Senior Tax Consultant Resume Irvine, CA - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

Senior Tax Specialist / Tax Manager focused on income, sales, and property tax for multi - state and international corporations.
Provide full service tax compliance expertise, avoiding costly penalties, interest, and external audit risk.
Known for providing value added tax strategies, resulting in significant tax savings and refunds.
Improve tax functions and solve complex challenges through continual process improvement, analytical problem solving skills, and through leveraging technology.

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Confidential, Irvine, CA

Senior Tax Consultant

Responsibilities:

Register and file sales tax licenses and returns for recent acquisition based out of state.
Prepare annual company bonus calculations, tax provision schedules, extensions and estimated payments.
Income tax filings and research for C-Corporations, Partnerships and S-Corps.

Confidential, Cypress, CA

Senior Tax Specialist

Responsibilities:

Improved processes by integrating technology into tax work papers via linking, lookup formulas, and live links to SAP financial data.
Solved golf car portfolio issues through complex modeling process and creative approach to find and prove historical model was incomplete despite failures of multiple financial and tax audits.
Secured tax refund of $9.1M for prior year overpaid taxes related to golf car lease portfolio through detailed modeling and research, proving tax basis in golf cars were understated for more than 20 years.
Avoided penalties and interest by over $2.5M related to US / Japan transfer pricing adjustment by forecasting taxes due and prepaying amounts owed prior to signing of final agreement.
Achieved refund resulting in $150M deposit within 9 days from Confidential Carryback by leading effort to file Federal return 5 months early.
Obtained Sec. 199 Manufacturing Deduction for 2013 amended to include $37M tax deduction by allocating 716mm transfer pricing between legal entities, resulting in deduction that had been zero when return was originally filed.
Researched sales and use tax issues for the golf car leasing division as well as review and improve the sales tax function by reviewing and mentoring the sales tax analyst.

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Tax Manager

Responsibilities:

Integrated multiple functions into independent tax role responsible for all income, sales, property, licenses and local taxes for company by acting as initial Tax Manager.
Realized minimal tax liabilities due to timely and accurate compliance for hundreds of tax returns.
Saved $500K in use tax liability through Load and Leave sales tax project by managing software purchases and installations, avoiding sales tax on intangible property.
Secured new investment advisors as Investment Committee analysts for company 401K plan by acting as organizer and utilizing due diligence to replace provider.
Realized state income tax savings with Confidential & Confidential corporate restructuring project by researching and managing corporate restructuring, reducing state income taxes.