Tax Manager, International Indirect Tax Compliance - Special Projects - Arlington - ref. g67706919

Project Kuiper will help close the digital divide by delivering fast, affordable broadband to a wide range of customers, including consumers, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations operating in places without reliable connectivity.

This position is crucial in standardizing and optimizing alignment processes for new business launches while proposing strategies to enhance system-requirement concordance and improve overall efficiency.

Key job responsibilities

The role encompasses six critical areas of ITX compliance alignment:

• Requirements-Systems Alignment: Conduct gap analysis between ITX requirements and systems capabilities, develop detailed mapping of tax requirements to system configurations, and validate system implementations against compliance mandates.
• Process Compliance Verification: Monitor system processes for accurate ITX requirement reflection, perform end-to-end alignment reviews, and document discrepancies between expected and actual system behaviors.
• Implementation Oversight: Track ITX requirement implementation, ensure accurate and compliant tax reports, and support UAT focusing on requirements-to-system alignment.
• Data Management and Tax Reconciliation: Implement robust data management strategies, ensure comprehensive tax data reconciliation across systems, resolve discrepancies, and maintain data quality control processes.
• Traceability and Documentation: Create audit trails documenting requirements implementation, develop detailed system configuration documentation, and formalize system deficiencies through BADIs or similar processes.
• Continuous Improvement: Develop frameworks to standardize alignment processes for new business launches, propose strategies to enhance system-requirement concordance, identify efficiency opportunities, and improve data management methodologies.

• 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office products and applications at an advanced level
• Knowledge of at least one data-focused technology tool, such as Python, SQL, Alteryx, Amazon QuickSight, or similar
• Bachelor's degree in Tax, Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, or related field
• Understanding of international tax regulations and system compliance requirements
• Documentation and traceability skills
• Proficiency in systems mapping and configuration verification
• Experience in data reconciliation and management- 3+ years of maintaining and operating transaction tax calculation software (e.g. Vertex) experience
• • Meticulous attention to detail
• • Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities
• • Ability to communicate complex technical and tax concepts
• • Proactive approach to identifying and resolving alignment gaps
• • Expertise in data integrity and reconciliation

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