COMPUTER SKILLS:

• Confidential Tax Provision, Confidential Uncertain Tax Positions
• Corptax Compliance, Corptax Office
• Excel VBA, SQL
• Oracle General Ledger, Oracle Assets, Oracle Discoverer
• Hyperion Financial Management
• SAP Business Explorer (BEx), SAP ERP Central Component & Business Intelligence

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, LOS ANGELES, CA

Director, Tax Process & Technology

Responsibilities:

• Increased operational efficiencies of tax provision and compliance processes by streamlining data, improving tax systems and staffs’ technology skills:
• Implemented Confidential Tax Provision, Confidential Uncertain Tax Position and Corptax Compliance within budget.
• Automated global tax compliance process of over 1,000 entities using SharePoint and Cognos.
• Automated Payable Proof, ETR, and Country - by-Country Reports.
• Streamlined tax entity database which resulted in efficient reporting.
• Automated validation of tax systems’ parameters to ensure accuracy and completeness.
• Trained worldwide finance and tax staffs regularly.
• Reduced time 99% to generate Treasury Department's daily cash balance report for 700 accounts from 11 hours to under 1 minute.
• Reduced departmental costs and improved service by establishing support team in India.
• Managed data and tax systems integration for largest acquisition in engineering industry.

Confidential, SAN DIEGO, CA

Manager, Financial Systems

Responsibilities:

• Managed re- implementation of Confidential Tax Provision .
• Reduced quarterly tax provision process by automating interim tax provision calculation model.
• Reduced reporting errors by providing training to staffs on how to use system data correctly.
• Eliminated balance discrepancies by analyzing account mappings between legacy G/Ls and Corporate SAP .

Confidential, New york, NY

Manager, Tax

Responsibilities:

• As one of first hire of newly created global t ax department of Confidential ’s main business unit, established new processes and systems to produce worldwide tax provisions while conforming to SOX requirements.
• Trained newly contracted 25 outsourced staffs to become fully operational worldwide support group.
• Reduced manual works by developing programs to compute global and country ETR, Subpart F calculation, transfer p ricing intercompany allocation model and annual ETR forecast .
• Improved tax reporting and planning by defining key attributes of 500+ legal entity information .

Confidential, NORWALK, CT

Process Leader

Responsibilities:

• Provided functional expertise and enhancement designs for custom tax programs.
• Tax programs automatically generated tax journal entries for local, US shareholder (computation of foreign source income, tax capacity limitation, foreign tax credit, tax capacity allocation) and US federal and state tax provisions .
• Programs substantially reduced time to close book and identified errors arising from manual journal entries .
• Supported users globally by providing functional expertise in Oracle Assets, General Ledger and Discoverer.
• Developed Oracle Assets Su per User T raining Guide and co-developed Oracle Discoverer User Guide .
• Received high marks for training effectiveness in content and delivery .
• Developed program to automate 165,000 tax account reconciliation to comply with SOX requirements, resulting in substantial time reduction .
• Designed and developed program that can show incorrect posting to tax accounts .
• For hospitality company, streamlined manually-intensive finance processes by designing new processes from inventory planning to generating financial statements.
• Implemented Microsoft Dynamics ERP (G/L, A/P, Inventory, Reports and automated check printing ).
• Designed chart of accounts and inventory codes.
• Developed user guide and trained users.

Confidential, New York, NY

Principal Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Oracle General Ledger v10.7 SC. Mapped as-is processes and produced documentations ( conceptual design, detailed design, gap analysis, system configurations, data conversion, report specification, test scripts and user guides).
• Developed functional specification and directed technical team to develop Oracle custom program to automate generation of corporate consolidation report. Reduced posting to incorrect accounts by streamlining and enhancing its Oracle G/L cross validation rules.
• For US publishing company, computed cost of non-value added activities using activity-based-costing. Performed benchmarking analysis of IT department to identify annual cost saving of $2.5 million.
• Resolved $700 million revenue distortions between various billers .
• Developed financial model to assess impact of $2 billion cost reduction initiatives and carving out lower- tier customers.
• Streamlined budgeting and planning processes resulting in 50% reduction in cycle time.
• Computed required investment cost and projected cash flow and performed sensitivity analysis to identify key drivers.

Confidential

Head of Operational Accounting

Responsibilities:

• Managed day-to-day operation of Accounting Department.
• Produced consolidated financial statements in accordance with local and Confidential requirements.
• Analyzed quarterly results and summarized financial performance to be distributed to Confidential .
• Liaised with bankers and auditors.
• Improved on-time shipments from 30% to 98% by automating bill-of-material system and integrating it to Confidential worldwide purchasing system.
• Restructured Purchasing Department by adapting computerized purchasing system, replacing staffs and streamlining purchase requisition process.
• This resulted in 60% reduced purchase requisition time. Streamlined vendors resulting in 30% reduced costs and vendor base.