Consultant Scrum Master - Tax Transformation Office - Hyderabad / Gurugram

Do you have a passion to work for US based clients of Deloitte Tax and transform their current state of tax to the next generation of tax functions? Are you ready to take the next step in your career to find new methods and processes to assist clients in improving their tax operations? Are you ready to fulfill your potential and want to have a significant impact to global initiatives? If the answer to all of the above is “Yes,” come join Tax Management Consulting group in Deloitte India (Offices of the U.S), a service line of Deloitte Tax LLP!

Deloitte Tax Services India Private Limited commenced operations in June 2004. Since then, nearly all of the Deloitte Tax LLP (“Deloitte Tax”) U.S. service lines have obtained support through Deloitte Tax in India. Deloitte Tax in India offers you opportunities to learn U.S. taxation, a much sought-after career option.

At Deloitte, we are leading clients through the tax transformation taking place in the marketplace. We offer a broad range of fully integrated tax services and add greater impact to clients by combining technology and tax technical resources to uncover insights and smarter solutions for navigating an increasingly complex global environment.

Our Vision:
To be the dominant global provider of tax services delivering unmatched value to our clients and our people through sustained relationships.

U.S. India Tax — CTO

Deloitte Tax LLP’s Chief Technology Office (CTO) team is responsible for the design, development and deployment of tax tools for the US Tax Practice. The professionals on the STAC team are focused on assisting Deloitte Tax in its efforts to deliver quality, comprehensive, value-added, and efficient client services using tax tools to our clients. The team consults and executes on a wide range of initiatives involving tax technology management, tool development and implementation.

Work you’ll do

Oversee project goals, scrum, create and deliver reports, analyze data from project execution, and any other duties determined by project managers. You will oversee development of Applications developed using technologies such as ASP.Net MVC, Angular, HMTL5 and bootstrap. Your objective is to ensure that all deliverables meet standards and business requirements. You are knowledgeable in Agile methodology and scrum and able to educate others. You will act as a buffer between the scrum team and product owner and maintain a safe working environment for the team by organizing development priorities and by resolving conflicts. It is a unique opportunity to be a part of growing USI Tax Transformation team that drives consistency, quality, and efficiency through priority applications in the marketplace. You will demonstrate a good understanding and working knowledge of business and services.

Key Responsibilities:

• Oversee variable aspects of projects and provide direct assistance to ensure timely project execution
• Lead the scrum team using Agile methodology and drive scrum practices
• Review project goals and ensure project goals and timeline is achievable
• Support product owner and development team in achieving customer satisfaction
• Overcome impediments and coach scrum team on overcoming hurdles
• Liaise with project leads and maintain project schedule and efficacy
• Lead development team activities using Agile framework
• Drive higher levels of scrum maturity and expedite development
• Identify continuous improvement opportunities and drive higher levels of efficiency
• Provide support to product owners, project owners, stakeholders as necessary
• Review project implementation and gather data on project execution
• Coordinate with project managers and project leads following project execution
• During design and key development phases, might need to work a staggered shift from 2pm-11pm to ensure appropriate overlap of the India and US teams and project deliveries.

A successful candidate should:

• Ability to team across multiple time zones
• Excellent communicator and have influencing and negotiation skills
• Self-motivated and ability to stay focused in the middle of distraction
• Highly organized and detail oriented
• Ability and desire to work collaboratively to ensure successful project execution
• Be proactive, strong minded, quick thinker and assertive
• Flexible and prioritize work and tasks under pressure
• Capable of building sustainable relationships with colleagues and key individuals
• Creativity and ability to think outside-the-box while defining sound and practical solutions

• How you’ll grow

At Deloitte, we’ve invested a great deal to create a rich environment in which our professionals can grow. We want all our people to develop in their own way, playing to their own strengths as they hone their leadership skills. And, as a part of our efforts, we provide our professionals with a variety of learning and networking opportunities—including exposure to leaders, sponsors, coaches, and challenging assignments—to help accelerate their careers along the way. No two people learn in exactly the same way. So, we provide a range of resources including live classrooms, team-based learning, and eLearning. DU: The Leadership Center in India, our state-of-the-art, world-class learning Center in the Hyderabad offices is an extension of the Deloitte University (DU) in Westlake, Texas, and represents a tangible symbol of our commitment to our people’s growth and development. Explore DU: The Leadership Center in India.

Deloitte supports your progression through a well-defined career path by providing challenging assignments, mentoring, and targeted trainings. Recent postgraduates begin as a consultant. The career path from there is to senior consultant, then manager, senior manager and onto a path to director or partner or principal.

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