Tax Technology and Transformation - Direct Tax - Manager

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Will you shape the future or will the future shape you?    The opportunity Tax Technology and Transformation provides services to help companies address the challenges posed by existing and emerging technologies, particularly the increasing data burden, by enhancing efficiency and transforming tax functions into cost-effective operations. The aim is to assist businesses in navigating the digital landscape of tax transparency, compliance, and audit methods while tackling pressing challenges. Key offerings include:

digital tax transformation, tax applications-as-a-service, tax data improvement, analytics enhancement, and emerging technologies like robotic process automation (RPA), artificial intelligence (AI), and blockchain.

Additionally, services encompass tax technology program mobilization, custom application development, strategy road mapping, implementation of direct and indirect tax systems, post-transaction operational services, and assessments of tax functions. In today's evolving corporate environment, implementing a transaction tax calculation engine is crucial for automating tax determination and compliance processes across various transactional systems, including ERP applications and custom solutions.   Your key responsibilities Depending on your unique skills and ambitions, you could be supporting various client projects, from assisting in the production of leading practice MS SQL Server, SharePoint and MS Power BI solutions, to implementing third-party tax applications, to supporting and automating internal and external operations of multinational tax departments. Whatever you find yourself doing, you will contribute and help toward developing a highly trained team, all the while handling activities with a focus on quality and commercial value. This is a highly regulated industry, so it is all about maintaining our reputation as trusted advisors by taking on bold initiatives and owning new challenges.    Skills and attributes for success

Experience implementing third-party direct or indirect tax systems (such as ONESOURCE, CorpTax, Vertex, Avalara, Longview, etc.) Experience with developing ETL solutions using SSIS or other tools ERP experience, including SAP and/or Oracle Experience managing large, multidisciplinary projects that impact tax (e.g., ERP implementations, tax co-sourcing engagements, finance transformations)

To qualify for the role, you must have

A bachelor’s degree in information systems and/or a master's degree in Accounting, Tax Technology, Management Information Systems, or Computer Science or related field and a minimum of 5 years of related work experience Approved technical certification, CPA license or membership to state Bar or progress to attaining those mentioned A strong interest in technology and its use in business processes Excellent communication and business writing skills A natural flair for problem solving and an entrepreneurial approach to work Strong organizational and time management skills, with exceptional client-serving consulting skills Demonstrated ability to capture and synthesize business requirements Ability to lead a team, mentor counselees, and manage client-serving business Willingness to travel as needed, and working in a balanced hybrid environment Join us in our team-led and leader-enabled hybrid model. Our expectation is for most people in external, client serving roles to work together in person 60% of the time over the course of an engagement, project, or year

Ideally, you will have

Microsoft Office VBA development Microsoft Power BI suite, including Power Pivot, Power Query, Power View and Power Map