7-Eleven is an iconic family of brands with over 86,000 locations, surpassing every retailer in the world. We revolutionize convenience, restaurants and fuel through cutting edge innovation — working hard to be the customer's first choice. 7-Eleven empowers our employees to "activate awesome" and make a meaningful impact in their stores and communities every day. If you're ready to grow, lead and make a difference, come join our team and help shape the future of convenience.
This role is responsible for supporting the Company's indirect tax department under the Tax Technology team. Senior Tax Analyst will work on transaction tax related business & digital support, tax research, & supporting data sourcing and preparation for the audit team.
Audit Lifecycle
- Own sales and use tax audits from notice through closing, including kickoff, information document request (IDR) tracking, deadlines, auditor correspondence, and stakeholder follow-up.
- Manage statute-of-limitations waivers, audit periods, and scope agreements.
- Evaluate proposed adjustments by tracing transactions to source, testing tax treatment, challenging sampling methods and error projections, and researching applicable law.
- Prepare protests, appeals, refund claims, and settlement support, working with outside advisors and internal Legal as needed.
Data and Reconciliation
- Build and reconcile audit populations across tax returns, general ledger, subledgers, AP/AR, invoices, and source-system data, and explain material variances.
- Identify duplicates, data errors, unsupported assumptions, and documentation gaps in auditor workpapers.
- Prepare audit workpapers, schedules, and transaction listings that hold up to auditor and appeals review.
Exposure and Prevention
- Quantify audit exposure and build reserve estimates for internal tax team.
- Identify overpayments and lead reverse-audit and refund opportunities.
- Maintain exemption and resale certificate support, and partner on taxability matrix accuracy.
- Trace audit findings to root causes in process, data, tax engine configuration, or ERP setup, and drive the fixes.
- Monitor law changes affecting audit positions and open periods.
Communication
- Coordinate meetings with auditors to manage audit deadlines.
- Write clear audit responses and technical memos, and explain tax conclusions to non-tax stakeholders, including operations and franchise teams.
EDUCATION: Bachelors/ 4 Yr Degree
YEARS OF RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE: 5+ Years
YEARS OR MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE: NA
CERTIFICATIONS/LICENSES: CPA or CMI preferred
SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:
- Bachelors/Masters Degree from an accredited college or university with a degree in Accounting, Finance, Taxation preferred
- 5+ years in state and local indirect tax, with direct sales and use tax audit defense experience. Public accounting, corporate tax, or controversy backgrounds all qualify.
- Track record of analyzing proposed adjustments and challenging audit sampling.
- Ability to reconcile large transactional datasets across returns, general ledger, subledgers, and source systems.
- Strong command of taxability, exemptions and resale, sourcing, accruals, credits, and refunds, with the ability to apply statutes, regulations, and audit manuals to specific fact patterns.
- Sound judgment, the ability to work independently, and the discipline to escalate material exposure early.
- Strong knowledge of indirect tax laws, regulations, systems, and accounting
- Excellent reasoning, research, and problem solving skills
- Strong communication skills (both written and oral) including ability to interact with external departments and taxing authorities
- Advanced Excel skills, including large-file cleanup, lookups, pivot tables, and reconciliations.
- Familiarity with tax determination engines (such as Vertex, Avalara, or ONESOURCE Determination) and ERP tax setup (such as Oracle EBS or SAP).
If an hourly or salary range is included in this ad it represents the range 7-Eleven in good faith believes is the range of compensation for this role at the time of this posting. The Company may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in this state. This range may be modified in the future. No amount is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable under the terms and conditions of the applicable policies and plans. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, long-term incentive compensation, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.
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