Tax Technology and Transformation Products Senior

Tax Tax Technology & Transformation Products Group Senior

The opportunity

EYs Tax Technology teams mission is to develop implement and integrate technology solutions that better serve our clients and engagement teams. As a member of EYs Tax practice youll develop deep tax technical knowledge and leverage your product design development and deployment capabilities.

The ever-changing regulatory environment requires tax departments to adapt with agility to ensure a timely and accurate response to their tax obligations. EYs Tax Technology and Transformation Products team members work side-by-side with the firms partners clients and technical subject matter experts to develop and incorporate technology solutions that enhance value-add improve efficiency and enable our clients with disruptive and market leading tools supporting Tax. Technical products designed and developed for clients provide a platform for clients to quickly pivot as required.

Tax Technology and Transformation Products competency works closely with clients and professionals across the tax lifecycle including Planning Accounting Compliance and response to Controversy. Products provide Microsoft client-cloud based solutions that allow clients to manage their tax operations documents data and collaborate across the function and with third-party providers.

EY is currently seeking a Products Senior to join our Tax Technology and Transformation practice in US National Tax.

Tax Technology and Transformation is composed of the following services:

• Digital tax transformation
• Tax applications-as-a-service
• Tax data and improvement
• Tax analytics and reporting enhancement
• Emerging tax technology including robotic process automation (RPA) artificial intelligence (AI) blockchain cloud solutions data lake development and business intelligence innovation
• Tax technology program mobilization
• Custom tax technology application development and deployment
• Tax technology strategy and road mapping
• Direct and indirect tax systems implementation and configuration
• Post-transaction (M&A) tax function operational services
• Tax operating model transformation including process improvement risk and controls
• Tax function assessments

The Products Group creates tax applications to enable a clients transformation goals focused on leveraging Microsofts suite of tool.

Key responsibilities:

You will support various client projects simultaneously. You will collaborate with clients to collect their specific business requirements. You will document and communicate those requirements to our offshore development team. You will assist a manager and senior manager with managing the overall project manage engagement economics create status reports and deliverables among many other activities. You will see all projects through all phases including build test and deployment. You will be expected to be technical enough in the Microsoft tools to troubleshoot issues real-time to communicate capabilities and limitations of the tools and connect the capabilities of the tools to the clients requirements. Whatever you find yourself doing you will be challenged to continuously learn and expand your skills collaborate closely with our offshore team all the while handling activities with a high 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

To qualify for the role you must have

• A bachelors degree in Information Systems and/or a masters 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 a state Bar
• Experience with Microsoft technology and its use in business processes
• Excellent business writing skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills; ability to work independently and collaboratively
• A natural flair for problem solving and an entrepreneurial approach to work
• Strong organizational and time management skills with exceptional client-serving consulting skills and the ability to work on a variety of projects simultaneously
• Demonstrated ability to capture and synthesize business requirements
• Hands-on experience in the design development and delivery of Microsoft-based solutions
• Deep hands-on experience with Microsoft SharePoint including configuration and administration
• Taking ownership of assigned tasks and monitoring them until completion including documenting requirements configuration testing debugging
• Monitoring project status and economics
• Participating in Agile development activities including sprints demos retrospectives and deployments
• Working cooperatively with offshore resources
• Communicating internally and externally with clients clearly and effectively
• Supporting project team members in any way needed to help ensure timely completion of deliverables
• Relationship building internally within the firm and externally to bring new ideas and challenges to our team
• Profitable delivery of projects and ability to communicate value creation to clients
• Ability to navigate and collaborate with various stakeholders to achieve a common goal

Ideally youll also have

• Experience with Microsoft Power Platform (Power BI Power Automate etc.)
• Experience with Azure SQL Server
• Experience with Microsofts suite of AI solutions including practical application of these tools
• Experience working on large multidisciplinary projects that impact tax (e.g. ERP implementations tax co-sourcing engagements finance transformations custom solution development)
• Experience in tax function transformation and automation
• Experience creating a Product based on client requirements
• Change management experience to support successful adoption of products
• Leading Product testing and / or training sessions

What we look for

We are looking for knowledgeable technical professionals with general knowledge of both international and domestic tax. You will need excellent business acumen and experience with Microsoft technology so if you are ready to use those this role is for you.