Lead Technical Analyst Tax

The Lead Technical Analyst - Tax is responsible to drive innovation in tax-related processes and technology. This role will work closely to integrate technology solutions within the tax area ensuring alignment of tax systems with business processes. The incumbent will work closely with technical teams to deliver tax implementations integrating with Oracle and boundary systems compliance tax reporting and eInvoicing. You will be responsible for leading the support for software-as-a-service(SaaS) and enterprise-wide applications necessary for the collection retrieval accessibility and usage of data forinternal department planning and activities. The incumbent will lead the partnership with technical teams toensure software systems are running efficiently with minimal downtime. The incumbent will be responsible formanaging configuration set up and updates to the applications validating that their team has entered data intoestablished tables fields and system databases with the highest level of accuracy. The incumbent is an expert indeveloping custom queries and building reports utilizing query and flexible reporting tools to facilitate businessmanagement decisions. The role will provide strategic advice to management concerning changes in applicationsdevelopment maintenance and system standards to optimize performance and mitigate potential risk with theability to analyze various metrics to monitor performance and provide insights to management. The incumbent willlead and mentor the team responsible for training users on the applications and setting up user access. They willsupervise the collaboration between cross-functional teams and client stakeholders to provide sufficient supportfor the enterprise-wide applications.

This position is not hybrid/remote and will be located at our Cleveland Headquarters office.

• Lead the support for software-as-a-service (SaaS) and enterprise-wide applications by providing guidance ondeveloping and identifying design considerations and business impacts needed for configuration
• Drive quality of data for internal department planning and activities
• Lead configuration setup and updating of applications and provide guidance as needed
• Manage data loading process into established tables fields and system databases
• Review and approve governance standards and processes for data input structures and storage mechanisms
• Lead the team in building reports and provide strategic insights and recommendations related to businessmanagement and staff decisions
• Lead and mentor the team responsible for training users on the applications and setting up user access
• Provide strategic recommendations for changes in applications development maintenance and systemstandards
• Establish and share Enterprise-wide Applications perspective when collaborating with cross-functional technicalteams within the organization to ensure the integration and interoperability of enterprise-wide systems
• Lead and liaise with client stakeholders and external vendors to ensure support for enterprise-wide applications

This position is not eligible for sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future including conversion to H1-B visa.

Job duties include contact with other employees and access confidential and proprietary information and/or other items of value and such access may be supervised or unsupervised. TheCompany therefore has determined that a review of criminal history is necessary to protect the business and its operations and reputation and is necessary to protect the safety of the Companys staff employees and business relationships.

Must be eighteen years or older

EDUCATION

Required:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or Information lieu of a degree at least 9 years of experience in enterprise-wide software support

Preferred:

• Masters degree in Accounting Tax Computer Science or related field and 7 years experience implementing tax technologies.
• Certifications in ITIL Microsoft and/or Oracle ONESOURCE

KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE

Required:

• 6 years of experience in enterprise-wide software support with in-depth knowledge of software development methodologies
• Extensive knowledge of enterprise-wide applications and software platforms
• Experience managing software-as-a-service (SaaS) and enterprise-wide systems
• Expertise in configuring and setting up various enterprise-wide applications
• Experience applying security designs and principles to technology-based business solutions
• Experience leading teams and overseeing database management and maintenance
• Ability to develop and review complex custom queries using query and reporting tools
• Extensive knowledge of data management best practices and quality control processes
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and experience collaborating with cross-functional teams and external vendors

Preferred:

• Experience implementing large multidisciplinary projects with ERP systems co-integrated with vendor solution indirect tax systems (ideally ONESOURCE Corptax Vertex Avalara Longview).
• International Indirect Tax vendor SaaS implementations and configurations.
• A broad understanding of tax accounting and major tax processes.
• Transformation of the operational elements to deliver evolving technologies in batch and real time.
• Audit Compliance and data content services platform management to optimize digital tax document storage.
• Skilled writing of Lean Specifications and deployment of Oracle Cloud (RAPID) configurations.
• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) experience with Oracle.
• Evolution and support of tax in a digital world.
• Emerging tax processes in a digital environment; SaaS PaaS Cloud technologies API services.
• Your career involves already an interest in Cloud technologies solutioning and data management.
• Excellent business writing skills.
• A natural skillset to resolve problems quickly and accurately.
• Ability to efficiently collect and record business requirements.
• Excellent time management skills.
• A desire to lead a team of people.
• Key foundation technologies supporting RPA (Robotic Process Automation) and AI (Artificial Intelligence).

Technical Skills

• System Configuration
• Software Development Lifecyle (SDLC) Methodology
• Cloud Technologies & Platforms
• Data Analysis
• Data Modeling
• Data Warehousing & ETL Processes
• Reporting Tools
• Systems Security & Access Control