Sales and Use Tax Senior Analyst

To help save our customers green, we need an amazing team who knows all about it. Our National Finance & Administration Services department oversees the management of the critical resources and infrastructure that our people need to get the job done at every level. This service department is designed to make sure our retail divisions and executive leadership receive the support they need to run a successful operation. Within Finance our teams include: Accounting, Financial Planning & Analysis, Financial Reporting, Tax and Treasury.

As a Sales & Use Tax Senior, you’ll be a navigator of a complex and ever-evolving tax landscape—steering the organization through intricate regulations with accuracy, foresight, and confidence. Your role will blend tax research with hands-on sales and use tax compliance, ensuring every return is precise, timely, and aligned with State, and local requirements. You’ll act as both strategist and problem-solver—anticipating risks, uncovering opportunities for savings, and translating tax code into clear, actionable insights for the business.

Position Type: Full-Time
Starting Salary: $116,500
Salary Increases: Year 2 - $124,250 | Year 3 - $132,000 
Work Location: Batavia, IL
This role is eligible to participate in ALDI’s Hybrid Work Program, which allows remote work up to 3 days per week (i.e., work remotely up to 3 days per week; work in-office at least 2 days per week).

Duties and Responsibilities:
Must be able to perform duties with or without reasonable accommodation.

• Makes recommendations to clients regarding changes to the tax environment including tax law changes that impact the business.
• Assists leadership with establishing and maintaining the company’s tax strategy and policies.
• Collaborates with other teams to answer business questions utilizing analytical approaches.
• Collaborates cross-functionally and helps document and operationalize planning decisions, while escalating complex matters to leadership.
• Provides input to their direct leader concerning personnel hiring and performance.
• Advises on any changes or actions to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the team.
• Informs management of recurring issues or when additional team training may be required.
• Monitors legislative and regulatory tax law developments, communicate the effects of these developments to leadership and the Tax Team and create strategies to capitalize on changes
to taxation legislation.
• Manages and facilitates tax audits by providing support to team members assigned to the audit.
• Identifies and implements opportunities for process improvement in company tax procedures.
• Manages their team by driving projects and tasks to completion through effective prioritization, work planning, resource allocation, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Identifies cost-saving opportunities and potential process improvements.
• Serves as the primary link between their team’s staff and leadership to ensure understanding of company goals, objectives, and opportunities for improvement.
• Assists with and helps develop the company’s indirect tax functions including tax planning, reporting and accounting.
• Assists with and helps develop the company’s sales, use and property tax functions, including filings, strategies and compliance issues.
• Understands the overarching company strategy as well as communicates and models the core values of the organization among employees.
• Assists their direct leader in assuring compliance with established operating policies and procedures, and all project management related responsibilities.
• Communicates the status of active projects to all participants effectively.
• Reviews work performed by peers, suggests improvements and makes recommendations as needed.
• Builds and maintains effective relationships with key stakeholders across various disciplines to ensure alignment of tax planning with business strategy.
• Demonstrates ownership over tax areas of assigned responsibility by taking the lead on projects and day-to-day tasks while also collaborating with peers and sharing potential impacts to other areas.
• Maintains, manages, and has a complete understanding of the list of tax filing requirements and open issues.
• Ensures that required and necessary documentation is completed and properly maintained in order to provide substantiation and assistance with future audits.
• Drafts and reviews technical tax memos and workpapers prepared by the team to support tax return positions.
• Supports data gathering and input validation for tax planning scenarios.
• Gathers and analyzes inputs for return filings and provision calculations.
• Ensures transactions reflect proper tax coding and address business questions using analytical approaches.
• Provides peer mentorship, supports onboarding of new staff, participates in team knowledge sharing to promote consistency across workstreams and within the overall Tax team.
• Supports ALDI’s strategic tax planning initiatives by performing research, modeling, and analysis that inform planning strategies, legislative impact reviews, and tax risk assessments.
• Structures evaluations, tax consequence reviews of business changes, and scenario analysis.
• Supports and enhances ALDI’s indirect tax compliance efforts across U.S. jurisdictions.
• Prepares and files tax returns, manages exemption documentation, performs reconciliations, responds to audit inquiries, and assists in process and system improvements.
• Works closely with other teams to support tax filings, provision-to-return reconciliations, and internal reporting.
• Implements process improvements and provides peer-level support across the compliance and provision workstreams.
• Assists in training and developing team members to retain a motivated and professional workforce.
• Collaborates with team members and communicates relevant information to leadership.
• Complies with ALDI privacy and security requirements and policies if job responsibilities include possible access to confidential and/or sensitive information.
• Other duties as assigned.

