Led a global team of Business Analysts to identify, prioritize, select and implement solutions to support business strategies and objectives. Responsible for establishing, deciding, directing and executing strategies for specific business and functional areas within Accounting, Internal Audit, Global Process Solutions and Financial Planning & Analysis. Managed a $12 million annual portfolio. Developed business roadmaps, short and long-term project plans and identified technology trends.

Collaborate with sub-teams within Global Tax department to develop 5-year roadmap for the department. Present roadmap and vision to Tax and IT leadership as well as Global Tax department. Work with Tax leadership team to develop action plans for projects to be completed according to designed future state. Work with teams on systematic rollout of projects and to maintain continuity of the vision. Align Tax and IT in creating yearly budget for software for Global Tax department. Perform data analytics by gathering, organizing and analyzing data from a variety of different systems and different departments. Serve as the liaison between the tax department and IT as well as other groups inside and outside the Company. Leverage technology tools to create/design process efficiencies and controls. Responsible for designing, developing, implementing and integrating technology solutions that will present book data in the format/level of detail required by the tax department. Identify opportunities for use of technology to accelerate and enhance the tax reporting and compliance processes. Interview potential candidates for growing tax department. Maintain SOX 404 internal controls for tax software and ensure documentation is in accordance with key controls objectives and control activities framework. Conduct software implementations where duties are: identifying requirements, researching viable technology solutions, performing analysis to begin software selection process, working with vendors to schedule software demonstrations, reaching out to vendor with questions regarding proposal and bid, preparing Business Requirements Document/Work Effort Charter for IT project approval team; meeting with IT and procurement to discuss budget, feasibility and software needs, presenting business case and lobbying for buy-in and approval. Develop SharePoint sites for global tax department for data collection, collaboration, workflow tracking and a document repository.

Tax Systems Consultant and Implementer of OneSource Tax Provision and Longview Tax Provision. Worked with clients to increase automation, re-engineer Tax processes and optimize Tax departments. Led workstream to develop vision for new technology dashboard platform to integrate tax solutions. Analyzed all software used by the Tax practice and identified ways to integrate all tax software into one seamless dashboard application. Trained Tax professionals on the new electronic filing system software (DMS) as well as the Tax File Standard, which identified protocols for file documentation. Traveled to PwC offices within the U.S. to train tax professionals. Duties included: working with each Tax Market Lead to ensure an understanding of the new software and implementation protocol; conducted status update conference calls with tax leadership, national Learning & Education contacts and technology support regarding the implementation; conducted benchmark testing to predict and resolve any technology issues or network disconnects that might occur as well as the testing speed of the DMS software;coordinated with other instructors as to all relevant information as it pertained to the training. Constructed technology tools within Microsoft Access and Excel. Aided tax department in achieving maximum efficiency through technology, system improvements and process re-engineering. Assisted in database system conversion. In addition, assisted in conversion project when clients changed accounting systems to PeopleSoft.