Tax Operations - Business Intelligence - Vice President - Salt Lake City

YOUR IMPACT

Are you looking for an opportunity to be part of a growing organization and work as part of a global team to drive strategy in a constantly changing environment?  We are looking for a candidate with tax experience to join the Tax Business Intelligence team in the Tax Department.  

OUR IMPACT

Tax analyzes and supports the activities, operations, reporting obligations and transactions of the firm’s business lines to ensure that tax consequences and reputational risks are evaluated appropriately. Our work contributes directly to the firm’s success, and the division is ideal for creative and collaborative individuals who have strong ethics and attention to detail.

The team is responsible for the following:

• Maintaining the integrity of the firm’s compliance with reporting authorities around the globe and managing related inquiries from a variety of the firm’s businesses across established and emerging markets
• Empowering smarter decisions by transforming data into actionable insights through visualization and building low-code solutions to eliminate repeatable tasks
• Complying with the firms’ regulatory tax withholding and reporting requirements by using data analysis to identify inefficiencies as well as areas for improvement in risk reduction & client service
• Ensuring Firm’s and Client’s trading and brokerage account activity is properly consumed, calculated, withheld upon, and prepared for tax withholding reporting through the development of data structures, automation, analyses, workflows, and controls

Primary Responsibilities How you will fulfill your potential:

• Provide team oversight, foster team development, and give regular feedback & reporting to senior management
• Develop deep subject matter expertise in relevant tax systems, procedures, and requirements
• Gain a comprehensive understanding of multiple business lines across the firm in a role offering broad exposure to many divisions and groups
• Use your inquisitive mindset to identify control weakness, mitigate risk, improve client experience, and further process automation
• Act as a risk manager through ongoing assessment of Business Intelligence inventory, align with firm business intelligence strategy
• Work with management and teams across regions to drive initiatives and issue resolution. 
• Generate new ideas to create efficiencies and reduce risk
• Be flexible and contribute to other activities as required

Data Analysis of Processes and Procedures:

• Develop workflows to analyze and store process data for our tax operations functions
• Create dashboards and ad-hoc analyses to support management decisions regarding business strategy
• Answer important business questions around execution and risk, using data and data tools
• Create resilient, well-documented assets as part of our business intelligence architecture

Automation of repetitive manual data preparation and creation of structured workflow:

• Use Alteryx (data cleaning and data blending tool with data science capabilities), and workflow tools to automate repetitive data preparation – where identical steps are taken periodically to combine datasets, clean datasets, and filter datasets
• Automate the collection and storage of information to allow long term analysis

Basic Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in Business Intelligence/ Digital Transformation
• Manage a team of developers using the agile project management methodology in JIRA
• Develop business intelligence strategy for the organization
• Analytical, self-motivated, detail-oriented with strong problem-solving skills
• Ability to work within a high-risk environment and meet challenging deadlines and targets
• Ability to communicate clearly with end users, development managers, and other stakeholders
• Proficient in data query languages (e.g. SQL)
• Experience in Data Visualization (e.g. Tableau, Qlik, PowerBI, matplotlib)
• Experience in Data Blending and Data Analysis (e.g. Alteryx, KNIME, pandas)
• Experience with using multi-dimensional data modeling/data warehousing for data analytics and reporting

Preferred Qualifications

• Graduate or Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Math, or Engineering
• Experience working with PostgreSQL RDBMS
• Strong data analysis skills and experience with Microsoft Excel, SQL, Alteryx, Python, User Testing, Visio, JIRA
• Understand the broker/dealer environment and the key associated market risks
• Understand broker/dealer tax regulations
• Experience in gathering and documenting requirements with full testing traceability
• Experience in predictive analytics, machine learning, and/or statistical analytics using tools such as Python, R, or MatLab
• Experience creating and maintaining ETL processes using an array of tools
• Experience with Version Control Systems (e.g. Git, SVN)
• Exposure to programming languages i.e., Java, C++, Python
• Exposure to AI / LLM 
• Knowledge of Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, Nonresident Alien, and Backup withholding.
• Prior Tax Operations related work experience or understanding of broker/dealer tax obligations.
• Knowledge of FATCA tax documentation (W-8/W-9) and/or 1099/1042s reporting.
• Ability to translate regulatory guidance and design solutions for risk mitigation and fulfill compliance mandates.

ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS 

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm that provides a wide range of financial services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments, and individuals. Founded in 1869, the firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in all major financial centers around the world.