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Manager, Business Analyst (79077)
Use your Business Analysis (BA) testing skills to cultivate innovative technologies for a fast-growing segment within Deloitte Tax. Be on the cutting edge of a rapidly growing industry and work with a team of proven innovators!
Work you'll do
As a BA Manager on our team you will be working closely with tax SMEs, business analysts, and application developers to aggregate, prioritize, and report out on impact of the top-quality issues affecting the projects. Additionally, you will:
- Collaborate with tax professionals/SMEs to document business requirements.
- Communicate business requirements and desired system-related capabilities to development team.
- Design/develop Power BI dashboards.
- Provide technical and functional support to software users.
- Work collaboratively and independently while managing multiple projects, assignments and/or responsibilities.
- Collaborate with tax SMEs, business analysts, and application developers to ensure a shared understanding of the business model and the detailed function requirements.
- Plan, design, and execute tests of internally developed software application features including user interfaces, business logic, data access, etc.
- Troubleshoot, and critique software components.
- Provide status updates regarding defect resolution and development initiative progress.
- Recommend solutions to improve test management, execution, and reporting.
- Perform quality assurance and end-user acceptance testing to confirm the product satisfies end-user requirements and needs
- Analyze feature requirements and assist in identifying requirement enhancements to improve product efficiency.
- Assist to conduct feature demonstrations for stakeholders once testing is concluded.
- Perform Production and test environments smoke testing for patch, Production release and deployments
- Assist in defining performance testing process as applicable.
- Establish and evolve seamless regression test process to include existing features and new features.
- Collaborate and mentor junior team members in U.S. and U.S.-India.
- Mentor and develop of engagement staff, providing leadership, counseling, career guidance, and guidance on issues related to work/life fit.
- Participate in marketplace activities, recruiting, and process and technology innovation.
- Identify service opportunities, manage client accounts, and advance various Deloitte initiatives.
The Team:
National Federal Tax Services (NFTS) is a national practice within Deloitte Tax LLP made up of a number of tax service offerings. Each NFTS service offering has been developed and built as a result of a tax planning idea, a marketplace driver, or a technological innovation - all with the purpose of delivering results for our clients. Our people are entrepreneurial in spirit and have always had the work-hard/play-hard mentality. NFTS service lines provide tax planning for the largest organizations across all industries.
Qualifications
Required:
- Six (6)+ years' experience as a tax professional and/or financial software business analyst.
- Bachelor's degree in accounting, engineering, MIS/CIS, computer science, mathematics, or other business technology related field required. Problem solving ability is paramount regardless of initial feed of education.
- If qualified for CPA examination or in the process of obtaining/willing to obtain a CPA, CPA or enrolled agent, or other appropriate certification.
- Ability to understand and document complex tax calculations.
- Proven leadership skills demonstrating strong judgment, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities
- Ability to work with a team of developers to design, develop, validate, manage, and maintain custom built software solutions
- Demonstrated effective verbal and written communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently and virtually.
Preferred:
- ISTQB certified software tester certification obtained or in process or must be able/willing to obtain.
- Experience working in consulting environment.
- Ability to analyze testing requirements based on the business requirements
- Experience of Agile methodologies and SCRUM processes.
- Familiarity with SQL, Figma, Alteryx, Azure DevOps, Power BI is a plus.
- Experience documenting software requirements.
- Experience writing and executing software test cases and test scenarios.
- Desire to learn new aspects of business and tax concepts and apply to mathematical computational efforts.
- Ability to learn and apply new technologies.
- High attention to detail, results-oriented, self-directed, and inquisitive with an analytical mindset
- Knowledge of account or partnership U.S. federal income tax is a plus.
- Travel up to 25% (While 25% of travel is a requirement of the role, due to COVID-19, non-essential travel has been suspended until further notice).
- Limited immigration sponsorship may be available.
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