Elena Gridina-Aykan Email & Phone Number

International Tax Expert with over 17 years of experience of which 13 years as in house tax specialist and 4 years in a Big4 accounting firm. Business-oriented, competent to work on own initiative and strong in building relationships internally and with external stakeholders such as external tax advisors, tax auditors and global tax authorities. Multi-lingual with global mindset, combining local and international perspectives, expert at aligning tax planning with business strategies. Extensive experience in corporate tax and indirect tax compliance, advisory and accounting, transfer pricing, employment taxes and global mobility.Proven ability to coordinate and lead tax projects such as implementation of new ERP-system, establishment and effectiveness of a Shared Services Center, development of e-commerce capability from the tax perspective, tax training, maintaining the highest level of control and accuracy for the provision and income tax filings, corporate simplifications and finding opportunities to lower the tax cash expense, Cost Management project, cross-border inter-company recharge arrangements and transfer pricing methodology/documentation. Successes included but were not limited to international taxation, audits, tax accounting, US GAAP reporting and SOX compliance, transactional tax, global mobility, contracts and withholding tax.

Listed skills include International Tax, Professional Services, National And International Corporate Tax Law, Transfer Pricing Documentation, and 25 others.