Summary
The job sits within the Commercial Tax Technology team and involves looking at the application of leading data and analytics tools (e.g. Alteryx/Tableau/Power BI) to the tax practice. The team is relatively small, but high profile and growing. You will have an opportunity to make a real difference working in one of the firm’s priority growth areas.
The Innovation Team is at the core of innovation and emerging technology development, discovery, deployment and support activity. Our team is leading the effort to digitally enable our business. Our mission is to develop disruptive & innovative technologies and products that drive the evolution of how we deliver our services now and in the future. The key technology domains we are currently focused on include business process automation, data curation, industrialized analytics, machine learning & AI and scalable delivery platform.
A career in our Tax Technology Innovation practice, within Innovation services, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients’ tax departments redesign, redefine, and redeploy tax to be a strategic asset across the enterprise. You’ll focus on assisting clients incorporate increased automation in the tax reporting process, increase analytic capabilities through data integration, and create solid internal controls that will enable the Tax function to deliver better quality output and contribute more strategically to organisational decision making.
Our team develops complex software capabilities leveraging the latest in technology to meet today’s hard business problems. You’ll focus on providing highly customisable platforms across the tax practice through research, development, and integration to build adaptable enterprise capabilities. It’s our mission to identify, apply and drive innovation through the application of ground-breaking and unique technologies to set PwC apart from the competition.
About the role
The role is varied and involves developing a variety of new digital products in the data and analytics space. It is very commercial and will give you a great oversight of the UK tax practice. You will learn how to manipulate, critically analyse and graphically present data to PwC teams and clients.
There is an option to gain certifications with these new software packages that will be transferable in most data settings. This is a high profile role, working with senior stakeholders and offering good opportunities for career progression.
Who we are looking for
We are looking a positive, driven, problem solver to join the team.
Required skills and experience
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Proficient in D&A tools (Alteryx / Tableau or Power BI)
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Experience of working on client engagements
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Proficient in MS Excel
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Technologically savvy keen to innovate and find smarter ways to work using technology
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Soft skills Requirements gathering and stakeholder management, an eye for commercial opportunities, good communication and organisational skills
About PwC
We’re one of the world’s leading professional services organisations. From 158 countries, we help our clients, some of the most successful organisations on the globe, as well as its most dynamic entrepreneurs and thriving private businesses, to create the value they want. We help to measure, protect and enhance the things that matter most to them.
The skills we look for in future employees
All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, ‘The PwC Professional’ and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.
Learn more here www.pwc.com/uk/careers/experienced/apply
Diversity
We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool, as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. And we aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.
Learn more here www.pwc.com/uk/diversity
