Tamara Volmer

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Indirect Tax Director

EXPERIENCE

Linde Inc, Danbury, CT June 2017 – Current

Director, Indirect Tax

Lead a cross functional team overseeing sales and use tax compliance, sales tax operations, business personal property tax and property tax bill payments for Linde’s US operations.

Implemented a post-merger indirect tax dept that worked across ERP systems, tax engines, and cultural differences.

Responsible for accurately collecting, reporting, and remitting monthly, quarterly, & annual sales/excise tax, personal property tax and real estate tax.

Implement technology that achieved thousands of hours of annual time savings and millions of dollars in tax savings through better insights into data and more efficient data wrangling using Alteryx, Celonis, BOTs and related technologies.

Able to develop and promote 10 individuals into new roles to empower their careers.

Reduced audit assessments by 60% by implementing Vertex O on JDE & SAP

Dish Network LLC, Englewood, CO Feb 2007 – May 2017

Director, Indirect Tax

Lead a cross functional team overseeing sales and use tax compliance, Telecom and regulatory compliance, sales tax operations, business personal property tax and property tax bill payments.

Implemented a purchasing company that saved thousands of hours of data analysis and reduced audit assessments by over 80%.

Planned and executed tax strategies that resulted in $30M in tax savings.

Implemented process improvements and technologies that allowed thousands of returns to be accurately filed monthly by five people.

Collaborated with government affairs to advocate favorable legislation that saved several million dollars per year.

Lead and mentored a team of 19 individuals and helped to empower their careers.

EarthTech, Division of Tyco Richmond, VA Oct 2004 – Jan 2007

Director Shared Services, Tax, Payroll, & Fixed Assets

Migrated Tax, Payroll, FA, AR, and AP from regional offices into shared service center.

Developed, implemented, and tested Sox procedures for Shared service.

Implemented new time keeping system for payroll and managed several union payroll

Created use tax processes for government contracts.

Developed business process improvements that saved hundreds of hours and millions of dollars per year.

Implemented new software to track and depreciate fixed assets.

EchoStar, Englewood, CO Aug 2002 – Sept 2004

Sr Manager Indirect Tax

Lead a cross functional team overseeing sales and use tax compliance.

Developed an indirect tax dept from a group of two to five.

Built out indirect reporting requirements including developing a data warehouse for tax.

Upgraded tax engine from Vertex Q to O

EDUCATION

University of SD School of Law, Vermillion, SD

Juris Doctorate

University of SD, Vermillion, SD

BA

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