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Aaron Bairani

Managing Director

Deloitte

AU-003 Digitizing the Tax Department – Building a Foundation for the Future

In this session, the presenters will overview potential opportunities tax departments have to build sustainable business processes and meet current and future legislative requirements. Core topics with focus on trends in tax technology, along with a discussion on data automation and management.

PR-101 Corptax Provision Best Practices

Listen to Corptax Provision experts discuss best practices to help take your Provision process to the next level! Evan White with USAA will also discuss their multiyear modernization journey as part of a larger CFO-wide modernization effort.

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Aaron B. Bairani is a Managing Director in the Tax Technology Consulting (TTC) practice of Deloitte Tax LLP. He works with clients around the globe but is based out of the Chicago office where he works with publicly traded corporations, private enterprises and financial service organizations. He has served these types of entities by providing process design, merger/acquisition support, tax technology enhancements and tax reporting software implementations.

In addition, Aaron focuses on client service and leading tax departments through ERP finance transformations, process optimizations, provision/compliance redesign and devising general ledger solutions for planning, data automation and managerial reporting.

Abhishek Agarwal

Senior Manager- Tax Technology & Transformation

Ernst & Young LLP

RA-003 Importance of Automating Data Transformation for Advanced Analytics and Reporting in Tax Function

In this session, we will discuss the importance of automating data transformation to enable advanced analytics. We’ll also review specific examples, such as ETR Analytics and Management Reporting for the US Tax Provision and compliance process.

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Abhishek is a member of the Ernst & Young LLP (“EY”) Tax Technology and Transformation (TTT) practice. He has over 15 years of direct tax technical experience along with a focus on optimization of tax compliance and provision systems.

Abhishek focuses on direct tax process improvements, tax function assessments, tax system implementation & optimization, and data transformation & analytics projects.

Abhishek also serves as a Corptax subject matter expert within EY where he is focused on enablement of integration between EY’s tax technology solutions and Corptax. He uses his extensive knowledge of Corptax tools (Corptax office, Corptax ODBC, and Data Exchange) along with data transformation knowledge to design and deploy highly advanced and custom solutions for EY’s multinational clients.

Abhishek received his Bachelors in Accounting from Osmania University, India and is a CSC Corptax Certified Professional in Provision.

Alex Foley

Sr. Tax Accountant

Wolters Kluwer United States Inc.

CUS-201 Federal Compliance Tips and Tricks

Gather tips and tricks to transform your federal compliance processes. Listen as Corptax experts share time-saving tips. Share insight with peers that will propel you to the next level.

Tim Mohs and Alex Foley from Wolters Kluwer US, Inc., will discuss how they reinvigorated their compliance process by cleaning up their Corptax system from the ground up!

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Alex Foley is a Senior Tax Analyst for Wolters Kluwer focusing on annual and interim provisions, along with Federal, Canadian and Puerto Rican compliance. Alex has worked in the Corporate Tax space for 7 years and has been a CorpTax user for 4 years.

Annette Toner

Mativ Holdings Inc

EXEC-004 Pillar 2 Planning

Are you ready for Pillar 2? A panel of experts will discuss the planning strategies leveraged to help plan for Pillar 2. Listen to best practice recommendations and real-life examples of what organizations have done to facilitate the appropriate planning strategy around Pillar 2.

Calvin Boyland

Tax Senior Manager

Deloitte

EXEC-006 Planning For the Future in an Age of Tax Uncertainty

Tax faces an unprecedented amount of uncertainty. Between developments from the OECD, European Union, and other tax administrations, Tax departments have to plan for changes before they know what they are. Learn emerging trends, how Corptax is planning for them, and what tax departments can be doing now to prepare.

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Calvin Boyland is a Tax Senior Manager in the Tax Management Consulting (TMC) practice of Deloitte Tax LLP, specializing in tax systems and tax department process enhancement.  Calvin brings over 15 years of tax experience working with multi-national corporations in areas of federal and state tax compliance, tax provision and planning.

Throughout his career, Calvin has led a number of process improvement projects for large corporate tax departments in assisting in implementation of new software package and solutions, automation of existing processes, and supporting the execution federal, state and international reporting functions from both a tax technical and technology perspective.

