Tax Senior

Deloitte Tax LLP seeks a Tax Senior in Austin, Texas.

Work You’ll Do
Work with a team of tax professionals and multiple stakeholders to implement tax solutions related to enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and tax applications. Provide an integrated approach to technology and process implementations that help the client tax department maximize its strategic value to the client organization. Tailor consulting methodologies to identify improvement opportunities. Advise clients on the business impact of implementing an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, as well as tax software developments that affect their business. Utilize tax technology applications experience to address a corporate tax functions unique needs, requirements and obligations and develop comprehensive solutions to ensure tax-critical financial information is captured and accessible in ERP systems. Help define strategy, develop tax requirements, translate requirements into technology driven solutions for clients. Design, prototype, and test custom tax technology solutions, and support implementation. Cross Functional teaming with other service lines and practices across Tax Technology Consulting and Deloitte overall to maintain relationships and serve clients holistically. Produce training materials and provide end-user trainings to clients after the implementation is complete. Create technical and functional requirements and use cases, including screen layouts, navigation flows, logic diagrams, data models, and process models related to business taxation. Research user reported issues with software, identify root causes and resolutions, implement fixes, and act as a liaison between business functions, end users, and technical delivery teams.

Requirements
Bachelor's (or higher) degree in computer science, engineering, management information systems, computer information systems, quantitative Economics, or related field (willing to accept foreign education equivalent) plus eighteen months of experience as a Tax Senior or a related occupation gaining experience in auditing the design and efficiency of controls for business processes using materials generated from ERP systems.
Position requires eighteen months of experience in the following:
• reviewing business and tax processes and work papers to evaluate current process efficiency and identify potential areas of improvement;
• documenting business processes using MS Office tools;
• advising on internal controls of processes related to SAP financial modules through review of general ledger account balances and reports;
• providing best practice recommendations for sales and purchase processes within ERP systems; drafting test scenarios related to testing of controls and resolving any defects;
• gathering documents related to business processes (including tax process) to analyze and assess the effectiveness of process controls;
• conducting walkthroughs and client workshops, including preparing presentation documents for workshops and organizing external and internal meetings regarding system issues; and
• mentoring and coaching junior team members.