Consultant, Tax

About the Role

The role of technology within legal functions continues to expand, enabling legal departments to modernize processes, improve efficiency, and transform how legal services are delivered. As a Tax Consultant II in Deloitte Tax LLP’s Legal Business Services practice, you will support contract lifecycle management and legal technology engagements with a focus on helping clients align technology solutions to business objectives. You will work alongside experienced professionals to deliver implementation, optimization, and transformation solutions that help legal departments operate more effectively. This is an opportunity to contribute to a growing practice and meaningful client outcomes.

Work you'll do

As a Consultant in Deloitte’s Legal Business Services function, you will be a part of a team that provides an integrated approach to technology implementations, automation, data wrangling and document extraction, and data management and analytics that help legal departments maximize the strategic value to the organization. You will deliver technical services for companies that streamline their process and increase efficiency, leveraging, integrating with numerous applications, and creating custom solutions.

As a Legal Business Consultant, you will contribute to the growth and success of Deloitte Tax LLP in a variety of ways, including:

• Client Management: Participate in the day-to-day interactions with client project team members and Deloitte project leadership members.
• Delivery: Work with a team to optimize tax and legal processes, leveraging technology to align tax and legal software with the clients’ specific requirements and goals.
• Solutions: Work with a team to develop and leverage automation and innovative solutions to aid in the efficiency of tax and legal departments.
• Support: Provide training and software support around day-to-day activities, related to processes and various technologies or situational changes.
• Project Management: Assist with project management tasks, such as creating workplans, tracking budgeted time to actual hours incurred, writing status reports, and actively participating in status calls.
• Cross Functional Teaming: Understand and articulate the broader practice and Deloitte overall. Maintain relationships and serve clients holistically.
• People Development: Participate in the development of team members.
• Business Development: Participate in and contribute to pursuit teams.

The Team

At Deloitte Tax LLP, our Legal Business Services (LBS) practice helps legal departments pursue a streamlined, transparent, and efficient legal function that enhances the core responsibilities of operations, contracting, compliance, reporting, and planning, while also positioning Deloitte as a strategic business advisor for the digital era. We specialize in advising legal departments and can effectively address a corporate legal function’s unique needs, requirements, and obligations. As legal operations and contracting specialists, we help clients make appropriate operations and technology choices. Our team offers the necessary combination of skills, methodology, and practical experience to help clients with contract lifecycle management, legal entity management, and legal operations services. Our team’s multi-disciplinary approach combines technical and technology skillsets, enabling greater impact and efficiency within your client’s organization. LBS helps clients with operating model evaluation, roadmap development for a desired future state, data management solutions, automation opportunities, contract lifecycle management, legal entity management, and legal operating models.

Location

Bengaluru, Chennai, Gurugram, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai, Pune

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Law, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 2+ years of experience in CLM platform implementation, business process consulting, or technology advisory, with hands-on exposure to one or more leading CLM solutions (e.g., Icertis, DocuSign, Ironclad, SirionLabs, Conga, Agiloft, etc.).
• Trained and certified on Sirion Platform (Sirion L1, L2, L3 trained & Certified, Sirion Certified CLM Specialist), with at least 1-2 years of Sirion implementation experience for global organizations.
• Experience in requirements gathering, process mapping, and solution design for contract lifecycle management or legal operations.
• Demonstrated ability to perform CLM system configuration, creating test scripts, testing, and deployment activities.
• Experience implementing and driving value from advanced AI modules, including agentic and autonomous capabilities, within major CLM platforms.
• Proven track record in facilitating client workshops, conducting stakeholder interviews, and translating business needs into technical solutions.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced consulting setting.
• Ability to perform job responsibilities within a hybrid work model that requires professionals to co-locate in person 2-3 days per week in respective office locations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting legal teams or procurement teams with contract management.
• Experience with document extraction tools, data wrangling tools such as Alteryx, and visualization/BI tools such as Power BI, Tableau or QlikView and others.
• Experience with template rationalization and harmonization, guide or playbook creation, and the design of contracting processes.
• One of the following active accreditations obtained, in process, or willing and able to obtain:
• Licensed CPA in state of practice/primary office if eligible to sit for the CPA.
• If not CPA eligible:
• Licensed Attorney (or foreign equivalent).
• Enrolled Agent.
• PMP (Project Management Certification).
• Contract & Commercial Management (CCM) Certification Program.
• Certified Financial Analyst (CFA).
• PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (Project Management Institute-ACP).
• Certified Change Management Professional (CCMP).
• Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP).
• Procurement/Legal Procurement or SAS® Certified Data Scientist.
• Paralegal Certification with a 4-year degree.
• Technical Certifications:
• Six Sigma (Black Belt and Green Belt).
• Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer (MCSD).
• Contract & Commercial Management (CCM) Certification Program.
• PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (Project Management Institute-ACP).
• Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP).
• The Information Systems Security Architecture Professional (CISSP-ISSAP).
• Certified Change Management Professional (CCMP) or SAS® Certified Data Scientist.
• DocuSign (Workflow Manager, E-signature, CLM, etc.).
• Icertis.
• Onit Product Suite (Level 2 and above).
• Conga CLM.
• Agiloft.
• Sirion Labs.
• Kira.
• Thomson Reuters (Legal Tracker, High Q, or Contract Express).
• Wolters Kluwer Passport (Passport Legal Spend and Matter Management).
• Mitratech Team Connect and TAP.