Contact Information

703.885.6044

cboyland@deloitte.com

Celine Zhang

Tax Analyst

Chevron Corporation

RA-202* Creating Dashboards with Power BI

Calling all intermediate Power BI users interested in creating interactive dashboards! Leverage Corptax data to create visualizations and reports to share with others. Discover best practices for data visualization and report creation.

During the session, Chi Li and Celine Zhang from Chevron Corp will discuss how they developed Power BI dashboards using both the POV functionality in Corptax Office and Corptax Web API.

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Celine Zhang is a Senior Tax Advisor with a unique double competence in Computer Science and Taxation. Her journey began with a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Paris VII in the mid-1980s, establishing a strong foundation for her analytical and problem-solving skills. Driven by her personal interest in taxation, Celine pursued and achieved a Master’s degree in Taxation from Golden Gate University.

With over 20 years of experience as a software engineer and business consultant, Celine’s transition to the world of taxation exemplifies her adaptability and commitment to excellence. She makes a positive impact by seamlessly bridging the worlds of technology and taxation, bringing a wealth of knowledge to her role as a Senior Tax Advisor.

Chad Jenkins

Product Owner, Tax

ConocoPhillips

EXEC-005 Tax As Storytellers: Using Technology To Address Tax Transparency

Discover how Corptax and other technology tools can provide tax executives with the information necessary to tell that story. The session will discuss a variety of recent transparency trends including: Public CbCR, GloBE Information Return, ESG and Total tax Contribution, and Financial Statement Income Tax Disclosures.

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Chad Jenkins is currently the Tax Product Owner on ConocoPhillips’ ERP implementation project covering direct and indirect tax. Prior to this role, he was Director, Tax Accounting. Chad has 23 years with COP in various roles including time in Upstream and Downstream BU’s, Controllers and Tax. Chad holds a B.S. in Accounting and is a CPA.

Chad Jenkins

ConocoPhillips

EXEC-005 Tax As Storytellers: Using Technology To Address Tax Transparency

In an age of increasing transparency, tax executives now play the role of storyteller in explaining what all of the tax information actually says about the overall organization. Discover how Corptax and other technology tools can provide tax executives with the information necessary to tell that story.

The session will discuss a variety of recent transparency trends including: Public CbCR, GloBE Information Return, ESG and Total tax Contribution, and Financial Statement Income Tax Disclosures.

Chi Li

Manager, Tax Technology and Systems

Chevron Corporation

RA-202* Creating Dashboards with Power BI

Calling all intermediate Power BI users interested in creating interactive dashboards! Leverage Corptax data to create visualizations and reports to share with others. Discover best practices for data visualization and report creation.

During the session, Chi Li and Celine Zhang from Chevron Corp will discuss how they developed Power BI dashboards using both the POV functionality in Corptax Office and Corptax Web API.

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Chi Li is a seasoned professional with over 20 years of experience at Chevron Corporation. Currently serving as the Tax Technology and Systems Manager, he has played pivotal roles in the International Compliance and Assets Management teams. Chi holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Cal State University Hayward and a master’s degree in taxation from Golden Gate University.

His career has seen him navigate multiple mergers within Chevron, showcasing his adaptability and resilience. Chi’s experience with various ERP systems, including JDE, Oracle, and SAP, has been instrumental in streamlining tax processes and data integration.

Chris Groves

Tax Managing Director, Ignition – Tax Data & Analytics

KPMG

RA-002 The Power of Data Cloud in the Tax Function: Corptax + Snowflake + Alteryx

Hear how KPMG is addressing the complexity created when harvesting the required information from multiple systems by leveraging the capabilities of Snowflake, Alteryx and Corptax, and see a demo of how it could work for you. By integrating the three technologies with refreshable, real-time connections to the underlying data and the source systems involved, learn how you can reduce the time from thought to action to delivery in meeting today’s tax requirements and preparing for the demands of the future.

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Chris is a Managing Director in KPMG’s Ignition Center where he specializes in automation, data management, and technology for tax. Chris has more than 25 years of business experience helping clients solve complex problems through his background in forensic accounting, business valuation, and technology.

Chris brings a unique background of accounting and forensic technology to solve traditional tax challenges. Chris places particular focus on data enablement and management, and his team has assisted in hundreds of tax engagements across most industries in a variety of tax types. His experience includes tax automation, tax application support, and tax disputes. Chris has provided advisory and consulting services across a variety of industries that include: food and beverages, consumer goods, financial institutions, insurance, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, software, and telecommunications.

