Senior Vice President, Tax Counsel And Chief Tax Officer
CurrentResponsible for all Federal, state, and local direct and indirect tax planning, compliance and controversy as well as all tax aspects of financial reporting. Designed and implemented tax strategies which reduced the effective tax rate from 37% to 19%.Successfully negotiated multiple Joint Committee cases yielding financially significant tax refunds Redesigned and implemented improved and automated tax financial reporting and tax return processesIntegrated the Tax Department into business planning