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The Manager of Federal Income Tax position will be responsible for the coordination and review of all Federal income tax filings including a complex consolidated federal income tax return, partnership - joint venture compliance, and tax return disclosures. In addition, this position will be responsible for the review of quarterly estimates and extension calculations. The manager position will also be responsible for various information requests from the IRS. You will also assist in implementation of planning projects and accounting for income taxes (FAS 109 and FIN 48). This position will also be responsible for staff development and training. We are looking for an individual who demonstrates excellent communication skills, both to management and staff, and can lead a team of various experience levels. This person must also be organized, a self starter and able to multi-task. In the position you must be able to provide outstanding service to other corporate functions and develop relationships with our internal customers.
Basic Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree

5 or more years of public accounting or large corporate tax department experience

2 or more years of experience managing staff

Preferred Qualifications:

CPA

MBT/MST

Job: Accounting/Finance
Primary Location: United States-MN-Corporate Headquarters-Richfield
Organization:Best Buy US
Job Type: Regular/Full-Time
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The Senior Sales/Use Tax Audit Analyst will assist the sales/use tax audit manager with scheduling and preparing for sales tax audits and will work closely with the manager to provide responses to auditor's information requests. The Sr. Analyst will be responsible for collecting all tax audit related information and reporting, proactively evaluating tax exposure and developing audit strategies to defend tax positions. Additionally, the Sr. Analyst will review preliminary/final work papers, create work plans to reduce assessments, and make recommendations to the audit manager.

The Sr. Analyst will coordinate audits with tax compliance, tax planning and tax system managers to achieve optimal audit results. Work closely with business leaders to provide guidance in implementation of audit strategies and provide support to business operations to minimize exposure of tax audits. Timely communication of audit results to management. Draft appeal letters and technical memorandums. Prepare refund claims, coordinate reverse audits, and perform internal sales/use tax audits.

The Sr. Analyst will also perform audits of SOX key controls.

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree, preferably in Accounting, Finance or Business Administration

5 or more years of sales and use tax experience within a large complex organization

3 or more years of sales and use tax audit experience

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience in accounting and sales/use tax within a large complex organization

Experience in performing audits and compiling refund claims

Experience with Sarbanes-Oxley controls

CMI or CPA

Job: Finance
Primary Location: United States-MN-Corporate Headquarters-Richfield
Organization:Best Buy US Corporate
Job Type: Regular/Full-Time
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The Tax Manager - International Systems role will support Best Buy's strategic initiatives through Tax & Finance systems and process implementations. This key tax role will drive business processes and systems to meet Best Buy's needs for future global growth. The incumbent will be the key tax expert and liaison in the International systems implementations and will manage these systems implementations from a tax perspective while working closely with IS.

Responsibilities:

1) Project Management:

a) Meet with business owners/business units to understand business requirements and translate that into tax requirements.

b) Work with various groups to implement, test tax requirements and to provide processes/procedures for system modifications/enhancements. Continually monitor business changes and system changes, communicating impact to the various groups.

c) Train key business users on new systems and processes. Participate in change management activities that effectively allow the organization to transition to new processes and systems

d) Define and document current and future business and tax requirements for various areas of Tax; evaluate vendor demonstrations and softwares' functional ability to meet the organizational and regulatory needs.

e) Document, determine impact, prioritize and resolve issues that arise during the entire project.

f) Complete impact analysis to define benefits and costs associated with various elements of the project.

g) Define data elements, conversion requirements, and reporting needs for business processes impacted by projects. Seek out and provide business input and direction to data and conversion planning. Define and document system configuration settings

h) Assist with test plan creation. Create and execute system and user acceptance test cases. Document issues, track and follow-up through resolution. Provide work direction to business analysts involved in this effort.

2) Tax Expert

a) Provide guidance to key tax department members related to financial analysis, tax research, compliance and reporting requirements.

b) Manage relationships internal and external to tax and communicate between tax and the various IS organizations and local country personnel.

c) Gain system/functional expertise for selected solutions; partner with IS and business representatives to design and document systems and business processes to support the business and tax requirements of the enterprise. Provide work direction and guidance to business analysts involved in this effort. Work with key business resources to ensure completeness of designs.

Successful candidates will:

Understand complex tax strategies

Have strong tax, accounting and finance background with experience working in all aspects of tax types, including compliance, audit and reporting.

Strong communication skills

Work well in a team environment to facilitate working relationships among groups in the organization.

