Tax Technology Project Manager

Requisition ID:  85037 

Florida Power & Light Company is the largest electric utility in the U.S., delivering clean, affordable, and dependable electricity to over 12 million Floridians. With one of the nation’s cleanest power generation fleets and top-tier reliability, we are setting new standards in the energy industry. Ready to make an impact? Join our exceptional team today and help shape the future of energy!

 

Position Specific Description

This Tax Technology Project Manager works with schedules and budgets to plan, execute, and finalize projects. Candidates in this role coordinate the efforts of agile team members including third-party contractors or consultants in order to deliver projects according to plan. Individuals define project objectives and oversee quality control throughout the project life cycle.
 
Job Duties & Responsibilities:

•    Responsible for managing multiple and complex projects 
•    Tracks, promotes, and publishes completed program initiatives, epics and business value metrics following Agile methodology
•    Facilitate Scrum ceremonies (daily stand-up, sprint planning, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives).
•    Ability to work with cross-functional teams and manage multiple priorities.
•    Proactive problem-solving attitude and willingness to take ownership.
•    Coach the team on Agile and Scrum principles and practices.
•    Manages risk and dependencies, communicates and escalates impediments to facilitate transparency, and reduces bottlenecks
•    Ensures adherence to -/+ 5% say/do ratio to budget
•    Deep experience with the Agile development methodology and tools such as Atlassian Jira software is a must have.
•    Provides formalized, continuing work direction and leadership to assigned team(s) to ensure timely and effective project execution
•    Builds knowledge of the organization, processes, and customers
•    Solves a range of straightforward problems
•    Analyzes possible solutions using standard procedure
•    Performs other job-related duties as assigned
•    Maintain thorough knowledge of new development and/or SDLC techniques.
•    Owns the planning, estimation, design, configuration, testing, and production release on financial projects which typically involve and impact multiple business areas.
•    Interacts with business leadership and key stakeholders to gather requirements, estimate effort/cost, prioritize work, develop enhancements, coordinate testing, and perform change management.
•    Promotes and encourages collaboration and transparency and builds trusting relationships between business, delivery, and other entities within the organization
•    Ability to coach and mentor teams towards self-organization and continuous improvement.
•    Preferably certified PMP or Agile Safe SPC certified.

 

Required Skills:

•    Prior experience in managing projects
•    Prior experience in accounting 
•    Ability to understand business requirements and transform them into solutions that deliver timely and accurate results
•    Excellent analytical, problem solving and data analysis skills.
•    Skilled in using Microsoft office tools: MS Excel, Power Query, Power Point, Word.
•    Excellent communication skills (verbal and written).

Job Overview

Employees in this position are responsible for one or more of the following: tax research, planning, forecasting, analysis, and defense of tax positions.

Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Manages tax related projects, including system maintenance and/or development
• Prepares and/or reviews tax returns and corresponding tax work papers and files
• Researches law, regulations, administrative rulings and court cases and presents proposals to lawfully minimize tax liability
• Researches and drafts responses to inquiries from government agencies regarding tax filings, and other claims
• Provides and/or verifies tax assumptions and tax results in project models
• Leads project teams to improve quality, efficiency, predictability and/or transparency
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree
• Experience: 6+ years

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's - Accounting / Finance
• Certified Public Accountant (CPA)

 

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