Manager, Tax Compliance

Summary:

The Manager, Tax Compliance leads a team of tax experts in successfully executing projects and solutions that align with the strategy and have broad business impact. The Manager, Tax Compliance will work closely with development teams to identify and understand key features and their underlying functionality while also partnering closely with Product Management and Customer Support. They may exercise influence and govern overall end-to-end software development life cycle-related activities including management of support and maintenance releases, minor functional releases, and major projects. The Manager, Tax Compliance will lead and provide guidance for process improvement programs while leveraging best practices. In this people leadership role, managers will recruit, train, motivate, coach, grow, and develop the Tax Compliance team members at a variety of levels through their operational delivery and provide continuous feedback to ensure employee expectations, customer needs, and product demands are met.

About the Role:

• Manage and provide support to the tax compliance team across multiple initiatives

• Develop new approaches to solve somewhat ambiguous problems identified across the software development lifecycle.

• May manage budget for projects, programs, or products within the area

Sphere of Influence

• Leads multiple cross-functional - project teams

• Balanced strategic and tactical focus

• Excellent cross-functional influencer

• Ensures tax compliance teams are executing efficiently, effectively addressing issues that arise.

• Provide the team with thought leadership to promote reuse and develop consistent, scalable patterns.

• Provide suggestions for handling routine and moderately complex problems, escalating issues when appropriate.

• Frequently interacts with supervisors and/or functional peer group managers. May interact with senior management.

Delivery

• Evaluates new approaches, and capabilities and participates in decision-making, accounting for several factors

• Manages building enhancement content within an existing software build process and occasionally suggests improvements.

• Provides suggestions for handling routine and moderately complex technical problems, escalating issues when appropriate.

• Uses acumen to apply and maintain knowledge of current and emerging tax issues within specialized area(s) of the entity domain

• Leads or sets strategy for testing and debugging for content release.

• In complex and unstructured situations, serves as an expert resource to create and improve standards and best practices to ensure high-performance, scalable, repeatable, and secure deliverables.

• Leads the design, lifecycle management, and total cost of ownership of services.

• Comfortable talking about and learning about every part of the development process to find optimizations and efficiency

• Demonstrates strong domain-specific knowledge regarding the capabilities of our products

• Communicates and coordinates with the project team, partners, and stakeholders

• Demonstrates expertise in analysis and optimization of systems capacity, performance, and operational health

• Understands and develops solutions to foster data lifecycle management

• Stays current with new and evolving methodologies via formal training and self-directed education

• May help in the procurement of services/solutions for the project.

• Accountable for the successful execution of technology projects including support and maintenance releases, minor functional releases and major products.

About You:

• Displays understanding of the project's value proposition for the customer.

• Applies critical, non-biased, and data-based thinking to help make core directional decisions that move toward the forecasted future

• Ranks the importance of initiatives to achieve team and business objectives, recognizing not all work is equally "important" and "urgent", and that some work will fall to a backlog for future prioritization

• Ability to withstand adversity, bounce back from difficulty and move into exploring new possibilities

• In complex and unstructured situations, serve as an expert resource to create and improve standards and best practices to ensure high-performance, scalable, repeatable, and secure deliverables.

• Establishes and maintains strong working relationships with key partners, stakeholders, and customers to ensure timely and accurate information flow and identification of issues.

• Demonstrates strong domain-specific knowledge regarding key competitors' products and differentiating features

Leadership

• Influences and articulates a vision for their customers and product(s)

• Socializes and aligns a wide variety of cross-functional stakeholders to strategy, vision, and roadmap

• Leads through influence to drive results across multiple, cross-functional teams

• Addresses objections and concerns effectively and independently

• Seeks to gain and understand differing perspectives; commits to decisions once made

• Continuously looks for opportunities to improve business or process

• Communicates and presents effectively to a wide variety of stakeholders across the organization

• Outstanding organizational and communication skills (oral, written, and interpersonal) including the ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience

• Learns and adapts, and bounces back quickly from setbacks.

• Lead the design, lifecycle management, and total cost of ownership of the product.

• Provide the team with thought leadership to promote reuse and develop consistent, scalable patterns.

• Provide suggestions for handling routine and moderately complex technical problems, escalating issues when appropriate.

• Frequently interacts with supervisors and/or functional peer group managers. May interact with senior management.

• Manages hiring, performance management, and training for the team.

• Implements a customer-aware culture for their team, ensuring close working relationships with Product, Project Management, Technical Operations etc.

• Accountable for technical delivery across multiple projects/products by providing guidance and support to project leads to assist in removing project impediments.

People Management

• Demonstrates people leadership skills, typically for tactical or more junior-level teams

• Ensures team delivers on expectations, communicating clear goals that support the delivery of impactful work against team OKR's

• Set goals around talent development diversity and inclusion and demonstrate progress

• Identifies development areas and provides timely feedback and coaching to direct reports; effectively addresses under-performance observing mindsets and behaviors of model, coach and care

• Attracts and develops great talent, while setting a high bar and elevating existing team

• Provide guidance and direction; ensure the team is focused on the most important priorities

• Positively resolves issues among team members

• Ensures training and learning of team members.

• Facilitate positive change by helping others improve their thinking and take action

• Build a global, hybrid, high-performing team, focusing on individual development to ensure professional and organizational success

• Displays care by supporting others in the pursuit of wellbeing

• Understand, appreciate differences and recognize how those differences drive engagement and innovation

• Ability to motivate teams, delegate effectively, celebrate diversity within the team, and manage performance, lead with openness and trust

• Leads and manages the day-to-day activities of their team including supporting career development of team (objective setting, performance management, etc.

• Creates an environment of trust and credibility within the team and works with them to identify issues and risks that may impact their growth and progress.

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What's in it For You?

You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

• Hybrid Work Model: We've adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected

• Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.

• Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.

• Social Impact: Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.

• Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we've never talked about with as much pride as we should - we are one of the only companies on the planet that helps its customers pursue justice, truth and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

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