Senior Manager, Tax
About The Position
The Senior Manager, Tax role within Walmart's Tax Technology and Data team leads strategic programs and projects that enable the evolution of Walmart's global indirect tax capabilities. The position translates business priorities and partner-team requirements into clear direction, coordinated execution, and measurable outcomes across tax, technology, finance, product, engineering, and other stakeholder groups. The role helps shape and manage program roadmaps, operating rhythms, dependencies, risks, and decisions needed to deliver complex initiatives. It does not perform tax research or tax planning, although experience in tax, tax technology, financial systems, or related disciplines is valuable for understanding business needs and connecting them to practical solutions. Walmart's Tax Technology and Data team is part of the Indirect Tax organization and supports a technology- and data-enabled approach to tax across Walmart and Sam's Club. The team works with business, tax, finance, technology, product, engineering, and external partners to improve the accuracy, scalability, transparency, and efficiency of tax capabilities. The role contributes to enterprise-scale transformation and the development of durable processes, platforms, and partnerships that support global growth.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, Economics, or a related field and 3 years’ experience in accounting, finance, income tax compliance, or a related area; alternatively, 5 years’ experience in accounting, finance, income tax compliance, or a related area.
- 1 year of supervisory experience.
- Significant experience leading enterprise programs, complex projects, product initiatives, or transformation work across multiple functions and stakeholder groups.
- Ability to turn ambiguous business needs and partner requirements into clear priorities, plans, decisions, and measurable outcomes.
- Strong executive communication skills, including presenting concise status, metrics, risks, delays, tradeoffs, and recommendations to senior leaders.
- Experience managing roadmaps, dependencies, governance, delivery risks, issue resolution, and change adoption across a portfolio of work.
- Strong financial and analytical capability, including experience with budgets, forecasts, performance metrics, variance analysis, and data-informed decision-making.
- Continuous-improvement mindset and a record of finding efficiencies, strengthening processes, and delivering practical solutions that scale.
- Ability to build credibility and influence across tax, finance, technology, product, engineering, operations, and external partner organizations.
- Self-starter who takes ownership, operates effectively in ambiguity, follows through on commitments, and knows when to escalate decisions or risks.
- Excellent written, verbal, organizational, and relationship-management skills, with the ability to work effectively across domestic and global teams.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with tax, tax technology, financial systems, data, or enterprise software implementation.
- Experience leading a cross-functional team.
- License to practice law in at least one state.
- J.D., or a master's degree in Accounting, Business, Economics, Finance, or Law.
- Certified Public Accountant (CPA) certificate.
Responsibilities
- Lead complex tax technology, data, and transformation programs and projects from discovery through delivery and operational adoption.
- Partner with tax and cross-functional teams to understand business needs, evaluate requirements, define outcomes, and translate priorities into roadmaps, plans, and delivery decisions.
- Coordinate stakeholders, dependencies, milestones, and decision points across tax, finance, technology, product, engineering, operations, and external partners.
- Establish program governance, operating rhythms, status reporting, and success measures that communicate progress, risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies.
- Communicate risks, delays, tradeoffs, and recommended actions to executive leadership and stakeholders in a concise, timely, decision-oriented manner.
- Identify opportunities to simplify work, improve controls, remove friction, and increase efficiency across processes, tools, and operating models; lead improvements through implementation.
- Support budget planning and financial management by developing metrics, forecasts, and business insights about budget needs, surpluses, deficits, and corrective actions.
- Use data and stakeholder input to measure outcomes, surface trends, and support prioritization across a portfolio of initiatives, including with global and geographically distributed partners.
- Identify emerging needs, resolve ambiguity, and move work forward with appropriate judgment, accountability, and limited direction.
- Build trusted relationships and influence without authority while fostering collaboration, transparency, and shared ownership across teams.
- Coach and support team members and partners in program, project, change, and stakeholder management practices.
Benefits
- Competitive pay and performance-based bonus awards.
- Medical, vision, and dental coverage.
- 401(k).
- Stock purchase plan.
- Company-paid life insurance.
- Paid time off, including sick leave, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement leave, jury duty, and voting leave.
- Short-term and long-term disability.
- Company discounts.
- Military Leave Pay.
- Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement.
- PTO and/or PPTO usable for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes.
- Live Better U, a Walmart-paid education benefit program for eligible full-time and part-time associates; tuition, books, and fees are covered for eligible programs.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
