Driving VAT success: Inside Autodesk's tech-enabled compliance strategy

Driving VAT success: Inside Autodesk’s tech-enabled compliance strategy

Practical Insights: Automation across VAT workflows

Finance teams are now prioritising automation across tax and finance workflows. The shift toward smarter VAT compliance is well underway but fragmented processes, rising compliance risks, and the pressure to digitise are common challenges.

Watch Fintua in an exclusive session, hosted by SSON, where Marie Hallen Cody, Indirect Tax Manager at Autodesk, shares how her team modernised VAT compliance to achieve global visibility, consistency, and confidence across jurisdictions.

Key Takeaways

How Autodesk eliminated manual bottlenecks and reduced error-prone VAT processes
Steps to standardise VAT operations across multiple regions
Proven strategies to anticipate and manage compliance risk before audits
How automation enables tax leaders to focus on strategy over administration
Practical lessons for building a scalable, digital VAT compliance function

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Speakers

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Lisa Dowling

Chief Tax & Client Enablement Officer at Fintua

Lisa is the Chief Tax & Client Enablement Officer at Fintua and a recognised expert in international VAT compliance and digital tax transformation. With more than 24 years of VAT experience, she leads Fintua’s global tax strategy, regulatory intelligence and customer & partner enablement. Lisa is a regular speaker at international tax and finance events, sharing insights on regulatory change, digitisation and the future of global compliance. At Fintua, she helps organisations navigate regulatory change and simplify compliance in an increasingly digital tax landscape.

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Éanna Brady

VP Enterprise Sales

Éanna Brady has been with Fintua for over 16 years, playing a pivotal role in building long-term client relationships and delivering value. Over his tenure, he has worked closely with global clients to ensure compliance, drive efficiency, and support business growth, while also managing and developing high-performing teams within the company.

As VP Enterprise Sales, Éanna focuses on partnering with enterprises to understand their VAT and indirect tax challenges, providing tailored solutions that align with strategic goals. He is deeply engaged in maintaining strong client relationships, expanding business opportunities, and collaborating with colleagues and partners to ensure continued success for Fintua’s customers worldwide.

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Marie Hallen Cody

Indirect Tax Manager

Throughout Marie’s career she have worked for large US multinationals and for the last 15 years focused on Indirect Tax across EMEA, the US and Canada. Her experience spans various industries, including goods manufacturing (Whirlpool), financial services (Elavon/USBank), and software products and services (Autodesk). She has been involved in various projects successfully implementing e-Invoicing mandates and SAFT requirements for multiple countries as well as ERP (SAP, Workday, Oracle) and tax engine (Vertex O Series) implementations and upgrades. She is originally from Sweden but has lived her adult life in Ireland.