Manager Accounting

PROFESSIONAL GOAL: I aim to obtain a position in International Finance/Tax Area.

SUMMARY: Tax advertising professional with extensive knowledge in Brazilian taxes, for companies and individuals, local and outside. Strong interpersonal, organizational and analytical abilities. Sound professional attitude, strong work ethic and pride in personal performance.

Accountant, Member of Regional Accounting Council (CRC), in São Paulo, since 2004 (ID: 1SP227873/O-9).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Tax Advisory Manager July/2008 to current

WFaria Advogados Associates Sao Paulo, Brazil

Designing strategy, planning and execution of jobs; planning time & cost budget;

Preparing engagement letters;

Managing multiple projects simultaneously;

Interacting with the client’s management to discuss issues; providing deliverables on a timely basis; drive client meeting and negotiating fee increase;

Providing training, guidance and technical assistance to the team to ensure timely completion of work; evaluating their performance;

Co-ordination with other teams (Corporate, Labor and Litigation) in a common job;

Providing tax advisory regarding federal, state and municipal corporate taxes levied on financial institutions, industry, trade and service providers. Including recommendations to reduce the effective tax rate and labor advice;

Providing tax advisory (federal, state and municipal) in cross border transactions;

Providing tax compliance services, focusing on the review of income tax returns and other ancillary obligations, deferred taxes, tax amnesty calculations, tax inspection support;

Providing tax structuring and tax advisory to newcomers (inbound investments), repatriation strategies, greenfield and M&A investments, double tax treaties, transfer pricing methods, foundation formations and outbound investments;

Providing strategies of clamming back ‘unduly paid’ taxes;

Liable of identification tax recovery, resulted in the corporation recovering BRL 25 million in overpayments;

Liable of identification and implementation of R&D Tax benefit, recovering BRL 50 million to Brazilian companies;

Acting as a technical assistant in accounting expertise in litigation process;

Leading internal trainings.

Senior Associate, Federal Tax July/2004 to June/2008

Ernst & Young Sao Paulo, Brazil

Provided training, guidance and technical assistance to the team to ensure timely completion of work; reviewing of team’s work papers; evaluating their performance;

Controlled time & cost budget;

Supervised semi-senior and junior staff consultants;

Performed test of controls, analytical review, substantive testing of transactions and balances;

Ensured compliance with relevant laws, regulations and rules;

Reported on financial statements (tax area);

Due diligences tax advisory,

Corporate Income Tax provision review, restructuring transactions, preparation and revision of Corporate Income Tax Returns, compliance of others ancillary obligations, tax and audit statutory revisions for companies within the financial industry;

Performed SOX (Sarbanes Oxley) in the tax area at Citigroup Brazil, compliance procedures, including reviewing narratives, performing walkthroughs and testing of various processes, resulting in the identification of improvements and weaknesses in the company’s controls and processes as well as the recommendation of solutions to management;

Prepared and reviewed FAS 109 and FIN 48 tax provisions for corporate clients as needed.

Completed multiple audit tax review with tight deadlines;

Focused on working of audit quality control.

Associate, Federal Tax Oct/2001 to July/2004

KPMG Sao Paulo, Brazil

Provided tax consulting services included research on general tax issues and writing accounting method changes;

Providing tax compliance services, tax and audit statutory revisions for companies within the financial industry focusing on the review of income tax returns and other ancillary obligations, and deferred taxes;

Due diligences tax advisory,

Transfer pricing calculation for financial companies.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science in Accounting January 1999 to December 2003

Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP)

SKILLS

Language

Fluent in Portuguese and English

Strong oral and written communication skills in Spanish.

Computer Skills

•Mastery of Microsoft Office programs including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook and SharePoint.

•Ability to work with several operating systems including Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux.

References available upon request

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