Finance Process Architecture - Tax Management

Job Summary

• The Finance Process Architecture (FPA) team is the liaison between the business owners and the system development teams. FPA translates business needs into into the necessary design requirements to processes, tools, and applications. 
• Accenture’s continued growth creates constant need for enhancements to finance processes, supporting tools, and applications including our highly customized SAP solution.
• This role provides expertise towards the design, development, maintenance, continuous improvement, and support of Tax processes, including Non-SAP and SAP systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to discussions with key stakeholders to design and implement enhancements and new technology projects aligned to Accenture and Tax Leadership priorities. Work side-by-side with CIO program, project leads, and Tax experts.
• Support project management applying Finance Process Excellence and Agile Methodologies throughout the entire life cycle: Plan&Analize, Design, Build, Test, Deploy, Stabilize.  Includes requirements documentation, functional design, integration analysis, testing plan and execution, deployment, process documentation, functional flows and overall change management of new products and enhancements. 
• Learn and grow as Subject Matter Expert of Tax processes, sharing insights, expertise and best practices with our business owners
• Perform daily operations to:

• Maintain Tax owned systems: including SAP transfer pricing mechanisms, intercompany billing processes, tax reporting, and other Customized non-SAP applications
• Support Financial Month End Close schedule, including:
• Completing and coordinating deliverables
• Executing validations for timely and error-free intercompany billing SAP master data maintenance
• Assisting to assess impact on Tax processes and solutions, proposing ideas on how to resolve issues with minimum risk
• Assisting to represent Tax Management in cross process area discussions to resolve incidents impacting financial data with medium and high priority, observing protocols to escalate system errors/issues
• Producing ad-hoc and detailed analysis of high-volume data and customized reports
• Comprehend system functional designs (SAP and non-SAP systems) and process data flows, and propose ideas to meet business needs and requirements.
• Assist on security design matters for Tax owned business roles and production support roles.
• Support internal control requirements, including critical report validations

Relationships

• Reports to:  Tax Management Finance Process Architecture – Associate Manager (Buenos Aires)
• External Relationships:  Works very closely with FPA from other Process Areas (RTR, OTC, CO, RTP), SAP Program and Project Leads, Global Tax Group, Finance and CIO organization as well as local customers, such as Area Tax Leads and Country Controllers.