Victor Hugo Celis Email & Phone Number

Milwaukee, Wi, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

■ Manage and continuously improve tax functions and processes that include but are not limited to full‐cycle tax compliance, income tax provision, income tax reporting, income tax audits, tax technology, tax transformation, and tax planning.■ Active involvement in the pre-deal structuring, tax due diligence, and post-acquisition integration of JBT’s 17 completed acquisitions since 2014 in support of JBT’s strategic growth plans, capital deployment program, and organic growth strategy.■ Oversee and monitor global tax policies, procedures, and objectives that minimize tax obligations and tax exposures worldwide; monitor tax planning and manage tax compliance and tax reporting.■ Oversee the development and implementation of a comprehensive tax strategy with an enterprise focus and emphasis on tax planning that supports the long-term growth strategy of the company while minimizing JBT’s tax burden to meet JBT’s business objectives and provide tax-efficient solutions.■ Embrace JBT’s continuous improvement culture and lead process improvement activities to redesign, standardize and automate tax accounting and reporting processes. ■ Directly manage a team of thirteen tax professionals consisting of nine Indirect Tax Team Members and Four Direct Tax Team members. Lead an effective, proactive, and highly engaged team of Tax Professionals that have a customer focus, and support the long-term business strategy through ongoing development, relentless continuous improvement, and transparent communication.■ Developed a track record of successful tax rate and cash tax planning and a background spanning merger and acquisitions structuring, financial reporting, compliance, controversy resolution, transfer pricing, and internal controls.■ Lead all tax audits as well as the external tax reporting process (10Q and 10K) and maintain a collaborative, transparent, and overall strong relationship with the external auditors.

Chicago, Il, Us

■ Reviewed and managed all tax systems/processes used for compliance and recommend, plan, and implement changes to enhance efficiency and accuracy.■ Lead the transfer pricing compliance related to BEPS initiatives, specifically country-by-country reporting and development of the master file and local files. As new BEPS initiatives are proposed and adopted, performing assessment of any transfer pricing implications and providing support with compliance.■ Lead, trained, and developed Tax Team members within a decentralized operating model in the areas of tax planning, U.S. GAAP tax accounting, and international tax compliance, and provided growth opportunities and positive exposure to all levels of business units, corporate management, and external advisors on outsourced tax projects and engagements.■ Lead tax audit defense for both U.S. and foreign entities, which includes developing strategic responses to information document requests [IDRs], reviewing and analyzing positions to provide strategic defense options to reach resolution with the tax authorities.■ Manage global tax policies, procedures, and objectives that minimized tax obligations and exposures worldwide; monitored planning and reporting to ascertain global compliance with applicable tax statutes.■ Managed global tax processes and projects such as transfer pricing, legal entity creation, mergers, acquisitions, and / or legal entity restructuring.■ Coordinate and manage information flow between accounting, business / finance, consolidations & reporting, and other areas of JBT Corporation on a worldwide basis to meet tax deadlines and requirements.■ Proactively monitored changes in tax laws to ensure appropriate planning, compliance, and reporting.■ Analyzed and interpreted any new legislation and court decisions, and proactively applied changes to the tax compliance and planning processes that also considered tax impact assessments of new legislation.

Chicago, Il, Us

■ Managed all aspects of tax reporting and compliance for a team of four Tax Team members for JBT. ■ Perform the day‐to‐day global tax compliance functions and maintain tax systems/processes for the compliance and tax reporting function and recommend changes to enhance efficiency and accuracy.■ Lead the federal and state tax return preparation for JBT Corporation and its subsidiaries. Prepare and review Federal Forms 5471 for the company’s controlled foreign corporations. ■ Facilitate efforts with both the accounting and finance planning & development (FP&A) departments to accurately and timely complete the monthly/quarterly/annual provisions and cash tax forecasts.■ Reviewed and managed all tax systems/processes used for compliance and recommend, plan, and implement changes to enhance efficiency and accuracy.■ Drive efficiencies in the tax provision process [international tax package and tax data automation processes], and collaboratively communicate and execute the delivery of process improvements to all domestic and international business units. ■ Develop and maintain positive working relationships, productive interaction with varying levels of internal and external tax software vendors, and be a liaison between multiple state tax authorities, domestic and international business units, as well as other JBT Corporate departments.■ Created and managed global tax policies, procedures, and objectives that minimized tax obligations and exposures worldwide; monitored planning and reporting to ascertain global compliance with applicable tax statutes.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

