I have been with Accenture for more than five years and I like the diversified role that I play. By offering diversified roles, which gave me the opportunity to learn different processes other than my forte is the way Accenture groomed me into becoming a leader. I believe being a woman in this industry, one can contribute in creating a positive work environment and my one advice to all women considering a career in this industry is to join and...

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About Accenture :

- Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations with more than 373,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world's most successful companies,

- Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. The company generated net revenues of US$31.0 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2015. You can visit us at http://www.accenture.com.

About Capability Network :

- If you are looking for a career with unparalleled global impact, then Accenture invites you to learn more about our rapidly expanding Capability Network. Over 2,000 management consulting and strategy professionals work in the Capability Network at Accenture.

- Based in a network of prominent locations, Capability Network professionals specialize in providing cutting-edge Industry and Functional expertise and leveraging the power of Accenture to bring measurable value to our clients worldwide.

- Join the Capability Network and always have the backing of the established brand of Accenture to deliver large scale transformational change. Grow your career and experience a stimulating, fast-paced environment working with prestigious clients on diverse projects to solve significant business challenges.

- You will deliver lasting impact as you work as part of a highly specialized team, combining overseas client-site work with opportunities based locally, and contribute to high performance through continuous collaboration and knowledge sharing. For more information visit www.accenture.com/capabilitynetwork

Capability Network Videos :

Video title & External link :

Accenture Capability Network - https://www.youtube.com/watch- v=-92pvOH1d_k

Accenture Capability Network Finance and Enterprise Performance - https://www.youtube.com/watch- v=TlUvziOLWJ8

Accenture in One Word - https://www.youtube.com/watch- v=t1Fo8uNWZ-0

MBA Careers: What makes Accenture different - https://www.youtube.com/watch- v=5bg4u5Sczm8

Practice Overview :

- The Capability Network is a global, distributed strategy and management consulting organization that drives value for our clients and creates competitive advantage for Accenture, through the use of its extensive capabilities, global reach and flexibility, and cost advantage.

- Finance and Enterprise Performance (F&EP) team under Capability Network drives the design and delivery of Finance excellence and process led transformations that combine our capabilities to drive market differentiation. We in F&EP think of ourselves as the - tip of the spear- for F&EP Consulting. Out in front with the diagnostics tools and transformation roadmap with a huge pool of assets and thought leadership, we create differentiation in the Marketplace for End-to-End Transformations either in Finance Process Performance, Enterprise Performance or broader CFO issues in an Organization.

- We architect and deliver initiatives that achieve rapid and sustainable performance outcomes for our clients, creating competitive advantage through superior execution and dynamic operating models that enable High Performance in Finance and Enterprise Performance

Various service offerings by the F&EP teams are as follows :

- Finance and Accounting Shared Services

- Finance and Accounting Process Led Transformation

- Enterprise Performance Management Strategy

- Hyperion solutions management and implementation

- Tax transformation

- Real estate strategy

- The Core Capabilities of F&EP Practice combines the broad focus of CFO Strategy with the deep process skills and front-end of Process Led Transformation

- Accenture F&EP Practice has expertise in delivering Shared Services implementation, Enterprise Performance Management strategy implementation, Hyperion implementation, tax transformation for over 20+ years working with over 200 clients across the Globe.

Skill/Operating Group : Direct Tax [F&EP]

Level : Consultant

Location : Gurgaon/Mumbai/Bangalore

Travel Percentage : Expected Travel could be anywhere between 0-100%

Principal Duties And Responsibilities :

- The consultant must be able to perform responsibilities across client delivery, thought leadership, capability development and offshore support for onsite project teams

- Understand and drive conversation with client on Direct Tax provisioning, calculation of Advance Tax and Transfer Pricing related processes and be able to drive key inputs, gaps and opportunities to add value

- Support Source Data Sensitization and Data Evaluation analysis in ERP (SAP/Oracle EBTAX) to enable successful tax function transformation.

- Support configuration of the tools and applications (LongView/Taxware/Onesource/Hyperion Tax) to meet client requirements as a functional expert

- Perform current state analysis of tax related processes to articulate solutions and project methodology pertaining to tax function transformation or tax applications relevant to the context in Client conversations

- Impart strong functional knowledge and guidance of accounting standards IFRS/ US GAAP

- Support testing activities functionally, by providing inputs to definie the test scripts to ensure that the functionality changes / new requirements gathered are built appropriately

- Assist in the development of capabilities in the direct taxes space

- Support and help in business development and marketing activities to grow the direct Tax consulting practice

- Supervisory role may be a played by a consultant to ensure that the work/deliverables executed by his subordinates meet the quality expectations and meets clients expectations

- Deliver projects on implementation of Tax tools/ software applications for Direct Tax (eg: LongView / Taxware/ HyperionTax)

- Demonstrate ability to understand masterdata set up in ERP (SAP/ Oracle) and ensure it to be detailed and tax sensitised

- Demonstrate a breadth of experience and a depth of understanding of Finance and corporate tax function processes to deliver large tax function consulting projects

- Demonstrate ability to articulate solutions to clients and sustain opinion with sufficient examples / expertise

- Develop key thought leadership material on Tax function or Tax function transformation projects

- Provides offshore oronsite support in projects that run in different geographies and be a part of the extended project team.

Qualifications :

- Must be a CA/ CPA/ CFA with at least 4-8 years of experience with exposure to major ERP's. Understanding of chart of account structuring, provisioning, calculation and returns filing of corporate tax . Understanding of IFRS / US GAAP, Sales & Use tax, VAT, Service tax, Excise & Telecom transaction tax experience or knowledge would be preferred. Experience with toosl like HFM, HP will be preferred

Experience :

- Should have minimum 4-6 years of work experience preferably all the years in Finance function with experience and skills in direct Tax processes, Financial and Tax reporting

- Functional experience in Finance transformation projects across all or any of the phases i.e Plan, design, Build, Test and Deploy, preferably involving implementation of Enabling techonolgy, tools and Software applications

- Working knowledge on leading ERP applications, consolidation and tax provisioning tools

- Working knowledge on IFRS / US GAAP, Char ot Accounts

Key Competencies and Skills

Soft Skills :

- Candidate should be self-motivated with strong analytical and communication skills

- Strong inter-personal skills with ability to connect with leadership

- Ability to work with geographically dispersed teams

- Strong communication and inter personal skills.

- Attention to Detail

- Integrated Business Perspective with special emphasis on technology enablment

- Affinity with large organizations and large projects

- Cross Cultural Competence

Note : Accenture is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law

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