About the job
What you’ll do…
Walmart’s Indirect Tax Team plays a critical role in the company’s financial operations, focusing on compliance, operational, and audit aspects of sales and use tax. As a Fortune 1 market leader, Walmart is committed to transforming its end-to-end tax calculation system and processes, embarking on a multi-year journey to centralize and modernize their tax engine and compliance reporting. The team is responsible for ensuring the accuracy of transaction taxes charged to customers and members across Walmart and Sam’s Club domestic operations. With an annual responsibility of reporting and remitting over $21 billion in transactional taxes across thousands of jurisdictions, the Indirect Tax Team also provides valuable insights to key tax policy stakeholders.
As part of this dynamic team, members have the unique opportunity to contribute to a once-in-career transformation journey and influence how sales tax is managed at Walmart. This role demands a diverse skill set, including cross-functional teaming, curiosity, tax technical knowledge, technology skills, data analytics, ownership mindset, critical thinking, team building, and problem solving. By expertly navigating the complex world of indirect taxes, the team supports Walmart’s growth, profitability, and corporate responsibility, ultimately benefiting all stakeholders, from associates to customers to shareholders.
As a senior manager on the Indirect Tax team, you will…
- Collaborate with the business to advise on the sales tax treatment of new lines of revenue, providing clear communication and guidance that explains tax issues to non-tax professionals.
- Work with our tax data and technology team and the development teams supporting our tax calculation services to establish and execute on their short- and long-term roadmaps. This includes automation around our classification of items to efficiently determine accurate taxability and streamlining our omnichannel customer tax exemption shopping experience.
- Maintain internal controls over sales tax calculation, including collaborating with internal audit and presenting to our external auditors.
- Implementing process improvements to the current workflows of the team
- Enforcing KPI’s to measure team effectiveness and business responsiveness.
- Conducting tax research and providing technical advice on multi-state issues around sales tax
- Mentor and develop junior team members, providing ongoing feedback and identifying opportunities for growth.
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