FSO Tax -Strategic Operations Project Management - EDGE - Senior

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FSO Tax Strategic Operations Project Management – EDGE Senior: This position could be located in GA

 

EY FSO Tax Technology and Transformation

 

FSO 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 function and the need to understand how to make data an asset. The underlying objective of the combined offerings is to help businesses navigate the digital age of tax transparency alongside new trends in tax compliance and tax audit methods, as well as helping to solve the most pressing challenges that businesses face. Tax Technology and Transformation is composed of the following services:

• Digital tax transformation
• Tax applications-as-a-service
• Tax data and improvement
• Tax analytics and reporting enhancement
• Emerging tax technology, including robotic process automation (RPA), artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, cloud solutions, data lake development and business intelligence innovation
• Tax technology program mobilization
• Custom tax technology application development and deployment
• Tax technology strategy and road mapping
• Direct and indirect tax systems implementation and configuration
• Post-transaction (M&A) tax function operational services
• Tax operating model transformation, including process improvement, risk and controls
• Tax function assessments

 

Our FSO Tax and EY EDGE practice is made up of a team of professionals providing dedicated tax technical services to both US and global clients. EDGE stands for Exceptional Delivery and Growth Engine because this team operates in a technical environment with deep process and service delivery experience that distinguishes EY in the marketplace.

 

The Opportunity

When you join EY EDGE, you’ll be at the heart of EY’s critical mission to build a better working world by applying your knowledge, skills and experience in assisting clients in meeting their business objectives. You will learn, grow and contribute — building new relationships and discovering the satisfaction that comes with producing high-quality, valued work and advice.

 

Our FSO Tax Technology and Transformation practice will give you the opportunity to further develop your skills while assisting our financial services clients in dealing with the operational challenges that their world class tax functions are facing today. You will be working with clients to improve the operational effectiveness and efficiency of their tax functions and assists them to better connect with executive management.     

 

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

 

Your Key Responsibilities

Depending on the needs of the project and the clients supported some examples of key responsibilities would include identifying ways to improve operational effectiveness, reviewing process and controls that are in place, assessing the overall risk to establish a proper control environment, designing and building standard, efficient and effective processes.  Other responsibilities could include assisting client engagement team members in learning the process and technologies, identifying and pro-actively resolving issues, and serving as a key point of contact between the client engagement team and other support teams involved in the development of client tax deliverables. 

 

 Skills and Attributes for Success

• Strong leadership ability, attention to detail, problem-solving skills, analytical abilities
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Identification and escalation of program and project-level risks and issues
• Understanding in conducting dependency analyses across an integrated workplan containing multiple workstreams or projects
• Have an interest and experience in improving the performance of tax functions, the demonstrated ability to team w