Theresa Stayer

• Led and transformed global tax processes for U.S. sales and hotel occupancy taxes.
• Implemented Avalara for tax uniformity across brands, enhancing compliance.
• Oversight of the business process and technology for the indirect tax compliance.
• Consulted on tax vendor contracts, improving negotiation outcomes.
• Excellent communicator in a range of situations, both written and oral.

Accomplishments

• Centralized and standardized the tax software with Avalara's cloud-based tax compliance solution, optimizing the end-to-end business processes across global regions, ensuring accuracy and uniformity.

• Collaborated with tax agencies for audits, streamlining efforts across units.
• Notified key finance personnel of noncompliance deficiency issues, including incorrect coding in the Oracle AP system, and issue directives for swift corrections.
• Consulted with business unit teams to provide technical advice on global requirements regarding initiating prospective sales activities in overseas countries, to ensure proper registration and tax compliance.
• Worked closely with the corporate tax department, assisting with M-1 schedules.
• Maintained and updated the Vertex software.

Accomplishments

• Spearheaded OneSource Tax System project, improving invoice accuracy and compliance.

• Guided, directed, and or advised tax specialists both on-site and offshore (India), to ensure the timely and accurate processing of non-income tax-related filings
• Responsible for aspects of workforce development with an emphasis on providing continual training of staff and ensuring comprehensive understanding of sales tax filings
• Reviewed and audited staff for in-house and remote transactions for individual returns, reviewing for accuracy, anomalies, and/or non-compliance

• Responsible for state and local sales and use tax filings
• Monitored transactions for suspicious or erroneous entries within the Oracle ERP and notifying in-house management for ongoing external audits, accordingly
• Performed various degrees of tax research for both internal and external audit requests
• Determined the nature of non-compliance incidents/issues, providing knowledge and proficiency to avoid future recurrences

Accomplishments

• Oversaw the digital transition from paper to electronic tax returns for all US entities, including online filings