Samuel Yan EY Greater China Tax Finance Operate and Global Services Leader Global Compliance and Reporting Partner
Samuel Yan EY Greater China Tax Finance Operate and Global Services Leader Global Compliance and Reporting Partner Working Experience Samuel is Greater China Tax Finance Operate and Global Services Leader. He is also actively engaged in providing PRC tax advice for multinational companies doing business with and in China and also Chinese companies which have considerable size of business operation in China or have the plan of making outbound investments outside China. Samuel has accumulated a wide variety of diversified experience by working in China and Canada as a tax professional for more than 20 years. Prior to returning to China in 2006, Samuel provided tax advice not only to local multinational companies but also Chinese companies investing in Canada in Toronto. Prior to working in Canada and after joining EY Beijing office, Samuel has been focusing on tax compliance and planning for business investment and restructuring as well as assisting companies to negotiate the incentives related to the investment in China. Now Samuel is teaming with EY global team to provide tax finance operate and management consulting and implementation services for companies investing overseas, or those looking to redesign their tax function operating models either domestically or globally. Samuel also drives focus on expanding our market share in Greater China by leading and participating a number of significant projects to assist Chinese companies investing overseas with their Global compliance and Reporting needs as well as various milestone finance operate projects for clients in multiple industries. Samuel also led a number of milestone digital taxation projects for large domestic group companies, including design of digital taxation management model, set-up of tax technology management platform, and assistance with implementation of tax filing automation, risk analysis and management, and tax planning to comprehensively improve tax management function and work efficiency for large domestic group companies. Samuel specializes in tax compliance and other related professional tax consulting services in automotive, technology, manufacturing, energy and other industries. Qualifications Master degree of Taxation in the University of Waterloo Certified Public Account of China Major customers served: Haier, Lenovo, Gome, Xiaomi, JD, BOE, Kingsoft, ENN Energy Group, AIIB, Caterpillar, Daimler, Volvo, Volkswagen Audi, Sinopec, Smith & Nephew, NCR, Total, Saudi Arabian Petroleum and other Fortune 500 companies.
Sarah Jiang Senior Manager, Business & Tax Advisory Services at Ernst & Young (China) Advisory Limited Dalian Branch Office
Sarah Jiang Senior Manager, Business & Tax Advisory Services at Ernst & Young (China) Advisory Limited Dalian Branch Office Work Experience Sarah Jiang is a tax senior manager of EY Dalian Branch Office. Sarah has over 13 years of working experience in tax services, and have accumulated rich tax practice experience. Her work experience in tax practice include: corporate tax compliance and relevant consulting services, tax advisory services for group restructuring, tax consulting and risk assessment for Permanent Establishment of foreign companies in China, tax health check and planning, and etc. The clients served by Sarah mainly include MNC and large state-owned enterprises. Qualification Bachelor degree in Dalian University of Technology Certified Tax Agent The industries served The industry she served cover automobile, manufacturing, real estate, service and education industries, and etc.
Aaron Kuo Senior manager, Tax Technology Transformation at EY
Aaron Kuo Senior manager, Tax Technology Transformation at EY Working Experience As the project manager, Aaron participated in the GL system construction consulting project of Dalian rural commercial bank, served as the head of the system team, leading to support the business scenarios of each system of the bank, identified the peripheral system transformation points for GL construction, prepared the transformation instructions of each peripheral system, cooperated with the bank in the docking of the GL system interface, and achieved the accounting stripping, Proper transition between peripheral system and GL system, and draw the blueprint of future IT system. As a project manager of global tax management platform construction consulting project of Goldman Sachs, AIA and other financial institutions, served as the leader of the system team, leading to assist the business scenarios of various systems, setting up work processes and establishing the flow of industrial fiscal and tax data. As a project manager of full tax management platform of Zheshang Bank. Aaron assisted the bank in achieving a smooth transition from business tax to value-added tax. Migrating the price and tax separation function to the new core system to achieve the goal of improving the timeliness of price and tax separation, the granularity of price and tax separation (product level), and the maintenance of price and tax separation configuration (unified maintenance platform). As a project manager, Aaron participated in the consulting project of Suzhou Bank's value-added tax system transformation, comprehensively reviewed the existing process, assessed the requirements for bank business and IT system improvement, strengthened the standardization and transparency of the process, assisted in the completion of the system transformation. Qualification Bachelor of Commerce, The Australian National University CPAA