Amanda M. Krueger
Greater Houston, TX Area 346-***-****
*********@*****.*** www.linkedin.com/in/AmandaMKrueger
SENIOR TAX ANALYST
Tax professional with extensive experience analyzing data to ensure compliance, increase tax savings, decrease tax exposure and identify and implement process automation opportunities. Heavily involved in SAP S/4HANA ERP implementation with a focus on procurement activities relating to US tax.
Advanced Excel ERP Implementation
OneSource Tax Determination Beginner to Intermediate Alteryx Designer
Advanced SAP S/4HANA & SAP legacy systems Process Automation
Developing Processes & Procedures Data Analysis
SAP Ariba Buying & Invoicing Regulatory Research – RIA Checkpoint
SAP VIM Month End Close
EXPERIENCE
HP, INC. – Spring, TX November 2015 – June 2022
Senior Transaction Tax Analyst
Key contact for Tax with focus on procurement including developing tax procedures, process automations, compliance reviews including SAP 4/HANA ERP implementation.
Developed workflow for purchases specific to tax requirements from beginning of the purchase process in Ariba to SAP 4/HANA and finally the tax engine (OneSource) including creating trans-editors, reference lists and tax code qualifiers to streamline and automate AP processes.
Created tax requirements, test cases, scripts and conducted end-to-end testing on all areas of transaction tax related to accounts payable/purchasing for the SAP 4/HANA ERP implementation including multiple business lines while ensuring tax engine compliance and reducing AP manual intervention.
Implemented changes in both the PO process and SAP/OneSource for multiple purchasing teams to automate tax determination, leading to a reduction of 500+ manually processed transactions per month by AP and significantly reducing unnecessary accruals and creating tax savings opportunities.
Developed Alteryx workflow automating the review of 100+ SaaS & Software License purchases per month reducing a process that was 20+ hours of manual work per month down to 1-2 hours.
Created an Alteryx workflow to review AP activity and quickly identify areas of tax savings or exposure leading to tax savings of $1M on average per quarter in 2021/2022.
Formed and maintained relationships with cross-functional teams to develop process improvements such as adding pertinent tax determination questions within Ariba, which reduced back-end communication between purchase requestor and AP and increasing transaction processing delays.
Developed procedure improvements related to month-end close timeline, helping to reduce number of days spent on data collection and analysis turnaround for returns from 6 to 3 days.
HUNTING ENERGY SERVICES, INC. – Houston, TX December 2012 – August 2015
Tax Analyst – US
Managed month-end close process to file returns for all US jurisdictions for multiple entities. Managed all sales and use tax audits pulling information for all data requests and communicating with auditor on exposure claims
Implemented organizational system for ongoing sales tax compliance, centralizing and streamlining compliance and reporting procedures.
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GARY W. LAMBERT & COMPANY – Houston, TX August 2007 – December 2012
Lead Auditor
Managed 20+ concurrent multi-jurisdictional sales and use tax audits as well as a team of auditors.
Maintained a 25% or below audit cost to revenue ratio.
Chosen for lead role in major oil spill audit reviewing $10+ billion AP spend.
Led a team of 4-6 colleagues to ensure all audits were being communicated on in a timely manner and being billed appropriately to stay within budget.
Trained team members on various tax regulations related to numerous industries.
EDUCATION
The University of Texas – Arlington
Bachelor of Business Administration – Finance