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Pavan Ravilla

Pavan Ravilla

Lone Tree,CO

Summary

Tax Professional with 18 years experiences in Indirect tax compliances, Indirect tax Audits, Assessments and Litigation, Strategic Tax Planning Projects. Well versed in driving Tax & Treasury projects across the organization. Managing the overall the departmental budgets and establishing the Captive shared services centers from inception.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience

Work History

Director - Tax & Treasury PMO

Oracle America, Inc
Denver, CO
10.2021 - Current
  • Global Process Owner for Tax & Treasury Line of business (LOB) for managing Companywide Projects related to New Legal entities creation, Data Centers expansion, New Product offerings to Customers.
  • Driving Tax & Treasury projects : Regulatory / Legislative driven Indirect tax (VAT, GST, Sales tax, Use tax, Consumption tax) projects like New tax regime implementation, e-invoicing, Tax rate changes.
  • Strategic Tax Planning Projects : Tax Optimization Projects like Global Legal entity restructuring, Intercompany transaction flow changes, Market Place Transaction flow.
  • Cross-functional projects : Acting as Global Process Owner for Tax & Treasury to support the Cross functional teams driven projects, which has impact on Tax & Treasury LOBs.
  • Mergers & Acquisitions : Managing the acquired entity Systems Operational Integrations with Oracle Fusion OPC ERP for Tax and Treasury modules.
  • Process Improvement Projects : Driving Global Non-Income based taxes (NIBT) aka Indirect taxes to improve the Global Compliance Processes, Systems enhancements and Indirect taxes Planning Projects.
  • Vertex : Driving US Sales Tax and Use Tax requirements with Oracle Product development and Vertex Product development teams.
  • Fusion Tax Engine : Driving the Rest of the world (ROW) tax requirements with Oracle Applications Lab (OAL) teams.
  • Lead the Business Validation Testing (BVT), Business Integration Testing (BIT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) efforts for all the projects outlined above.
  • Managed Global Tax & Treasury department budget approx $ 80 Million per year.
  • Established Captive Shared Service Center (SSC) in India to manage the Global Tax & Treasury data analysis, data reconciliation for supporting the Global Audit, Litigation, Direct and Indirect taxes Compliances, Tax Planning and Executive reporting.
  • Lead the Oracle OnPrime (GSI) to Cloud (Fusion ERP) transition journey from Tax & Treasury.
  • Develop and Designed the Oracle @ Oracle tools - Application Express tools for Tax & Treasury department administration, which includes tracking Professional / Tax advisory fee tools, hiring's, resource utilization, Project Management, Employee offboarding etc.
  • Manage the Project and Process Governance for the Global Tax & Treasury org.
  • Administered Global Tax & Treasury hiring's - Employee and Contractors, partner with the Tax & Treasury executives to complete their hiring's.

Director - Tax & Treasury PMO

Oracle India Private Limited
Bengaluru, Karnataka
09.2020 - 09.2021
  • Global Process Owner for Tax & Treasury Line of business (LOB) for managing Companywide Projects related to New Legal entities creation, Data Centers expansion, New Product offerings to Customers.
  • Driving Tax & Treasury projects : Regulatory / Legislative driven Indirect tax (VAT, GST, Sales tax, Use tax, Consumption tax) projects like New tax regime implementation, e-invoicing, Tax rate changes.
  • Strategic Tax Planning Projects : Tax Optimization Projects like Global Legal entity restructuring, Intercompany transaction flow changes, Market Place Transaction flow.
  • Cross-functional projects : Acting as Global Process Owner for Tax & Treasury to support the Cross functional teams driven projects, which has impact on Tax & Treasury LOBs.
  • Process Improvement Projects : Driving Global Non-Income based taxes (NIBT) aka Indirect taxes to improve the Global Compliance Processes, Systems enhancements and Indirect taxes Planning Projects.
  • Vertex : Driving US Sales Tax and Use Tax requirements with Oracle Product development and Vertex Product development teams.
  • Fusion Tax Engine : Driving the Rest of the world (ROW) tax requirements with Oracle Applications Lab (OAL) teams.
  • Lead the Business Validation Testing (BVT), Business Integration Testing (BIT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) efforts for all the projects outlined above.
  • Managed Global Tax & Treasury department budget approx $ 80 Million per year.
  • Lead the Oracle OnPrime (GSI) to Cloud (Fusion ERP) transition journey from Tax & Treasury.
  • Manage the Project and Process Governance for the Global Tax & Treasury org.
  • Administered Global Tax & Treasury hiring's - Employee and Contractors, partner with the Tax & Treasury executives to complete their hiring's.

Senior Manager - Tax & Treasury PMO

Oracle India Private Limited
Bengaluru, Karnataka
10.2018 - 08.2020
  • Strategic Tax Planning Projects : Tax Optimization Projects like Global Legal entity restructuring, Intercompany transaction flow changes, Market Place Transaction flow.
  • Cross-functional projects : Acting as Global Process Owner for Tax & Treasury to support the Cross functional teams driven projects, which has impact on Tax & Treasury LOBs.
  • Lead the Business Validation Testing (BVT), Business Integration Testing (BIT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) efforts for all the projects outlined above.
  • Support the Oracle OnPrime (GSI) to Cloud (Fusion ERP) transition journey from Tax & Treasury.
  • Support the Project and Process Governance for the Global Tax & Treasury org.
  • Managing the Global Tax & Treasury Contractors : Hiring, Onboarding, Contract extension, Policy advocacy and Yearly contract renewals.
  • Administered Global Tax & Treasury hiring's - Employee and Contractors, partner with the Tax & Treasury executives to complete their hiring's.

