Senior - Tax Technology & Transformation - Indirect Tax

Senior - Tax Technology & Transformation - Indirect Tax at EY

At EY, you’ll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. And we’re counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.

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New York, Washington, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Minneapolis, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, San Francisco, Los Angeles

Tax Technology and Transformation offers services to companies in response to the impact of existing and emerging technology, including the growing data burden that many businesses face, driving efficiencies to create a cost‑effective tax function and the need to understand how to make data an asset. The underlying objective of the combined offerings is to help businesses navigate the digital age of tax transparency alongside new trends in tax compliance and tax audit methods, as well as helping to solve the most pressing challenges that businesses face.

Tax Technology and Transformation is composed of the following services:

• Digital tax transformation
• Tax applications‑as‑a‑service
• Tax data and improvement
• Tax analytics and reporting enhancement
• Emerging tax technology, including robotic process automation (RPA), artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, cloud solutions, data lake development and business intelligence innovation
• Tax technology program mobilization
• Custom tax technology application development and deployment
• Tax technology strategy and road mapping
• Direct and indirect tax systems implementation and configuration
• Post‑transaction (M&A) tax function operational services
• Tax operating model transformation, including process improvement, risk and controls
• Tax function assessments

Today's dynamic corporate environment is changing the way tax is doing business. The most comprehensive solution for developing and maintaining tax controls in the area of indirect taxes is the implementation of a transaction tax calculation engine to automate the tax determination, calculation and compliance processes with respect to our client’s sales and/or purchases. Their transactional systems may include enterprise‑wide applications (ERP systems), homegrown systems, and/or web‑based storefronts.

Their tax calculation engine may be the internal functionality within an ERP system, a third‑party bolt‑on tax application (such as Vertex, Sabrix or Avalara), a custom solution, or a combination of several solutions.

This is an area that has seen plenty of recent growth and investment – and you will see that reflected in your career. It is no exaggeration to say that you will be working on highly publicised projects. 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.

• Help client tax departments operate at peak efficiency and productivity and better position them to take advantage of tax saving opportunities that might otherwise go undetected.
• Transfer control of tax decision‑making from the transaction processing personnel and outside vendors to the tax specialists within our client’s tax department.
• Understand how to define the solution, coordinate the necessary technical resources, and deliver a finished product that fulfills the client’s goals and tax requirements, including:
• Documenting and reviewing current state tax processes and controls to identify enhancement opportunities
• Supporting the development of a business case to justify tax process enhancement solutions
• Providing support during the indirect tax software/ vendor selection process
• Documenting tax data requirements
• Implementing automated indirect tax calculation and compliance solutions

• Improving reporting capabilities to enhance our clients’ ability to evaluate risk and…