Responsible for the
• global income tax provision and all aspects of tax accounting including preparation, review and consolidation of non-U.S. provisions, SEC reporting, ETR analysis;
• tax aspects of acquisition accounting and integration of acquired companies;
• U.S. federal and state income tax compliance (returns, estimates, planning support);
• U.S. sales/use and property tax compliance and audits;
• development and maintenance of key tax technologies; monitoring of key tax processes and business partner metrics;
• implementation of accounting rule and tax law changes;
• professional tax staff development.
Duties include extensive interaction with the CFO and other executives throughout the company Reports to the Senior Vice-President of Tax and directly manages a staff of six tax professionals. Actively manages or oversees third party advisors on wide range of provision, compliance and acquisition-related projects.

Responsible for the re-engineering of tax provision and compliance processes; implemented “state of the art” monthly tax process and tax knowledge management tools; Integrated key tax functions into the Enterprise Reporting Program (SAP) and implemented specialized fixed asset software for non-U.S. companies. Extensive interaction with finance and information technology management. Reported to Director of Tax Technology and managed team of four to ten tax and IT professionals.

Responsible for tax compliance of U.S. diversified companies (corporate headquarters, real estate, coal mining) and the consolidated U.S. return, estimates and support for planning. Consolidation responsibilities included significant effort on international aspects of U.S. federal taxation (e.g. apportionment, FTC calculation and planning, and dividend planning). Responsible for the federal income tax training program of new tax staff. Extensive interaction with senior tax executives, finance personnel and legal staff as leader of the consolidation analysis. Reported to the Director of Tax Compliance and directly managed a group of eight to ten tax professionals.