Job title: Tax Digital Consulting – Enterprise Tax Automation (ETA) Experienced Senior Associate
Company: Grant Thornton
Expected salary: $101200 – 151800 per year
Location: Chicago, IL
Tax Digital Consulting – Enterprise Tax Automation (ETA) Experienced Senior Associate Job Details:
Job Description:
Grant Thornton is seeking an Enterprise Tax Automation Senior Associate to join the team in our Chicago, Il office. Additional locations include San Jose, CA and Philadelphia, PA.
Grant Thornton’s core business is audit, tax and advisory services. In short, we strive for a keen understanding of the client’s business in order to provide insightful and sound operational advice, recommend process improvement strategies, and offer suggestions to manage risk. Our professionals are thought leaders, providing personalized attention and quality service to our clients.
The ETA Senior Associate is responsible for delivering a full range of technology consulting services to assigned clients and working closely with assigned tax staff on all phases of the assigned project and engagement management for multiple clients of the firm. Primarily the individual will work on large tax system implementation and integration engagements and will play an active role in the project requirements gathering, design, development, testing and the go-live support of these projects. This includes managing a team of staff and coordinating day-to-day activities to ensure that projects are on time and within budget based on the original scope. The individual will also provide technology support for other areas of the tax practice including report development, supporting data extraction projects and application development.
Essential Duties And Responsibilities
- Serve as the Project Manager on assigned third-party tax software implementations (Vertex, Thomson Reuters, Avalara, Sovos).
- Manage assigned system integration projects that involve major ERP and billing systems, such as SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Microsoft Dynamics, NetSuite, Coupa, Ariba, etc.
- Requirements analysis and design for indirect tax software implementations.
- Lead and supervis testing and support of assigned system go-live projects.
- Develop and deliver key project documentation including requirements documents, design documents, and test plans.
- Help develop and lead staff to enable them to perform core project activities
- Participating in Sales meetings and Proposal Development meetings.
- Network and develop key relationships both within Grant Thornton and externally
- Other duties as assigned.
Key Traits Required For Position
The below list highlights the soft skills that are required for the position and that will enable the individual to be successful in our Practice:
- Experience – We are looking for someone with 5-8 years of experience leading technology projects and system implementations.
- Attention To Detail – A must for this position as the smallest little detail makes all the difference in the success of our projects. We are looking for individuals who challenge themselves on their own deliverables to ensure that they delivered on time, are accurate, and require little rework.
- Comfortable with Technology – The resource must have a thirst for learning new technologies and must be comfortable around new systems.
- Experience Working with Data – The resource must have experience working with data and be comfortable slicing and dicing large datasets to perform analysis for Clients
- Hard Working – Individual must be willing to put in the time and effort on projects in order to bear the fruit of all the benefits that will come working in our Practice.
Required Skills And Experience
- A BA/BS degree in technically related field.
- 5 – 8 years of direct implementation experience with third party indirect Tax Engines such as Vertex, Thomson Reuters OneSource (fka. Sabrix), Avalara AvaTax and Sovos Global Tax Determination (fka. Taxware Enterprise).
- Experience implementing these Tax Engines with a variety of ERP solutions in Order-to-Cash and Procure-to-Pay streams
- Experience with major ERP solutions including SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, NetSuite, and/or JD Edwards
- Global implementation experience is a bonus, US and Canada implementation experience is a must
- Experience leading, supervising and developing others for these types of implementations
- Experience querying and pulling datasets from Tax Engines
- Direct experience performing configurations in Tax Engines
- Experience writing project documentation for a Tax Engine implementation including Requirements, Design, and Test Plans
- Ability to work additional hours and travel as needed.
The base salary for the Enterprise Tax Automation Senior Associate position in our San Jose, CA office only is $101,200 to $151,800.
About Us
At Grant Thornton, we believe in making business more personal and building trust into every result – for our clients and you. Here, we go beyond your expectations of a career in professional services by offering a career path with more: more opportunity, more flexibility, and more support. It’s what makes us different, and we think being different makes us better.
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