JOSEPH FALCO

(CPA Candidate)/ Disabled Veteran

646-***-****

acgeks@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

The Coca-Cola Company, NYC, Atlanta

Financial Reporting & Accounting Manager

JANUARY

2008 to 31 JULY 2014

. Heavy experience working with professional clients and managing

competing deadlines.

. Managed all reporting aspects for one of the largest and fastest

growing divisions of The Coca-Cola Company, Glaceau Still Brands.

. Assisted with 10Q and 10K reporting. This division's revenue exceeded

$1 Billion. In 2008 alone, revenues grew from $500 Million to $923

Million.

. Created reporting packages and templates that included V look ups and

links to present Financial Statements to Coke HQ, streamlined and

maintained internal division Financial Statements.

. Created reporting packages and templates that included Financial

Statements and were designed to be uploaded into Coke's SAP.

. Responsible for US GAAP compliance of financial statements.

. Streamlined existing Division Internal Reporting.

. Responsible for month end and year end closings for G/L.

. Revamped and created new account analyses for various expense and

payable accounts.

. Helped to transition from MAS 200 to SAP 6.0

. Added value in fixed assets and depreciation by helping Accounting

Manager on disposals and write offs.

. Streamlined and improved on the Cash Flow Statement adding value to the

cash reporting process and Cash Flow forecasting.

. When head count was lost at the Senior Accountant level, volunteered to

do the account analysis that the previous Sr. Accountant was responsible

for, working closely with the Accounting Director, Accounts Payable

Supervisor and Accounts Receivable Supervisor.

. Revamped and streamlined the account reconciliations and gave more

insight to the reporting being done.

. Balance sheet comparison analysis and budget to actual analysis.

. Created financial models for actuals, re-estimates and budgets from

scratch.

Reed-Elsevier, Inc., NYC, Amsterdam

Finance/Accounting Manager

MARCH 2007 to

DECEMBER 2007

. Created financial models for actuals, re-estimates and budgets from

scratch and employed zero base budgeting methods.

. Exposed the lack of profitability of some of the product lines and the

potential for new ones.

. In charge of a $31 million business unit of a $16 Billion dollar in

revenue international pharmaceutical publishing company.

. Created financial models for re-estimates, actuals and budget from

scratch.

. Responsible for closing the books and creating all month end adjusting

entries, account analysis, creating zero base budgets by meeting with

department heads, then reviewing first results with business manager and

making adjustments as needed.

. Consolidated 4 business units into one Group financial statements.

. Produced monthly financial statements in a financial model that

compared it with future months re-estimates and reported the results in

written form to business manager.

. Responsible for revenue recognition.

. Provided guidance on financial business cases for new product lines.

. Worked with international monetary rates and inter-company accounts.

. Coordinated with billing department to assure proper invoicing,

. Ad hoc analysis.

. Consolidated the group of business units that business unit rolled up

to for the financial statements.

. Responsible for SOX compliance.

Time Warner Cable, NYC

Senior Financial Analyst

JUNE 2004 to MARCH 2007

. Streamlined and improved the financial models that were inherited and

improved the payroll tax expense section by using real payroll tax laws

and tax rates.

. Responsible for maintaining financial models for NY1 News,

Philadelphia, Staten Island and Bergen cable portion's capital budget,

forecasting, budgeting and actuals.

. Updated and reported to HQ subscriber statistics for all of NY,

Philadelphia and Hudson Valley cable, produced subscriber weekly trend

analysis, maintained and updated contract labor models for all of NY

cable.

. Was responsible for processing subscriber authorization for capital.

Lead person on filing FCC 477 and manager of head count analysis.

Cushman & Wakefield, NYC

Financial Analyst

OCTOBER 2000 to JUNE 2004

. Responsible for monthly and yearly fixed assets closing and well as

analysis and budgeting.

. Prepared cash flow statement for the company.

. Created analysis for payroll and withholding accounts from scratch.

. Saved department over $60,000 in payroll and benefits expenses by

combining the two roles.

. Helped to identify hundreds of thousands of dollars in depreciation

expenses that were not hitting the G/L and subsequently saved the

company from a large exposure item with the auditors.

Dynax Solutions, NYC

Financial Analyst/Senior Accountant

OCTOBER 1999

to OCTOBER 2000

. Responsible for reconciling over 20 bank reconciliations

. Closing fixed assets at month end and year, responsible for

calculating depreciation, expense analysis

. Prepared sales tax returns.

. Assisted the assistant comptroller in preparing financial

statements.

. Created analysis for fixed assets to payroll variance commission

revenue and various other expense accounts and increased the

productivity of the position.

. Created Sales to Payroll variance analysis.

McCann-Erickson, NYC

Staff Accountant

JULY 1997 to OCTOBER 1999

. Responsible for fixed assets, closing, analysis, adjusting entries.

. Bank reconciliations

. Intercompany accounts and fixed assets reporting to holding company.

. Was instrumental in implementing new fixed assets system.

OTHER EXPERIENCE

Joseph Falco Accounting Services, Inc., Brooklyn, NY

President and Managing Accountant

MAY 1999 to

PRESENT

Run an accounting and tax practice that provides services for businesses

that range from $55k-$1.2 million in revenue that includes accounting,

bookkeeping, income taxes, payroll taxes, sales taxes, fuel mileage taxes,

start-up services, financial statements, accounting system design,

consulting, account and business analysis, business valuation, UCC

compliance, non-audit attestations, cost accounting and forensic

accounting. Created Cost accounting models for a trucking company and

security intercom company from scratch.

MILITARY

NOVEMBER 1988 to

FEBRUARY 1992

United States Army, GA, KY, Berlin, Frankfurt, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Iraq,

Kuwait

INFANTRY (MORTARS)

. Selected to be squad leader in Basic Training

. Achieved Expert Mortar qualifications with the 81mm and 60mm mortars.

. Achieved Sharpshooter qualifications with M-16 A2

. Scored near perfect on the Physical Training exam.

. Participated in the liberation of Kuwait.

EDUCATION

Queens College of the City University of New York

Bachelor of Arts in Accounting and Information Systems, December 1996

Major: Accounting Minor: Economics

SOFTWARE EXPERIENCE

Excellent proficiency in MS Office, Lotus, STS financial systems, GBA and

adware systems, PeopleSoft 7.4 and 8.0, Hyperion Pillar, Crystal Reports,

Oracle 11i, Hyperion Enterprise, SAP, Peachtree and QuickBooks.

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