Consultant - Corptax
Chicago, IL

Job Description

CSC Corptax® is a B2B technology company, transforming the business of corporate tax through innovative software solutions and business process expertise. We offer an excellent benefits package along with good work-life balance in a fun and collaborative environment. This integral role can be based in Chicago or New York City.

The fast-paced Corptax Professional Services team is expanding, and we are looking for a Consultant to join our team. The Consultant will help in providing implementation and best practice consulting services around the entire suite of our Corptax products to our customers. This new team member will be responsible for working with Lead Engagement Managers on understanding customer business needs and providing and implementing the most appropriate solutions to address those needs. This individual will also be developing and completing engagement work plan tasks, ensuring that customer's needs are being addressed, and performing other tasks as assigned by the Lead Engagement Manager to ensure the success of the project and delegating work as appropriate to consultants.

Responsibilities:

The primarily responsible for fulfilling the tasks associated with specific Corptax product implementations and looking at ways of streamlining product implementations. The focus of the implementations will be around the Corptax provision and compliance product lines along with providing assistance with other Corptax product offerings.

Specific tasks include:

* Performing assigned basic implementation functions associated with an engagement (and mentor consultants in doing the same)
* Understanding and documenting customer business requirements
* Data gathering, manipulation and analysis
* Keeping and publishing meeting notes and ensuring customer business needs are being met
* Performing assigned Corptax Setup tasks (and mentor consultants in doing the same): profiles, report folders, data mapping, database population
* Executing assigned project tasks in an efficient and effective manner
* Providing the Lead Engagement Manager (LEM) with support on project management tasks as directed and appropriate
* Communicating with LEM regarding time allotted for assigned tasks to ensure efficient completion (i.e. on time and on budget)
* Reviewing each engagement and identify means of streamlining project implementations, standardizing engagements, and ensuring appropriate resources are being applied to each engagement
* Creating process documentation for each engagement and suggest/implement process changes as appropriate in order to meet the client's needs

Qualifications:

* Bachelor Degree in an accounting, business, or computer science field (tax experience or masters in tax is a plus)
* Minimum of 2-5 years of work experience preferably in an accounting or tax function
* Corptax or other tax software experience
* Software Programming experience a plus (C#, .NET, etc…)
* Excellent oral and written communication skills
* Successful customer facing experience working on multiple projects
* Strong project management skills as demonstrated by education and/or work experience
* Demonstrated experience in business process improvement projects
* Demonstrated experience and knowledge of Microsoft Office solutions, and ideally with financial system applications (e.g. Oracle, PeopleSoft, JDE, Quickbooks, SAP, etc.)
* Strong emphasis on the ability to listen to customer requirements and understanding their business issues
* Demonstrated experience and aptitude with learning and implementing software solutions (accounting, tax, ERP, etc.)
* Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced multi-tasking environment with minimum level of supervision

THIS POSITION IS IN THE CHICAGO AREA OR NEW YORK CITY, AND REQUIRES 30%-50% TRAVEL