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Job Title: Senior Manager, Transaction Tax Transformation and Automation

Job Responsibilities:
The Senior Manager, Tax Technology is primarily responsible for overseeing the delivery of technology automation projects that aim to transform a client's tax organization. This role involves managing project teams, timelines, budgets, and resource allocation. The types of projects managed may include data transformation, data visualization, robotic process automation, tax engine deployments, data enablement and support, process review and transformation, and developing custom solutions for automating various tax determination and compliance areas.

Key responsibilities include:
- Managing project scope, tasks, and reviewing deliverables as outlined in the engagement agreement.
- Overseeing phases of a standardized software development/implementation approach, including requirements analysis, functional and technical design, process design and configuration, and installation of enterprise-class tax automation solutions.
- Maintaining and supporting existing client relationships, assisting with business development activities, preparing proposals, and providing technical leadership and guidance to staff resources.

Duties and responsibilities aligned to the company's key results include:

People:
- Providing supervision, coaching, mentorship, and training to staff.
- Offering project management support to the delivery team for configuring tax automation software solutions.
- Creating and executing project work plans and enforcing proper methodology and standards.

Client:
- Managing day-to-day operational aspects of projects.
- Overseeing the creation of custom solutions for client tax automation and process needs.
- Overseeing technical delivery, including the development of Alteryx workflows, tax engine or ERP configurations, and the creation of custom solutions.
- Reviewing documentation and deliverables created by the project team, and working with the team and clients to review, define, and document existing and proposed transaction tax processes.
- Developing project work plans and timelines associated with project deliverables.
- Creating processes to track adherence to project timelines and budgets, aiding in driving project profitability and efficiencies.
- Managing and validating data gathering, extraction, and analysis of client data.
- Managing client data acquisition to support tax technology services.
- Traveling to client locations to gather requirements, review processes, and perform other tax technology services as necessary.
- Providing management support to client service teams and clients.
- Preparing and distributing weekly project status reports to all project stakeholders.

Value:
- Managing projects and teams delivering transformative solutions for clients throughout the transaction lifecycle.
- Leading new process designs for tax transformation, including tax determination and data enablement.
- Leading implementation, testing, maintenance, and support of software based on technical design specifications.
- Leading or facilitating architecture and code reviews.
- Performing management review of technical design specifications.
- Reviewing functional requirements, analysis, and design documents and providing feedback.
- Investigating software development tools.
- Analyzing existing business and system processes.
- Documenting business and system processes performed for tax determination.
- Leading development, installation, and configuration of tax automation software solutions.
- Overseeing creation, execution, and documentation of testing scenarios.
- Performing other duties as assigned.

Education and Experience:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Accounting, Information Systems, Management Information Systems, or Information Technology and Management, with a minimum of seven hours of Accounting.
- Five to ten years of related tax automation and technology experience.
- Experience leading a team and providing supervision, coaching, mentorship, and training to staff.
- Experience leading requirements gathering and design workshops and documenting solutions for management review.
- Strong solution-minded and design skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience with complex software development projects through all phases of the software development life cycle.
- 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.

Computer Skills:
- Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Word, Access, Excel, Outlook, and Internet navigation and research.
- Working knowledge of software tools mentioned above.
- 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.

Certificates and Licenses:
- A valid driver’s license is required.

Work Environment:
- Standard indoor working environment.
- Occasional long periods of sitting while working at a computer.
- Position requires regular interaction with employees at all levels and interface with external vendors as necessary.
- Independent travel requirement: Up to 15%.

Salary Information:
- For California-based roles, the base salary hiring range is $161, - $213,.
- For other California-based locations, the base salary hiring range is $161, - $195,.
- For Colorado-based roles, the base salary hiring range is $161, - $187,.
- For New York-based roles, the base salary hiring range is $161, - $213,.
- For Washington-based roles, the base salary hiring range is $161, - $195,.
- The company makes offers based on various factors, including qualifications and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation.

Equal Opportunity Employer: disability/veteran