Recommend tax strategies by researching, interpreting, and implementing tax laws. responsible for performing complex tax preparation, tax research and tax planning. ➲ File federal, state, and local tax documents by preparing property tax returns, state pages, and federal, state, and municipal returns, extensions, and quarterly payments.➲ Prepare tax provision schedules-reviewing, preparing, consolidating provision schedules.➲ Recommend tax strategies, research federal, state, and local taxation issues.➲ Maintain legislative materials, reviewing, interpreting, and implementing new or revised laws.➲ Maintain compliance with regulations by forwarding required information to federal, state, and local authorities.➲ Revise procedures, develop and streamline procedures and worksheets for calculation of comprehensive tax provisions.➲ Identify profitability of potential mergers and acquisitions by analyzing tax information; calculating key ratios; identifying areas of tax savings.➲ Stay abreast in industry, participate in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations.

Primary responsibility to support Oracle Financials; specifically Oracle General Ledger, Receivables, Payable, Purchasing, Advanced Collections, HR and Assets modules. Work closely with Accounting, Procurement, and Business Line Group staff in the support of Oracle applications. Support Oracle SOA financial integration processes. Understand and able to decipher through RFP comparisons.• Strong knowledge of the Procure to Pay and Order to Cash processes.• Knowledge of flex fields, workflow, setup and profile options.• Understanding multi-organization and multi-currency functionality and their impact on complex business scenarios• Lead the development team in the deployment/implementation of IT solutions.• Develop and perform testing as needed. Ensure tasks conform to specifications/processes and standardized best practices.• Participate in the complex review and analysis of business requirements and the configuration, mapping, and management of processes. • Document highly complex system specifications and solutions to satisfy project requirements.

Led project leadership over major business sector within Electrolux Small Appliances; implemented and configured small logistic outbound processes onto Oracle Transportation Management. Provided functional and technical application support and maintenance for the OTM Global Transportation Application.➲ Investigated system related issues and recommended/implemented solutions in close coordination with business process requirements.➲ Liaison with central and local key users and IT colleagues. Interacted with DBA's, system administrators, and integration analyst's on technical support and maintenance. ➲ Developed guidelines and standards (e.g. integration concepts, agent development concepts, query concepts, etc.) helped ensure the integrity of the production environment.➲ Compiled and extracted reporting data from Oracle tables by using TOAD and Oracle SQL developer tools.➲ Distributed technical knowledge to regional & international counterparts. ➲ Performed application user management and administration.➲ Configured menus, screens, Admin restriction, define the profile, parameters, user preferences, define alerts, auto assignment rules, logfiles, SQL threads, EDI configuration, flexfield, transmission and mapping specifications.➲ Produced and maintained User and Technical documentation as required.➲ Managed and planned OTM service release testing and upgrades and performed regression testing when required.➲ Engaged testing with project team SAP Sales & Distribution: Outbound Deliveries, Sales Orders, IDOC and BOL➲ Advance understanding of SAP logistic execution process, interacting with OTM workflow➲ Configured OTM product and wrote complex Agents/workflows to support business needs.➲ Experienced with end to end OTM implementation version 5.5 and 6.2

Managed the overall carrier and Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) compliance within Wal-Mart Logistics. Interviewed, selected supervised, trained and mentored 10 employees within the Compliance Department. Efficient in planning, forecasting, setting objectives, and determining courses of action.➲ Defined strategic processes so that Wal-Mart Transportation division had better visibility to Wal-Mart collect freight.➲ Designed an EDI compliance process that will ultimately save the company $3 million a year. Communicated and negotiated with carriers to sustain a 90% on their EDI compliance with Wal-Mart Logistic.➲ Tracked, monitored lanes within newly tested Global Transportation System. Created routing guides (location to location) to ensure carrier met expectations at best price freight costs. ➲ With team of 10, compiled and calculated "Level of Service" for 300 truckload carriers each week to ensure all carrier's were compliant on primary lanes (picking up freight and delivering as agreed) and that product got to stores. Monitored stores several times daily (carrier had to be 95% compliant to remain). ➲ Collaborated with the Contract Manager regarding negotiations of several hundred contracts annually, the Traffic Manager to ensure carriers were meeting expectations.➲ Traveled to on-site locations interested in making presentations for their products/services.➲ During blitzes, such as a Grand Openings or major holidays, worked with Reverse Logistics, ensuring that deliveries from warehouse to store constantly continued to keep shelves full in the stores.➲ Negotiated contracts with carriers and suppliers on specialized retail business shipments.Logistics Systems Manager➲ Managed a $10 million dollar Retail link transportation application with Information Systems Division and Vendor Community.➲ Trained and implemented a $1.0 million PO Management Department to track exception purchase orders.