Tax Senior

This role involves implementing new tax software products and optimizing existing ones within a tax technology consulting context. The Senior Tax professional will focus on process improvement, advising on ERP system implementation impacts, and ensuring tax-critical financial information is captured and accessible. Responsibilities include requirements analysis, solution design, system configuration, testing, and developing business cases for tax systems, particularly those integrating with SAP and tools like Vertex.

What you'd actually do

  1. Work with a team of tax professionals to implement new tax software products and optimize the services provided via existing products.
  2. Provide an integrated approach to process improvement that can help the tax department maximize its strategic value to the organization.
  3. Tailor consulting methodologies to identify improvement opportunities.
  4. Advise clients on the business impact of implementing an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.
  5. Utilize tax technology applications experience to address a corporate tax functions unique needs, requirements and obligations and develop comprehensive solutions to ensure tax-critical financial information is captured and accessible in ERP systems.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree (or higher) degree in Accounting, Taxation, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or related field
  • eighteen months of experience as a Tax Senior or related occupation
  • integrating tax technology solutions utilizing corporate tax technical skills to implement tax process automation
  • reviewing business process, work papers, and tax returns to gather tax requirements, and reviewing functional specification documents to identify tax impact
  • performing tax package evaluation, solution design, development, implementation, system configuration and testing
  • integrating financial and tax systems modules for indirect tax transactions
  • drafting test scenarios related to indirect tax for testing, and resolving any defects
  • gathering and documenting indirect tax requirements for business and performing system fit, gap, and impact analysis
  • implementing tax systems and tax solutions, including requirements analysis, design of solution configuration of system and testing go-live, and developing solutions for implementing indirect tax tools, including Vertex, that integrate with SAP
  • creating status reports to communicate project progress
  • developing business cases to justify decisions for implementing tax systems

What the JD emphasized

  • integrating tax technology solutions
  • implement tax process automation
  • implementing tax systems and tax solutions