Tax Technology Consulting Director

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The tax landscape is constantly evolving and has experienced unprecedented change in recent years. Our Deloitte experts partner with our clients to navigate their tax complexities and support their business ambitions. Our tax leaders combine strategic commercial insight and intricate tax knowledge to support our client’s strategic decisions. We share our experience, reimagine operating models, and leverage cutting-edge technology in combination with innovative ideas and our global network of professionals, to make an impact that matters to our clients.

We are looking for an innovative and driven tax solution Director to lead, promote, design, develop and implement systems and analytics that meet tax business needs, along with ensuring that our clients’ can keep pace with the changing tax and legal landscape.

About the Team

The Tax Technology Consulting (‘TTC’) team at Deloitte is an expanding team forefront of developing transformative solutions to our clients across all industries. Our diverse range of services, clients, and industries, combined with our talented team, offers an exceptional environment to advance your career in Ireland.

TTC comprises a team with diverse backgrounds, including expertise in Data Analytics, Data Science, Computer Science, Gen AI, Technology, Tax, and Accounting. By joining us, you'll have the opportunity to work alongside these industry experts. Together, you will manage and collaborate on innovative projects with senior client stakeholders in Irish and global companies, using cutting-edge technologies. You'll witness firsthand the significant positive impact of your work on the clients you serve and gain insights into the industries and markets in which they operate.

About the Role

We are seeking a Director with a strong background in Enterprise Performance Management (‘EPM’) systems, ideally familiar with Tax Reporting and Provisioning, Transfer Pricing, and Intercompany recharges. The ideal candidate will have previous experience delivering any of the Enterprise Performance Processes, ideally Tax Reporting (TRCS), Enterprise Profitability and Cost Management (‘EPCM’), Financial Consolidation and Close, Planning and Budgeting. Knowledge of any other EPM platforms like OneStream, Insight Software-LongView, CCH Tagetik, SAP PaPM is a bonus.

Your role will entail gathering requirements, analysing 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, along with overseeing development/managing junior team members. You will also be expected to regularly update the practice/service line on any new development in technology functionalities or modules in future releases.

To be successful in this role, you should be able to align the global Tax and Finance landscape with our clients business’ activities and proposed wider business processes. You will also need to continually assess the tax technology landscape and development strategies to bring the most up to date solutions to our clients.

You will also need to integrate with the wider client project team. This will involve an understanding of how the tax design interacts with other process flows and also the inter-personal skills to build the required relationships.

Responsibilities

• Cultivate a unique blend of tax and technology skills through extensive opportunities, to play a crucial role in transforming clients' tax functions effectively;

• Lead and manage communication with internal and external stakeholders, contributing to the growth and development of our firm through networking, risk management, and support for new business proposals and presentations;

• Aid in bridging the technology knowledge and skills gap in tax departments by helping articulate the business value of technology as an enabler to our clients;

• Address business problems from inception to solution delivery, translating business requirements into tax technology solutions, project coordination and management, using specialist software for tax process automation and using various data visualization tools;

• Brainstorming and designing new innovative solutions for our clients using Gen AI, ERP, and other enterprise syst