Summer Tax Technology Internship - London, United Kingdom - Ryan, LLC

Description

Tax Technology Associate Consultant ("Associate Consultant") assists more senior team members to provide tax automation and transformation services to corporate clients.

The Associate Consultant is responsible for creating positive team member experiences which lead to excellent client services and drive revenue and profit for the firm.

Typical projects might include detailed requirements analysis, vendor selection, process and control design, the configuration, installation, and implementation/ deployment of automated systems, processes and controls, improvements in data quality and consistency for clients and broader activities to deliver transformation across a range of tax processes.

The Consultant's primary role is to assist more senior team members in the delivery of tax transformation projects, whether they involve better use of existing systems (e.g. ERP or consolidation tools), implementation of 3rd party solutions (e.g. tax engines), leverage of other systems (e.g.

RPA (Robotics Process Automation), machine learning, data analytics/visualization solutions), the development of bespoke solutions or the provision of managed services, and to assist more senior team members when advising clients generally in respect of tax transformations and technology strategy.

Successful Ryan team members embrace and live Ryan's values of Pursue Excellence, Wired to Win, Generosity Matters, Build Trust and Integrity Always and will embody and demonstrate accountability.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Value:

• Assists more senior team members to analyse existing business and system processes and provide recommendations regarding the implementation of tax automation solutions and tax transformation opportunities in general.
• Assists more senior team members to develop new process designs for processes across the widest possible range of tax processes and controls.
• Assists more senior team members to determine and document business and system processes performed for a wide range of tax processes and controls,
• Assists more senior team members when working with clients to help review, define, and document existing tax processes.
• Assists more senior team members to designs, install and configure software solutions to drive tax transformations, implements automation software across the widest possible range of tax processes and controls,
• Assists with daytoday project management duties.
• Comfortable interacting with client resources across a wide range of departments, often including IT and Finance as well as Tax.
• Involvement with business development initiatives from time to time.
• Comfortable challenging the 'status quo' and confident being part of discussions to change or improve processes, controls, systems and/or data without simply accepting 'as is'.
• Assists more senior team members to create, execute, and document testing scenarios.
• Assists with the creation of client deliverable documentation, including creating, composing, and editing written materials.
• Assists with the data gathering, extraction, and analysis of client data.
• Assists team in client data acquisition to support the tax technology services on a required basis.
• When required, travels with other team members to client locations to participate in meetings with clients and to assist with the gathering of data, tax returns, invoices, purchase orders, and other documentation as necessary for use in the tax technology deployment process.
• Assists with the review of documentation, e.g. to fix formatting and spelling.
• Researches issues.
• Works with raw data to complete calculations.
• Uses computerised spreadsheets, relational databases, word processing software, and computer programming software.
• Processes computer data to format and generate reports.
• Assists more senior team members with the provision of Tax Technology consulting and advisory services.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

People:

• Creates a positive team experience

Client:

• Assists more senior team members to respond to client enquiries and requests from the other organisations as required.

Education and Experience:

• Minimum three A levels or equivalent with A grade equivalent pass.

Computer Skills:

• Some experience of using business automation software, such as common data analytics/visualization tools (e.g. Tableau, Qlikview, Power BI or similar) & RPA (e.g. Automation Anywhere, Blue Prism, Alteryx), and data analysis languages such as Python or R and database languages such as SQL would be useful but not necessary.

Certificates and Licenses:
None


Supervisory Responsibilities:
This job has no supervisory responsibilities.


Work Environment:

• Standard indoor working environment.
• Occasional long periods of sitting while working at computer.
• Must be able to lift, carry, push, or pull up to 15 Kg.
• Position requires regular interaction with employees at all levels of the Firm and interface with external vendors as necessar