State Income Tax Lead Senior Analyst at WALGREENS
Deerfield, IL
About the Job
Job Summary
Manage all aspects of the state income tax compliance process ensuring adherence to deadlines, accuracy, and conformity with state regulations in order to reduce the Companys overall tax burden and risk. Support the preparation of state income tax compliance including the calculation of apportionment and state modifications. Assist in driving process improvement opportunities in the tax function to enhance processes, efficiency, accuracy, and controls. Monitor state nexus and filings to ensure compliance with state tax laws and regulations, identifying any potential areas of risk or exposure. Research and interpret changes in state tax laws and regulations, assessing their impact on the company and recommending appropriate actions.
Job Responsibilities
Founded in 1901, Walgreens (www.walgreens.com) has a storied heritage of caring for communities for generations, and proudly serves nearly 9 million customers and patients each day across its approximately 8,500 stores throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico, and leading omni channel platforms. Walgreens has approximately 220,000 team members, including nearly 90,000 healthcare service providers, and is committed to being the first choice for retail pharmacy and health services, building trusted relationships that create healthier futures for customers, patients, team members and communities.
Walgreens is the flagship U.S. brand of Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (Nasdaq WBA), an integrated healthcare, pharmacy and retail leader. Its retail locations are a critical point of access and convenience in thousands of communities, with Walgreens pharmacists playing a greater role as part of the healthcare system and patients care teams than ever before. Walgreens Specialty Pharmacy provides critical care and pharmacy services to millions of patients with rare disease states and complex, chronic conditions.
Basic Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
Manage all aspects of the state income tax compliance process ensuring adherence to deadlines, accuracy, and conformity with state regulations in order to reduce the Companys overall tax burden and risk. Support the preparation of state income tax compliance including the calculation of apportionment and state modifications. Assist in driving process improvement opportunities in the tax function to enhance processes, efficiency, accuracy, and controls. Monitor state nexus and filings to ensure compliance with state tax laws and regulations, identifying any potential areas of risk or exposure. Research and interpret changes in state tax laws and regulations, assessing their impact on the company and recommending appropriate actions.
Job Responsibilities
- Identifies, recommends, and communicates tax savings opportunities to management and key stakeholders through presentations and periodic reporting.
- Provides advanced knowledge of new and existing tax methodologies by researching new law and attending conferences and seminars in the tax industry.
- Participates in divisional and company-wide projects and programs to develop engagement for division-wide and company-wide initiatives.
- Participates in projects and process improvements for the department.
- Collaborates with other tax functions to implement optimal tax solutions.
- Develops relationships with business units to serve as a partner in the business units processes for value creation activities.
- May coach and mentor more junior analysts. Leads and trains staff members on new and existing tax processes and value creation projects.
Founded in 1901, Walgreens (www.walgreens.com) has a storied heritage of caring for communities for generations, and proudly serves nearly 9 million customers and patients each day across its approximately 8,500 stores throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico, and leading omni channel platforms. Walgreens has approximately 220,000 team members, including nearly 90,000 healthcare service providers, and is committed to being the first choice for retail pharmacy and health services, building trusted relationships that create healthier futures for customers, patients, team members and communities.
Walgreens is the flagship U.S. brand of Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (Nasdaq WBA), an integrated healthcare, pharmacy and retail leader. Its retail locations are a critical point of access and convenience in thousands of communities, with Walgreens pharmacists playing a greater role as part of the healthcare system and patients care teams than ever before. Walgreens Specialty Pharmacy provides critical care and pharmacy services to millions of patients with rare disease states and complex, chronic conditions.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelors degree and at least 2 years of experience with public accounting, corporate tax and/or accounting at a firm, State department of revenue or company OR a High School Diploma/GED and at least 4 years of experience with public accounting, corporate tax and/or accounting at a firm, State department of revenue or company.
- At least 2 years of experience with technical tax laws, regulations and interpreting tax laws.
- At least 2 years of experience with analyzing and reporting data in order to identify issues, trends, or exceptions to drive improvement of results and find solutions.
- Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Word (for example: inserting headers, page breaks, page numbers and tables and/or adjusting table columns).
- Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Excel (for example: using SUM function, setting borders, setting column width, inserting charts, using text wrap, sorting, setting headers and footers and/or print scaling).
- Intermediate level skill in Microsoft PowerPoint (for example: applying a theme, formatting character spacing, inserting a picture, changing slide layout and theme colors, adding transitions, customizing slide numbers, changing chart style and/or formatting font).
- Willing to travel up to 10% of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state).
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in Business Administration, Finance, Accounting or Economics.
- Bachelor's degree and at least 3 years experience with public accounting, corporate tax and/or accounting at a firm, State department of revenue or company OR a high school diploma/GED and at least 6 years of experience with public accounting, corporate tax and/or accounting at a firm, State department of revenue or company.
- Experience with project management (for example: planning, organizing, and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives).
