Tax Technology and Transformation - Indirect Tax - Manager
About The Position
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.
Requirements
- Undergraduate emphasis in accounting and approximately 6 years of related work experience in indirect tax process improvement experience or equivalent experience in business or industry; or a master's degree and approximately 4 years of related work experience preferred
- Approved technical certification, CPA license or membership to state Bar or progress to attaining those mentioned
- Indirect tax (Sales/Use Tax, VAT) experience and/or corporate indirect tax compliance experience preferred
- Excellent managerial, leadership, organizational, and verbal/written communication skills
- Ability to travel at least 50% of the time
- Relevant experience in one or more of the following specialty areas: indirect tax software products such as Vertex, ONESOURCE (fka, Sabrix), Avalara
- ERP systems such as SAP, Oracle, etc., procurement systems such as Ariba, Coupa, etc.
Nice To Haves
- tax process and operational assessments
Responsibilities
- Help client tax departments operate at peak efficiency and productivity and better position them to take advantage of tax saving opportunities that might otherwise go undetected.
- Transfer control of tax decision-making from the transaction processing personnel and outside vendors to the tax specialists within our client's tax department.
- Understand how to define the solution, coordinate the necessary technical resources, and deliver a finished product that fulfills the client's goals and tax requirements, including:
- Ability to lead a team, mentor counselees and manage client-serving business
- Documenting and reviewing current state tax processes and controls to identify enhancement opportunities
- Supporting the development of a business case to justify tax process enhancement solutions
- Providing support during the indirect tax software/ vendor selection process
- Documenting tax data requirements
- Implementing automated indirect tax calculation and compliance solutions
- Supporting the development of data analytics solutions focused on indirect tax
- Supporting the implementation of global digital tax reporting solutions
Benefits
- medical and dental coverage
- pension and 401(k) plans
- a wide range of paid time off options
- flexible vacation policy
- designated EY Paid Holidays
- Winter/Summer breaks
- Personal/Family Care
- other leaves of absence
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
