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How AUTODOC Gets Tax Involved Before Business Decisions
When AUTODOC opened a third-party warehouse in the UK, tax and finance were involved from the beginning. For Svetlana Schiel, that is what business partnering should look like in practice.
Svetlana, Senior Director Tax and Payroll at AUTODOC, joins Stevi Frooninckx to explain how her team learns what drives the business and earns a place in its plans. She asks colleagues to describe what their unit would put on an invoice, gives supply chain teams clear reminders about when to involve tax, and
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Oct. 19, 2026
How AUTODOC Gets Tax Involved Before Business Decisions
When AUTODOC opened a third-party warehouse in the UK, tax and finance were involved from the beginning. For Svetlana Schiel, that is what business partnering should look like in practice. Svetlana, Senior Director Tax and Payroll at AUTODOC, joins Stevi Frooninckx to explain how her team learns what drives the business and earns a place in its plans. She asks colleagues to describe what their unit would put on an invoice, gives supply chain teams clear reminders about when to involve tax, and
Sept. 18, 2026
AI in Tax: 240 Hours Saved, with Humans Still Reviewing | Morgan Randolph, Atlassian Global Head of Tax
Morgan Randolph, Global Head of Tax at Atlassian, joins Tax Leaders Unplugged to discuss whether AI is a threat or an opportunity for in-house tax teams. One AI-enabled workflow helped Atlassian's India tax team process thousands of airline receipts and invoices, saving 240 hours and turning a highly manual process into one that is almost instant. Morgan also shares how AI made her budget review 10 times faster and 10 times better, how her team turned a Section 382 research procedure into a wo
June 17, 2026
Stay Curious, Take Responsibility: AI & High-Performance Tax Teams | Christian Klein
Christian Klein, VP Accounting, Reporting and Tax at Autodoc, joins Tax Leaders Unplugged to discuss how he is using AI to scale a finance and tax function under two-digit growth, and why culture decides whether that works. He shares: - How Autodoc moved from collecting 60 AI ideas to 5 products in development, 2 of them already live, by enabling people before buying tools. - Real outcomes, including a daily reconciliation cut from 3 hours to 5 minutes and a standing target of at least
May 25, 2026
AI and Data for Tax Research | Luis Nouel from IBFD
Luis Nouel, Manager Latin America, Africa-Middle East and Bulletin of International Taxation Teams at IBFD, joins Tax Leaders Unplugged to discuss how tax research actually gets done and where AI fits in. We recorded at IBFD HQ in Amsterdam. Luis brings 33 years in tax, more than 18 of them at IBFD, and currently leads the Latin America, transfer pricing and VAT teams. We covered: - How a tax research workflow runs in practice, from mapping cross-border consequences to working country chap
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