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Preparation of tax returns, analyzing transactional data, and improving processes through technology & systems.
What You'll be Doing:
- Prepare state and local use tax returns.
- Learn and leverage available technology, including Alteryx, to achieve efficiencies and process improvements.
- Learn the sales and use tax laws in the states where Meijer operates; stay up to date with changes in the various tax laws adapting reporting changes when applicable.
- Review transactional data to ascertain the proper tax treatment, investigate discrepancies, research the corresponding tax law, adjust the accruals and return data; seek to prevent issue from continuing in the future.
- Assist in the data gathering, technical research and numerical analyses during use tax audits.
- Participate in cross-functional team projects for reporting requirements and tax exposure minimization.
- Become the lead person for sales / use tax matters on Meijer purchases of goods for its own use.
- Communicate with Meijer team members throughout the company and with vendors to provide or obtain information.
- This job profile is not meant to be all inclusive of the responsibilities of this position; may perform other duties as assigned or required.
What You Bring with You (Qualifications):
- Bachelor of Accounting or Business Degree.
- Previous professional experience in an accounting or tax role.
- Meijer financial and technology systems knowledge is a plus.
- Ability to quickly learn tax technical rules and the application to Meijer’s business.
- Ability to quickly learn additional technology and systems.
- Strong organization and documentation skills.
- Analytical skills for the resolution of problems.
- Strong communication skills – both written and oral.
- Ability to form partnerships with the key business areas and throughout the Meijer vendor community.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and projects, meeting tight deadlines.
- Ability to work in a fast paced, changing environment.
- Ability to envision future changes while retaining memory of past practices / transactions to sustain historical tax positions under audit.
- Ability to think creatively when business or the law changes to minimize the impact on tax exposure and reporting.
Skills Required
- Bachelor of Accounting or Business Degree
- Previous professional experience in an accounting or tax role
- Meijer financial and technology systems knowledge
- Ability to quickly learn tax technical rules and apply them
- Ability to quickly learn additional technology and systems
- Strong organization and documentation skills
- Analytical skills for problem resolution
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and projects, meeting tight deadlines
- Ability to work in a fast paced, changing environment and think creatively to minimize tax exposure
Meijer Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Meijer and has not been reviewed or approved by Meijer.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as a meaningful part of the total package, with medical, dental, and vision options and additional supplemental coverage. The availability of wellness programming and online doctor visits further strengthens the health offering.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings are positioned as solid, including 401(k) access and Roth 401(k) options that some find valuable. Union-negotiated structures are also associated with above-average pay and benefits in certain service roles.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off benefits are a recurring bright spot, including paid time off, vacation time, and holiday pay that can accumulate over time. Paid parental leave is also part of the package, supporting work-life needs alongside PTO.
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What We Do
It takes guts to start a business during the Great Depression. And it takes vision to keep it going. Our founder, Hendrik Meijer, opened Thrifty Acres in 1934. Almost thirty years later, his son, Fred, pioneered the world’s first ever supercenter – setting the table for who we are today: a multi-billion-dollar household name in retail. Of course, we’re not done. Not by a long shot. We recently launched the nation’s largest grocery home-delivery service – reinventing the business of grocery shopping … again. A lot has changed over the years, except for one thing; we’re still family owned. And that sense of family runs deep in everything we do. It’s the difference between selling a product and serving a community, and it’s the reason we’ve given back over $30 million to local food pantries in the last ten years. So, if you appreciate the pioneering spirit of Meijer, we’d like to connect with you. Because the bigger our family, the better
