance Software

Aidan O’Neill Lead Consultant and Event Moderator, Vertex

Aidan O’Neill is a subject matter expert on ERPs and indirect tax compliance. He leads a team of 9 consultants integrating tax engine solutions with SAP. He previously worked as a SAP ABAP Developer and utilised SCRUM.

He has also previously tutored many students in VB.NET programming at the University Colleague Cork, Ireland, where he also attained a Masters in Business Information Systems.