National Tax - Senior - Tax Technology and Transformation - Law

EY focuses on high-ethical standards and integrity among its employees and expects all candidates to demonstrate these qualities.  At EY, you’ll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. And we’re counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.  

Location: Honolulu
 

National Tax – Tax Technology and Transformation – Senior

 

EY Tax Technology and Transformation

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 or legal function and the need to understand how to make data an asset. Tax Technology and Transformation is composed of the following services for Tax and Law:

• Digital transformation
• Applications-as-a-service
• Data and improvement
• Analytics and reporting enhancement
• Emerging technology, including robotic process automation (RPA), artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, cloud solutions, data lake development and business intelligence innovation
• Technology program mobilization
• Custom technology application development and deployment
• Technology strategy and road mapping
• Third-party systems implementation and configuration
• Operating model transformation, including process improvement, risk and controls
• Assessments

 

The opportunity

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. This field is constantly changing as new laws, regulations and technologies are created, and this is your opportunity to be part of that development.

 

Key responsibilities

Depending on your unique skills and ambitions, you could be supporting various client projects, from assisting in the production of leading practice MS SQL Server, SharePoint and MS Power BI solutions, to implementing third-party applications, to supporting and automating internal and external operations of multinational tax and legal departments. Whatever you find yourself doing, you will contribute and help toward developing a highly trained team, all the while handling activities with a focus on quality and commercial value. This is a highly regulated industry, so it is all about maintaining our reputation as trusted advisors by taking on bold initiatives and owning new challenges.

 

Skills and attributes for success

• Taking ownership of assigned tasks and monitoring them until completion, including documenting requirements, configuration, testing, debugging, project profitability, and systems and process configuration.
• Identifying ways to automate manual tasks using existing financial, tax, or legal systems and emerging technologies.
• Consolidating data to make analysis and planning more efficient.
• Improving reporting capabilities to enhance our clients’ ability to evaluate risk and capitalize on opportunities.
• Supporting project team members in any way needed to help ensure timely completion of deliverables.

 

To qualify for the role, you must have

• A bachelor’s degree in information systems and/or a master’s degree in accounting, Tax Technology, Management Information Systems, or Computer Science or related field and a minimum of three years of related work experience
• Approved technical certification, CPA license or membership to a state Bar or progress to attaining those mentioned.
• A strong interest in technology and its use in business processes
• Excellent communication and business writing skills
• A natural flair for problem solving and an entrepreneurial approach to work.
• Strong organizational and time management skills, with exceptional client-serving consulting skills
• Demonstrated ability to capture and synthesize business requirements.
• Desire and demonstrated ability to provide leadership within a team

 

Ideally, you will also have at least one of the following:

• Experience implementing third-party direct or indirect tax systems (such as ONESOURCE, CorpTax, Vertex, Avalara, Longview, etc.)
• Experience implementing third-party legal systems (such as Agiloft, DocuSign, Sirion, Onit, etc.)
• Microsoft Office VBA development
• Microsoft Power BI suite, including Power Pivot, Power Query, Power View and Power Map
• Knowledge and experience in the design and development of datab