*Staffing/Hiring/Firing/Reviews*Contracts*Budgeting*Acquisitions*Training*GL Reconciliations*Implementation*Manage/Direct and Indirect Reports -2 Managers and 6 Indirect reports*Manage 3 departments -Licensing -Property Tax -Sales and Use Tax

• Timely preparation, filing and payment related for monthly sales and use tax returns in all applicable states. • Develop, document and maintain internal processes for payment of taxes and filing of related returns.• Remain current on state and local laws related to sales and use taxes and property taxes, and perform research as needed for tax positions and responses to tax notices. • Serve as the primary point of contact for any state or local audit requests or related inquiries.• Timely preparation and filing of property tax returns in all applicable states and localities.• Monitoring status and renewal for all sales and use tax and property tax exemptions.• Gather and analyze monthly reports that will be used for preparation of returns.• Provide supervision and direction to the Sales and Use Tax Consultant• Ad hoc projects and additional duties as assigned (raffle withholding and levy notices)

State and local sales and use tax compliance:• Over 100 retail locations• 13 restaurants• Wholesale sales• Manually updated tax rates on a monthly basis and distributed to the divisions • Reconciled sales tax accounts monthly• Create journal entries for all payments made to sales tax accounts.• Extensive national network of contacts for state and local tax researchAudits:• Sales tax• Property tax• Business licenseBusiness licenses and registrations:• New state, city and county registrations.• Renewals for all state, cities and counties• Wholesale locationsPersonal and real property, including Freeport calculationsResponsible for all 4 divisions including:• Over 100 retail locations• 4 distribution centers• 2 corporate offices• Wholesale locations• Fixed asset analysis• Property tax appeals• Property tax auditsResponsible for annual analysis of Property tax roll-forwardsPrior to 2008, sales tax filings were all manually driven in excel with V-Lookups. Responsible for research, selection and implementation of OneSource tax software, in order to automate sales tax filings. During this same time, responsible for Oxford conversion from an AS400 system to SAP.The company acquired Sugartown Worldwide, LLC (dba Lilly Pulitzer) which required the implementation of their tax into Oxford’s. In addition, converted their e-commerce software to Vertex O-series in 2011 and led the sales tax process.Tax planning and strategyExtensive experience in all aspects related to state and local tax

Supervise 10 Tax Analysts and 2 Senior Tax Analysts• Identified process and control issues.• Approved checklists prepared by Analysts.• Re-created the web report called “Client Log” for all of Tax Partners clients.• Managed the client assignments for all of the Shared Accounts Analysts. This is approx. 14 Analysts and 3Senior Tax Analysts with a total of over 100 clients.• Supervised 5 Tax Analysts and 1 Senior Tax Analyst Analysts responsible for processing 6000+ tax returns at month end and 10000+ returns quarterly for 41+ telecommunication clients.• Reviewed all funds requests monthly before sending to the clients• Reviewed all returns before sending them to production.• Verified that payment has been received per the funds request and authorize the production department to send the checks and returns to the jurisdictions.• Provided monthly reports to analysts, which included tracking of outstanding notices, adjustments, and checks in treasury.• Monthly reporting to Senior Management on the progress of the team and the outstanding issues.• Member of a pilot group on Leadership Development.

Supervised 4 – 6 employees• Assisted with implementation of Great Plains Solomon IV which reduced the close cycle from five to three days.• Created SJE’s (standard journal entries) in the new software that could be downloaded monthly which eliminated manual entries