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Fariba Rashid

Fariba Rashid

Atlanta,Georgia

Summary

· High performing tax professional with extensive experience in cross border tax implications of executive compensation and benefits.

· Proven track record of applying complex international tax laws pertaining to compensation structures, payroll, and tax setups as well as technical understanding of leading share plan administrators.

· Lead projects in global equity compliance, stock plan design, business development cross-selling initiatives, employee trainings, and product management.

· Experienced in leading multinational engagements for Big 4 accounting firms and managed global equity compensation at a Fortune 100 company.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Manager, Tax Mobility/Equity (People Advisory Services)

Ernst & Young, LLP
08.2018 - Current
  • Lead integrated mobility projects with a focus global equity compliance, stock plan design, business development cross-selling initiatives, employee trainings & product management
  • Lead the design and implementation of EY’s automated solution for Fortune 100 clients to ensure the EY solution meets their specific needs
  • Assisted clients with implementation and transitions with major share plan service providers as well payroll vendors and HRIS solutions as it relates to equity and payroll compliance
  • Led multinational client engagements to assist them in being compliant with their cross-border equity compensation programs
  • Work closely with clients to understand their equity compensation plans, identify gaps and propose solutions tailored to their needs and then help implement a solution that can be automated and results in long term efficiency
  • Deliver tax cost estimates to clients prior to the start of a new international assignment to help client budget for assignment related compensation
  • Reviewed executive compensation plans, and work with EY rewards and workforce advisory teams to help structure compensation and benefit plans for optimum global tax savings for EY clients
  • Partner with local EY country teams all over world to address client needs in the areas of compensation planning, international tax, rewards and payroll compliance
  • Manage and lead staffing teams from all over the US, as well as Argentina and India to deliver fully integrated services to EY clients
  • Built, developed best practices, and trained offshore team in India which eventually helped improve margins on the US accounts.

Global Equity- Tax Lead

The Coca Cola Company- Headquarters
09.2015 - 07.2018
  • Assist Coca Cola associates along with Coca Cola’s exec comp team to understand the impact of their cross-border assignment on compensation and tax withholding requirements
  • Manage the Global Equity process for the company’s Performance Share Units (PSUs), Restricted Stock (RS) and Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) to include the delivery of all annual and quarterly PSU’s and RSU’s to award recipients
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams: Tax, Treasury, Audit, Legal, Corporate Finance, Accounting Operations, Office of the Secretary to ensure accuracy in the end-to-end process and reporting outputs to the Security and Exchange Commission
  • Co-managed the Workday team during the implementation process, including planning, design and testing of various workstreams to identify the ideal solution for the Global equity workstream
  • Comprehensive monthly review of the available and outstanding report of all Equity Awards
  • Coordinate with local mobility payroll & equity contacts to ensure the company is being compliant in its withholding policy globally
  • Collaborate with the executive compensation committee to provide the Annual Stockownership Information, assist with section 16 filing, monitor and manage the open trading window closely
  • Work closely with payroll, accounting and tax counsel to manage the post settlement correction process.

Senior Associate, Global Mobility Practice

PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP
10.2010 - 09.2015
  • Provide tax planning and consulting services to clients who have cross-border employees and help them manage their global mobility programs
  • Assist companies to be compliant with various regulatory requirements surrounding payroll and compensation reporting in different countries
  • Work closely with multinational companies to help minimize their global assignment costs by providing tax cost estimates of the potential assignments allowing companies to budget for the overall tax cost
  • Research tax provisions and review individual return filings for expatriates and foreign nationals
  • Assist clients with year-end compensation accumulation, shadow payroll, cost projections, hypothetical tax withholding calculations and tax settlement calculations
  • Provide personal tax consultation to high-net-worth clients
  • Develop and train PWC’s US and India service delivery centers and build a team to take on the compliance work
  • Coordinate between multiple service centers located in 3 different countries to manage compliance work that was done outside of the U
  • S.

Education

Bachelor of Business Administration - Finance, Accounting, Economics

University of North Texas (UNT)
12.2009

Skills

  • International Tax
  • Operations Management
  • Regulatory Compliance
  • Consultation & Strategic Planning
  • Automation and Implementation of technology driven solutions

Certification

Certified Public Accountant licensed in the States of Georgia and Virginia


Affiliations

  • AICPA
  • NASPP

Timeline

Senior Manager, Tax Mobility/Equity (People Advisory Services)

Ernst & Young, LLP
08.2018 - Current

Global Equity- Tax Lead

The Coca Cola Company- Headquarters
09.2015 - 07.2018

Senior Associate, Global Mobility Practice

PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP
10.2010 - 09.2015

Bachelor of Business Administration - Finance, Accounting, Economics

University of North Texas (UNT)

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