Job ID: MD-E00B0600036-RA (90090529)
Tax (must) Risk Assessment Consultant with fraud expertise, reporting and risk mitigation experience
Location: 80 Calvert Street Annapolis, MD (Comptroller of Maryland – COM)
Duration: 5 years
Documents: signed skill matrix (attached)
Personnel Experience
A. Demonstrated knowledge of taxes, system implementation, and state government business processes.
B. Breadth of knowledge in effective communication (internal and external customers).
C. Excellent verbal and w ritten communication skills.
Possess a Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university; a Master’s degree is preferred.
General Experience: At least three (3) years of experience w ith state level individual income and business taxes (sales and use, withholding, admissions and amusement, and corporate Income tax).
A. Manages the identification and reporting of risk assessments,
B. Updates evaluations in order to forecast operational needs and changes,
C. Provides presentations on reporting and operational enhancements, including metrics with special focus on variance analysis,
D. Establishes risk management policies, procedures, and guidelines on risk limits,
E. Provides fraud expertise on services to internal and external customers,
F. Develops system enhancements, meaningful reporting, operational management reporting tools, and web-based tools/programs to manage, prevent, and mitigate risks, and
G. Identifies problems and recommends solutions to risk assessments.
Existing System
The Data Warehouse/Business Intelligence (DW/BI) project successfully went live in October 2012. The data warehouse is a repository of all taxpayer data processed by COM, as well as certain outside sources. In utilization of the existing DW/BI tools, COM implemented several analytical models, revenue reports, and revenue generating compliance programs; a ll of which support the agency’s goals of maximizing collections, identifying tax gaps, preventing fraud, and providing executive decision support. Current related system applications include, but are not limited to:
1. Teradata data warehouse;
2. SAP Business Objects;
3. Tableau; and
4. Erwin Data Modeler.
The current mainframe used for administering taxes and fees delegated to COM are not integrated. COM uses a DB2 mainframe based application to process and account for the majority of the large tax types; including, (1) individua l income tax; (2) corporate income tax; and (3) sales and use tax. In addition to the prior system, COM uses Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Access to administer many of the smaller taxes and fees.
COM is in the process of implementing a new integrated tax processing system that is server based. That system is anticipated to go-live in several phases and include all tax types. Additionally, the new tax processing system is required to integrate with the existing DW/BI applications and to make use of complex algorithms that might continue to exist in the DW/BI.