Tax-Data Governance, Analytics & Business Intelligence - Dallas-Vice President

Goldman Sachs - Dallas, TX

Full-time

Dallas, TX

Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities

About the position

The Tax division is seeking a skilled business and data intelligence professional to design and implement Tax datasets. This role involves working closely with tax compliance and reporting teams to create Global Tax data models, ensuring efficient data management and adherence to the firm's Data Governance Framework. The position is ideal for individuals who are creative, collaborative, and detail-oriented, contributing directly to the firm's success through effective tax data management.

Responsibilities

• Analyzing and translating business requirements into long-term solution data models.
• Evaluating existing data systems to create a Global Tax data model for the Tax division.
• Applying the data governance framework to ensure high data quality and trustworthy data pipelines for tax calculations and reporting.
• Working closely with business partners and technology leaders to identify areas for data quality improvement.
• Building automation and workflows to address data control gaps.
• Implementing data strategies and converting logical models into physical data models.
• Facilitating resolution of data quality issues across business and technology stakeholders, including external vendors.
• Collaborating with data and analytics experts to enhance data system functionality.
• Working with Tax engineers on development, testing, and production.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, Computer Science, or related disciplines.
• 6+ years of experience in a relevant field.
• Hands-on experience with one or more mainstream programming languages (Python, Java, C, Scala, C++, etc.).
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and SQL.
• Experience in a visualization tool such as Tableau preferred.
• Experience dealing with structured or unstructured data preferred.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work with various stakeholders.
• Willingness to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Interest in applying technical knowledge to the Financial Services industry.
• Strong sense of ownership and driven to manage tasks to completion.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in working with databases (Oracle, Sybase IQ, Snowflake, Hadoop, etc.).
• Experience with Alteryx.