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© Phenix Consulting 2016

Our services

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Integrated Solutions

Technology

Business consulting Taxation

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An overview


Taxation

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Our attributes

Focused

Comprehensive

Entrepreneurial

Experienced

Phenix Tax stands for focused business advice, concentration on aspects relevant in business practice and for processing of tax-related tasks and obligations in an efficient, legally certain and client-oriented manner.

The partners know from their own experience how taxes can be integrated in internal business processes. We know how the tax function of international enterprises can generate and process data relevant for taxation and finally declare taxes efficiently and rule-consistent – involving internal and external experts and within a centrally controlled and well-documented operating process.

We know how to organize and advice tax projects or how to raise awareness of indirect tax impacts business projects. We can evaluate and implement the necessary IT-solutions to organize all indirect tax operating processes including their documentation.

Our special expertise in indirect tax and business structuring and restructuring including M&A is a logical consequence of our operating process – oriented advisory approach. Obviously, you can expect from us that we advice you qualified in the field of „classic“ tax advisory related to national and international tax issues.


Tax strategic advice • Transfer Pricing and Indirect Tax • Drafting of tax strategy documents and advice to realize business and tax objectives • Conception and structuring of group tax functions • Drafting of communication guidelines (to other business departments, etc.)

Interim management • Highly qualified and experienced professionals with a schedule tailored to your needs • Extensive experience serving senior roles in a variety of industries and organizations • Provide temporary staffing or management of internal audit and risk departments

Tax control framework • Zero measurement (statistical sampling, data analysis, ERP review) • Compliance assessment (as is/to be analyses) • Development of effective control and monitoring processes (risk and control matrix) • Advice related to implementation of compliance management systems (change management) • Advice related to the implementation of tax risk management systems • Drafting of internal guidelines • Drafting of compliance manuals • Training concepts for employees in the tax department and for leading employees • Basic compliance trainings for employees in other departments

Indirect tax strategy and processes


Tax advisory • Classic indirect tax advisory on national and international issues

• EU law and domestic legislation

Tax planning • Minimize unnecessary cash out flow of output VAT and the complete deduction and reclaim of input VAT

where possible • Focus on ‘no surprises during VAT audits’ • Support company’s commitment to pay tax in accordance with all relevant laws and regulations in the

territories of operation • Sustain a good and honest working relationships with the tax authorities • Manage non routine transactions:

• Migration to new jurisdiction • New supply chain • Shared service centers • M&A • Outsourcing

• Handle VAT audits

Indirect tax advisory


Look at tax accounting and reporting processes from the outside • Testing of historic returns (quality control) • Reconciliations • Return process design • Performance analyses • Risk assessment • System accuracy improvements and error elimination • Internal trainings • Guidelines • Change of law • e-tax files

• e-Bilanz (GE) • Standard audit file for tax purposes (FR, LU, PT, etc.)

Outsourcing • Indirect tax reporting

• Completion and submission of VAT/GST returns, Intrastat, EC Sales Lists, etc. • Fiscal representation • VAT /GST registration(s) • Execution of VAT controls • Work with systems integrators around VAT needs

Accounting / reporting


Business consulting

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Our attributes

Focused

Comprehensive

Entrepreneurial

Experienced

Phenix Business Consulting stands for focused business & finance advice, concentrating on aspects relevant for business practice from a risk and control perspective as well as finance transformation perspective.

The partners know from their own experience how to assess, improve and integrate internal controls in business & finance processes during transformation projects as well as in operational environments. We support business and internal audit departments in assessing and mitigating risks and building an efficient and effective internal control environment.

We know how to organize and advice business & finance projects and how to raise awareness of risk and control implications in other business projects. We evaluate and implement the necessary IT-solutions to improve business and finance operating processes including the documentation.

Our combined expertise in business control, information technology and tax is our key strength. We can truly provide integrated business solutions for clients. Obviously, you can expect from us that we advice you qualified in the each of the individual expertise areas as well.


Strategic advice • Act as sounding board for business & audit executives • Define roadmap how to improve business & IT alignment • Use data analytics as enabler for Internal Audit in the realization of business objectives • Optimize the quality of financial audit with the statistical sampling method

Interim management • Highly qualified and experienced professionals with a schedule tailored to your needs • Extensive experience serving senior roles in a variety of industries and organizations • Provide temporary staffing or management of internal audit and risk departments

Business control framework • Zero measurement (statistical sampling, data analysis, internal control review) • Development of effective internal control and monitoring processes (risk and control matrix) • Compliance assessments against defined business risk and control matrices (e.g. Sox/JSox) • Identify risk areas and assess internal control effectiveness using data analysis • Defining dashboards for continuous monitoring • Independent assessment of quality of IT services and internal controls • Assess and remediate IT risk assessment processes • Incorporate automated controls

Business control


Strategic advice • Develop and document finance roadmap and target operating model to facilitate finance transformation • Conception and structuring of finance functions

