1. Diana Miller
159 DuBois Avenue
Sea Cliff, NY 11579
Home (516) 671-2636 • Mobile (917) 273-6529
Email: diana@millergrp.net
Experience
New York Community Bancorp, Inc. April 2005 to Present
Second Vice President – Corporate Tax
Directly responsible for all tax matters relating to residential & commercial lending and leasing business segments:
periodic accounting for income tax reporting
return compliance
audit defense
General tax duties:
Assistance with groupwide audit defense preparation for federal and multi-state audits including: audit defense
computations, IDR responses, RAR review and recommendations, and interest and penalty abatement.
Analysis and preparation of consolidated multi-state tax apportionment computations.
Research and maintenance of all state filing positions for the combined group and specific lines of business;
identify any emerging risk/liability exposure on state-by-state tax basis. Information prepared and disseminated to
compliance staff team of 4.
Analysis and preparation of quarterly book-tax adjustments for quarterly ASC 740 based provision that include
loan loss allowance, loan origination, nonaccrual assets,hedging, mark to market securities, restructured debt and
tax leases.
Tax software liaison, responsible for annual setup and review of federal group consolidation, eliminations, and
sub combined groups
Business segment information reporting support including oversight of annual reporting, B and C notice analysis,
product research,and penalty abatement;
Areas of Expertise:
Federal: Captive Real Estate Investment Trusts, troubled debt restructurings, coupon stripping, Sec. 475 & 1221
dealer issues, mortgage servicing rights, Interco funding,
SALT: financial asset sourcing, fee income sourcing, intangible asset sourcing, economic nexus review, state tax
planning
Capital One Corporation,Melville, NY April 2000 – April 2005
Tax Officer - Senior Tax Analyst
Responsibilities included: preparing monthly and quarterly segment FAS 109 tax provisions, reviewing quarterly state
estimated tax liability calculations, preparing federal 1120 tax returns for the consolidated group, preparing consolidated
multi-state tax apportionment workpapers, and preparing state tax returns for all states on a separate company basis and
combined level; Conducted an economic nexus study for the consolidated group to determine tax liability exposure
for each line of business on a state-by-state basis; Project manager for the consolidation of 1099 information reporting
function, responsibilities included implementing tax policies and procedures for individual subsidiaries to ensure that the
group was in compliance with all aspects of information reporting; researching and compliance with new laws,
implementing changes in reporting requirements; implementing changes in tax law; Worked on various special research
projects and modeled scenarios to examine the feasibility of new accounting methods for the consolidated group as a
whole and separately for various subsidiaries.
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The Hertz Corporation March 1999 – April 2000
Senior Tax Accountant
Prepared and reviewed federal 1120 tax returns and multistate income/franchise tax returns for the parent company and its
subsidiaries; Prepared and reviewed multi-state extensions and quarterly state and local estimates; Prepared year-end and
quarterly tax provisions on a separate company basis and consolidated level; Prepared and reviewed multi-state
apportionment reports; Assisted tax manager with IRS and state audits; Researched,analyzed and responded to
information document requests (IDRs) submitted by federaland state taxing authorities.
Prudential Insurance Company of America January 1998 – January 1999
Tax Associate Federal Audit
Fortis, Inc., New York, NY November 1991 – January 1998
Tax Assistant
Education
Saint Peter’s College, Jersey City, NJ
BS in Accountancy
Computer Qualifications
OneSource Income Tax
Thomson’s Checkpoint Tax Research Software
BNA Income Tax Portfolios
Microsoft Office Suite
Various general ledger and loan servicing products