JJ Budzik is EZ-ERC’s Managing Director. He oversees tax credit projects for a wide spectrum of EZ-ERC clients ranging from small employers to complex aggregated groups.
Previously, JJ spent 10 years as a Senior Director / Senior Advisor with Alvarez & Marsal Taxand, LLC in Miami, where he primarily advised U.S. multinationals and foreign companies with U.S. operations on assessing and improving their global tax profiles and functionality. This included advising clients on intricate cross-border business transactions, such as structuring new county investments, reorganizations, acquisitions, divestitures, repatriation, foreign tax credit planning, foreign currency translation, financing, FATCA, and FIRPTA.
With more than 20 years of experience in total, which also includes tenures at Arthur Andersen and Deloitte, JJ has worked with several public and privately held companies in a variety of industries, including the banking, construction, retail, manufacturing, and telecommunications sectors.
JJ earned a Bachelor of Science in Accounting in 1998 from DePaul University and a Juris Doctor, Cum Laude, in 2002 from the University of Miami School of Law.