Senior Real Estate Tax Strategy Lead

Walgreens; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 65,000 - 114,000; Full time

Job summary

Walgreens is seeking a real estate tax professional to manage tax appeal strategies, supervise litigation, and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders across the nation. You will collect and analyze assessment, valuation, and tax data, engage third-party appraisers, and support decision-making with SAP-based analytics and AI-powered tools.

Responsibilities include preparing filings, coordinating audits, and driving process improvements while maintaining strong cross-functional

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and at least 1 year of experience with public accounting, corporate tax and/or accounting at a firm, State department of revenue or company.
• At least 1 year of experience analyzing and reporting financial data.
• Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Excel (for example: using SUM function, setting borders, setting column width, inserting charts, using text wrap, sorting, setting headers and footers and/or print scaling).
• Willing to travel up to 10% of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state).

Responsibilities

• Prepares tax filings and/or responses to tax auditor inquiries and analyzes various tax laws, regulations and procedures.
• Responsible for implementing projects related to tax filings and audits.
• Analyzes and summarizes tax information and prepares reports.
• Collaborates with internal departments and external consultants, as required.
• Serves as the tax liaison to business units/subsidiaries.
• Assists and participates in the transition planning and implementation of procedures for new tax processes.
• Provides changes or enhancements to ensure “best practice” policies and procedures to gain synergies across all lines of business units.
• Supports team in the formulation of analyses and recommendations relating to assigned tax area.
• Participates in projects and process improvements for the department.
• Mentors and develops tax analysis.
• Third party audit requests are in compliance with government regulations and contract terms.
• Addresses issues / claims and corrects error root-causes.
• Mantains active communication of tax results and issues.
• Assists and participates in mergers & acquisitions, and tax planning initiatives.

Skills

Excel

Financial analysis

Public accounting experience

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

SAP

Microsoft Copilot

Job description

Walgreens is seeking a real estate tax professional to manage tax appeal strategies, supervise litigation, and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders across the nation. You will collect and analyze assessment, valuation, and tax data, engage third-party appraisers, and support decision-making with SAP-based analytics and AI-powered tools.

Responsibilities include preparing filings, coordinating audits, and driving process improvements while maintaining strong cross-functional