Indirect Tax - Consultant

Practice: CFO & Enterprise Value, Industry Consulting, Global Network

Areas of Work: Indirect Tax | Level: Analyst / Consultant

Years of Experience: 2-7 years

Explore an Exciting Career at Accenture

Are you an outcome-oriented problem solver? Do you enjoy working on transformation strategies for global clients? Does working in an inclusive and collaborative environment spark your interest? Then, Accenture Strategy and Consulting is the right place for you to explore limitless possibilities.

As a part of the Strategy & Consulting Global Network CFO & Enterprise Value team, you will support CFOs and finance organizations to craft and implement strategies anchored on digital disruption, new age operating models and best-in-class practices, to drive market differentiation. Together, let's enable enterprise innovation, and deliver tangible results and outcomes for our clients.

Key Responsibilities:

- Provide leading practice on tax processes and blueprint for the clients.

- Interact with clients to gather business tax requirements through multiple workshops.

- Analyze business requirements and identify best practices to implement a technical solution.

- Facilitate design sessions related to tax determination, calculation, recording, reporting and compliance.

- Prepare key deliverables such as design documents, build, test documentation, training materials and administration and procedural guides.

- Assist leaders on day-to-day operations as well as help create assets, points of view and business proposals.

Required Skills:

- Ability to drive solutions independently

- Adept at Microsoft PowerPoint, spreadsheet and Power BI applications

- Strong writing skills to build points of view on current industry trends

- Good analytical and problem-solving skills with an aptitude to learn quickly

- Excellent communication, interpersonal and presentation skills

- Cross-cultural competence with an ability to thrive in a dynamic consulting environment

Qualifications:

- MBA from a Tier-1 B-school or CA or CPA

- 2-7 years of work experience preferably in financial areas such as order to cash, source to pay, record to report with tax relevance

- Strong hands-on experience in integration and tool implementations in the following platforms:

- Tax Types: VAT, GST, SUT, WHT, Digital Compliance Reporting

- ERP: SAP or Oracle

- Tax Technologies: Vertex O Series, OneSource, SOVOS

- Tax add-on tools: Vertex Accelerator, OneSource Global Next, LCR-Dixon

- In-depth experience in functional configuration or integration of ERPs with external tax technologies to achieve higher automation

- Good experience of working on multiple tax types and business processes

- Knowledge of tax processing and understanding of tax technology landscape, trends, and architecture

- Deep experience in transformation project through multiple phases - such as planning, requirement gathering, designing, building, testing, and deployment

- Experience in analysis and implementation of tax requirements for indirect taxes (VAT, GST, SUT) and withholding taxes including their integration with supply chain, procurement, purchase-to-pay, record-to-report, order-to-cash, etc.

What's in it for you?

- An opportunity to work on transformative projects with key G2000 clients

- Potential to co-create with leaders in strategy, industry experts, enterprise function practitioners and business intelligence professionals to shape and recommend innovative solutions that leverage emerging technologies.

- Ability to embed responsible business into everything—from how you service your clients to how you operate as a responsible professional.

- Personalized training modules to develop your strategy & consulting acumen to grow your skills, industry knowledge, and capabilities

- Opportunity to thrive in a culture that is committed to accelerate equality for all. Engage in boundaryless collaboration across the entire organization.

About Accenture:

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology, and operations. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries and all business functions, underpinned by the world's largest delivery network, Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and create sustainable value for their stakeholders. With 569,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. Visit us at www.accenture.com

About Accenture Strategy & Consulting:

Accenture Strategy shapes our clients' future, combining deep business insight with the understanding of how technology will impact industry and business models. Our focus on issues such as digital disruption, redefining competitiveness, operating and business models as well as the workforce of the future helps our clients find future value and growth in a digital world. Today, digital is changing the way organizations engage with their employees, business partners, customers and communities. This is our unique differentiator. To bring this global perspective to our clients, Accenture Strategy's services include those provided by our Global Network - a distributed management consulting organization that provides management consulting and strategy expertise across the client lifecycle. Our Global Network teams complement our in-country teams to deliver cutting-edge expertise and measurable value to clients all around the world. For more information visit https://www.accenture.com/in-en/careers

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