Tax Technology Business Analyst
Apply NowCompany: Saxon Global
Location: North Palm Beach, FL 33408
Description:
Responsibilities
Gather, document, and analyze business requirements for tax projects.
Facilitate requirements gathering workshops.
Lead the development and implementation project(s) from functional aspect and own the business logic for the intended solution.
Analyze existing tax calculation workpapers (excel spreadsheets) to understand and document the current state.
Prepare current state and future state process flow diagrams.
Translate business requires to Epics and User Stories in JIRA.
Act as a bridge between the business users and technical team throughout the project. Coordinate and own the communication between technical team and tax business users.
Work with technical staff during solution design stage and assist them for clearly documenting the proposed and approved solution design.
Create test cases and test scripts for functional unit testing, integration testing and user acceptance testing.
Perform functional unit testing and integration testing and document all required test results for SOX compliance.
Support business users during the user acceptance testing.
Support existing and new tax solutions and applications.
Create training material for completed solutions and conduct user training.
Assist Scrum Master for sprint planning, backlog grooming and other Agile ceremonies.
Own Product Backlog and follow Agile best practices during the project.
Must Have Skills
Prior business analysis experience - requirements gathering, functional design, test case creation and execution, user acceptance testing.
Prior experience in conducting client workshops and facilitating stakeholder meetings among business and IT groups.
Ability to understand business requirements and transform them to low level design specifications.
Expertise in business processes mapping, gap analysis and re-defining future state processes.
Good analytical, problem solving and data analysis skills.
Skilled in using Microsoft office tools: MS Excel, Power Query, Power Point, Word.
Excellent communication skills (verbal and written).
Desired Skills
Prior experience with financial accounting and tax processes and systems such as SAP ECC, SAP BW, PowerPlan, CorpTax, One Source Tax Provision, etc.
Knowledge of Energy & Utilities domain and processes.
Exposure to automation and process mining tools such as RPA, Alteryx, etc.
Experience with collaboration and document management tools: Confluence, SharePoint, etc.
Experience in Agile Scrum & Kanban project management methodologies.
Prior experience with JIRA and other Agile project management tools.
Gather, document, and analyze business requirements for tax projects.
Facilitate requirements gathering workshops.
Lead the development and implementation project(s) from functional aspect and own the business logic for the intended solution.
Analyze existing tax calculation workpapers (excel spreadsheets) to understand and document the current state.
Prepare current state and future state process flow diagrams.
Translate business requires to Epics and User Stories in JIRA.
Act as a bridge between the business users and technical team throughout the project. Coordinate and own the communication between technical team and tax business users.
Work with technical staff during solution design stage and assist them for clearly documenting the proposed and approved solution design.
Create test cases and test scripts for functional unit testing, integration testing and user acceptance testing.
Perform functional unit testing and integration testing and document all required test results for SOX compliance.
Support business users during the user acceptance testing.
Support existing and new tax solutions and applications.
Create training material for completed solutions and conduct user training.
Assist Scrum Master for sprint planning, backlog grooming and other Agile ceremonies.
Own Product Backlog and follow Agile best practices during the project.
Must Have Skills
Prior business analysis experience - requirements gathering, functional design, test case creation and execution, user acceptance testing.
Prior experience in conducting client workshops and facilitating stakeholder meetings among business and IT groups.
Ability to understand business requirements and transform them to low level design specifications.
Expertise in business processes mapping, gap analysis and re-defining future state processes.
Good analytical, problem solving and data analysis skills.
Skilled in using Microsoft office tools: MS Excel, Power Query, Power Point, Word.
Excellent communication skills (verbal and written).
Desired Skills
Prior experience with financial accounting and tax processes and systems such as SAP ECC, SAP BW, PowerPlan, CorpTax, One Source Tax Provision, etc.
Knowledge of Energy & Utilities domain and processes.
Exposure to automation and process mining tools such as RPA, Alteryx, etc.
Experience with collaboration and document management tools: Confluence, SharePoint, etc.
Experience in Agile Scrum & Kanban project management methodologies.
Prior experience with JIRA and other Agile project management tools.