■ Actively engaged in executing diverse tasks associated with compliance, planning, and consulting aspects of International Taxation for the company’s 175+ Foreign Affiliates and Subsidiaries. ■ Utilize fluency in Spanish to communicate and execute compliance and planning objectives to Spanish-speaking international affiliates.■ Develop and provide expertise on numerous projects that include highly complex tax issues with a focus on Cross-Border Transactions, Tax Compliance & Reporting, Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance, Identifying & Assessing Uncertain Tax Positions. ■ Research current international case law, tax treatises, and statutory regulations to optimize tax structures and tax positions.■ Incorporate research on mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures to effectively assimilate / integrate corporate entities into appropriate legal / financial structures.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

■ Effectively executed research, compliance, and planning initiatives. ■ Utilized various software programs, including Microsoft VISIO to prepare process flowcharts, internal control matrices, and diagrams for Sarbanes Oxley 404 Documentation and internal control testing procedures. ■ Recipient of two corporate achievement awards for College Recruiting efforts and a Consolidated Federal Income Tax Return project, which resulted in a $550 million dollar refund to CNA. ■ Developed and maintained relationships as a business partner with multiple business units, by demonstrating strong knowledge of the organization's business practices and procedures, and through utilizing effective strong interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills to interact with accounting, finance, other internal staff departments, and taxing authorities.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

■ Acquired wide-ranging exposure to multiple accounting functions within the Entity Accounting Team, including the PeopleSoft General Ledger System.■ Gained valuable experience in working in a team-dynamic and sharing accountability for the team’s deliverables. ■ Provided assistance to team members on special projects and interacted with multiple business unit contacts by researching, documenting, and effectively resolving stakeholder issues and opportunities.■ Project leader on software-interface automation and successful execution of project deliverables, project proposal, and project plan to senior management and stakeholders. ■ Obtained working knowledge of PeopleSoft General Ledger and Essbase through MS Excel Uploads, queries, journal entries, account reconciliations, and cleared open suspense items.

■ Served as Project Manager of the pilot mentorship program for the Association of Latino Professionals in Finance and Accounting (ALPFA), where experienced professionals from diverse backgrounds serve as mentors to ALPFA student members in a one-to-one mentoring relationship ■ Established documentation and project files that formed the core of the program■ Develop and maintain positive working relationships with multiple business partners, project sponsors, program participants, and stakeholders■ Organized, budgeted, planned, and executed a diverse range of activities and workshops for twenty five mentees and their respective mentors that facilitated career growth and skills development■ Successful collaboration with the Project Sponsor, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, to achieve project milestones, business deliverables, and mutually agreed-upon goals■ Engaged mentorship program participants through presentations, individual communication, and group collaboration initiatives

Chicago, Illinois, Us

■ Execute financial analysis projects within the Information Technology Department. ■ Active involvement in the annual company-wide planning / budgeting process of $500 million dollars. ■ Executed corporate unit and internal stakeholder billing / budgetary variance analysis, resolved customer utilization inquiries, and contributed with the quarterly and year-end financial close procedures. ■ Development of long-range financial forecasts, analysis, planning, and related budgets considering alternative scenarios as needed, while reconciling and maintaining the financial analysis databases and related processes.

■ Gained exposure and understanding of a full service broker – dealer. Received training on FLS (Financial Lifestyle Strategy), a personal planning and budgeting system to obtain personal financial security. ■ Obtained working knowledge of various financial tools, investment instruments, retirement planning, portfolio analysis, and asset allocation techniques. Completed coursework on mortgage certification and licensing.■ Gained valuable insight on the entire individual financial planning life cycle – from inception to execution. ■ Contributed to new product development, and marketing techniques on emerging investment products, and vehicles. ■ Assisted team members, and personnel with college recruiting efforts and dissemination of information to new markets. ■ Received “Fast Start Award” for active participation and involvement in the recruitment and preparation process.

Master Of Science In Taxation, And Master Of Science In Real Estate

Project Management Professional Certification Program

Certified Financial Planner Certification Program

Bachelor Of Science, Accounting - Honors College

Applied Sciences / Mathematics