Tom Neill Tanoos Email & Phone Number

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TOM N TANOOS CONSULTING, LLC skype tom.tanoos.ag1 GLOBAL VIRTUAL CONSULTANCY tomtanoos@gmail.com +1-281 673 9445 https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomtanoosExtensive global financial and project cost experience. PMO, BPO, R2R, P2P and Tax advisory services.Financial administrative services from 1994 to 2015 in countries of Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Brazil.

Ras Al Khair Industrial City, Eastern Province, Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia

• The world’s leading producer of primary aluminum and fabricated aluminum as well as the largest miner of bauxite and refiner of alumina; employs approximately 61,000 people in 200+ locations in 31 countries across the.
• Oversight responsibility for the IIP, Mine & Refinery, Rolling Mill and Smelter Projects on a USD$10 B Super Program.
• Monitored all functions affecting payments to suppliers and subcontractors, successfully dealing with all disciplines across the board, and financial instruments, bank guarantees, and cross country tax impacts.
• Review the flow of documentation and ensure problems impacting timely payments are quickly resolved.
• Manage Host Country cost reporting for 360+ expatriates from 30 different countries across the globe.
• Prepare and issue weekly KPIs and Data Metrics on invoice processing and payments to Board Management. Extensive use of R2R principles to accomplish goals.Achievements

• A Fortune 500 company that delivers engineering, procurement, construction, maintenance (EPCM), and project management to governments and clients in diverse industries around the world.
• Resurrected a dormant business entity and functioned as legal agent for Fluor in Taiwan; established the business license so that banking, payroll, accounting, financial reporting, and tax filings could advance.
• Recruited and coached local personnel in Taiwan to launch the financial operations and headed a multi-national, multi-cultural work force defining all procedures for the project.
• Monitored cash flow and prepared six week cash projections on a petrochemical refining project in the Russian Federation; collected data for Russian personal income tax returns for 100+ expatriates located worldwide.
• Prepared weekly cash projections to assist Corporate Treasury in cash management and carefully managed actual expenditures; maximized utilization of corporate funds for the operation. Established local bank accounts.
• Communicated with all sources to collect the required personal income tax data from home countries for inclusion in Russian tax calculation and ensured all tax returns were completed on-time with no fines/penalties.

• Established operations in the country of Ecuador and functioned as legal representative for Fluor in the country.
• Setup banking, financial reporting, administration, and human resources functions for a trans-Ecuadorian pipeline project with a major USA oil and gas corporation in Quito and their production facilities in the Amazon.
• In Argentina, researched complex withholding tax rules and adapted a new accounting system to handle the computation and reporting of those tax laws.
• Established close relationships with personnel at all levels and supported Fluor´s JV UTE with the largest engineering and construction company in Argentina, SADE (SKANSKA), to build a gold mining facility in a.
• Improved operations and financial controls in Chile and assumed finance and administrative responsibility for personnel in Santiago, other cities, and mine sites; assisted corporate security handling several sensitive.
• Coordinated and established craft cash payroll procedures and operations from the mine site to branch offices throughout Chile.

• Interfaced with Mexican legal and accounting advisors, working closely with branch legal and accounting personnel in a successful teamwork atmosphere to ensure a smooth transition for an acquisition and establishment.
• Handled sensitive audit issues on a major capital project with Saudi Aramco Northern Area Program to upgrade the gas to oil separation process in the Middle East; assisted the Fluor Arabia Ltd. office during client.
• Researched, developed, and defended forward pricing and final indirect rates for US government contracts; gained full acceptance for proposed and final rates, contributing significantly to corporate income statement.
• New government contracts increased labor utilization to achieve fewer layoffs at the Fluor Houston Engineering Center.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Latin American Studies

Classic Arts and Sciences studies with coursework in life sciences, chemistry, physics, mathematics, social sciences and the arts.

Post-Graduate Studies, Accounting And Business/Management

Concentration in Accounting (25 semester hours) including Management Accounting, Intermediate Accounting, Advanced Accounting, Auditing.

Junior Year Studies, Latin American Studies

Total immersion language studies, sociology, anthropology, history and political science.

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Spanish & Portuguese Philology And Linguistics

Graduate teaching assistant in the Department of Foreign Languages. Teaching undergraduate courses including one Honors class.