Summer 2025 Intern, Tax Technology

​Why Ryan?

• Competitively Paid Internship

• Award-Winning Culture

• Paid Holidays

• Mentorship Opportunities and Hands-On Training

• Networking with Industry Leaders

• All-Expense-Paid Trip to Ryan Headquarters in Dallas, TX (Summer Interns Only)

We are seeking an enthusiastic intern who is passionate about problem-solving through innovative, customized solutions and tax automation. The ideal candidate will be eager to create impactful client results, deliverables, collaborate with our dynamic team, and analyze client data to drive meaningful insights and solutions. This role offers an excellent opportunity to assist the team in various capacities, while learning from an experienced team and ensuring we meet our clients' needs effectively. If you are a proactive thinker who thrives in a collaborative environment, we would love to hear from you!

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Creates a positive team experience.
• Engages in team meetings and discussions, contributing thoughtfully and showing enthusiasm for team initiatives.
• Approaches new challenges with an open mind, actively seeking opportunities for personal and professional development to enhance team capabilities.
• Manages time effectively and stays focused while working remotely, ensuring consistent progress on tasks and collaboration with the team.

Client:

• Assists with the creation of custom solutions for client tax automation and process needs.
• Assists with the creation of client deliverable documentation, including creating, composing, and editing written materials.
• Collaborates with multiple teams to gather requires and deliver solutions, both internal and for clients.
• Helps identify technology requirements, highlighting opportunities for process enhancements, automation, efficiency gains, and best practice applications.
• Assists with the data gathering, extraction, and analysis of client data.
• Gathers requirements, documentation, data, and performs process reviews as necessary for use in the tax technology and transformation process.
• Assists Managers with all client related work in an efficient and timely manner.

Value:

• Helps develop solutions that are transformative in nature and eliminates challenging areas for clients throughout the transaction lifecycle (Tax Policy, Tax Determination, Compliance, Audit Support, Tax Planning)
• Assists with designing new process designs for tax transformation which includes tax determination, data enablement supporting the tax organization and other transformational areas.
• Participates in implementation, design, testing, maintenance, and support of software, based on technical design specifications.
• Participates in architecture and code reviews.
• Help draft technical design specifications, based on functional requirements and analysis documents.
• Reviews functional requirements, analysis, and design documents and provides feedback.
• Investigates software development tools.
• Analyzes existing business and system processes.
• Assists in documenting business and system processes performed for tax determination.
• Assists in installation and configuration of tax automation software solutions.
• Creates, executes, and documents testing scenarios.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Education and Experience:

• Working toward a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Accounting, Information Systems, Management Information Systems or Information Technology and Management, or related work experience.
• Anticipated graduation date within one year of internship
• Minimum Overall and Major GPA of 3.0
• Minimum of 6 – 12 technical courses or accounting hours.
• Experience in data automation & analytics, process improvement, and software exploration/experimentation is a plus.
• Strong solution minded and design skills required.
• Self-motivated attitude with the capability for solo work when assigned.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills required.
• Working knowledge of software such as Robotic Process Automation (RPA) tools (Automation Anywhere, UiPath, BluePrism), Data ETL tools (Alteryx, PowerQuery, Dataiku, Tableau Prep, Knime), and data visualization tools (PowerBI, Tableau).
• Experience with Generative AI/LLM is a plus.
• ERP knowledge specific to tax determination and finance. Experience with SAP ECC / HANA is a plus.
• Tax Technology software experience (OneSource Determination, Vertex O Series, Vertex Returns, OneSource Compliance) is also a plus.

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