Associate Business Analyst, Sales and Use Tax

Why Ryan?

• Global Award-Winning Culture

• Flexible Work Environment

• Generous Paid Time Off

• World-Class Benefits and Compensation

• Rapid Growth Opportunities

• Company Sponsored Two-Way Transportation

• Exponential Career Growth

The Associate Business Analyst works with India / U.S teams and will be responsible for building and leveraging the latest Data Analytics technologies to resolve challenging problems in the Transaction Tax space. With direction from the U.S / India Teams, the individual must be able to gather process requirements, design, deploy solutions and manage project communications. The individual is expected to be able to streamline document processing, train the machine learning model to extract the text from documents, develop, and design analytic workflows to ensure satisfactory project completion by maintaining the quality of every task received from India / U.S counterparts.

Duties and responsibilities:

People:

• Create a positive team experience
• Attend and actively participate in meetings, offer ideas, insights, and recommendations towards process improvements, which will enable the team to improve its overall efficiency
• Communicate with US counterparts to address any queries that they have / to let them know the status of the projects.

Client

• Respond to client inquiries and requests in the given timelines
• Timely communicate project status to Stakeholders
• Ensure quality work product is delivered by adhering to all the Quality Assurance & control measures laid out without any deviation.
• Develop an understanding of Ryan service offerings

Value:

• Work on projects related to data importing, cleansing, extracting, transforming, validating, or modeling
• Leverage text or optical character recognition tools to streamline document processing
• Significantly reduce the investment in administrative time to manually input and review information directly from documents
• Collect extracts key data points from unstructured documents and render the PDF documents along with the extracted data to pre-populate required fields based on the document type.
• Train the machine learning model to extract the text from documents, develop, and design analytic workflows to ensure fulfill business needs
• Develop workflows and tools that aid in the preparation and blending of data
• Download and extract information from different sources
• Reconcile values from different data sources
• Develop user test cases and administer user acceptance testing/sign-off
• Identify technical dependencies and recommend solutions that fulfill business needs
• Complete tasks assigned by Management with a sense of urgency and confidentiality where needed.

Education and Experience:

Any Masters or Bachelor’s Degree

0-2 years of experience with Spreadsheet, Database or any technical tools

Skills:

To perform the job successfully, the candidate should have a basic understanding of Tax and accounting concepts and good analytical & problem-solving abilities. High attention to detail, ability to meet strict deadlines, and good communication skills. Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft® Word, Access, Excel, Outlook, Internet navigation, and research, basic knowledge of SQL queries and databases is required.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

Work Environment:

• The current work hours are 2.00 PM to 11.00 PM, IST. Shift change is anticipated depending on US work hours/time zone and business needs.
• Candidate should be willing to work in any shift
• A reasonable amount of overtime will be required during peak season
• Standard indoor working environment
• Position requires regular interaction with employees in India / US both via e-mail and telephone