Consultant / Manager, Excise Tax Specialist, Tax Technology

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Connect to your Industry

Tax Technology Consulting (TTC) – Deloitte’s Tax Technology Consulting Team (TTC) has a market leading reputation; bringing together a unique blend of consulting, technology, tax technical and tax reporting experience to help businesses meet the challenges of multi-jurisdictional tax operations, including compliance, reporting, tax technology and tax risk management.

Within TTC, sits our Tax ERP Value Proposition, with a fast-growing team and a super-growth ambition. We are undertaking an unprecedented wave of ERP implementations, and these require specialist Tax Technology and Systems knowledge as a blended hybrid skillset. This proposition is uniquely positioned to be a key differentiator for the firm-wide ERP-enabled business transformation practice across EMEA. As a Tax-focused ERP consultant, you will have plenty of opportunities to work on large-scale ERP and Tax Technology projects as part of complex business transformations. You'll work with a wide range of colleagues and clients, exposing you to cutting edge tax technology work in a strategic, commercial and business context. You will find opportunities to apply an impressive range of broad consulting and functional skills that will enhance your career.

Connect to your career at Deloitte

Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

What brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.

Connect to your opportunity

We are looking for innovative Tax and Technology professionals that are looking to broaden their careers by supporting our clients to transform their tax functions and respond to excise taxes and other environmental taxes that are emerging.  As you build your career with us to become an innovative Tax ERP and Tax Technology professional you will be helping our clients to design, develop and implement systems architecture that best meets their business needs, in the rapidly changing tax and legal landscape.

Your role will entail gathering the requirements for designing and implementing ERP solutions (e.g. SAP, Oracle etc.) or other tax technology solutions to help our clients to meet their excise tax requirements and/or other emerging environmental taxes (such as plastic and packaging taxes, carbon taxes, sugar taxes etc.) You will be working alongside an experienced and growing team, which is a once-in-lifetime opportunity to support our clients in ensuring that they have the right data, business processes and systems set up for the future.

Key responsibilities -

• Tax Solution Design & Integration: Evaluate client tax and business requirements to design, build, and integrate optimal Excise and environmental tax solutions within ERP and wider tax technology landscapes.
• System Architecture Optimisation: Assess existing systems architecture (ERP and other tax systems) and collaborate with technical staff to recommend and implement solutions to improve capabilities or fill gaps.
• Technical Problem Resolution & Business Impact: Assess the business impact of functional and technical choices made and proactively help resolve technical problems as they arise.
• Stakeholder Engagement & Project Reporting: Develop and maintain strong working relationships with key clients and internal stakeholders, providing regular updates on product development, costs, budgets, and project achievements.
• Emerging Technology Research: Continually research current and emerging technologies (e.g., SAP, Oracle) and propose strategic changes as part of Deloitte's Tax ERP Value Proposition.
• Regulatory Monitoring & Compliance: Monitor ongoing global regulatory developments related to excise, environmental, and consumption taxes, liaising with legal and compliance teams to translate legislative changes into system requirements.
• Tax Digitalisation Leadership: Propose and lead proof-of-concept projects for tax digitalisation initiatives, such as e-invoicing and digital compliance reporting.
• Capability Building & Training Delivery: Lead workshops and training sessions to build tax technology skills among client staff and junior team members.

Connect to your skills and professional experience

• An MBA, Chartered Accountant qualification or a bachelor’s degree in finance/accounting (or equivalent) from a reputable university, coupled with significant overall experience in Finance, Accounting, and/or Taxation.
• Extensive relevant experience in tax consulting, tax technology, or a related field, preferably within a Big 4 firm or a large multinational corporation.
• Hands-on experience in the following areas is not mandatory but desirable: Excise Tax, and/or environmental taxes (such as plastic and packaging taxes, carbon taxes, sugar taxes etc.), including compliance, advisory, and system implementation.
• Hands-on (functional or techno-functional) experience and demonstrated proficiency with major ERP systems (preferably SAP) and tax technology solutions.
• Proven experience in the design of Tax, ERP, and Tax Technology solution architectures.
• Strong understanding and experience with project methodologies (e.g., Agile, Waterfall) and their application to ERP deployments.
• Experience with ERP migration processes, developing ERP Functional Specification Documents for tax enhancements, and creating functional configuration documents.
• Experience with how Order to Cash, Procure to Pay, Record to Report and Intercompany processes are set up and operated in the ERP system, including testing and setting up required master data.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to manage a variety of internal and external stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to manage projects effectively, work under own initiative, and maintain accuracy and attention to detail under pressure.
• Proven ability to adapt to rapidly changing regulatory and technology environments.
• Familiarity with AI concepts and an understanding of its potential impact on Tax transformation are desirable
• A proven track record of successfully managing cross-border or multi-jurisdictional projects.
• Experience in creating and preparing compelling demos and ad-hoc slides for diverse client audiences.
• Experience working effectively within dynamic, fast-changing environments as part of multi-functional teams or projects.

Connect to your business – Tax

Innovation and tax consultancy may not seem to go together, but that’s exactly what you’ll find at Deloitte. We’re constantly seeking the new and working together to push the limits of what’s possible. Discover a new kind of tax career that you can make your own.

Tax

Our comprehensive range of services encompasses everything from the completion of tax returns (corporation tax self-assessment) to complex consultancy assignments and strategic tax planning. We advise on corporate and general tax, international M&A, stamp tax, cross-border transfer pricing, reorganisations and reconstructions, and competent authority negotiations.

Personal independence

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further details as you progress through the recruitment process, or you can contact the Independence team upon request.

Connect with your colleagues

“Innovation and tax consultancy may not seem to go together, but that’s exactly what you’ll find at Deloitte. We’re constantly seeking the new and working together to push the limits of what’s possible. Discover a new kind of tax career that you can make your own.” – Deloitte Employee

"You never have to do it all on your own here. It’s great to know that we’re all in it together; we’re much stronger that way and it’s healthier for everyone too." – Anita, Tax & Legal

Our hybrid working policy

You’ll be based London with hybrid working.

At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That’s why we’ll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you’ll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You’ll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.

Connect to your return-to-work opportunity

Are you looking to return to the workplace after an extended career break?

For this role we can offer coaching and support designed for returners to refresh your knowledge and skills and help your transition back into the workplace after a career break of two years or more. If this is relevant for you, just let your recruiter know when you make your application.

Our commitment to you

Making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.

We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.

Your expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through world-class development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll learn how to lead.

Connect to your next step

A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You’ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you’ll never stop growing, whatever your level.

Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers

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