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Job Description

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• Manage Sales & Use Tax staff on day to day timely filings of returns.
• Responsible for all tax research on new tax regulations for all states.
• Worked with the IT organization to educate them on tax savings for Maintenance contracts in North Carolina which resulted in a $1 million upside for their budget.
• Established a process in order to determine federal excise tax refund which will result in over a $9 million savings for the company.
• Managed the filing of refunds for Sales Tax paid on natural gas for various states which resulted in a $2 million savings for the company.
• Worked with various vendors to obtain Sales Tax refunds for taxes paid in error on packaging equipment which resulted in a $1 million upside for several local manufacturing plants.
• Worked on the integration team to transfer Canadian tax systems onto US systems which resulted in the reduction in tax overhead for Canada of two full-time employees.
• Manage Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, testing, and narrative updates for all groups within tax.  Work with outside auditors as well as internal audit to ensure compliance.
• Responsible for Sales & Use Tax and Personal Property Tax due-diligence for all acquisitions
• Oversee all aspects of tax related issues and day to day accounting issues for leasing entity.
• Manage all external state and local tax audits.
• Worked with Tax Accounting Team to establish Use Tax reserves which resulted in an exposure decrease of $4 million for the company.
• Manage the T&E, subscription, and material & supplies portions of the budget for the tax department.
• Worked with the Tax IT group and created a new system to determine the taxability of products sold as well as the calculation of bottle and state deposits.  Eliminated the manual input of information into the old system, which cut headcount by one full time person and minimized our exposure on audit on taxable sales to customers.

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