Assistant manager- US All Tax

Tax Domain Knowledge:

• Strong hands-on experience in US Taxation within a CPA environment, preferably across multiple tax processes/workflows.
• Should understand end-the-end tax workflow rather than just preparation of assigned returns.
• Ability to identify repetitive manual tasks, activities, bottlenecks, dependencies and opportunities for process improvement within existing tax processes.
• Should be capable of breaking a tax process into individual steps, rules, inputs, outputs, exceptions and review requirements.

AI / LLM Experience:

• Strong practical experience of using enterprise LLM's, particularly Chat GPT and Claude.
• Should have used LLM's for complex professional workflows beyond basic drafting, research or summarization.
• Good understanding of prompting, iterative problem solving, context management and validating AI-generated outputs.
• Experience in experimenting with AI to redesign or simplify existing processes would be highly desirable.

Application Development / Vibe Coding experience:

• Hands-on experience in using AI-assisted coding tools to build working applications, utilities, scripts or workflow solutions.
• Ability to translate a business/tax requirement into system logic and work iteratively from a problem -> prototype -> testing -> refinement -> usable solution.
• Basic working knowledge of HTML/CSS/JavaScript/Typescript and /or python.
• Familiarity with using tools such as Codex, Claude Code or similar AI coding platforms would be preferred.
• Candidate doesn't necessarily need to be a traditional software developer but should be a curious and technically comfortable in building and experimenting.

Testing Knowledge and IT Security Governance:

• Strong understanding of how to validate outputs generated by AI.
• Ability to design validation checks around AI generated outputs against source information/controls/totals.
• Understanding of reconciliation, exception reporting and audit/review trails.
• Good awareness of information-security considerations when using AI and confidential/client credentials.
• Ability and Willingness to work within approved enterprise tools and Infosec boundaries.
• Comfortable in documenting proposed use cases, data flows and security considerations and coordinating with IT before implanting wherever necessary.
• Basic familiarity with GitHub and version control.

Strong Communication and Stakeholder Management:

• Strong written and oral communication
• Comfortable in independently discussing proposed solutions with multiple stakeholders, including tax, IT, security, automation teams and Leadership.
• Ability to clearly document the problems, proposed solutions, risks, dependencies, testing and expected outcome.