Contact Information

404-222-7162

clgroves@kpmg.com

Chris Little

Lead Product Manager

Bloomberg Tax

AU-002 Optimizing Your Tax Workflows with Automation

For corporate tax departments, figuring out how to automate data prep is often much harder than it needs to be. Transforming large data volumes for tax calculations increases risk. Additionally using software that is not designed for tax often makes (what should be) straightforward calculations difficult and time-consuming to perform. Join Bloomberg Tax for a discussion on how the right mix of automation and tax-focused technology can alleviate the challenges of Workpapers & Fixed Assets calculations, and even provide space for lucrative tax planning opportunities.

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Chris Little is a Product Lead for the Bloomberg Tax Workpapers product—focused on automating data prep, strengthening controls, and streamlining calculations. Before joining Bloomberg Tax, Chris built a robust marketplace and B2B invoice payments solution at Nexus (now part of Bottomline Technologies) tailored to reducing manual work and gaining efficiencies of automation for accounting teams and their vendors. Chris is excited to continue streamlining processes and removing manual steps within the Tax Professional’s workflow.

Cristin Boynton

Managing Director, Tax Automation & Innovation

BDO

GS-004 Women in Tax Technology Networking Breakfast

Build business relationships through engaging conversation over coffee at this breakfast networking event to celebrate women in tax technology. Use this unique opportunity to grow and shape the future of women in this growing field! Space is limited, and you don’t want to miss this, so sign up now. Attendees will have a shot at winning a door prize!

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Cristin has more than 20 years of domestic and international tax accounting, compliance, process improvement and tax reporting technology implementation experience. Her experience includes working in public accounting, industry, and for two leading tax software companies. ​Cristin has gained Certification in Corptax® Provision, and the ONESOURCE Tax Provision applications.  Cristin is the Corptax leader for BDO.

Her experience includes managing projects with stakeholders across tax, finance, compliance, regulatory and information technology with a substantial focus on multi-state and multi-national companies. Cristin has worked with clients to re-engineer and improve their tax functions, including tax accounting and compliance processes, assess their current tax operating environment, remediate internal control deficiencies, tax sensitize financial systems, and evaluate and implement tax technology tools. Her experience in accounting for income tax reporting, includes statutory reporting for insurance, US GAAP and IFRS reporting.

Dale Stafford

Senior Tax Accountant

CSI Leasing

DM-002 Client Success Stories: Corptax Automation

Hear directly from your peers about how they use automation in Corptax to optimize their processes! Dale Stafford, CSI Leasing, Inc. shares how CSI uses Corptax Office to solve their state compliance data sourcing issues and leveraged this solution into their international compliance.

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Dale is currently employed at CSI Leasing, Inc., a global lessor/retailer offering complete lifecycle technology equipment services.  Perpetually standing at the threshold of tax department legend, Dale’s career has been a search for the holy grail of process improvement some call the EasyButton1.

1 – This is sometimes confused with the formerly highly vaunted “easy button™” widely advertised by an office equipment and supply retailer.

Doris Lo

Senior Director

Pattern Energy

CPT-101 Harness the Power of Corptax Pass-Through to Prepare Forms 1065, 1120S, 8865, and Schedules K-2/K-3

Join Doris J. Lo and Matthew Lopas of Pattern Energy Group as they discuss the strategic use of Corptax loan staffing to successfully navigate a complex situation with a compressed timeline. Explore how Corptax’s Professional Services group efficiently responded to Pattern’s request, initiating prompt action and commencing work within less than 48 hours.

EXEC-005 Tax As Storytellers: Using Technology To Address Tax Transparency

Discover how Corptax and other technology tools can provide tax executives with the information necessary to tell that story. The session will discuss a variety of recent transparency trends including: Public CbCR, GloBE Information Return, ESG and Total tax Contribution, and Financial Statement Income Tax Disclosures.

Drew Caterinicchio

Senior Tax Analyst

Labcorp

RA-203 Alteryx Intermediate – Advanced Workflows and Data Preparation

Hear LabCorp’s Drew Caterinicchio and Wendi Murray discuss how Alteryx simplifies their compliance process and helps eliminate manual processes! From analyzing year over year variances to creating a compliance roll-forward and pushing data into Corptax, they improve the flow of their compliance data with clear documentation and visibility into source detail.