Project Leader - NIBT (Contractor)

Oracle India Private Limited
Bengaluru, Karnataka
04.2016 - 09.2018
  • Managing the Oracle India Private Limited VAT and CST Compliances for the PAN India locations.
  • Key member of the GST Implementation (Processes and Systems) for all Oracle India entities.
  • Key member of the GST Compliance process design and implementation.
  • Part of the core team to set up with Special Economic Zone (SEZ) for new Oracle campus in Bangalore for 12000 Head count. [ Approval obtained from Govt. of India within 2.5 months, a record time ]
  • Handling VAT Audits, Tax assessments for Oracle India entities.
  • Handling Statutory and Internal Audits for Tax org.

Operations Leader - Tax

E.I. DuPont Services Center India Private Limited
Hyderabad, Telangana
08.2010 - 03.2016
  • Handling Indirect Taxes compliances for DuPont India, Pioneer, Solae and Danisco Legal entities.
  • Review of Sales Tax, Service Tax and Excise Returns before filing to ensure the accuracy.
  • Regular review of CENVAT Credit to ensure availment as per law and efficient utilization.
  • Ensure for on time remittance of tax due for Sales Tax, Excise Duty and Service Tax.
  • Responding to the Sales Tax, Service Tax and Excise Show cause Notices and Queries.
  • Providing support to the consultants for assessments in terms of providing information required and clarifications on the queries.
  • Handling the Annual Returns / VAT Audits for DuPont, Danisco, Solae and Pioneer.
  • Core Member in the Tax Planning Projects team and ensure to execute all the initiative timely and capturing the benefits.
  • Preparing the SOP’s, Internal Controls (SOX) and Process Map for the new processes which are transitioned and having the signoff from customer.
  • Support to the Carve out Projects in terms of Training the new resources and VAT Balances allocation for APAC Region.
  • Close working relationship with Order to Cash (O2C) – Accounts Receivable, Order Management, Source to Settle (S2S) – Procurement and Accounts Payable and Controller groups.
  • Ensuring for Tax Rate Master updations (J1ID table) and also to check the results of all the statutory registers timely.
  • Responsible to ensure all the new clusters in SAP have been duly tested (BIT/USAT) before GO-Live in case of Business Spin off / Carve out.
  • Handling the Internal and Statutory Audit and providing all the required clarifications.
  • Circulating Dashboards to the customers and having calls as a part of monthly update.
  • Monitoring Form F / C / E1 / I / H collection status and also issuance of Form F / C / E1.
  • Custodian for Indirect tax related Internal Controls from SOX perspective.

Assistant - Sales Tax and Insurance

Amara Raja Batteries Limited
Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh
08.2006 - 07.2010
  • Responsible for Indirect Taxes compliances and Quality Management.
  • Ensure for on time Sales Tax return filing for all the branches and including Head office every month.
  • Arranging fund for the branches for Sales tax remittance for the manual payments and processing the online payments in Head office.
  • Providing the information for the Internal Audit, Statutory Audit, EA Audit, VAT Audit and CAG Audits.
  • Consultant Management and renewal of agreements yearly and negotiations.
  • Ensure for on time Issuance / collection of “C” forms to vendors and “F” to the branches all over India.
  • Ensure on time renewal of insurance polices related to Factory, Vehicles and Shipments. Negotiating with Claim underwriters.
  • Accounting all the statutory forms received like “C” / “E1”/”F”/”I”/”H”.
  • Initiating the assessments proactively for the Head Office and ensure the documents were submitted on time and clarifications were provided to Asst Commissioner, LTU.
  • Review of Salvage calculations for the material not useful for consumption.
  • Effective 5’s management in the office premises and for record maintenance.

Education

Six-Sigma Black Belt -

Indian Statistical Institute
Bengaluru
08-2018

Six-Sigma Green Belt -

DuPont Six-Sigma Academy
Hyderabad
11-2013

MBA - Finance And International Marketing

Sri Venkateswara University (Open University)
Tirupati
03-2009

Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting

Sri Venkteswara University
Tirupati
03-2006

Skills

  • Project Management
  • Portfolio Management
  • Global Indirect Tax Projects
  • Global Indirect Tax Compliance
  • Strategic Tax Planning Projects
  • Budget Management
  • Oracle Fusion ERP
  • Oracle GSI (R12)
  • Corporate Initiatives - Company-wise projects
  • Captive Shared Services Center
  • Global Tax Audit and Litigation
  • Process Improvement Initiatives

Timeline

Director - Tax & Treasury PMO

Oracle America, Inc
10.2021 - Current

Director - Tax & Treasury PMO

Oracle India Private Limited
09.2020 - 09.2021

Senior Manager - Tax & Treasury PMO

Oracle India Private Limited
10.2018 - 08.2020

Project Leader - NIBT (Contractor)

Oracle India Private Limited
04.2016 - 09.2018

Operations Leader - Tax

E.I. DuPont Services Center India Private Limited
08.2010 - 03.2016

Assistant - Sales Tax and Insurance

Amara Raja Batteries Limited
08.2006 - 07.2010

Six-Sigma Black Belt -

Indian Statistical Institute

Six-Sigma Green Belt -

DuPont Six-Sigma Academy

MBA - Finance And International Marketing

Sri Venkateswara University (Open University)

Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting

Sri Venkteswara University

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