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Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Elavon Inc. is a leading global payment processing company, and a subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp. Elavon provides the world’s best technologies to support the payment needs to merchants with locations across the globeGlobal Senior Accountant and Tax selected duties: • Prepared financial statements in accordance with U.S. GAAP for Elavon and selected global subsidiaries• Reviewed annual and monthly income tax calculations, as well as preparing monthly income tax projections, deferred tax calculation, and all related tax journal entries for Elavon’s global subsidiaries• Reviewed monthly reconciliation for domestic and global sales tax, property tax, VAT, income tax accounts, as well as the journal entries’ approval for the monthly reconciliation• Developed subsidiaries’ procedures to reconcile and calculate monthly and annual tax liabilities• Served as primary liaison with EY’s International tax and audit teams to review annual tax returns, deferred tax calculations, foreign withholding tax calculations and dividend/equity distributions to the U.S. parent companies• Partnered with Elavon’s IT to implement the required tax rates to product lines to reflect the correct tax amount, and rate on merchant’s billing and invoice process• Recipient of the 2019 Legends of Possible; the highest US Bancorp employee honor

Atlanta, Georgia

The REI team mainly provided services to domestic and foreign investors owning pass-through entities, and/or Corporations. The REI team also served manufacture and hotel clientsSelected duties:• Accurately and efficiently prepared partnership, corporation and individual tax returns• Prepared income tax projections and estimate calculations for clients, including work papers to determine various book to tax differences, and maintains client’s fixed assets records for both book and tax purpose• Analyzed accounting records, audited financial statements, or other financial reports to assess accuracy, completeness and conformance to reporting and procedural standards

Developed policies and procedures to integrate the Central and South American subsidiary of an Italian manufacturing and distribution company into the U.S. subsidiary (North America HUB) located in Atlanta, GA Supervised the HUB’s operations and logistics managed by a Third Party Logistics (3PL)

Prepared, analyzed and interpreted monthly financial statements in accordance with U.S. GAAP for two U.S. companies, and eleven Latin American (LATAM) Joint Ventures (JVs), whose total annual revenue was over $20 million and 200 employees. Reengineered Corporate Tax/Accounting Department; streamlining U.S. and JVs’ policies and procedures through implementation of departmental standards, and scalable industry best practices. Served as primary liaison and tax advisor to investors, external auditors both in Latin America and the U.S., external law firms, on issues ranging from:a) Debt service (Review transfer price studies for LATAM JVs required from the tax authorities for deductibility purpose, foreign withholding taxes calculation; payment and reconciliation)b) Equity calculations and distributions (Capital distributions, tax free and taxable dividends distribution). C) Tax provisions for the U.S. parent company, and the LATAM subisidiaries

Master'S Degree, Master In Taxation

Activities and Societies: Member of Tau Alpha Chi, National Honorary Tax Association

Executive Mba, International Business

B.B.A. In Accounting, Accounting

Activities and Societies: Part-time University level teacher of Auditing, Budgeting and Financial Analysis at National Polytechnic.