Priscila Ferreira da Costa

Head of Tax Brasil @ Valmont Industries, Inc.

About

• 19 years of experience at Tax Area (VAT and Income Tax), with strong knowledge and skills in activities related Operation, Compliance, Coordination, Management and Tax Planning, acquired in multinational companies from several segments: Auto Parts, Technology, Pharma, Food and Beverages, Cosmetics.; • Tax consultancy to different business units of the company (sales, price, marketing, finance decision support, procurement and logistics) with focus to assist and advise implications of business transaction, recommending the most appropriate business solution; • Expertise to leadership and building strong teams; • Strong ability of attendance to the federal, state or municipal agents; • Legal knowledge for analysis of tax infraction, with a focus on the building good arguments to defense, laws discussions and management of payments to external offices; • Ability of attendance to internal and external audit; • Experience at tax discussions on several class associations (FIESP, SINDUSFARMA, SINDAN, SIMABESP, SINDICAFE, etc.) to negotiation of news tax's legislations, with focus to reduce the tax burden and easily tax ancillary obligations; • Strong ability of delivery tax projects related to ancillary obligations, tax risks management and recover to tax credits; • Responsible for execution of several activities with excellent results of process or monetary, with national and international rewards; • Administrator with Postgraduate on Tax Management and Tax Accounting with Advanced English, Spanish Intermediate and Fluent Portuguese.

Country

Brazil

City

Sorocaba

Industry

Automotive

Skill

Gestão de pessoas, Planejamento tributário, Contencioso, Impostos diretos, Imposto indireto, Reforma tributaria, Transações financeiras, Auditoria legal de contas, Conformidade legal, Softwares fiscais, Resolução de problemas, Provisões de impostos, SAP, Sales Tax, Liderança de equipe, Impostos, Relatórios financeiros, Tax, ERP, Lei Sarbanes-Oxley

Experience

Head of Tax Brasil

Valmont Industries, Inc.

2026-3 - Present · 7 mos

Убераба, MG

Member

TEWA Tax Experts

2016-6 - Present · 10 yrs 4 mos

São Paulo Area, Brazil

Tax Project & Planning BR

Amcor

2025-11 - 2026-2 · 4 mos

Louveira, SP

BR Tax Manager

Amcor

2024-10 - 2025-11 · 1 yr 2 mos

Louveira, São Paulo, Brasil

Tax Manager Consulting

General Motors

2021-6 - 2024-9 · 3 yrs 4 mos

Consulting and Tax Planning tasks.

Sr Tax Manager LAS - BR/ARG/CHI

Bridgestone Latin America South

2019-6 - 2021-6 · 2 yrs 1 mo

São Paulo e Região, Brasil

Responsible for everything activities of Tax Area, such as: tax consultancy to different business units of the company with focus to assist and advise implications of business transaction recommending the most appropriate business solution; tax operation (Income Tax and VAT); delivery of ancillary obligations; attendance of tax agents (federal, state and municipal) and internal/external audits; analysis of tax infractions for recommendation of defense or payment; prepare several tax training; delivery of international reports related to Income Tax; responsible for Outsourcing's process implementation of Brazil, Argentina and Chile. Report to VP Tax and Controller LAS. Responsible for: 9 employees BR / 3 employees Argentina and Chile.

Tax Manager

Eli Lilly and Company

2016-3 - 2018-11 · 2 yrs 9 mos

São Paulo Area, Brazil

Responsible for everything activities of Tax Area, such as: tax consultancy to different business units of the company (sales, price, marketing, finance decision support, procurement and logistics) with focus to assist and advise implications of business transaction recommending the most appropriate business solution; tax operation (principal and ancillary of IVA and Income Tax); delivery of ancillary obligations; attendance of tax agents (federal, state and municipal) and internal/external audits; analysis of tax infractions for recommendation of defense or payment; prepare several tax training; delivery of international reports related to tax contingence and Income Tax; key user of deployment of tax system Mastersaf DW; discussion with the several classes (SINDAN, SINDUSFARMA) entities for reduce tax burden and another tax's subjects. Report to Controller, CFO Brasil and Tax USA Director. Responsible for 5 employees.

Tax Coordinator - Compliance

Nestlé

2010-8 - 2016-3 · 5 yrs 8 mos

São Paulo Area, Brazil

Responsible for everything activities of Tax Compliance Area, such as: tax consultancy to different business units of the company (sales, price, marketing, finance decision support, procurement and logistics) with focus to assist and advise implications of business transaction recommending the most appropriate business solution; management tax risks; attendance of internal and external audits; analysis of tax infractions for recommendation of defense or payment; prepare several tax training; discussion with the several classes entities (FIESP, SIMABESP, SINDMILHO, etc) for reduce tax burden and another tax's subjects. Report to Tax Manager. Responsible for 7 employees.

Tax Consultant

IBM

2008-11 - 2010-8 · 1 yr 10 mos

São Paulo Area, Brazil

Responsible for tax consultancy to different business units of the company (sales, price, marketing, finance decision support, tax operation, procurement and logistics) with focus to assist and advise implications of business transaction recommending the most appropriate business solution; tax projects; several tax training; tax compliace controls; preparation of tax special regimes. Report to Tax Manager.

Tax Analyst

Johnson Controls Ltda

2008-3 - 2008-11 · 9 mos

São Paulo Area, Brazil

Responsible for everything activities related the shared support department, such as: consolidation of tax calculation; delivery of ancillary obligations; tax consultancy to different business units of the company (sales, price, marketing, finance decision support, procurement and logistics) with focus to assist and advise implications of business transaction recommending the most appropriate business solution; management of tax contingence; implementation of tax projects to reduce the tax burden in import operations (drawback). Report to Controller Brazil.