Ioana Tantu

Company Overview: Retail

Global Effective Tax Rate Management

• Assumed full ownership of the Global Effective Tax Rate (ETR) and developed strategies to optimize it.
• Assessed tax implications of business operations, organizational changes, and transactions.
  Provided actionable insights and recommendations to senior leadership to support strategic decision-making.

Tax Compliance and Reporting

• Oversaw quarterly and annual tax calculations, ensuring compliance with local and international regulations.
• Partnered with internal stakeholders and finance teams to ensure accurate tax provisions and reporting.
• Collaborated with external tax service providers to ensure timely and accurate tax submissions while actively monitoring CITR compliance and leading corrective actions.

Strategic Tax Planning and Advisory

• Developed and implemented strategies to optimize the company's tax position while minimizing risks.
• Provided guidance on corporate transactions, mergers & acquisitions, and cross-border operations to enhance tax efficiency.
• Monitored global tax developments (e.g., BEPS, Pillar Two) to ensure compliance and maintain competitiveness.
• Contributed to tax-efficient financing structures, intercompany projects, and corporate planning to optimize the Group's capital structure.
• Planned and executed annual dividend distributions in line with tax regulations and business objectives.
• Leveraged tax technology solutions to enhance efficiency and accuracy in planning and compliance.
• Communicated regulatory changes, risks, and opportunities to stakeholders and senior leadership.

Tax Audits, Disputes, and Mutual Agreement Procedures (MAPs)

• Led tax audits, coordinating with tax authorities, local finance teams, and external advisors.
• Oversaw preparation of audit documentation, responses, and appeals to minimize disputes and adverse outcomes.
  Ensured timely and effective resolution of tax disputes, including through MAPs.
• Responded promptly to official tax notices requiring clarifications and additional submissions.

Stakeholder Management

• Acted as the primary contact for direct tax matters for internal and external stakeholders.
• Regularly informed senior leadership of tax opportunities, risks, and recommendations to support long-term planning.
• Served as a trusted advisor on key tax issues, ensuring risks were effectively managed.
• Reviewed financial reports to correctly ascertain taxation and statement requirements.
• Completed in-depth research into tax issues affecting company's activities to offer expert advice and accurately prepare submissions.

Company Overview: Fintech

• Partnered with business units to proactively identify and research tax planning opportunities
• Implemented structural and non-structural tax planning strategies, which maximized savings on a defensible basis
• Was responsible for the tax provision and reporting to ensure that the financial statements provide an accurate reflection of the tax position of the Group's entities under the relevant IFRS accounting standards
• Managed the transfer pricing policies and international tax elements of the Group's compliance, e.g
• Review and update of existing transfer pricing policies, intercompany agreements, local files, tracking ex-Americas country by country reporting requirements and advising on permanent establishment risks
• Supported the CEO in preparing tax analysis, advice and guidance related to financing structures, internal legal entity restructuring, third party acquisitions and dispositions, and commercial transactions such as cross border services
• Partnered with Group's personnel, in Tax Audits and Controversies, to successfully defend filing positions and to negotiate favorable resolutions of proposed deficiencies
• Facilitated activities of outside advisers engaged to assist in tax controversy matters
• Supported and set out medium- and long-term tax strategy, given international and country specific tax developments
• Kept on top of important tax regulations/changes and review existing structures to ensure that they are tax efficient, business efficient, and carry an acceptable level of risk
• Fintech

• Company Overview: Law company
• Provided tax consultancy services on a full range of tax related issues raised in domestic and multinational mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, restructurings, real estate transactions and financing, cross-border direct investments and structured financing
• Prepared appeals and supported the companies during fiscal audits performed by the tax authorities in the area of corporate tax, withholding tax, VAT, local taxes, environmental taxes
• Identified, evaluated and recommended creative global tax optimization strategies
• Law company

• Company Overview: Audit and consultancy services
• Performed tax assistance to audit assignments, tax reviews, tax compliance with respect to corporate tax, withholding tax, VAT, local taxes, environment taxes, with the purpose of assessing the level of fiscal compliance, as well as any potential exposures for clients
• Provided advisory services on a wide range of issues covering international tax planning - EU tax directives and ECJ case-law, taxation of local source of income derived by non-resident companies, tax implications of structuring and investment options for foreign companies
• Assisted in mergers and acquisitions projects covering the areas of tax due diligence, tax structuring advice, post transaction integration services, and corporate reorganization, for domestic and international clients
• Performed tax audits assignments of financial statements in order to identify tax issues with the purpose of minimizing companies' exposure to taxes and penalties
• Audit and consultancy services