A more connected tax operating model, designed around your finance reality.
Tax teams face growing pressure to deliver more complex calculations, stronger documentation, and more reliable reporting without adding further fragmentation. riicu helps CFOs and tax teams design a more connected tax operating model, reducing data, process, and control gaps before implementation.
Why tax operating models are under pressure
Tax complexity has increased sharply. Provision, deferred tax, Pillar 2, country-by-country reporting, and return-to-provision all demand better data, clearer process ownership, and stronger documentation.
In many organisations, these activities still depend on spreadsheets, offline reconciliations, fragmented inputs, and manual interpretation across finance and tax. That creates delay, weak traceability, and unnecessary execution risk.
- Spreadsheet-heavy logic
- Manual data collection
- Weak traceability
- Fragmented review
- Structured tax workflows
- Clearer data lineage
- Documented review
- Reliable reporting
What we help tax and finance teams solve
We help define and validate solutions across the tax processes where data quality, workflow discipline, and reporting logic matter most.
Tax Provision Design
Support the design of a more structured approach to current and deferred tax provision, with clearer data logic, review flow, and reporting outputs.
Pillar 2 and Global Minimum Tax Readiness
Help groups assess how Pillar 2 requirements should be reflected in their operating model, data flows, governance, and reporting logic.
Country-by-Country Reporting and Documentation Workflows
Design more controlled workflows for collecting, validating, reviewing, and reporting tax data across entities and jurisdictions.
Return-to-Provision and Deferred Tax Processes
Improve how prior year returns, true-ups, deferred tax movements, and related reconciliations are tracked, explained, and reviewed.
Tax Reporting and Management Visibility
Shape the management views, explanatory schedules, and reporting outputs needed to support finance leadership, tax teams, and governance stakeholders.
One tax operating model, many jurisdictions
How we approach tax and compliance solution design
We do not begin with a generic tax platform claim. We begin with the actual tax and finance processes the client needs to strengthen.
- 1
Diagnose the current tax operating model
We assess where data dependencies, spreadsheet logic, review bottlenecks, and documentation gaps create operational and control risk.
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Define the target workflow and reporting logic
We help shape the future-state model across tax provision, compliance workflows, review discipline, reporting outputs, and management visibility.
- 3
Build a working demo
We prepare a demonstrator focused on the workflows and views most relevant to the client's tax priorities, helping stakeholders validate fit and logic early.
- 4
Support phased implementation
Once the direction is validated, we help structure the implementation path, including architecture choices, tooling options, governance, and partner setup.
Tax use cases
Depending on the client's priorities, a stronger tax operating environment may start in different places.
Provision and ETR workflow redesign
A more structured approach to provision logic, rate analysis, review workflow, and explanatory reporting.
Pillar 2 readiness assessment and workflow design
Definition of data requirements, governance logic, review structure, and reporting pathways for global minimum tax obligations.
Return-to-provision and deferred tax control flow
A more disciplined process for linking filed returns, prior year provision, true-up adjustments, and deferred tax movements.
CbCR data collection and validation workflow
Improved process design for collecting, validating, and governing jurisdictional data and related reporting outputs.
Tax reporting and management commentary views
Executive and technical reporting views designed to improve visibility, support review, and strengthen internal understanding of tax positions.
Each engagement closes the loop — data feeds review, review feeds reporting, reporting feeds back into source logic.
Made tangible
Below are illustrative views showing the types of tax schedules, dashboards, workflow layers, and reporting interfaces that can help make a more connected tax environment tangible.
These examples are used to help clients explore design direction, operating logic, and implementation priorities.
| Entity | PBT | Stat. rate | Current | Deferred |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entity A - Group holding | 4,820 | 21.0% | 982 | 42 |
| Entity B - Operating co. | 3,240 | 25.0% | 786 | 68 |
| Entity C - Industrial | 2,680 | 29.8% | 764 | 84 |
| Entity D - Services | 1,224 | 34.0% | 340 | 34 |
| Consolidated view | 11,964 | - | 2,872 | 228 |
- Jurisdiction A - data scopingGroup taxdone
- Jurisdiction B - ETR analysisCountry controllerdone
- Jurisdiction C - top-up assessmentGroup taxactive
- Jurisdiction D - review workflowTax reportingactive
- Group consolidation packGroup reportingpending
- Disclosure & documentationTax reportingpending
- Jurisdiction A - data scopingGroup taxdone
- Jurisdiction B - ETR analysisCountry controllerdone
- Jurisdiction C - top-up assessmentGroup taxactive
- Jurisdiction D - review workflowTax reportingactive
- Group consolidation packGroup reportingpending
- Disclosure & documentationTax reportingpending
Who this is for
This approach is relevant for CFOs, Heads of Tax, Group Finance leaders, and organisations facing greater tax complexity, tighter reporting expectations, and increased pressure for traceability and governance.
It is especially relevant where tax and finance still operate through fragmented data sources, spreadsheet-heavy workflows, weak handoffs, or limited visibility over how calculations and reporting are produced.
CFOs and Group Finance leaders
Looking to bring tax closer to finance, with stronger traceability across reporting and disclosure.
Heads of Tax and tax reporting leaders
Facing growing complexity across provision, Pillar 2, CbCR, deferred tax, and return-to-provision.
Audit, governance, and control stakeholders
Expecting clearer documentation, defined ownership, and reliable review evidence across tax processes.
Frequently Asked Questions
Ready to define a stronger
tax operating model?
If your tax and finance teams are dealing with fragmented data, spreadsheet-heavy workflows, weak traceability, or growing reporting complexity, we can help you define the right target model, validate it through a working demo, and shape a practical implementation path.