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You will be joining as a Manager Tax Technology in Mumbai. In this role, you will play a crucial part as a solution tester and integrator, utilizing your expertise in Partnership Tax along with technical skills. Your responsibilities will involve driving and improving the overall firm-wide strategy related to tax process standardization and efficient utilization of tax technology tools to support the tax practice across different service lines. Collaboration with the firm's tax, information technology, and transformation team leadership and employees will be essential to identify future tax technology requirements, including areas for process enhancements, automation, efficiency improvements, and the application of best practices in tax processes and technology. This role is of high visibility and impact within the firm, where you will engage in various projects leveraging your tax knowledge in the financial services, corporate, or individual sector, combined with your technology acumen to innovate our work methods and contribute to cutting-edge technology development. Your primary responsibilities will include: - Proactively evaluating current tax technology and processes to implement transformative solutions that standardize, streamline, centralize, automate, track, and analyze business operations. - Collaborating with the information technology department to prototype, develop, enhance, and implement technology solutions and best practices. - Acting as a bridge between the Tax and Information Technology departments to enhance the understanding of tax department's process improvement/information technology needs, objectives, and challenges. - Translating conceptual user requirements into functional requirements clearly to the enterprise information technology team. - Documenting process workflows, both current and future state. - Creating business cases, identifying key stakeholders, and leading presentations with leadership. - Converting a goal/vision into a timeline with deliverables: Managing relationships to monitor workstream(s) progress, ensuring timely reporting of milestones and dependency status, monitoring risks and issues to escalate to leadership, and executing day-to-day project management activities throughout the transformation lifecycle of initiate, plan, and execute. - Developing and conducting training on new technology and processes. Basic qualifications for this role: - Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Business Administration, Business Management, Computer Science, or related field (MBA preferred). - Minimum of 5 years of experience (4 years in Technology space and 1-2 years in compliance within the 5 years period). - 4+ years of tax technology/transformation experience (financial services and/or real estate) with a public accounting firm or large global corporation. - 2+ years of tax compliance experience in the corporate, financial services, or individual/private wealth advisory industry. - Proficiency in tax software tools such as Thomson Reuters Go-Systems, CCH Axcess, and OneSource. - Experience in collaborating with software developers to communicate business requirements. - Demonstrated ownership of projects and ability to drive outcomes from inception to full business value. - Experience in gathering business requirements for technology implementations/process improvements. - Proficiency in documenting end-to-end processes using tools like Visio and Alteryx. - Advanced experience with Excel is a must. Additionally, exposure to Microsoft Power BI suite, development of databases, Bots, RPA, and experience in developing ETL solutions will be beneficial. Knowledge or proficiency in tools such as Power Query, Power BI/Tableau, Alteryx, Excel, data modeling, dashboarding, data pre-processing, application integration techniques, SharePoint development, VBA, SSIS, and SQL will be an advantage.,