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Drew Caterinicchio has been a Senior Tax Analyst at LabCorp for the past year and a half. His focus has been implementing new technologies and automation tools to improve processes around Federal Compliance and Provision. Drew has been using Alteryx and Corptax for almost three years and has completed the Advanced Certification for Alteryx Designer.

Evan White

Business Applications Advisor Lead

USAA

PR-101 Corptax Provision Best Practices

Listen to Corptax Provision experts discuss best practices to help take your Provision process to the next level! Evan White with USAA will also discuss their multiyear modernization journey as part of a larger CFO-wide modernization effort.

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Evan White is a Product Manager and Business Applications Analyst at USAA in San Antonio, TX. He has been with USAA for 16 years leading roles in project management, business process engineering, data automation, and financial modeling/analytics. As a member of the USAA corporate tax team, he is responsible for planning and delivering workstreams within the tax technology space by partnering with IT and lines-of-business in alignment with the corporate finance strategic vision.

George Psefteas

Tax Accounting Manager

Chevron Corporation

EXEC-006 Planning For the Future in an Age of Tax Uncertainty

Tax faces an unprecedented amount of uncertainty. Between developments from the OECD, European Union, and other tax administrations, Tax departments have to plan for changes before they know what they are. Learn emerging trends, how Corptax is planning for them, and what tax departments can be doing now to prepare.

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George Psefteas is the Tax Department Tax Accounting Manager for Chevron Corporation, based in San Ramon, California. George is a Canadian CPA, has an MBA from Western Washington University and is also a member of TEI. He has worked in multiple Finance, Accounting, and Tax roles throughout his 29-year career, starting in Vancouver, BC Canada; in Calgary, Alberta Canada; in Warsaw, Poland; and currently in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Hareesh Nandipati

Manager- Tax Technology & Transformation

Ernst & Young LLP

RA-003 Importance of Automating Data Transformation for Advanced Analytics and Reporting in Tax Function

In this session, we will discuss the importance of automating data transformation to enable advanced analytics. We’ll also review specific examples, such as ETR Analytics and Management Reporting for the US Tax Provision and compliance process.

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Hareesh Nandipati is a manager in EY’s Americas Tax Technology and Transformation (“TTT”) practice focusing on improving tax operations through technology and process transformation. He is a tax professional with over 12 years of experience where he has worked in both public accounting and industry in all aspects of the corporate tax life cycle – tax planning, provision, compliance, and controversy. Hareesh has managed end-to-end tax compliance and provision technology processes focusing on tax system implementation/optimization, workpaper standardization, data management, reporting and analysis.

Contact Information

202-327-5889

Hareesh.G.Nandipati@ey.com

Jennifer Edwards

Director—Corporate Tax

PepsiCo, Inc.

EXEC-004 Pillar 2 Planning

Are you ready for Pillar 2? A panel of experts will discuss the planning strategies leveraged to help plan for Pillar 2. Listen to best practice recommendations and real-life examples of what organizations have done to facilitate the appropriate planning strategy around Pillar 2.

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Jennifer Edwards is a director in corporate tax at PepsiCo, Inc. She holds her MBA/BBA in Accounting from Pace University along with her MS in Taxation. She is a seasoned tax professional with over 27 years of experience in all aspects of the corporate tax life cycle – tax planning, provision, compliance, and controversy.

Her current team focuses on ASC 740 reporting of its non-US markets, US Compliance and Country by Country Reporting. Jennifer has most recently managed the automation of their CBCR process leveraging Corptax Software and is focusing on the compliance implementation for BEPS Pillar II. Technology processes are always at the forefront of her team focusing on process optimization, workpaper standardization, data management, reporting and analysis.

Joshua Collins

Joshua Collins

Tax Technology Manager

Occidental Petroleum Company

GS-005 Get the Most Out of CONNECT

Find out what makes CONNECT the best source for tax, tools, and technology information that will move your whole department forward. Join Corptax staff as they map out a winning conference strategy for gaining the insights, product information, and industry contacts you need. Whether first-time attendee or returning alum, an overview of the agenda, curriculum, and networking events makes for a fulfilling professional development experience.

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Joshua Collins, Tax Technology Manager for Occidental Petroleum Corporation (Oxy) in Tulsa, OK, manages the Tax Technology Group whose mission is to reduce redundancy, mitigate risk, increase transparency, and provide insight to management through the use of available technologies and process excellence. Josh has been with Oxy for 11 years. Prior to joining Oxy, Josh worked at Samson where he started his career.

