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Accenture

Advises businesses and runs their technology

Direct Tax Manager - Products – Reinvention Partner Finance, Tax Technology, Implementation & Transformation

Tax AccountingPosted on Nov 10
Full-time

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Taxation, Information Systems, or a related field is required.
  • At least 5 years of relevant experience in corporate tax, tax technology, tax transformation, finance transformation, or consulting is required.
  • Strong knowledge of U.S. corporate direct tax processes, including ASC 740 income tax accounting, tax provision, compliance, deferred taxes, and tax reporting.
  • Experience participating in or leading ERP, EPM, tax technology, or finance transformation implementations.
  • Ability to translate tax requirements into functional and technology requirements.
  • Experience with requirements gathering, process design, data mapping, testing, defect resolution, and deployment.
  • Understanding of how tax processes interact with the general ledger, chart of accounts, legal entities, consolidation systems, and financial reporting.
  • Strong Excel and data-analysis capabilities.
  • Communication, facilitation, documentation, and stakeholder-management skills.

Responsibilities

  • Lead direct tax workstreams within broader tax transformation, finance transformation, and ERP implementation programs.
  • Assess current-state direct tax processes and develop future-state operating models covering income tax provision; federal, state, and international income tax compliance; tax data collection and management; book-to-tax adjustments; deferred tax; effective tax rate calculations; tax forecasting; tax reporting; and tax account reconciliation and close processes.
  • Identify opportunities for standardization, automation, controls improvement, and reduction of manual spreadsheet-based activities.
  • Facilitate workshops with Tax, Finance, Accounting, IT, and business stakeholders to document requirements and design future-state processes.
  • Translate tax business and technical requirements into functional system requirements and solution designs.
  • Lead or support implementation of tax technologies such as Oracle TRCS, Oracle EPM, Oracle Cloud ERP, SAP S/4HANA, Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE, Corptax, and other direct tax, provision, compliance, and data-management platforms.
  • Define requirements for entities, jurisdictions, tax accounts, tax attributes, book-to-tax differences, tax rates, ownership structures, tax adjustments, and reporting dimensions.
  • Develop configuration workbooks, process flows, functional design documents, mapping specifications, and business requirements.
  • Partner with technical teams on integrations between ERP, consolidation, EPM, tax applications, and data platforms.
  • Define tax data requirements and map source-system data to tax applications and reporting solutions.
  • Evaluate general ledger, subledger, consolidation, and other financial data required to support direct tax processes.
  • Design repeatable data collection and transformation processes that improve data quality and reduce manual intervention.
  • Identify opportunities to leverage workflow, analytics, automation, and AI-enabled capabilities within the tax operating model.
  • Develop tax-specific testing scenarios covering business requirements and end-to-end processes.
  • Lead or coordinate System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), data validation and reconciliation, parallel testing, and cutover and deployment activities.
  • Analyze defects and work with functional and technical teams to determine appropriate resolutions.
  • Support post-go-live stabilization and continuous improvement.
  • Manage direct tax workstreams, deliverables, dependencies, risks, issues, and status reporting.
  • Coordinate activities across Tax, Controllership, Finance, IT, ERP/EPM teams, external advisors, and system integrators.
  • Communicate tax requirements clearly to technology teams and explain technology implications to tax stakeholders.
  • Develop executive-level materials that articulate business issues, solution options, benefits, risks, and implementation considerations.
  • Manage multiple priorities and deliverables in complex global transformation environments.

Desired Qualifications

  • CPA, MST, JD/LLM in Taxation, or comparable professional qualification.
  • Experience in Big Four, a large consulting firm, tax technology consulting, or corporate tax transformation.
  • Hands-on experience with one or more of Oracle TRCS, Oracle EPM Cloud, Oracle Cloud ERP, SAP S/4HANA, Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE, or Corptax.
  • Experience with multinational organizations and complex legal entity structures.
  • Experience integrating tax applications with ERP, consolidation, and financial-reporting platforms.
  • Familiarity with tax data models, tax provision automation, dashboards, workflow, analytics, and emerging AI use cases in tax.
  • Experience supporting global or multi-country tax transformation programs.

About the Company

Accenture

Advises businesses and runs their technology

Accenture advises large businesses and public agencies on strategy, builds their technology systems and runs ongoing operations. Its teams connect business planning with implementation, covering areas such as cloud migration, cybersecurity and customer experience. Consultants work with clients to redesign processes, while engineers integrate software from technology partners and maintain the resulting systems for multinational organizations. Clients pay for project work or continuing services, including application support and business processes such as finance and customer service. Accenture was founded in 1989 and has its headquarters in Dublin, Ireland.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Dublin, Ireland
Founded
1989

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