Shawn Todd

Indirect Tax Reporting & Analytics Senior @Paradies Lagardère

Spearhead accounting processes for indirect tax functions, leveraging analytical skills to conduct tax research and prepare highly accurate reports and summary memos.\\\\n• Evaluate and manage source data for 200+ companies; prepare and approve sales tax and property tax returns by reviewing reconciliations and returns prepared by third parties.\\\\n• Generated journal entries for tax payments and accruals; pioneered reconciliations of tax general ledger (GL) accounts.\\\\n• Led and executed all sales tax and property tax audits and fostered relationships with internal/external customers.\\\\n• Identified areas for continuous improvement, streamlining processes and automating workflows to boost efficiency.\\\\n• Partnered with cross-functional IT teams to implement a new ERP system, successfully went live in 2020.\\\\n• Supported compliance processes by researching and implementing savings opportunities and process improvement strategies, with a focus on sales and use tax, property tax, and unclaimed property.\\\\n• Guided audit defense processes by developing tax positions and negotiation to settle issues; partnered with business units to identify and manage potential exposures.\\\\n \\\\n\\\\n \\\\n \\\\n\\\\n \\\\n