Marissa Staples

Lead, NxtGen Finance - Direct Tax

ConocoPhillips

EXEC-004 Pillar 2 Planning

Are you ready for Pillar 2? A panel of experts will discuss the planning strategies leveraged to help plan for Pillar 2. Listen to best practice recommendations and real-life examples of what organizations have done to facilitate the appropriate planning strategy around Pillar 2.

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Marissa Staples is a CPA and currently the direct tax process lead on ConocoPhillips’ ERP implementation project and supporting Pillar 2 planning and process development from a data perspective. Prior to this role, she has over 10 years of corporate tax experience in various roles including domestic and international tax compliance and tax planning. Marissa holds a B.S. in Management from Georgia Tech and M.S. in Taxation from Golden Gate University.

Mary Beth Racca

Mary Beth Racca

USAC Tax Technology Specialist

3M

RA-103 Getting Started with Alteryx

Mary Beth Racca and fixed asset project team members from 3M Company explains their unique process of utilizing Alteryx and Corptax Connectors to streamline their fixed assets process.

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Mary Beth is a native Texan, born and raised in Houston. She graduated from the University of Houston with a BBA and Texas A&M University with an MBA. Her initial career in public accounting

was concentrated in the oil and gas industry with an emphasis on partnerships. She also has extensive compliance and income tax accounting experience with both privately held and publicly traded corporations. She has had tax technology experience in software implementations for both tax provision and compliance. In her current role as a Tax Technology Specialist, she supports the U.S. Governance team at 3M. Mary Beth and her husband currently reside in San Antonio, Texas.

Matthew Lopas

Senior Tax Associate

Pattern Energy

CPT-101 Harness the Power of Corptax Pass-Through to Prepare Forms 1065, 1120S, 8865, and Schedules K-2/K-3

Join Doris J. Lo and Matthew Lopas of Pattern Energy Group as they discuss the strategic use of CorpTax loan staffing to successfully navigate a complex situation with a compressed timeline. Explore how CorpTax’s Professional Services group efficiently responded to Pattern’s request, initiating prompt action and commencing work within less than 48 hours.

Maz Barakat

Director Global Tax Compliance

Western Union

EXEC-005 Tax As Storytellers: Using Technology To Address Tax Transparency

In an age of increasing transparency, tax executives now play the role of storyteller in explaining what all of the tax information actually says about the overall organization. Discover how Corptax and other technology tools can provide tax executives with the information necessary to tell that story.

The session will discuss a variety of recent transparency trends including: Public CbCR, GloBE Information Return, ESG and Total tax Contribution, and Financial Statement Income Tax Disclosures.

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Maz is a tax professional with more than 20 years of domestic and international tax experience in both public accounting and industry. Currently Maz is leading a team of over 20 tax professionals and managing the global tax compliance function at Western Union. Maz holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Colorado State University, an MBA with Corporate Financials Management emphasis from University of Colorado, and a master’s degree in taxation from University of Denver-Sturm College of Law.

His experience includes global tax compliance, global tax provision, tax technology administration/implementation, and tax automation.

Pamela Griffing

Chief Tax Officer and Staff Senior Vice President

FM Global

EXEC-003 Owning Your Data

Learn how to take control of your tax data and turn it into prized property for your organization! Effectively manage your data so that it is accurate, timely, and secure, which will help you make informed business decisions, improve compliance, and reduce risk. Hear best practices for tax data management, including data governance, data quality and data security.

GS-004 Women in Tax Technology Networking Breakfast

Build business relationships through engaging conversation over coffee at this breakfast networking event to celebrate women in tax technology. Use this unique opportunity to grow and shape the future of women in this growing field! Space is limited, and you don’t want to miss this, so sign up now. Attendees will have a shot at winning a door prize!

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Pamela Griffing is the Chief Tax Officer and Staff Senior Vice President at FM Global, one of the world’s largest commercial and industrial property insurers based in Johnston, Rhode Island. She assumes strategic responsibility of the global tax function, including tax compliance, planning, examination defense, forecasting, and financial reporting for taxes. These  responsibilities also include research, premium taxes, tax audit management, unclaimed property, among others. She is experienced in IFRS, statutory, GAAP and tax accounting, project management and staff development.