Be a strong project manager

International Travel Required: 50% - 60%

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in business, finance, accounting or tax

6 or more years of experience in all areas of tax (income & indirect tax, including VAT), financial accounting or operational accounting experience with experience in system maintenance, business process design and user testing. Experience in tax systems, compliance and audit through in-house experience, large corporate tax organization, consulting or public accounting

1 or more years of leadership experience

Preferred Qualifications:

Large enterprise reporting platform (ERP) implementation experience

Advanced degree

CPA/CMA

Job: Accounting/Finance
Primary Location: United States-MN-Corporate Headquarters-Richfield
Organization:Best Buy US Corporate
Job Type: Regular/Full-Time
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The Senior Financial Analyst will be a key business partner to the Home Operating Group, responsible for driving results and powering decisions. This position will proactively identify & prioritize business opportunities and lead complex business analysis to drive significant value creation. The role requires an individual that is skilled in business analytics with a strong financial acumen.

Areas of responsibility include:

Continuous Business Enhancement & Optimization - 50%

·Partner with the Merchant Team to create top & bottom line value through key driver evaluation and optimization

·Deliver insights and recommendations that influence and optimize business performance

·Key focus areas include assortment, pricing, promotions, basket, inventory, vendor mix, channels, geography, customer, and competitors. This responsibility will largely be ad-hoc project based work

Evaluation and development of new business opportunities - 25%

·Partner with the Merchant Team to bring a financial lens to ideation, modeling, negotiation, implementation, and analysis of new business ideas

·Key responsibilities include the evaluation of game changing partnerships or exclusives, business model extensions, and new profit pools. This responsibility will largely be ad-hoc project based work

"CFO" Support Capabilities: 25%

·Explain specific drivers of business results. Identify risks and opportunities, providing analysis and insights to mitigate risks and maximize opportunities

·Teach business and financial acumen to business partners

·Key responsibilities include Board of Director and earnings call preparation, ad-hoc quarterly analysis, strategic planning, business reviews, and CER support

The position will provide support for the current operating model as well as support for new initiatives and business requirements in this constantly evolving business environment. This position is a great opportunity for the individual as it provides great exposure and visibility to several cross-functional areas and to senior management.

We are seeking an individual with strong business and financial acumen to act as a valued business partner. The candidate needs to be self-motivated, and should enjoy working in a fast-paced, constantly evolving and challenging business environment. The incumbent must be highly developed in the following competencies:

·Analytical and Problem Solving

·Drive for Results

·Ability to Manage Multiple Priorities and Work Independently

·Interpersonal and Communication Skills

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelors degree in Economics/Finance/Business

Three or more years of financial and business analysis experience

Advanced knowledge in Excel is required

Preferred Qualifications:

MBA preferred

Experience working in retail environment is a plus

Job: Accounting/Finance
Primary Location: United States-MN-Corporate Headquarters-Richfield
Organization:Best Buy US Corporate
Job Type: Regular/Full-Time
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The Senior Manager's role is vital to enabling Best Buy to expand successfully internationally. A primary focus of this role in the International Controller function is to establish the financial infrastructure for our entry into new countries, including, the financial policies, procedures and timing of new financial operations in new countries. This will require successful partnerships with the tax, legal and operational functions at Corporate and in our in-country teams. This role will also explore improvements in our existing infrastructure such as shared service operations to leverage our infrastructure worldwide.

In addition, Best Buy has expressed its interest in doubling the size of the company and will partially achieve this through acquisitions, which will necessitate an active role in the due diligence, integration and consolidation of new operations, countries and ventures into our organization. The Senior Manager will play a central role in that activity.

The Senior Manager will also provide assistance in the international accounting topics and issues that arise throughout the world to determine the proper accounting or for support within the Best Buy organization. Each day will bring unanticipated and undefined challenges that will provide the opportunity to resolve, respond and provide solutions.

Last, we are responsible for the financial integrity and controls across the world. This involves a proactive approach to understand the controls and processes across the different reporting countries and to develop consistency and ensure integrity to those processes. The Manager role on the team will have this as their primary focus, but the Senior Manager will be able to support this aspect of our responsibilities while interacting with our partners throughout the world.

Responsibilities:

·Establish our global financial infrastructure

·Drive global Finance harmony through timely and quality responses to international requests and by advocating the Globalization of Finance processes

·Support the due diligence, integration and ongoing success of acquisitions, joint ventures, etc.

·Ensure worldwide integrity of controls. Drive consistency across the world, including with the US, where applicable

·Identify and drive process improvement initiatives.

