Job description
The Tax department is seeking a highly motivated individual with experience in data analytics and transformation. The candidate would use their analytical skills to identify opportunities to leverage technology tools and engineering solutions to drive transformation. This role will entail coordination within Tax and across Finance, Engineering, Controllers and Operations divisions for requirements gathering, development, testing and execution. Project management and communication skills are critical to the role.
Responsibilities:
- Partner with our Tax professionals and the tax transformation team to understand and document business systems, data flows and the architecture / processes that consume data
- Utilize advanced analytical tools to build, control, maintain and deliver large structured and unstructured data sets from various data sources in the most effective and efficient way
- Work with Tax, Finance Controllers, Engineering, business units, and outside consultants to leverage technology solutions for the Tax department
- Participate in data architecture decisions and partner with engineering teams to implement solutions and ensure alignment of tax data strategies to business and firmwide data strategies
- Liaise with business partners to document data dictionary, assess risks, design data controls, and review the results for data quality and anomalies
- Manage relationships to track and monitor workstream(s) progress, ensure timely reporting of milestone and dependency status, monitor risks and issues to escalate to leadership, and execute day-to-day project management activities across the transformation lifecycle
Requirements/Experience/Education:
- Bachelor’s degree or above
- 4-6 years of relevant work experience, Financial Services industry or big accounting firms experience helpful
- Experience with tax and accounting products such as Thomson Reuters, Corptax, Longview, Vertex, HFM and SAP
- Familiarity with Bots, RPA, and experience developing ETL solutions
- Proficiency in Alteryx, Power Query, Power BI/Tableau, Excel, data modelling, dashboarding, data pre-processing, application integration techniques, VBA, SSIS, Knowledge of Relational Database Model, SQL
- Demonstrated communication, problem solving, quantitative and analytical abilities for technology implementations and process improvements
- Experience in project management