Pamela holds a Bachelor of Science in business administration and accounting from Worcester State University in Worcester, Massachusetts, and a Master of Science in taxation from Bentley University in Waltham, Massachussetts.

Patricia Wilson

Tax Managing Director

KPMG

RA-002 The Power of Data Cloud in the Tax Function:  Corptax + Snowflake + Alteryx

Hear how KPMG is addressing the complexity created when harvesting the required information from multiple systems by leveraging the capabilities of Snowflake, Alteryx and Corptax, and see a demo of how it could work for you. By integrating the three technologies with refreshable, real-time connections to the underlying data and the source systems involved, learn how you can reduce the time from thought to action to delivery in meeting today’s tax requirements and preparing for the demands of the future.

GS-004 Women in Tax Technology Networking Breakfast

Build business relationships through engaging conversation over coffee at this breakfast networking event to celebrate women in tax technology. Use this unique opportunity to grow and shape the future of women in this growing field! Space is limited, and you don’t want to miss this, so sign up now. Attendees will have a shot at winning a door prize!

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Patricia Wilson is a Managing Director with KPMG Ignition – Systems Integration, specializing in helping clients implement, integrate and optimize their utilization of Corptax within their Tax Technology Ecosystem. She is a former head of tax of a $5.2B multi-national company, where she licensed and implemented Corptax for compliance and provision prior to 2000. Patricia joined KPMG-Ignition in Spring 2011.

Phil Racht

Senior Manager, Tax Technology

Pulte

DM-002 Client Success Stories: Corptax Automation

Hear directly from your peers about how they use automation in Corptax to optimize their processes! Phil Racht, PulteGroup, Inc. explains how they use Carts to create a single PDF output file that includes all standard reports for each Proforma return, saving 15 minutes per Federal proforma every time a change is made!

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Phil Racht joined the PulteGroup tax department in December 2015.

His role as Senior Manager, Tax Technology supports the PulteGroup tax department to drive Tax Technology enabled automation and process efficiencies and serves as Tax Technology liaison with internal business units.

He is the Corptax System Administrator responsible for all Corptax related items and manages the Consolidated Federal and State Return preparation process including scheduling of Tax Return assignments, generating the Consolidated Returns, and e-filing all applicable Federal/State Tax Extensions and Returns.

Phil is also the SharePoint Administrator for the Pulte SharePoint Tax Portal which is used daily for Document Management, Workflow Management, and Resource Management (scheduling) to streamline the workflow for all Tax Department members.

Ryan Sheehan

Senior Product Lead, Software

Bloomberg Tax

AU-002 Optimizing Your Tax Workflows with Automation

For corporate tax departments, figuring out how to automate data prep is often much harder than it needs to be. Transforming large data volumes for tax calculations increases risk. Additionally using software that is not designed for tax often makes (what should be) straightforward calculations difficult and time-consuming to perform. Join Bloomberg Tax for a discussion on how the right mix of automation and tax-focused technology can alleviate the challenges of Workpapers & Fixed Assets calculations, and even provide space for lucrative tax planning opportunities.

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Ryan Sheehan is a Senior Product Lead for Bloomberg Tax. He is responsible for Bloomberg Tax’s Fixed Assets corporate tax products. Prior to joining Bloomberg Tax, Ryan was a CPA at KPMG’s Washington D.C. Metro office in the Business Tax Services practice.

Sarah Yanez

Sarah Yanez

Tax Technology Advisor

Occidental Petroleum Company

GS-005 Get the Most Out of CONNECT

Find out what makes CONNECT the best source for tax, tools, and technology information that will move your whole department forward. Join Corptax staff as they map out a winning conference strategy for gaining the insights, product information, and industry contacts you need. Whether first-time attendee or returning alum, an overview of the agenda, curriculum, and networking events makes for a fulfilling professional development experience.

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Sarah is part of the Tax Technology team at Oxy in Tulsa, OK. She has been working with the Corptax application for over 10 years in the oil and gas industry. Sarah has gained experience as a tax preparer in Domestic, State, and International tax groups and has served concurrently as in-house system admin for about 8 years. Sarah’s overall goal is to achieve seamless technical efficiency and collaboration across all tax departments. Sarah holds a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science degree in Accounting.