Finance transformation • Align existing ERP systems with new finance organization and target operating model

Financial supply chain management • Optimize cash & liquidity planning • Implement and optimize electronic bank statement • Implementation of liquidity planning tools (e.g. Business Planning & Consolidation)

Interim management • Provide temporary staffing or management of finance departments

IT controlling • Development of IT controlling approaches for internal or external service providers (e.g. product based,

value based) • ERP-based implementation

Finance consulting


Technology

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Our attributes

Focused

Comprehensive

Entrepreneurial

Experienced

Phenix Technology stands for focused IT advice and combines technical knowledge with industry understanding and knowhow of technologically advanced tools and methodologies available in the market or developed by ourselves. We have partnership in place with Universal Units and Avalara that are full time tax technology providers.

The tax partners in-house and via our alliances speak also the language of the business and IT and therefore no translation is needed. We identify risk areas and sustainable planning opportunities for taxes and how to effectively manage and implement via IT solutions.

We know how to organize and advice ERP projects and how to raise awareness of risk and control implications in other business projects. We evaluate and implement the necessary IT-solutions to improve tax, business and finance operating processes including the documentation.

Our combined expertise in business control, information technology and tax is our key strength. We can truly provide integrated business solutions for clients. Obviously, you can expect from us that we advice you qualified in the each of the individual expertise areas as well.


Tax performance advisory • Transfer Pricing and Indirect Tax • Technology-related tax risk: understand and address the potential harms and benefits of (new) technology • Solution design: ensuring that your specific tax requirements, business processes and system functionality

are fully integrated • Assessment and implementation of Transfer Pricing & VAT functionality in ERP systems and tax engines • Tax IT strategy and alignment

• Process improvement • Automation and tax business intelligence • Organization and skills enhancement

• IT (co) sourcing advisory • Reporting and risk management software (Universal Units, Avalara, etc.) • IT performance and cost improvement • Software selection processes - from analyses of requirements to contract conclusion

Tax technology


Our team

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Tax partnersRichard Cornelisse

Robbert is a chartered accountant (CPA) with more than 30 years experience and worked at the Dutch tax authority and then moved to Shell where he had a lead role working on indirect tax process and technology across the group globally.

Richard holds a master degree in Tax Law from the University of Leiden and has more than 22 years of experience in Tax. He advises multinational businesses in improving the efficiency and effectiveness of their Indirect Tax Function and Tax Control Framework.

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Managing DirectorPhenix Consulting

Robbert Hoogeveen


Richard started his career working as (senior)manager at Arthur Andersen and then became a partner in EY where he led the indirect tax performance team for Netherlands and Belgium. He specializes in the tax aspects of financial transformations, shared service centre migration, and post merger integration work. Richard has authored many articles on Global Indirect Tax Management in specialized tax and finance literature.

Robbert has managed numerous global projects and has worked extensively in designing Sarbanes-Oxley control frameworks, implementation of multinational SAP systems, implementing global SAP/Sabrix implementations.


Business consulting and IT partnersFerry Geertman

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Ferry holds a master degree in applied mathematics and is a certified IT Auditor with more than 20 years of internal (IT) control experience. Ferry advises global and national organizations in identifying and managing their business and IT risks and opportunities and thereby enhancing the capacity to create value.

Ferry has extensive experience in assessing the design and operating effectiveness of internal controls as part of compliance processes for financial reporting (Sox, JSox) as well as in developing roadmaps for aligning IT processes and internal controls with the business objectives. Ferry was an Executive Director at Deloitte in the IT audit and data analytics practice.

Guido Czampiel


Guido holds a German master degree in business administration. Guido Czampiel is a project manager with many years of experience in managing large finance and IT projects. He has over 12 years of consulting experience and worked for both Deloitte Consulting and Ernst & Young.

Project experience include: • Project manager for a major finance

transformation initiative at a global automotive OEM

• Program manager for a number of large harmonization and implementation projects


Business consulting and IT partnersRüdiger Hoffmann

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Rüdiger holds a German master degree in economics. He is a project manager with more than 15 years business experience in process design and implementing various business solutions in finance and accounting focusing for a range of multinational organizations.

Rüdiger was managed global projects with a focus on international accounting, consolidation and tax and implemented SAP New GL for a leading German bank. • Design and implement a common

template approach for more than 40 companies across various banking segments

• Implement 80 interfaces to SAP and non-SAP systems and ensure that bank-specific requirements regarding data integrity and quality are met

Uli Müller


Uli holds a German master degree in industrial engineering. Uli Müller has over 16 years of consulting experience especially in managing projects within IT and finance area. His main business focus is finance transformation, planning and reporting.

Examples of project experience • Project lead within a project for a

company wide reporting system and redesign of the budgeting process for an IT Service provider

• Team lead consolidation of two business areas into one controlling concept and redesign of the company wide controlling concept within a telecommunication company

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