Snapshot and Years of Experience

Clayton “Brant” Sharp has over 20 years of Federal, state and international tax accounting, tax planning, and tax compliance experience.   He is a hands-on tax professional who has had the opportunity to successfully lead the tax functions of three different publicly-traded companies and is excited to help clients in any capacity needed.   Brant has a combination of public accounting and mid-to-large multi-national corporation tax experience.

Tax Leadership & Project Management

• All phases of acquisitions, from due diligence through corporate integration (including supply chain integration, legal entity rationalization, and ERP integration)
• Business Process Owner for company-wide Oracle Cloud implementation, working to ensure that all tax department requirements are maximized and aligned with other processes (A/R, A/P, payroll, etc.)
• Significant experience in designing tax efficient global supply chains, minimizing global income taxes and transactional taxes (VAT, GST, HST, and sales and use taxes)
• Worldwide tax planning, including IP restructurings, a tax inversion, alignment of business operations with global tax objectives, inclusive of all transfer pricing related analysis and documentation (including all required inter-company agreements)
• Experience in building a tax department and evaluating department needs (both in-sourcing and out-sourcing)
• Coordination and Communication with C Suite and Audit Committees

Tax Accounting

• Leadership of Federal, state and international tax provisions
• Designed and implemented tax policies, tax controls & related procedures for three different publicly-traded companies
• Designed and implemented (Administrator rights) OneSource Tax Provision (“OTP”) twice, with continuing refinements and enhancements to the design over the past twelve years
• Years of hands-on OTP experience (both as Administrator for OTP and as sole preparer of all non-U.S. legal entities)
• Uncertain tax position (ASC 740-10/”FIN 48”) analysis and related documentation

U.S. Federal, State, and Non-U.S. Tax Compliance

• Leadership of U.S. international and non-U.S. tax (U.K., Hong Kong, etc.) compliance
• Significant U.K. tax experience
• Leadership of Federal and state income tax compliance
• Form 5471 preparation

Transactional Taxes (Sales and Use, VAT, GST, etc.)

• Leadership of global transactional tax planning and compliance for the past twelve years
• Communication and coordination with Supply Chain management
• Implemented Sabrix (migration from Vertex) prior to its acquisition by Thomson Reuters

Federal, State, and International Tax Audits

• Development of audit plans
• IDR planning and response
• Research and analysis of technical issues

Tax Technology Experience

• ONESOURCE Tax Provision