Scott Wickert

Senior Tax Manager

Reynolds Customer Products

DM-002 Client Success Stories: Corptax Automation

Hear directly from your peers about how they use automation in Corptax to optimize their processes! Scott Wickert, Reynolds Consumer Products Inc. explains how Reynolds automates 95% of their adjustments using a combination of Corptax Office and the Automated Adjustments modules.

PR-201 Become a Savvy Provision User

Discover how you can incorporate advanced techniques into your standard Provision process. Learn about Provision workpapers that you might not know about!

GS-005 Get the Most Out of CONNECT

Find out what makes CONNECT the best source for tax, tools, and technology information that will move your whole department forward. Join Corptax staff as they map out a winning conference strategy for gaining the insights, product information, and industry contacts you need.

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Scott Wickert is the Senior Tax Manager for Reynolds Consumer Products. He works on quarterly interim provisions, year-end close provision, and federal/state compliance. Scott has worked in the tax field for 11 years, and has been a Corptax user for 9 years.

Shil Patel

Tax Senior Manager

Deloitte

AU-003 Digitizing the Tax Department – Building a Foundation for the Future

In this session, the presenters will overview potential opportunities tax departments have to build sustainable business processes and meet current and future legislative requirements. Core topics with focus on trends in tax technology, along with a discussion on data automation and management.

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Shil Patel is a Tax Senior Manager in the Tax Technology Consulting (TTC) practice of Deloitte Tax LLP, based in Chicago, IL specializing in process automation and tax systems process enhancement. Shil brings over 12 years of tax experience working with a multi-national corporation in areas of compliance, system administration, automation, and analytics.

Throughout her career, Shil has worked with a large corporate tax department in assisting the Global Tax department in technology, system administration, automation needs to achieve department goals of data collection, reporting and process improvement.

Contact Information

312-486-5008

Shilpatel@deloitte.com

Stephen Spiers

Managing Director: Ignition–Tax Data & Analytics

KPMG

RA-002 The Power of Data Cloud in the Tax Function: Corptax + Snowflake + Alteryx

Hear how KPMG is addressing the complexity created when harvesting the required information from multiple systems by leveraging the capabilities of Snowflake, Alteryx and Corptax, and see a demo of how it could work for you. By integrating the three technologies with refreshable, real-time connections to the underlying data and the source systems involved, learn how you can reduce the time from thought to action to delivery in meeting today’s tax requirements and preparing for the demands of the future.

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Stephen Spiers is a Managing Director in KPMG’s Tax Ignition practice with over 15 years of experience helping companies leverage their data and technology to create value. Stephen has a background in forensic accounting, technology, and data analytics which has shaped his unique skillset in the tax technology world.

Stephen brings a data centric approach to clients with complex tax and regulatory reporting requirements focusing on the data first and then people, process, and technology. He enjoys partnering with his clients to solve their data problems and overcome future ones by implementing an achievable data strategy. In his current role, Stephen leads a team of professionals who design and implement custom data management solutions and KPMG’s Snowflake Alliance for Tax.

Contact Information

404-222-3114

Sspiers@KPMG.com

Tim Mohs

Manager – Domestic Tax

Wolters Kluwer United States Inc.

CUS-201 Federal Compliance Tips and Tricks

Gather tips and tricks to transform your federal compliance processes. Listen as Corptax experts share time-saving tips. Share insight with peers that will propel you to the next level.

Tim Mohs and Alex Foley from Wolters Kluwer US, Inc., will discuss how they reinvigorated their compliance process by cleaning up their Corptax system from the ground up!

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Tim is the Tax Manager for Wolters Kluwer, located in the Chicago area. He manages all current year US related income tax compliance, including federal, state, local, and some international returns. Other workstreams include estimated tax calculations, provision and process improvement projects. Tim has been with WK for 11 years and has used CorpTax for 13 years.

Wendi Murray

Domestic Tax Manager

Labcorp

RA-203 Alteryx Intermediate – Advanced Workflows and Data Preparation

Hear LabCorp’s Drew Caterinicchio and Wendi Murray discuss how Alteryx simplifies their compliance process and helps eliminate manual processes! From analyzing year over year variances to creating a compliance roll-forward and pushing data into Corptax, they improve the flow of their compliance data with clear documentation and visibility into source detail.

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Wendi Murray has been at Labcorp for 20 years. Her areas of expertise are Federal and State Compliance and Tax Technology. Wendi has used Corptax for 7 years and Alteryx for about 1 year and recently completed her Alteryx Designer Core Certification.

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