Thomson Reuters
Senior Consultant, Professional Services
Inform the way forward
Finance and accounting
Part-time
Office | Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Visa sponsorship · No
Senior · A role for someone with advanced knowledge and skills. May involve mentoring, leading others or specialisation. Typically at least 5 years of experience.
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Why Thomson Reuters
Together with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world. Our role at Thomson Reuters is to serve our customers, pursuing justice, truth, and transparency.
About the role
This role presents an exciting opportunity to step into the dynamic world of tax and financial reporting technology. If you are an accountant, financial reporting analyst or tax consultant (or a manager in any of these areas) looking to side-step into a role that still allows you to leverage your knowledge and experience, this may be for you.
As a senior consultant in the Professional Services team, you will have a wide range of responsibilities as a subject matter expert in our financial reporting and tax software products, leveraging your accounting, financial reporting and/or tax expertise. You will deliver implementation projects of tax and financial reporting software for a range of clients, including ASX100 and multi-national corporates. You will advise clients as the technical subject matter expert for our software products, train clients, prepare user guides and other documentation, perform product testing and troubleshooting. Along with a team of consultants, you will also be involved in a major project assisting our entire customer base to migrate from legacy software versions to new, updated versions. You will support the client relationship management team as the technical expert in client conversations.
This role is a part time 5 month fixed term contract. About the Role As a Senior Consultant, Professional Services you will:
- Deliver implementation projects for tax and financial reporting software products, including advising clients as the technical subject matter expert, providing training, preparing user guides and other documentation, performing product testing and troubleshooting;
- Project manage implementation projects, including creating project plans, meeting and reporting management, monitoring and managing risks;
- Be involved in sales enablement activities, by scoping and selling the value of our tax software products and services to new and existing customers;
- Manage multiple clients and projects at the same time;
- Enable client retention and relationship management efforts, by supporting the client relationship managers in their dealings with customers as the technical expert;
- Prepare user guides, implementation reports, training manuals and other documentation as required; and
- Deliver training sessions and webinars to clients.
About You For this role, ideally we are looking for someone with:
- 4+ years of experience in accounting, financial reporting and/or Australian tax
- Experience with financial reporting and/or tax preparation software, such as ONESOURCE, CCH, Workiva
- Ability to juggle a large number of projects, clients and tasks at the same time
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong attention to detail
- Ability to explain technical concepts in a clear, concise manner
- Excellent presentation, interpersonal and communication skills (both verbal and written)
- Ability to work in a face paced, team-oriented environment
- Project management skills
If you are interested but don't have all of the skills listed, we would still love to hear from you! #LI-LK1 What’s in it For You?
- Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
- Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
- Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
- Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.
- Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
- Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.
What you'll be responsible for
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Team Collaboration
Collaborate with team members and other professionals to deliver high quality services to clients
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Tax Planning
Develop and implement tax planning strategies to minimize tax liabilities and maximise savings for clients
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Tax Compliance Advisory
Advise clients on compliance with tax laws and regulations
Skills you'll need
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Collaboration
Works with others by being open, clear in communication and listening to achieve goals
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Decision Making
Considers the costs and benefits of potential actions and determines the most appropriate one
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Critical thinking
Identifies and synthesizes patterns and trends amongst various sources of information to reach a meaningful conclusion, perspective or insight