Senior Analyst, Tax Technology & Automation

Stanley Black & Decker • New Britain, CT

10d • Hybrid

About The Position

As a Senior Analyst, Tax Technology & Automation, you’ll be part of our Tax Technology & Automation team working as a hybrid employee. You’ll get to maintain and support direct and indirect tax reporting, international tax computation, and tax compliance applications, while assisting with the implementation of new tax technology solutions. You will also administer and support core tax software applications, build, test, deploy, and maintain complex ETL workflows in Alteryx to automate data ingestion, transformation, formatting, and calculation validation for the global tax department, and collaborate with Tax, Accounting, IT, FP&A, and external advisors to develop and implement technology solutions that improve automation and efficiency across the tax organization.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Tax, Accounting, Finance, Computer / Data Science, or Information Systems.
• 3–6 years of hands-on experience in data analytics, tax technology, data automation, finance transformation, or a related analytical/technology field.
• Expert-level Excel skills, including Power Query, advanced formulas, and the ability to reverse-engineer complex legacy workbooks.
• Advanced, demonstrable experience building workflows in Alteryx workflows.
• Experience with data analytics, data extraction and transformation, data mapping, process design and standardized work development.
• Proven project management and project coordination skills.
• Experience with Visio Charts and Business Process Maps.
• Experience with writing SQL queries and interacting with cloud data warehouses (experience with Snowflake is highly preferred).
• Experience in developing training material and holding training sessions.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree a plus.
• Tax provision and/or compliance experience is a plus.
• Prior exposure to corporate financial consolidation systems (Hyperion/HFM, SAP) or corporate tax software (ONESOURCE, CorpTax) is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and support direct and indirect tax reporting, international tax computation, and tax compliance applications, while assisting with the implementation of new tax technology solutions.
• Administer and support core tax software applications, including: ONESOURCE Tax Provision for SEC financial reporting, Orbitax Global Minimum Tax for OECD Pillar Two calculations, Corptax for U.S. federal, state, and international tax compliance, DMI for ASC 740 uncertain tax position reporting, and other tax technology solutions implemented in the future.
• Maintain provision and return legal entity hierarchies and required master data attributes across tax applications.
• Serve as administrator for additional tax software applications, as needed.
• Maintain Tax Department SharePoint sites.
• Build, test, deploy, and maintain complex ETL workflows in Alteryx to automate data ingestion, transformation, formatting, and calculation validation for the global tax department.
• Maintain and support automated solutions developed in Alteryx and Power BI.
• Serve as the first line of support for workflow maintenance by identifying and resolving data mapping failures, API connection issues, and logic defects within automation pipelines.
• Extract and manipulate raw financial data from source systems and structure it for ingestion into the Enterprise Data Lake and tax applications.
• Partner with Tax Subject Matter Experts to transform manual workpapers into scalable, automated processes.
• Ensure automated workflows include robust, auditable variance checks and reconciliation outputs to support internal and external audit requirements.
• Actively identify opportunities to eliminate redundant data entry and manual manipulation across provision, compliance, and reporting processes.
• Maintain logical mapping across systems using Diligent software, including trial balance and HFM entity mapping.
• Develop a detailed understanding of tax compliance and tax provision processes and apply that knowledge to drive process improvements and technology-enabled change.
• Support the Tax function as point of contact for IT and Business Process Owner activities related to SAP Central Finance, Ariba, S/4HANA, and Oracle EPM implementations.
• Maintain a gap analysis for tax requirements not addressed by current technology designs and use that analysis to support solution implementation outside of Central Finance.
• Collaborate with Tax, Accounting, IT, FP&A, and external advisors to develop and implement technology solutions that improve automation and efficiency across the tax organization.
• Support Tax Department leadership on special projects focused on improving automation, efficiency, and process effectiveness across the global tax organization.
• Serve as liaison between the Tax team and IT to ensure accurate translation of business requirements into technology solutions.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Medical, dental, life, vision, disability, 401(k), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, paid time off, and tuition reimbursement
• Programs & benefits in support of your well-being
• Discounts on Stanley Black & Decker tools and other partner programs
• Access to a wealth of learning resources, including our digital learning portal
• Career paths with opportunities to grow and develop skills along multiple career paths

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior