Indirect Tax Manager

Your Impact:

The primary purpose of this role is to manage the sales and use tax compliance for Lowe's and Subsidiaries. This position requires the individual to ensure that all sales, use and environmental taxes are reported and remitted timely and accurately as well as maintain an accurate audit trail for audit support as required by state guidelines. This role is expected to understand sales tax returns and the ability to analyze the various tax laws for all 50 states and the District of Columbia as well as local filing jurisdictions. In addition, understand, maintain and improve the processes related to tax accruals, bad debts processes, accurate ledger accounting as well as respond to state and local jurisdictions on compliance tax matters. In addition, this role is responsible for Unclaimed Property reporting compliance, have knowledge of exemption certificates, tax free holidays and experience in tax law research. Ability to interact and communicate with various Lowe's departments on special projects. The individual will need to consistently assess the company‘s needs relating to his or her area of responsibility, making suggestions and improving Lowe's operating policies, processes and implement as well as document efficiencies where possible. Finally, the position will be responsible for ensuring all direct reports are properly trained and cross trained as related to the duties identified above.

• Ensure accurate sales tax reporting and remittance by all statutory deadlines to avoid penalty and interest for all US operations
• Manage and approve the payment of taxes, fees and sales tax licenses, overseeing the setup through Lowe's portals, input of jurisdictions, delivery and addressing of non-electronic and electronic payments, etc.
• Work with both Tax and Business teams to ensure an accurate audit trail is maintained and readily accessible
• Work with Alteryx and/or big query language like SQL for big data
• Utilize a working knowledge of Vertex Indirect Tax Returns for O-Series
• Assist store, corporate personnel and allied businesses with sales/excise tax questions and respond accordingly
• Work with internal and external auditors to produce documentation supporting the SOX process
• Maintain and update sales tax procedures and tax information on internal communication systems
• Work with other departments, including but not limited to Finance IT, Store Operations, Accounting, Merchandising, Treasury and Legal to retrieve data and ask/answer questions to resolve sales tax matters
• Manage account reconciliations, consolidate and review work papers to assess alignment with final reports for management
• Perform tax research for changes in Federal, State, and Local laws relating to reporting of sales taxes and fees as well as analyze the impacts on costs and tax payments
• Identify sales tax variances and works with Lowe's IT on system corrections
• Recommend ways to automate the sales tax compliance process to ensure the company remits accurate taxes as efficiently and accurately as possible
• Work with offshore Tax team in Bangalore, India for both sales tax compliance and exemption certificates
• Work and promotes ethical standards of the company

• Bachelor's Degree Accounting, Business, or Finance and 5-7 Years Tax and/or Accounting experience, public or private, preferably in retail indirect tax. * A Master's in Accounting or Tax can be substituted for experience
• 1-2 Years' experience leading a team and/or managing others with direct and indirect reports
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel

• Master's Degree Accounting, Tax, CPA, CMI, or MBA
• Alteryx Experience