This is not your typical Tax Manager role. You will help drive the creation of new and innovative Bloomberg Tax software solutions for the tax industry by working directly with the product and engineering teams on customer discovery and product delivery, collaborating with our customer experience, marketing, and sales teams to help bring our vision to the market, and leveraging your tax expertise to provide critically important context across the business to help us make well-informed decisions about the products we build.
What you will do:
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Use your strong knowledge of corporate and/or individual income tax principles to research tax issues that directly relate to product initiatives and generally serve as a sounding board on domain issues for the team.
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Partner with product managers to influence and help define the product area vision and strategy and work on feature discovery and release scoping.
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Support ongoing product delivery efforts by addressing domain questions during development, developing test data sets, and performing UAT over completed user stories and features.
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Participate in continuous customer discovery with product and engineering team members to develop deep understanding of customer needs, market trends, and competitor insights. Share domain insights constantly with the team.
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Review and contribute to the creation of effective tools for customer discovery (e.g., problem statements, mock-ups, prototypes) while working alongside user experience (UX) designers.
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Assist with the definition of product value proposition, contribute to product domain thought leadership, and perform product demonstrations as needed in support of customer experience, marketing, and sales teams.
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Analyze domain customer support issues by working directly with customers, researching and scoping problems, and brainstorming cost-effective solutions in coordination with the customer support team.
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Act as a thought leader in tax and accounting domain areas for the products through webinars, industry conferences and events, whitepapers, etc.
You need to have:
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Bachelor’s degree required, concentration in Accounting, Finance or Economics degree strongly preferred.
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JD, CPA or CPA-eligible strongly preferred.
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3+ years working in a corporate tax or accounting department or CPA firm.
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Excellent ability to translate complex technical tax and accounting concepts into layman’s terms.
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A love for technology and an intellectual curiosity in applying technology to solve customer problems.
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Willingness to travel to industry conferences and to perform customer discovery.
Bloomberg Industry Group IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER and fully subscribes to the principles of Equal Employment Opportunity. Bloomberg Industry Group has adopted an Affirmative Action Program to ensure that all applicants and employees are considered for hire, promotion, and job status without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital or familial status, pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical issues, genetic information, disabled veteran, veteran, a veteran of the Vietnam Era, or any other classification protected by law.
What We Do
Bloomberg Industry Group empowers professionals in government, law, tax, and accounting with the news, data, and analysis they need to take decisive action and make the most of every opportunity. Bloomberg Industry Group is an affiliate of Bloomberg L.P.
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