Tax Technology and Transformation - Indirect Tax - Manager

EY; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

EY in Chicago seeks a Tax Technology and Transformation professional to help clients optimize indirect tax processes, deploy automated tax calculation and compliance solutions, and leverage data analytics for global tax reporting. This client-facing role features a hybrid work model with significant in-person collaboration; travel about 50% is required.

You will lead teams, map current state processes, justify improvements, and implement tax software such as Vertex, ONESOURCE, and Avalara to

Qualifications

• Undergraduate emphasis in accounting with ~6 years indirect tax process improvement experience, or a master’s degree with ~4 years.
• CPA license or bar membership, or progress toward these.
• Experience with indirect tax software: Vertex, ONESOURCE or Sabrix, Avalara.
• ERP systems such as SAP, Oracle; procurement tools like Ariba, Coupa.

Responsibilities

• Help client tax departments operate at peak efficiency and productivity.
• Lead a team, mentor counselees and manage client-serving engagements.
• Document current state tax processes and controls to identify improvement opportunities.
• Support development of a business case to justify tax process enhancements.
• Implement automated indirect tax calculation and compliance solutions.
• Support data analytics solutions focused on indirect tax and global digital tax reporting.

Skills

Indirect tax

Team leadership

Communication skills

Travel 50%

Education

Accounting emphasis (Undergraduate)

Tools

Vertex

ONESOURCE

Avalara

Job description

Location: New York, Hoboken, Iselin, Washington, Chicago, Minneapolis, Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, San Francisco, Los Angeles

At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence.

We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go. Join EY and help to build a better working world.

Will you shape the future or will the future shape you?

The opportunity

Tax Technology and Transformation offers services to companies in response to the impact of existing and emerging technology, including the growing data burden that many businesses face, driving efficiencies to create a cost-effective tax function and the need to understand how to make data an asset. The underlying objective of the combined offerings is to help businesses navigate the digital age of tax transparency alongside new trends in tax compliance and tax audit methods, as well as helping to solve the most pressing challenges that businesses face. 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

Today's dynamic corporate environment is changing the way tax is doing business. The most comprehensive solution for developing and maintaining tax controls in the area of indirect taxes is the implementation of a transaction tax calculation engine to automate the tax determination, calculation and compliance processes with respect to our client's sales and/or purchases. Their transactional systems may include enterprise-wide applications (ERP systems), homegrown systems, and/or web-based storefronts. Their tax calculation engine may be the internal functionality within an ERP system, a third-party bolt-on tax application (such as Vertex, Sabrix or Avalara), a custom solution, or a combination of several solutions.

This is an area that has seen plenty of recent growth and investment – and you will see that reflected in your career. It is no exaggeration to say that you will be working on highly publicized projects. The field of taxation is constantly changing as new laws, regulations and technologies are created, and this is your opportunity to be part of that development.

Your Key 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

Skills And Attributes For Success

• 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

To qualify for this role, you must have

• 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
• 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.
• Join us in our team‑led and leader‑enabled hybrid model. Our expectation is for most people in external, client‑serving roles to work together in person 60% of the time over the course of an engagement, project, or year

Ideally, you will have

• tax process and operational assessments

What We Look For

We are looking for knowledgeable technical professionals with an excellent general knowledge of both international and domestic tax. You will need excellent business acumen and a firm strategic vision, so if you are ready to use those skills to develop your team, this role is for you.

What We Offer You

• We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package