Christine Funkhouser

Christine is a Managing Director responsible for leading the Managed Tax Services (MTS) practice, GTM’s outsourced tax process. Championing the MTS process has allowed Christine to identify and deliver opportunities for increased efficiencies, greater transparency, and reduced cycle times to the firm’s middle market clients.

Christine has served as interim Tax Director at one of the firm’s leading multinational clients, providing hands-on tax department management services including ASC 740, corporate tax compliance, due diligence, R&D credit study and transaction cost analysis.

Prior to joining GTM, Christine spent seven years in the corporate tax department of KPMG in Philadelphia, where she specialized in delivering tax provision and compliance services to financial institutions. Over the years, she has assisted over 50 banks with tax planning, and effective tax rate management services.

Christine also leads GTM’s Women’s Networking Committee, a group dedicated to mentoring, leadership development and special events focused on upward mobility of women. She is a frequent speaker for the Philadelphia Chapter of the Financial Managers Society (FMS) where she served on the board and as past president. She is also a member of AICPA, PICPA, Forum of Executive Women, the Drexel Alumni Association, and Beta Alpha Psi.

Christine was raised in the Philadelphia area and now resides in Newtown Square, PA with her husband and two sons. In her free time, she enjoys seeking out new adventures with her sons.

DesignatioN:

CPA, MST

Education:

B.S. in Business Administration, Accounting, and Finance from Drexel University
M.S. in Taxation from Villanova University