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Job Description:

Associate Director – Tax transformation and technology (Oracle/Microsoft Dynamics 365)

Tax transformation and technology (Oracle / Microsoft Dynamics 365)

Location: London/Reading/Bristol (hybrid)

Level: Associate Director

Team: Digital Tax Consulting Team

Role overview

We are looking for an Associate Director to lead the delivery of tax-focused ERP projects, with a primary focus on Oracle and Microsoft Dynamics 365 (although experience with other systems is beneficial), with the opportunity to support on wider tax technology projects. This is a senior, client-facing role, supporting businesses with optimising their ERP systems and data for tax, both during and post implementation.

As an Associate Director, you will own the end-to-end delivery of projects for clients, whilst leading and coaching multi-disciplinary teams, and representing the practice in front of Heads of Tax, CFOs and IT Directors.

What you will do

• Own end-to-end delivery of tax projects within Oracle and Microsoft Dynamics 365, managing scope, budget, risk and quality

• Leading a range of projects from supporting clients with ERP reviews and remediation to gathering tax requirements, solution design, testing and go live support during ERP implementations

• Work cross service line i.e. with finance transformation and technology teams to ensure tax requirements are embedded across ERP programmes

• Support, develop and help maintain alliances with third party technology providers and system integrators

• Act as a senior point of contact on engagements, building and holding relationships with Tax, Finance and IT stakeholders

• Lead and coach project teams, developing junior members of the team through review, delegation and day-to-day guidance

• Own engagement risk and quality: apply firm policies and procedures, maintain appropriate documentation, and ensure compliance with internal quality standards and external regulatory expectations

• Drive business development: identify and shape new ERP-related tax opportunities, lead proposals and bids, and contribute to thought leadership that builds the firm's market position

• Strengthen the wider practice: refine delivery methodology, build reusable accelerators and tools, and support recruitment and capability building within the team

Key skills and experience

Essential

• Experience delivering tax workstreams within ERP implementation projects (Oracle and/or Microsoft Dynamics 365) in a consulting, professional services, or in-house tax technology environment

• Strong working knowledge and hands-on experience of how tax determination, reporting and compliance requirements are configured within Oracle and/or Microsoft Dynamics 365 (or experience with other systems)

• Proven ability to lead complex, multi-stakeholder technology engagements, managing budget, risk and quality

• Strong stakeholder management (of finance transformation and IT teams as well as senior tax stakeholders)

• A track record of business development: proposal writing, client relationship building, and converting engagement work into follow-on opportunities

• People leadership experience: managing, coaching and developing team members across multiple concurrent engagements

• Sound understanding of engagement risk, quality standards and regulatory expectations in a professional services environment

Additional advantageous experience

• Professional tax or accounting qualification (e.g., CTA, ACA, ACCA) or equivalent

• Experience leading global rollout programmes spanning multiple countries and jurisdictions

• Experience with implementing point tax solutions i.e. E-invoicing, VAT compliance solutions, Tax engines, Tax reporting etc.

• Familiarity with data analytics or automation tools (Alteryx, Power BI, SQL, Python)