Tax Technology and Transformation - Advanced Technologies - Data Scientist

Location:

New York, Dallas

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Tax Technology and Transformation provides services to help companies address the challenges posed by existing and emerging technologies, particularly the increasing data burden, by enhancing efficiency and transforming tax functions into cost‑effective operations. The aim is to assist businesses in navigating the digital landscape of tax transparency, compliance, and audit methods while tackling pressing challenges. Key offerings include:

• digital tax transformation
• tax applications‑as‑a‑service
• tax data improvement
• analytics enhancement
• emerging technologies like robotic process automation (RPA), artificial intelligence (AI), and blockchain.

Additionally, services encompass tax technology program mobilization, custom application development, strategy road mapping, implementation of direct and indirect tax systems, post‑transaction operational services, and assessments of tax functions. In today’s evolving corporate environment, implementing a transaction tax calculation engine is crucial for automating tax determination and compliance processes across various transactional systems, including ERP applications and custom solutions.

We are looking for an ambitious, self‑motivated data scientist who will help us discover the information hidden in vast amounts of data and deliver better products to our clients. Your primary focus will be applying data mining techniques, doing statistical analysis, and building high‑quality prediction systems integrated with our products. You will work on a national and global scale, so strong communication skills, attention to detail, and the ability to drive results are essential.

• Selecting features and building and optimizing classifiers using machine learning techniques
• Large Language Models (LLM) prompting and deployment techniques
• Designing and building AI agents to automate and enhance complex business tasks
• Integration of AI components into full‑scale solutions to support business processes
• Data mining using state‑of‑the‑art methods
• Enhancing data collection procedures to include information that is relevant for building analytic systems
• Processing, cleansing and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis
• Doing ad‑hoc analysis and presenting results in a clear manner

Depending on your unique skills and ambitions, you could be supporting various client projects, ranging from machine learning model production to designing and implementing robust data pipelines that can handle data at a multinational, enterprise scale. Whatever you find yourself doing, you will contribute to developing a highly trained team, all while handling activities with a focus on quality and commercial value.

This is a highly regulated industry, so it is all about maintaining our reputation as trusted advisors by taking on bold initiatives and owning new challenges.

• A bachelor’s degree in data science, information system, tax technology, management information systems or computer science or related field and a minimum of one year of related work experience
• Approved technical certification, CPA license or membership to state Bar or progress to attaining those mentioned
• A passionate interest in data science and its role in organization
• Excellent communication and business writing skills
• A natural flair for problem solving and an entrepreneurial approach to work
• Strong organizational and time management skills, with exceptional client‑serving consulting skills
• Desire and demonstrated ability to provide leadership within a team
• Willingness to travel as needed, and working in a balanced hybrid environment
• Strong understanding of machine learning techniques and algorithms, such as Linear/Logistic Regression,…