Responsible for the domestic tax compliance function:

• Lead a 15-person team in the preparation and filing of more than 350 Federal, state, city & county income tax returns and over 7,500 sales/use tax and property tax returns, resulting in timely filings and effective reporting of implemented tax strategies
• Supervise, coordinate and improve automation, standardization & collaboration amongst compliance team located in 5 states, organized in two functional areas (income & indirect taxes), and further subdivided by two different lines of business
• Provide training and mentoring to tax personnel at all levels within the tax compliance group
• Manage multiple simultaneous Federal and state income, S&U and property tax audits
• Build & maintain business relationships with financial and business partners to improve communication, identify issues, develop and implement solutions, and provide support to the Legal, Regulatory Compliance and Contracts Departments in adhering to obligations under customer contracts

Role requires strong managerial, organizational and analytical skills, including effective written and verbal communication skills.

Served as an outsourced tax director for multi-national, publicly held corporations. Responsible for:

• Preparation of ASC 740 quarterly and annual tax provisions
• Focused on building & utilizing sustainable tax provision models incorporating provision issues, disclosure and impact of tax law and business changes
• Designed model to effectively use technology enabling timely responsiveness to relevant users (e.g. senior management, SEC reporting group, external auditors, compliance team)
• Developed and implemented processes for efficiently providing executive summaries for management and maintaining deferred tax inventories, FIN48 analysis, FAS123R, tax accounting relating to stock compensation, tax account analysis, return to provision reconciliations, international tax reporting packages, and tax projections for estimated payments and extensions
• Performed intial SOX implementation and subsequent annual testing of tax function for non-provision client
• Performed project work for senior management relating to acquisitions such as transitioning a tax function from Massachusetts to California as the result of a domestic acquisition and assisting with interim reporting tax issues resulting from an international acquisition.

Employed as most senior tax person within the company

• Created an in-house tax department subsequent to IPO
• Responsible for the worldwide tax function - tax provision, compliance, audits & planning; Federal, state & international
• Developed & managed tax function during a period of high growth - increasing from branch operations in 2 countries to controlled foreign corporations in more than 25 countries; growing from business operations in 5 to more than 35 states
• Tax issues relating to a merger, several acquisitions, and an international reorganization

One person tax function, responsible for the worldwide tax function (provision, compliance, audits & planning; Federal, state, & international)

• Responsible for all international aspects of the federal tax return, tax provision, and IRS audit (foreign tax credits, transfer pricing, international tax reporting packages)
• Implemented and maintained aspects of formalized expatriate tax policy program