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree

3 or more years experience developing complex end-to-end Financial business processes

2 or more years experience developing partnerships in multiple cultures and countries to drive change

5 or more years experience researching and identifying the appropriate technical accounting solutions to complex tasks

Ability to travel and commit to the demands of the international schedule and time of day

Preferred Qualifications:

MBA

CPA

6 or more years experience of managing a challenging list of tasks to timely completion

Advanced written and verbal communication skills

A leader that balances independent thought and action with informed consent of leadership

An advocate for the customer

Job: Accounting/Finance
Primary Location: United States-MN-Corporate Headquarters-Richfield
Organization:Best Buy US Corporate
Job Type: Regular/Full-Time
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Best Buy Finance Summer Internship - Senior Financial Analyst Intern

Best Buy has a 43-year history of giving people amazing opportunities to grow personally and professionally-and to have fun while doing it. Our company has changed radically over the past 40 years, and we will do that again over the next 40 years. We are looking for energetic individuals that aren't afraid to dive in and to be a part of continuously transforming our business to better serve our customers and define our future growth. We view our intern program as a key source for hiring full time finance professionals that want to contribute to the growth of Best Buy-wherever that might take us as a company and as individuals.

Internships are offered in many different areas of corporate finance, including financial analyst positions supporting our merchants, store/on-line leadership and corporate functions plus positions in financial planning and analysis, M&A and projects in the business analysis group (a group designed to build business cases for large value creation ideas). Duties and responsibilities can include specific project related work, as well as designing financial models, investment analysis, planning and performance management, analyzing business cases, etc.

This program is a 10 - 12 week paid internship for MBA candidates concentrating in Finance and/or Accounting at our corporate headquarters in Richfield, MN (Suburban Minneapolis). As a Senior Financial Analyst intern, you will be an integral part of the business team and are expected to contribute your ideas and suggestions day one.

Sample Responsibilities for Senior Financial Analyst Interns

A summer intern experience in our corporate office may include the following:

· Measuring the impact of key merchandising or store initiatives and making recommendations to drive incremental shareholder value

· Evaluating the potential financial, customer, and employee impacts of adding new products, services, or distribution channels

· Building financial models to evaluate a potential minority investment in a start-up company

· Decision support - Profitability and/or risks and opportunity analysis for operating units (including competitor or vendor analysis, promotional analysis, territory performance, cost analysis, etc.).

· Financial reporting and analysis - Process improvement and accuracy check implementation for monthly and mid-year forecasting processes, benchmarking, and new report design & development.

· Corporate investment analysis - Analyze market strategies, investment alternatives, and strategic alternatives for Best Buy.

Basic Qualifications:

· Must be eligible for permanent employment in the United States upon graduation

· MBA Candidate with Finance or Accounting background and/or preference

· Completed first year of MBA studies (3.0 minimum GPA) by Summer 2010

Preferred Requirements:

· Strong analytical skills

· Excellent written and verbal communication skills

· Comfortable working with or leading cross-functional initiatives

· Ability to work individually and on a team

· Ability to generate results in a fast paced and ambiguous environment

· Comfortable presenting to Senior Management

Job: Finance
Primary Location: United States-MN-Corporate Headquarters-Richfield
Organization:Best Buy US Corporate
Job Type: Occasional/Seasonal
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The Business Analysis team supports our Enterprise growth strategies by providing analytical support to enhance current operational efficiency, and to identify and leverage strategic growth opportunities.

The Sr. Financial Analyst is responsible for taking a lead role in business case development that delivers significant economic value to the Enterprise. This will include market analysis, competitive positioning, financial viability, and ensuring strategic fit within our brand and capabilities. The position will support initiatives across multiple functions at all levels within the Domestic and International organizations and will work either independently or within a small team to quickly address opportunities. The analysis will include a presentation of actionable recommendations to Sr. Management that materially impact the Enterprise's value to shareholders.

Qualified candidates should have previous in-depth experience in applying advanced financial, analytical and strategic methodology to evaluate and solve complex business problems. Candidates should also be comfortable with ambiguity, independent thought, managing multiple priorities, and possess strong written and oral communications skills. Ideal candidates will be results oriented, possess strong drive, and demonstrate proven leadership ability.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

50% Analysis of business problems

15% Project and scope planning

15% Deliver results to Leadership

10% Identification of new business opportunities

10% Participate in ongoing training in the Business Analysis Academy

**No relocation available.

BASIC REQUIREMENTS

Bachelor's degree

3 or more years of financial and/or business analysis experience

Intermediate knowledge of integrated financial statement analysis (IS, BS, CF) and valuation methods (NPV, DCF, EVA)

Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office

Experience presenting to Management

PREFERRED REQUIREMENTS

MBA

3 or more years of business valuation experience

Retail experience

Valuation & Contractual Structuring experience

Previous work experience with a national management consulting firm

Job: Accounting/Finance
Primary Location: United States-MN-Corporate Headquarters-Richfield
Organization:Best Buy US Corporate
Job Type: Regular/Full-Time
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