Job-specific Competencies:
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

• Consistently demonstrates the Mindsets, ALDI Acts Competencies and Professional Skills (M.A.P.) as outlined for the role.
• Gives attention to detail and follows instruction.
• Prepares written materials to meet purpose and audience.
• Develops and maintains positive relationships with internal and external parties.
• Works cooperatively and collaboratively within a group. 
• Understands the history, strategy, organizational authority, interdependence of job duties, products, systems, and services of the company.
• Knowledge of U.S. sales and use tax rules and filing requirements.
• Ability to recommend, interpret and apply company policies and procedures.
• Strong attention to detail, organizational, and documentation skills.
• Maintains a collaborative mindset with the ability to organize and conduct group meetings including the ability to facilitate group involvement.
• Ability to manage multiple deadlines.
• Ability to identify and research tax technical issues and write appropriate memoranda.
• Ability to analyze and present complex data to communicate the tax impact of strategic business decisions. 
• Ability to identify operational issues, recommend and implement solutions. 
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite. 
• Ability to interpret and apply company policies and procedures. 
• Ability to organize and conduct group meetings including the ability to facilitate group involvement. 

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance or a related field required.
• A minimum of 3 years of progressive experience in Accounting, Tax or Finance required. 
• Or, a combination of education and experience providing equivalent knowledge. 
• Certified Public Accountant designation or progress toward certification preferred.
• Master’s Degree in Taxation preferred.
• Experience with preparing tax returns, journal entries, and deferred reconciliations preferred.
• Experience with supporting tax audits and maintaining records preferred.
• Familiarity with ERP platforms such as SAP and indirect tax software such as Vertex or Avalara preferred.
• Experience with data extraction, analytics and visualization tools including SQL, Alteryx, Tableau, and APT preferred.
• Experience with sales and use tax or indirect tax within multi-jurisdictional or retail organization preferred.
• Experience with planning, forecasting and advisory preferred.

Physical Requirements:

• Work may be performed in an office, remote office or a combination of both where a computer and office equipment may be used as needed to perform duties.
• Regularly required to sit, reach, grasp, stand and move from one area to another.
• Constantly and repeatedly use keyboard/mouse.
• Occasionally required to push, pull, bend, lift and move up to 25 lbs. 

Travel:

• Domestic travel required.
• Up to 10%.

ALDI offers competitive wages and benefits, to all employees including:

• 401(k) Plan
• Company 401(k) Matching Contributions
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• PerkSpot National Discount Program

In addition, full-time employees are offered:

• Medical, Prescription, Dental & Vision Insurance
• Generous Vacation Time & 7 Paid Holidays
• Up to 6 Weeks Paid Parental Leave at 100% of pay
• Up to 2 Weeks Paid Caregiver Leave at 100% of pay
• Short and Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Life, Dependent Life and AD&D Insurance
• Voluntary Term Life Insurance

*Full-time employees average 30 or more hours per week within an annual lookback period

**Benefits offered to full-time and part-time employees may vary by state

ALDI is committed to equal opportunity for all employees and applicants. As a proud Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE), we do not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, religion, sex, sexual stereotyping, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, military or veteran status, pregnancy (which includes pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), or any other protected characteristic. Employment may be contingent upon ALDI's receipt of an acceptable and job-related drug test, motor vehicle report, and/or reference check, as applicable and permissible by law.