Tax Software & Systems Implementation Director

The Innovation Team is at the core of innovation and emerging technology development, discovery, deployment and support activity. Our team is leading the effort to digitally enable our business. Our mission is to develop disruptive & innovative technologies and products that drive the evolution of how we deliver our services now and in the future. The key technology domains we are currently focused on include business process automation, data curation, industrialized analytics, machine learning & AI and scalable delivery platform.A career in our Tax Reporting and Strategy practice, within Innovation services, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients tax departments redesign, redefine, and redeploy tax to be a strategic asset across the enterprise. You ll focus on assisting clients incorporate increased automation in the tax reporting process, increase analytic capabilities through data integration, and create solid internal controls that will enable the Tax function to deliver better quality output and contribute more strategically to organisational decision making.Our team helps our clients expand the tax role to include research, analytics, and technologies to improve how their organisation collaborates and performs. You ll focus on enhancing the tax reporting process by incorporating increased automation, integrating quality data, developing analytic capabilities, and utilising technology to deliver better quality output in less time.

To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.

As a Director, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

• Support team to disrupt, improve and evolve ways of working when necessary.
• Arrange and sponsor appropriate assignments and experiences to help people realise their potential and support their long-term aspirations.
• Identify gaps in the market and spot opportunities to create value propositions.
• Look for opportunities to scale efficiencies and new ways of working across multiple projects and environments.
• Create an environment where people and technology thrive together to accomplish more than they could apart.
• I promote and encourage others to value difference when working in diverse teams.
• Drive and take ownership for developing connections that help deliver what is best for our people and stakeholders.
• Influence and facilitate the creation of long-term relationships which add value to the firm.
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

Our Tax Reporting & Strategy practice focuses on transforming the tax function for our clients by designing and executing tax operations strategies. We focus on both leading edge technology as well as practical approaches to how a tax function can operate across data, process, technology and people.

Job Requirements and Preferences:


Basic Qualifications:


Minimum Degree Required:

Bachelor Degree

Required Fields of Study:

Accounting, Business Administration/Management, Economics, Finance, International Business, Quantitative Finance, Accounting & Technology, Finance & Technology

Minimum Years of Experience:

10 year(s)

Certification(s) Required:

CPA, Member of the Bar or other tax, technology, or finance-specific credentials may qualify for this opportunity

Preferred Qualifications:


Degree Preferred:

Master Degree

Preferred Knowledge/Skills:

Demonstrates thought leader-level abilities with, and/or a proven record of success directing practice management, emphasizing partial or full management of client engagements involving the evaluation and enhancement of clients' indirect tax processes and/or systems to get better control over data and manage costs, including:

• State and local tax sales and use tax laws, regulations, policies and procedures;
• Tax planning, restructuring, due diligence, audit defense, reverse audits and state controversy work;
• Utilization of Sales Tax software applications, such as Vertex, Avalara; and,
• Sales and use tax implications on FAS 5 and software tools available to automate sales and use tax compliance decisions.

Demonstrates thought leader-level abilities with, and/or a proven record of success directing efforts in a wide range of multistate sales and use tax matters, including the following:

• FAS 5, reverse audits, tax planning, consulting, compliance, automation, mergers and acquisitions, controversy and audit defense;
• Management and oversight of implementations of Sales Tax software applications;
• Process improvement and technology implementation with respect to indirect taxes, including Sales & Use, VAT, and Excise taxes; and,
• Implementation of sales tax software tools in the context of ERP implementations and upgrades.

Demonstrates thought leader-level abilities as a team leader, emphasizing the following areas:

• Building, maintaining, and utilizing networks of client relationships and community involvement;
• Communicating value propositions; managing resource requirements, project workflow, budgets, billing and collections;
• Preparing and/or coordinating complex written and verbal materials.
• Supervising teams to create an atmosphere of trust;
• Seeking diverse views to encourage improvement and innovation; and,
• Coaching staff including providing timely meaningful written and verbal feedback.

Demonstrates thought leader-level abilities with, and/or a proven record of success directing efforts, including developing new relationships, making introductions to sell new services and doing so with a "One Firm" service mindset.Preferred familiarity with a CRM system.

Demonstrates thought leader-level abilities with, and/or knowledge of automation & digitization in a professional services environment including but not limited to:

• Innovating through new and existing technologies, along with experimenting with digitization solutions;
• Working with large, complex data sets to build models and leverage data visualization tools to provide insights to clients;
• Utilizing digitization tools to reduce hours and optimize engagements; and,
• Having knowledge of alternative fee arrangements, including the use of pricing tools, to provide a point of view on pricing strategies.

We are transforming the way we deliver .