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Skills

  • Tax accounting specialization
  • Invoice coding familiarity
  • CFO collaboration
  • Budget analysis
  • Regulatory compliance
  • Customer service
  • MS Office
  • Calculating liabilities
  • Budgeting and forecasting automation
  • Bookkeeping

Work Experiences

  • Advised executive teams on investment projects, modeling potential returns, and helped preserve over $13 in company assets.
  • Chaired company audit committee meetings quarterly, flagging and resolving discrepancies that led to a 59% decrease in accounting errors.
  • Monthly expense variances and explanations were collected and reported.
  • Analyzed operational costs for Tableau.
  • Coordinated with external auditors and provided support for annual tax filing reviews, ensuring clean audits and no regulatory penalties.
  • Used Power BI to accurately calculate payroll deductions and processed payroll to meet predetermined deadlines.
  • Contributed to a 82% increase in gross margins.
  • Analyzed and presented key financial metrics for SAP to senior leadership, playing a key role in strategic decision-making processes.
  • Contributed to timely and clean audits.
  • Advised executive teams on investment projects.

Summaries

  • Experienced in managing schedules, leading teams, and supervising closing procedures.
  • Collaborative accountant with extensive knowledge in tax and legal consolidation, minimizing organizational tax exposure by $15 and ensuring seamless compliance across all branches.
  • Principal Accountant is a multi-talented Principal Accountant who is consistently rewarded for planning and operational improvements.
  • Principal Accountant with over 16 years of experience managing accounting systems for metric organizations.
  • Applied new auditing procedures.
  • With 10 years of experience, I'm a focused Account Specialist.
  • Accomplished Principal Accountant recognized for reducing month-end close time by 46%, driving process improvements, and enhancing overall departmental efficiency.
  • Achieved zero financial discrepancies.
  • Adept at collaborating with C-suite executives.
  • Accountant with extensive knowledge of the laws and procedures that govern business operations, tax filings, and regulatory compliance.

Accomplishments

  • Standardized capital expenditure reporting for 13 global business units, reducing administrative processing time by 46%.
  • Resolved product issue through consumer testing.
  • Provided financial oversight during 2 vendor contract renegotiations, securing cost savings of $14.
  • Identified tax-saving opportunities throughout fiscal year, lowering tax liabilities by $12 for Vantage.
  • Partnered with senior leadership to create post-merger financial strategies, reducing transition time by 37% months.
  • Created a centralized monitoring system for capital project expenditures, minimizing reporting delays by 27% days.
  • Monitored financial performance metrics for program, yielding 45% performance improvements from the prior year.
  • Conducted quarterly reviews of capital assets, identifying opportunities for divestiture worth $9 in underperforming assets.
  • Reduced capital expenditure overruns by 75% through an automated variance reporting system used by 8 divisions.
  • Conducted financial audits for 5 departments, raising compliance rates by 20% and reducing tax liabilities.

Affiliations

  • International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS) Board
  • National Association of Social Workers
  • International Federation of Accountants (IFAC)
  • National Association of Accountants
  • Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards
  • Business Planning and Consolidation Interest Group
  • Tax Executive Institute (TEI)
  • American Marketing Association
  • Lions Club
  • Association for Supply Chain Management (APICS)

Certifications

  • Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
  • CompTIA Network+
  • Financial Modeling & Valuation Analyst (FMVA®) – Corporate Finance Institute (CFI)
  • Budgeting & Forecasting Mastery Certification – Ironclad Systems
  • Strategic Cost Management Certification - Cedar Works
  • ServSafe
  • Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE)
  • Global Financial Compliance Certification - London Institute of Banking & Finance
  • Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) - process
  • Data Visualizations for Accountants Certification – Workday or Cedar Works

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