Tax Data & Automation Analyst

Tax Data & Automation Analyst

Location:

Miami, FL (Hybrid)

At World Kinect, our employees are the key to our global success. We are industry leaders due to the innumerable talents of our approximately 5000 strong professional team. Our people thrive in an entrepreneurial and culturally-diverse environment, where innovative thinking, collaboration and efficient execution are highly valued. Our high-performance culture is what allows us to drive sustained growth. Stronger together, we promote an environment where individuals can thrive.

About World Fuel:
At World Fuel, we are transforming the way energy is delivered around the world. As a global leader in energy, commodities, and logistics, we are investing in digital transformation to create more efficient, scalable, and data-driven operations.

The Tax Data & Automation Analyst will support the Tax team's digital transformation initiatives by driving process automation, tax data governance, and reporting optimization efforts. This individual will play a key role in identifying opportunities to improve efficiency, enhance data quality, and enable scalable tax processes through technology and automation. The ideal candidate is a data-driven problem solver with experience in business process analysis, automation technologies, data management, and cross-functional collaboration.

• Support the execution of the tax automation and process optimization roadmap.
• Identify, evaluate, and implement opportunities to improve efficiency through automation and workflow enhancements.
• Partner with tax subject matter experts to prioritize automation initiatives and manage a backlog of improvement opportunities.
• Conduct gap analyses between current and future state processes, identifying opportunities for enhanced controls, reporting, and system functionality.
• Lead process mapping and value stream mapping exercises to identify inefficiencies and standardization opportunities.
• Design and document current and future state business processes, workflows, and operating models.
• Promote self-service reporting and automation capabilities across the Tax organization.
• Monitor automation performance, troubleshoot issues, and recommend optimization strategies.
• Provide functional support during implementation projects and ongoing support post-deployment.

• Review and assess tax-critical data used by Corporate Tax and Indirect Tax teams for completeness, accuracy, and consistency.
• Support data quality initiatives by investigating issues, coordinating remediation efforts, and validating corrective actions.
• Develop and maintain standardized tax reporting datasets and analytics solutions that support compliance, audits, tax provision, and management reporting.
• Utilize SQL and data analysis tools to extract, validate, and transform data from multiple source systems.
• Improve the reliability, accessibility, and accuracy of tax reporting data across the organization.

• Support the development and maintenance of tax data governance frameworks, including data ownership, stewardship, and documentation standards.
• Document upstream and downstream data dependencies impacting tax reporting and compliance processes.
• Serve as an administrator for assigned tax technology, automation, and reporting tools.
• Maintain documentation, process controls, and system procedures to support operational continuity and compliance.
• Research and evaluate emerging automation technologies and industry best practices to support the Tax team's digital maturity journey.

• Required:
  
  Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Management Information Systems (MIS), Computer Science, Business Analytics, Accounting, Finance, or related field.
• Required:
  
  4+ years of experience supporting process automation, business process improvement, data analytics, or related functions.
• Required:
  
  2+ years of experience working within Agile project environments.
• Required:
  
  Experience with business process analysis, process mapping, and solution delivery.
• Required:
  
  Strong SQL skills with experience writing complex queries, joins,…