Solution Consultant – Direct Tax

Are you passionate about the chance to bring your experience to a world-class company that is market-leading for both content and technology? We’re looking for a Solution Consultant, to join our growing European team.

The Solution Consultant is a key part of our sales process. This role requires the technical knowledge and experience to discuss complex tax issues facing multinationals today with a particular focus on the EMEA region.  The specialist should understand the day-to-day challenges facing companies in complying with local and global compliance and reporting obligations, and be able to discuss client's reporting processes, tax technology needs, providing insight on how to improve and implement processes and technology to resolve challenges.

The Solution Consultant is also responsible in helping to shape the direction of the Direct Tax products by communicating market needs to the Product Marketing team. The successful candidate will be working with colleagues around the globe on exciting initiatives in a growth environment.

About the Role

As a Solution Consultant at Thomson Reuters, you will have the following responsibilities:

External Responsibilities:

·       Represent ONESOURCE Direct Tax solutions, including ONESOURCE Corporate Tax, ONESURCE Tax Provision, Global Minimum Tax, ONESOURCE Statutory Reporting to all levels of potential customers in the finance and tax teams of global companies. 

·       Manage multiple customer prospects, actively identify process issues and support the sales team in developing proposals and customer business cases to establish a ‘win’ in the overall sales process.

·       Lead solution demonstrations, presenting value proposition and aligning solutions to the customers’ business needs. Communicate through multiple channels, including phone calls, virtual and onsite presentations.

·       Responsible for drawing on the appropriate skills in the areas of Tax compliance and reporting, business processes, and business operations throughout the sales process. 

·       Take responsibility for the client experience and ensuring that customer excellence is delivered throughout the sales cycle and delivery process, developing a trusted advisor relationship with client stakeholders in order to help create client champions and advocates

Internal Responsibilities:

·       Be a product expert for the Direct Tax solutions, focusing on ONESOURCE Corporate Tax, ONESURCE Tax Provision, Global Minimum Tax and ONESOURCE Statutory Reporting, and working with the other Solution Consultants in the team to ensure that all relevant stakeholders are apprised of latest developments and the product roadmap.

·       Responsible for producing and maintaining demo data to present different use cases based on customer needs, develop scripts and product documentations. 

·       Support the preparation of technical resources for the Sales teams to use, deliver product/service enhancement presentations, trainings to sales teams on industry and product updates.

·       Work closely with the Sales team to achieve sales targets. 

·       Work with Marketing and the Sales team on activities including white papers, webinars, events and conferences to drive new opportunities. 

·       Work closely with Product Marketing to identify industry trends, collect feedback from the field, evaluate capability enhancements and validate business cases for future development. 

About You:

To be our Solution Consultant, you will likely have/be:

·       Extensive experience in Tax reporting and compliance, within a Big 4 accounting firm and/or multi-national corporation having ‘hands on’ tax experience.

·       Knowledge of Tax regulations affecting global organisations (eg Global Minimum Tax requirements).

·       Preferably experience of managing reporting and compliance for global organisations.

·       Preferably experience of using Tax solutions to manage reporting processes (eg Tax Provision solution).

·       A dynamic presenter and quick thinker, experienced in presenting with the personal gravitas, ability to articulate the value proposition, as it relates to each prospect's unique critical reporting issues.

·       Customer oriented approach with strong skills in negotiation, complex problem solving and conflict management

·       Highly entrepreneurial and ability to work across multiple teams/parts of the organisation

·       Ability to successfully work in an agile environment. Ability to thrive amidst ambiguity and adapt to shifting circumstances

·       Strong collaboration, teamwork and relationship building skills across multiple functions and levels in the organization to develop joint solutions

·       A Bachelor’s degree and professional qualification in accounting or tax.

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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.

Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward. 

Accessibility 

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

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