Why Ryan
Competitive Compensation and Benefits
Home Office Stipend
Business Connectivity Reimbursement (Phone/Internet)
Gym Membership or Equipment Reimbursement
LinkedIn Learning Subscription
Flexible Work Environment
Tuition Reimbursement After One Year of Service
Accelerated Career Path
Award-Winning Culture & Community Outreach
The Senior Manager Tax Transformation & Automation (Sr. Project Manager) manages project scope tasks project teams timelines budgets and resource allocation and prepares and reviews deliverables in connection with client service. The Sr. Project Manager oversees the functional and technical direction of projects including on-time and on-budget delivery of tax transformation & automation project tasks such as detail requirements analysis process design and configuration defining deliverables working with senior stakeholders across each clients business and being able to pivot between tax/accounting technical IT technical and change management capabilities. The Sr. Project Manager also maintains and supports existing partnerships and client relationships and provides technical leadership and guidance to their team and clients on project status and adherence to timeline and budget. It is expected that some projects cross-tax/finance and across a variety of clients in different industries and locations would need to be managed concurrently and hands-on experience is essential The Sr. Project Manager also assists with business development activities by preparing proposals and engagement agreements and participating in calls and onsite meetings.
Duties and responsibilities as they align to Ryans Key Results
People:
- Provides supervision coaching mentorship and training to staff as required.
- Provides project management technical support and guidance to the delivery team as they work on various transformation and automation-related projects.
- Creates and executes project work plans and enforces proper methodology and standards.
Client:
- Serves as a key advisor to clients on tax transformation initiatives helping them navigate regulations Provides project leadership to client service teams and clients.
- Can interact and translate between a variety of stakeholders typically including tax finance/accounting IT C-suite and transformation/change teams.
- Evidence of hands-on experience working in projects across all areas of tax (and ideally into finance treasury and other complementary teams).
- Ideally evidence of cross-industry consulting experience and the ability to bring alternative models/ideas to our clients as part of our hands-on partnership.
- Creates processes to track adherence to project timelines and budgets enabling Ryan to notify clients if any material variances are identified or predicted.
- Review and lead the development of client deliverable documentation including creating composing and editing written materials.
- Assists with client billing and financial forecasting.
- Responds to client inquiries.
- Develops client work plans and schedules associated with project deliverables.
- Reviews documentation and work delivered by the project team including (depending on the project) functional requirements technical design documents bespoke automated processes dashboards process and control documentation operating model and risk management frameworks and configurations for 3rd party software.
- Develops templates and format specifications for project deliverables for client review and approval.
- Manages day-to-day operational aspects of projects of varying sizes areas of focus and for clients in various industries and stages in their life cycles.
- Defines project success criteria and creates the metrics to enable them to be measured.
- Creates maintains and executes communication plans and communication protocols.
- Creates maintains and executes project escalation and remediation policies.
- Assists the team Principal with Tax Transformation & Automation business development activities (e.g. preparation of proposals engagement agreements attending prospect calls and meetings).
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Education and Experience:
- A bachelors degree or masters degree from a four-year college or university and a minimum of 7 years of experience providing tax transformation & automation services is required. Accounting and/or Tax qualifications are highly desirable.
Computer Skills:
- To perform this job successfully an individual must have intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Word Excel PowerPoint Teams Visio MS Project Outlook and Internet navigation and research. Strong working knowledge ideally hands-on experience of key technologies in transformations including ERP/accounting systems off the shelf tax software automation and data processing solutions (e.g. RPA Alteryx MS Power apps etc.) databases/warehouses and other related technologies is highly desired.
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Required Experience:
Senior Manager