Job Summary & Responsibilities
The Tax department is seeking a highly motivated individual with experience gathering business requirements, developing and supporting visual basic and SQL database user developed applications for a position in the area of tax technology and process improvement (Tax Technology Office).
Responsibilities:
• Assist tax managers in creating business cases
• Extract and translate user requirements into written business and functional requirements
• Liaise between Tax and Technology groups by communicating technical tax and systems concepts in both layman's and technician's contexts
• Work with Tax, Finance Controllers, Technology, business units, and outside consultants to leverage technology solutions for the Tax department
• Identify opportunities for process improvements and application of technology "best practices"
• Represent Tax in firmwide technology projects
• Troubleshoot current applications and develop change enhancements to meet functional and technical standards through engagement with other business analysts and stakeholders
• Help end users by creating "user developed applications" using MS Office automation and database development.
• Analyze and resolve production issues in a timely manner to the benefit of the end user
• Support application testing to ensure quality of work; create test plans, data, procedures, and test scripts; execute testing for ad-hoc projects; review and report test results; participate in production verification, validation, and issue management
Requirements/Experience/Education:
• Bachelor's degree
• 5+ years of experience performing business analyst role
• 3+ years of experience developing automated solutions
• Strong interest and aptitude for technology solutions, including automating data gathering, implementing and developing software, and database management
• Self-motivated, with strong communication (oral and written) and interpersonal skills
• Financial services industry experience a plus
• Finance division experience a plus
Technical/Programming and General Knowledge:
• MS Office Automation and Database development
• Databases Management: SQL, SYBASE, ORACLE, MS ACCESS
• Experience developing solutions with at least one of the following: T-SQL, VBA, VB, VB.NET, C#, HTML, CSS, ASP, ADODB
• Familiarity with SharePoint customization a plus
