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Associate Director – Tax transformation and technology (Oracle/Microsoft Dynamics 365)
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Associate Director – Tax transformation and technology (Oracle/Microsoft Dynamics 365)
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Leads end-to-end tax-focused ERP projects using Oracle and Microsoft Dynamics 365, including reviews, requirements gathering, solution design, testing, and implementation support. Manages project scope, budget, risk, quality, senior stakeholders, and multidisciplinary teams. Builds technology alliances, develops junior staff, drives business development, leads proposals, and strengthens consulting methodologies and reusable tools. The role also supports broader tax technology initiatives such as e-invoicing, VAT compliance, tax engines, reporting, analytics, and automation.
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Role overview
What you will do
Key skills and experienceEssential
Additional advantageous experience
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Job Description:Associate Director – Tax transformation and technology (Oracle/Microsoft Dynamics 365)Tax transformation and technology (Oracle / Microsoft Dynamics 365)
Location: London/Reading/Bristol (hybrid)
Level: Associate Director
Team: Digital Tax Consulting Team
Role overview
We are looking for an Associate Director to lead the delivery of tax-focused ERP projects, with a primary focus on Oracle and Microsoft Dynamics 365 (although experience with other systems is beneficial), with the opportunity to support on wider tax technology projects. This is a senior, client-facing role, supporting businesses with optimising their ERP systems and data for tax, both during and post implementation.
As an Associate Director, you will own the end-to-end delivery of projects for clients, whilst leading and coaching multi-disciplinary teams, and representing the practice in front of Heads of Tax, CFOs and IT Directors.
What you will do
- Own end-to-end delivery of tax projects within Oracle and Microsoft Dynamics 365, managing scope, budget, risk and quality
- Leading a range of projects from supporting clients with ERP reviews and remediation to gathering tax requirements, solution design, testing and go live support during ERP implementations
- Work cross service line i.e. with finance transformation and technology teams to ensure tax requirements are embedded across ERP programmes
- Support, develop and help maintain alliances with third party technology providers and system integrators
- Act as a senior point of contact on engagements, building and holding relationships with Tax, Finance and IT stakeholders
- Lead and coach project teams, developing junior members of the team through review, delegation and day-to-day guidance
- Own engagement risk and quality: apply firm policies and procedures, maintain appropriate documentation, and ensure compliance with internal quality standards and external regulatory expectations
- Drive business development: identify and shape new ERP-related tax opportunities, lead proposals and bids, and contribute to thought leadership that builds the firm's market position
- Strengthen the wider practice: refine delivery methodology, build reusable accelerators and tools, and support recruitment and capability building within the team
Key skills and experienceEssential
- Experience delivering tax workstreams within ERP implementation projects (Oracle and/or Microsoft Dynamics 365) in a consulting, professional services, or in-house tax technology environment
- Strong working knowledge and hands-on experience of how tax determination, reporting and compliance requirements are configured within Oracle and/or Microsoft Dynamics 365 (or experience with other systems)
- Proven ability to lead complex, multi-stakeholder technology engagements, managing budget, risk and quality
- Strong stakeholder management (of finance transformation and IT teams as well as senior tax stakeholders)
- A track record of business development: proposal writing, client relationship building, and converting engagement work into follow-on opportunities
- People leadership experience: managing, coaching and developing team members across multiple concurrent engagements
- Sound understanding of engagement risk, quality standards and regulatory expectations in a professional services environment
Additional advantageous experience
- Professional tax or accounting qualification (e.g., CTA, ACA, ACCA) or equivalent
- Experience leading global rollout programmes spanning multiple countries and jurisdictions
- Experience with implementing point tax solutions i.e. E-invoicing, VAT compliance solutions, Tax engines, Tax reporting etc.
- Familiarity with data analytics or automation tools (Alteryx, Power BI, SQL, Python)
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