Senior Associate - Tax Technology and Transformation - London

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The opportunity EY Tax is a market leader, renowned for delivering sustainable growth and empowering our people to shape their own careers. Our diverse, collaborative team advises on high-profile transactions, combining technical expertise, innovation and a genuine focus on continuous development. Join us to work on challenging, multi-country projects in a supportive, dynamic environment where your impact truly matters.

Our Tax Reporting practice within the UK Tax Technology and Transformation team will give you the opportunity to further develop your skills while assisting our 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 assist 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. 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 our clients and your work experience, there are many different types of projects you could be working on; identifying ways to improve operational effectiveness in tax functions, reviewing the process and controls that are in place including technology, looking at effectiveness of the various technology systems our tax clients use to increase automation and data quality throughout tax processes, assessing the overall risk to establish a proper control environment; designing and building custom tax applications.
• As a Senior, you would be working with leadership as a part of these exciting and impactful projects.
• Understand key tax reporting processes, technology, data, analytics, and risks/controls.
• Establish relationships with peers and effectively balance projects across teams.
• Support the team in planning and executing internal and external projects.
• Grow technical skills and business knowledge through training and hands-on experience.

Skills and attributes for success:

• Have an interest and experience in improving the performance of tax functions, the demonstrated ability to team with and motivate others, and willingness to develop meaningful and influential relationships with clients and colleagues.
• Taking ownership of assigned tasks and monitoring them until completion, including documenting requirements, configuration, testing, debugging, project profitability, and tax systems and process configuration.
• Strong leadership ability, attention to detail, problem-solving skills, analytical abilities.
• Identifying ways to automate manual tasks using existing financial or tax systems and emerging technologies.
• Ability to work on deliverables from offshore teams (as needed) to deliver projects to time, cost and quality requirements.
• Consolidating tax data to make analysis and planning more efficient.
• Improving reporting capabilities to enhance our clients’ ability to evaluate risk and capitalize on opportunities.
• Desire and demonstrated ability to provide leadership within a team.
• A bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance and/or a master's degree in Accounting, Tax Technology, Management Information Systems or related field and/or a minimum of 2 years of related work experience.
• Exposure to accounting/finance/tax, tax or finance performance improvement, tax software development and/or implementation.
• A strong interest in technology and its use in business processes.
• Excellent communication and business writing skills.
• Demonstrated ability to capture and synthesize business requirements.
• A natural flair for problem solving and an entrepreneurial approach to work.
• Strong organizational and time management skills, with exceptional client-serving consulting skills.

Ideally, you'll also:

• Experience in project management.
• Experience implementing third-party tax reporting systems or configuration of Enterprise Performance Management systems for Group Tax Reporting.
• A working knowledge of IAS12 or ASC740.
• Experience with data analytic tools such as Alteryx.
• Experience of the Microsoft Power Platform suite, including Power Query and Power BI.
• A basic knowledge of database development e.g. writing SQL statements.
• ERP or EPM experience e.g. SAP, Oracle, OneStream, Tagetik etc.

What we offer you:

At EY, we'll develop you with future-focused skills and equip you with world-class experiences. We'll empower you in a flexible environment, and fuel you and your extraordinary talents in a diverse and inclusive culture of globally connected teams. Learn more. Are you ready to shape your future with confidence? Apply today.

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