(CAN) Senior Manager, Indirect Tax Consulting

Position Summary: The Senior Consulting Manager provides advisory and consulting services cross-functionally to legal, merchants, real estate, sourcing, marketing, etc. This position operates as the subject matter expert to ensure that end-to-end projects are executed with consideration of indirect tax implications. This position reviews contracts to ensure the appropriate tax clauses are included or revised as appropriate and that the business implements the appropriate procedures to minimize tax implications.

In addition, this position leads the indirect tax audits, providing the Governments with the requested information, explaining transactions, and providing the necessary analysis and documentation to support Walmart's tax position.

The Senior Consulting Manager is a sales tax subject matter expert who is expected to take the lead in all business initiatives, ensuring the proper execution of indirect tax implications, effective management of all Federal and Provincial tax audits, minimizing audit reassessments, and ensuring appropriate improvements are implemented to minimize future tax audit exposure.

What you'll do:

1. Assess and provide recommendations to internal business groups on projects and new business initiatives to ensure compliance with tax legislation and the minimization of indirect tax risks. Lead business initiatives ensuring the proper execution of indirect tax implications. Provide recommendations to minimize sales tax exposure related to business processes.
2. Motivate, lead, and develop associates through performance management coaching, goal setting, and career development. Continuously assess and monitor talent development by identifying succession plans and challenging learning opportunities to foster professional growth to support the business. Ensure highly engaged associates that provide a high level of performance and customer service by building a team-based environment.
3. Assess and provide advisory support internally related to system implementations and processes to minimize sales tax audit issues, documentation requirements, and input tax credit recovery processes. Review and present recommendations for changes to policies, procedures, and systems as needed to improve internal controls, integrity of the tax reporting and compliance process, and departmental efficiencies.
4. Partner with Legal and the business to support initiatives by providing advisory consulting services related to the Contract review process. Suggest and edit contracts to reflect business transactions and minimize corporate tax risk.
5. Review Federal and Provincial budgets and disseminate relevant information and appropriate changes as required within appropriate time frames. Determine the legislative impacts to Walmart, assess business implications, and determine changes necessary for compliance.
6. Lead and manage government tax audits and information requirements to be provided to Canadian tax authorities. Negotiate audit proposals with Government Auditors as required. Oversee the Assessments and Notice of Objection filing as required.
7. Support the Director with various projects including acquisitions, divestitures, contract reviews, tax reserve reporting, etc.
8. Maintain an in-depth understanding of tax legislation to manage and minimize tax liability, highlight tax risks, and identify opportunities for changes in legislation and new business initiatives.

Qualifications:

• Experience with SAP - Finance specializing in Tax and S/4HANA.
• Experience with tax technology software, solutions, and integrations (Tax Engines).
• Assist on all tax technology related projects including enhancements of SAP systems and Tax Engines.
• Proven understanding of modern technologies and their applications in the business world and various industries.
• Experience handling large volumes of data using Power Pivot/Power Query/Power BI is considered an asset.
• Advanced Excel capabilities to handle large data volumes.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and teamwork skills, with the ability to manage conflicting demands and priorities and to multi-task.
• Ability to lead a team ensuring high engagement and focus on deliverables.
• CICA In-depth Sales Tax Course.
• Strong interpersonal & presentation skills.
• Result-oriented and critical thinking – high sense of ownership.
• Strong organization skills, able to meet conflicting deadlines, and ability to multi-task.
• Minimum Education Required: Bachelor's Degree.
• Minimum Years of Experience Required: 6 - 8 years.
• CPA CA.

Minimum Qualifications: Age – 16 or older.

Preferred Qualifications: Walmart will accommodate the disability-related needs of applicants and associates as required by law.

Primary Location: 1940 Argentia Rd, Mississauga, ON L5N 1P9, Canada.

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