Consultant, Oracle, Tax Technology Consulting Aberdeen, Scotland
Job description
Connect to your Industry
The tax landscape is undergoing significant change; with changes to tax legislation, increased media focus and scrutiny, technology advancements, and the increasingly global reach of clients, all coming together to shape an exciting and challenging future in the market for tax services.
Deloitte's Tax Technology Consulting Team (TTC) has a market leading reputation; bringing together a unique blend of consulting, technology, tax technical and tax reporting experience to help businesses meet the challenges of multi-jurisdictional tax operations, including compliance, reporting, tax technology and tax risk management.
Within TTC, sits our Tax ERP team. We are a fast-growing team with a super-growth ambition. We undertake Oracle Cloud implementations in both ERP and EPM, and these need a combination of Tax knowledge and Oracle solution design capabilities. Finance Transformation is a key differentiator for our practice globally. Our team is made up of both qualified accountants and tax advisors, and certified Oracle implementers. As a Tax-focussed Oracle consultant, you will have plenty of opportunities to work on large-scale projects as part of complex business transformations. You'll work with a wide range of colleagues and clients, exposing you to cutting edge tax technology work in a strategic, commercial, and business context. You will find opportunities to apply an impressive range of broad consulting and functional skills that will enhance your career.
We are proud to offer flexible working arrangements which allow our people to choose the most suitable working arrangement that works for them. Whether this is working four days per week, taking the summer months off work, or more flexibility around your working pattern, we consider both formal and informal working arrangements that allow our people and our clients the best outcome.
If you would like to hear more about our flexible working arrangements, please let us know.
Connect to your career at Deloitte
Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, that covers audit, risk advisory, and consulting services across tax, legal, business, technology and corporate finance, we help our clients become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.
What brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.
Connect to your opportunity
We are looking for innovative Tax professionals that are looking to broaden their careers by learning tax technology, process and data. As you build your career with us to become an innovative Oracle Tax Solution Architect you will be helping our clients to design, develop and implement systems architecture that best meets their business needs, in the rapidly changing tax and legal landscape. You may be a tax professional who is ready to dive into learning more about Oracle, or you may be an Oracle expert wanting to explore tax functionality.
Your role will entail gathering requirements (both tax/ legal and business), analysing supply-chains and business processes to assess the required functional specifications, evaluating the current systems landscape and proposed future state in order to identify gaps and improvement areas. You will be working alongside an experienced and growing team, in what is a once in lifetime opportunity to support our clients in ensuring that they have the right data, business processes and systems set-up for the future.
Responsibilities:
- Understanding and identifying the key tax touchpoints across the end-to-end business processes for their clients’ particular needs.
- Understanding, capturing and analysing the client's tax and business requirements to build the optimal Oracle Tax design and/ or supplement with the right mix of alternative tax technology solutions.
- Supporting the project delivery team in designing, building, and integrating tax requirements and processes into Oracle systems architecture (or wider tax technology solutions) to meet client’s requirements.
- Assessing and/or Supporting where needed the team in assessing the business impact of technical choices made.
- Ensuring the project team is capturing and logging risks/ issues on the project as and when they arise.
- Developing and maintaining good working relationships with key client and internal stakeholders and keep them informed of challenges/ risks/ issues with technical solutions being implemented.
- Responding to requests for proposals from prospective clients.
- Maintaining process documentation while continually improving internal and client processes
- Ensuring compliance with risk management and engagement acceptance in accordance with the Deloitte risk management protocols.
- Providing regular updates to the project team on how the project is running against projected scope, timeframes and budget.
- Working effectively in diverse teams within an inclusive team culture where people are recognised for their contribution.
Connect to your skills and professional experience
- Strong record of tax solution design and implementation, gained in either a consultancy and/or in-house environment.
- Previous project management and delivery experience, having overseen end to end lifecycles in a functional and/or technical capacity.
- Strong organisational skills and analytical approach to problem-solving.
- Efficient communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience working in matrix teams and managing/delegating work where needed.
- Excellent IT skills, particularly Microsoft Excel and Word with a strong desire and ability to learn new skills and systems quickly.
Connect to your service line - Tax
Innovation and tax consultancy may not seem to go together, but that’s exactly what you’ll find at Deloitte. We’re constantly seeking the new and working together to push the limits of what’s possible. Discover a new kind of tax career that you can make your own.
Personal independence
Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints. This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm. The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process.
Connect with your colleagues
"The beauty of Deloitte is that we're so big and diverse you can easily surround yourself with people who complement your style to create highly effective teams together."
- Chris, Tax Consulting
“You’ll get great experience across a wide range of clients and industries and have access to experts in every field and colleagues across the world who will support you when needed. I’ve”
- Erica, Tax Consulting
Connect to your agile working options
Location: UK Wide
Your Work, Your Way: We call our hybrid working vision Deloitte Works. And it does. We trust you to make the right choices around where, when and how you work. You’ll be able to make decisions about how you work best, to be collaborative, learn from colleagues, share your experiences, build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Having great conversations with your team and your leadership paves the way for great collaborative ways of working.
You’ll be joining one of our innovative virtual communities. Which means you’ll be part of the UK team. You’ll have the flexibility to work from home or a client site as required. You’ll also have access to a number of local collaboration spaces where you can meet with colleagues when needed to support your role. Our hybrid-working model enables our people to collaborate, connect and innovate in both a virtual and physical capacity.
You’ll have all the support you need to succeed, including robust tech and home workstation set-up guidance, as well as access to a variety of flexible working spaces and all sorts of social activities for you to join. We’re continually innovating our working practices too, so you can expect to see new and exciting technology developments coming soon.
The future of work is evolving fast and we’re already leading the way, by enabling flexibility for our people, and making it easy for us all to connect and collaborate.
Discover more about our locations.
Connect to your return to work opportunity
Are you looking to return to the workplace after an extended career break?
For this role we can offer coaching and support designed for returners to refresh your knowledge and skills, and help your transition back into the workplace after a career break of two years or more. If this is relevant for you, just let your recruiter know when you make your application.
Our commitment to you
Making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.
We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.
Your expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through world-class development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll learn how to lead.
Connect to your next step
A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You’ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you’ll never stop growing, whatever your level.
Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers
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