Sammantha E. Neuer

About Sammantha E. Neuer

15+years\' experience leading Global Tax Transformation initiatives inclusive of Direct, Indirect, International Tax and Transfer Pricing. Global Tax Provision, Tax planning, Tax compliance and Tax analytic/data management in Big 4 public accounting and corporate tax departments. My areas of expertise: include: Connected Tax Ecosystem architecture/build, Direct Taxation: ASC740, Federal, International, SALT; Indirect Taxation; Sales/Use, BEPS, VAT, FATCA, CDOT and CRS; Tax Research, Tax Risk & Audit, Business and Tax Data Analytics, AI in Tax, Agile Project Management; Tax Transformation implementations including Alteryx, Power Excel, Power BI, RPA, OCR, Process Mining; CSC CORPTAX, ONESOURCE, Vertex, SharePoint, Oracle, JDE, SAP, QAD and PeopleSoft; Tax Process Optimization Services; Tax Training and Development.

Experience

1. Director, Global Tax Technology

   Autoliv

   May 2019 — Present · New York, NY, US

   Global Tax Transformation; Multiyear tax transformation initiative: Global Tax Strategy: Continuous improvement in cadence of tax planning activities supporting the VP of Tax in strategic tax planning; benchmarking, best practices, SME identification.Global Tax Technology Roadmap planning: Create long and short-term strategies to realize future-state Connected Tax Ecosystem; support Tax Leads in tax technology enablement to support operational strategic planning; align strategies with Finance, IT and other key stakeholders-Finance Roadmap Team – represent Tax on the Finance Technology Roadmap Team; advocate for resources, align projects and ensure good stewardship of resources committed-Global Tax Metrics: Led implementation of global tax metrics process and content development using Open Project and PowerBi-Global Tax Business Case Development: Create and implement a tax centric process and content to support the successful business case resulting in funding tax technical/technology initiatives-Multiple Tax Technology Global Implementations: Connected Tax Ecosystem [Data](Common Global Data Models for AP, AR, TB) Direct Tax Implementation (Corptax); Global Tax Portal (SharePoint); Indirect Tax POV VAT Reporting; Europe; VAT Reclaim Pilot Study.Key Stakeholder Alignment-Lead internal business partnering between Global Tax and Finance, IT, ACF Audit, Records, and Information Governance, Purchasing, Data Privacy, IT Security, and IT Architectural Board-Lead external key stakeholder alignment activities between Global Tax and all global tax service providers; inclusive of trending, benchmarking, service provider selection for all Tax Technology implementations in the Connected Tax Ecosystem.

Education

• Towson University

  Bachelors of Science, Business Administration

• The Johns Hopkins University - Carey Business School

  MBA, Finance