Group Director, Tax

About the role

Provides overall direction by analyzing business objectives and customer needs, developing, communicating, building support for, and implementing business strategies, plans, and practices. Analyzes costs and forecasts, incorporating them into business plans, determining and supporting resource requirements, evaluating operational processes, measuring outcomes to ensure desired results, identifying and capitalizing on improvement opportunities, promoting a customer environment, demonstrating adaptability, and sponsoring continuous learning.

Responsibilities

• Develops and implements strategies to attract and maintain a highly skilled and engaged workforce by diagnosing capability gaps, recruiting, selecting, and developing talent, supporting mentorship, workforce development, and succession planning, and leveraging the capabilities of new and existing talent.
• Cultivates an environment where associates respect and adhere to company standards of integrity and ethics by integrating these values into all programs and practices, developing consequences for violations or noncompliance, and supporting the Open Door Policy.
• Develops and leverages internal and external partnerships and networks to maximize the achievement of business goals by sponsoring and leading key community outreach and involvement initiatives, engaging key stakeholders in the development, execution, and evaluation of appropriate business plans and initiatives, and supporting associate efforts in these areas.
• Serves as a tax expert and representative to tax and non-tax organizations by speaking at conferences and symposia, establishing professional relationships with tax coalition members, government officials, and company officials, providing tax input for new business opportunities and changes to existing businesses, and providing guidance to senior management for optimizing financial results.
• Directs strategies to manage tax risks by providing subject matter expertise, translating taxation, business, accounting, and financial expertise into company tax-saving strategies, managing tax strategies through audits and appeals, negotiations, reporting, and litigation, directing alternative deal structure creation to reduce tax burdens, overseeing research and interpretation of state legislation changes, collaborating to define and implement financial system enhancements, negotiating with state revenue departments to resolve tax filing issues, and developing and overseeing alternative deal structures to reduce tax burdens.
• Manages the annual tax filing by analyzing and presenting tax-related reports to senior management, reviewing, evaluating, and determining the impact of new and pending tax legislation on the company, preparing public disclosures for financial statements, reviewing effective tax rate documentation and providing it to auditors, presenting results to senior management, and ensuring compliance with financial accounting standards.
• Oversees compliance process for assigned area by reviewing existing Sarbanes-Oxley documentation and controls, ensuring consistency with key process changes, meeting with internal audit and external auditors to discuss tax compliance processes, ensuring internal control processes are in place and up-to-date, ensuring process control implementation and operation, serving as a liaison between the company and government agencies, ensuring commitments established during audits are met, ensuring compliance with agency administrative procedures, guiding the implementation of processes to ensure the company receives required assessment scores, assisting in implementing tax policy initiatives, and overseeing complex audit and negotiation strategies by advocating for the company in tax return audits, appeals, mediations, and litigation when necessary.
• Directs domestic tax policy and legislative support by monitoring and identifying material state and local tax legislation, analyzing the potential impact of legislation and communicating to senior management, developing policies with respect to new legislation, working with media to proactively engage in the legislative process, overseeing execution of tax-related training initiatives, and implementing innovation across the tax areas.
• Oversees efficiencies in tax-related areas by partnering with and engaging leadership to define project scope and objectives, interpreting regulations and best practices to apply to transactions, developing strategies and innovative solutions to improve processes, providing analyses and business implications of proposed solutions, and ensuring budget and timeline expectations are achieved.
• Respect the Individual: Builds high-performing teams, seeks and embraces differences in people, cultures, ideas, and experiences, creates a workplace where all associates feel seen, supported, and connected through a culture of belonging so associates thrive and perform, drives a positive associate and customer/member experience for all.
• Respect the Individual: Creates a discipline and focus around developing talent through feedback, coaching, mentorship, and developmental opportunities, builds the talent pipeline, fosters an environment allowing everyone to bring their best selves to work, empowers associates and partners to act in the best interest of the customer and company, and regularly recognizes others' contributions and accomplishments, supports strategies and drives initiatives that attract and retain the best talent.
• Respect the Individual: Builds strong and trusting relationships with team members and business partners, works collaboratively and cross-functionally to achieve objectives, and communicates and listens attentively with energy and positivity to motivate, influence, and inspire commitment and action.
• Act with Integrity: Maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity, ethics, and compliance, models the Walmart values and leads by example to foster our culture, supports Walmart’s goal of becoming a regenerative company by taking action to advance opportunity, sustainability, community, and integrity (e.g., creating fair opportunities for associates and suppliers, driving local giving efforts).
• Act with Integrity: Ensures that teams follow the law, our code of conduct, and company policies, promotes an environment where associates feel comfortable sharing concerns and models our culture of non-retaliation, listens to concerns raised by associates and takes action, enables others to do the same, holds self and teams accountable for achieving results in a way that is consistent with our values.
• Act with Integrity: Acts as an altruistic servant leader and is consistently humble and self-aware.
• Serve our Customers and Members: Delivers expected business results while putting the customer/member first and consistently applying an omni-merchant mindset and acting with an Every Day Low-Cost mindset to drive value and Every Day Low Prices for customers/members.
• Serve our Customers and Members: Adopts a holistic perspective that considers data analytics, customer/member insights, and different parts of the business when making plans and implementing strategies.
• Strive for Excellence: Consistently raises the bar and seeks to improve, demonstrates curiosity and a growth mindset, seeks feedback, asks thoughtful questions, fosters an environment that supports learning, innovation, learning from mistakes, and intelligent risk-taking, and exhibits resilience in the face of setbacks.
• Strive for Excellence: Drives continuous improvements, supervises the adoption of new technology, and supports digital disruption in line with Walmart’s business model.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Accounting, or related field and 7 years’ experience in accounting, tax audits, tax planning, or related area OR 9 years’ experience in accounting, tax audits, tax planning, or related area.
• 5 years’ supervisory experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5 years’ experience leading cross-functional teams.
• Certified Public Accountant (CPA).
• License to practice law in at least one state.
• Master’s degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Taxation, Law or related field or Juris Doctor (J.D.).

Benefits

• Competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards.
• Health benefits including medical, vision, and dental coverage.
• Financial benefits including 401(k), stock purchase, and company-paid life insurance.
• Paid time off benefits including PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting.
• Short-term and long-term disability.
• Company discounts.
• Military Leave Pay.
• Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement.
• Live Better U: Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates, covering tuition, books, and fees for high school completion, bachelor’s degrees, English Language Learning, and short-form certificates.

Pay

The annual salary range for this position is $195,000.00 - $370,000.00. Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses and stock for certain positions.

Primary Location: 905 Customer Dr, Bentonville, AR 72716, United States of America