Connie Shih

*** ****** *****

San Jose, CA *****

acqjdy@r.postjobfree.com

415-***-****

SUMMARY

-Multinational accounting and financial professional with 10+ years of hands-on full-cycle accounting work experience in diversified manufacturing industries(software, pharmaceutical, computer, high-tech: Telecomm. & security ID, green energy and electronics manufacture) .

-Known for efficient, flexible and reliable at job duty and special tasks covering AP, AR, GL, ADP payroll, fixed assets, revenue recognition, standard cost roll-up & cycle count, analysis on overhead allocation, PPV and product margin, weekly cash flow, budget & forecast preparation, international accounts, consolidation, closing and US GAAP /SOX compliance, accounting technology research, financial (decision making) & SEC reporting package, statutory audit (KPMG, D&T).

--Offering focused and result-effective approach for M&A, Joint-venture funding, subsidiary office formation, three (3) accounting software/ERP system implementation and trouble-shooting on legal affairs(capital expenditure tax reward, drug licensing, foreign branch labor lawsuit).

Acting controller/Accounting Manager (report to CFO) 10/2014 to present

Child Development Inc.,– San Jose, CA (Sales: $100+M, Employee: 1400)

(A California state funded non-profit leader firm specializing in child care and education with more than 130 centers cross California state)

Am responsible for accounting/finance functions : AP, AR, GL, closing and financial statement reporting, auditing, corporate income tax, tax reporting and corporate filing, banking.

Managed a team of 5 direct and 10 indirect reports,

Prepare and implement new busienss system (CentrTrack).

Cost Accountant – Contractor (report to controller) 8/2014 to 10/2014

Flextronics International Ltd.,– Milpitas, CA (FLEX, Sales: $26,108.6M, Employee:149,000)

(A fortune 500 public-owned global leader firm specializing in Printed Circuit Board Assembly (PCBA), system tooling, and electronics manufacturing services)

Was responsible for weekly cash flow, preparing monthly and quarterly forecast, and P&L analysis reporting, managed freight account and trend analysis, and assisted cycle count and standard cost roll-up, and did GAAP, SOX 404 compliance and QTRly internal audit process.

Financial manager(Expatriate, report to President) 4/2010 – 7/2014 Wonderland Technology Ltd., Kaohsiung City, Taiwan

(A private-owned global leader firm specializing in green energy farming technology and low-carbon environment engineering; 4 office in 2 countries)

Was responsible for corporate accounting function: A/P,A/R, GL, cash flow, revenue recognition/costing and analysis on environment engineering contracts and farming organic products, budgeting and forecasting, corporate & subsidiary statutory audit and tax, and management reporting,

Managed a team of 2 direct reports,

Coordinated on ERP system integration with Foxcomm IT for green-energy Organic farming plant.

Sr. GL and financial analyst & int'l accountant (report to controller) 8/2008 – 10/2009 LaserCard Corporation, Mountain View, CA (LCRD, Est Rev. 65MM, US employee: 200)

(A public-owned global leader service & manufacturing firm specializing in security ID, ex:US green card etc; office in 4 countries)

Was responsible for GL and closing, account reconciliation, daily cash flow /investment accounts monitoring and processing, FX exposure &foreign currency hedging planning and placement(FAS 52/133),entry for FAS 123R, fixed Assets,

Was subsidiary liaison at HQ for statutory audit and tax, Inter-company elimination and transfer pricing/costing monitoring, worldwide consolidation,

Prepared management reporting package and the draft of US SEC filing and external financial statement, conducted accounting technology research, GAAP/SOX 404 compliance, statutory audit,

Reduced month-end close from 7 day to 5 days.

Sr. GL and financial analyst (report to controller) 7/2005 – 12/2007 Symmetricom Inc, San Jose, CA (SYMM, 2013 Rev-211MM, employee: est. 1000)

(A public-owned global leader service & manufacturing firm specializing in Telecomm. on precision data process; office in 5 countries: Germany, United Kingdom, HK, China, and Porto Rico)

Was responsible for corporate insurance packages and royalty administration, managed 180MM ST investment accounts, GL and closing, account reconciliation, external financial statement audit coordination (D&T) and SOX 404/SAB 101 compliance,

revenue recognition(ASC 985-605/-10,-25) and analysis on Telecomm. product/post service contracts,

Was subsidiary liaisons at HQ and conducted subsidiary statutory audit and tax filing, worldwide consolidation and elimination,

Prepared corporate finance book (for press release, management operation review and draft of10K/10Q filing ),

Took over partial job functions from controller that original position of accounting manager was eliminated.

Demonstrated my ability to have job well-done under extreme work pressure closed book 3 weeks after on board with new accounting system, JD Edward, that I never used before.

Financial controller(report to CEO) 4/2004-6/2005 Elitegroup computer system Inc., Fremont, CA (#2331 Taiwan stock market,HQ Est Rev. 1960MM, US employee: 250)

(Northern America regional office with 250 employees for a global leader manufacturing firm specializing in PC/notebook/motherboard: No. 1 in Y2000)

Was responsible for corporate accounting and finance functions: A/P,A/R, GL; HR and legal,

Managed a team of 3 supervisor and 8 indirect reports through a 4 day month end closing, submitting world-wide consolidation package,

Supervised BOM buildup, standard cost roll-up on PC station and Notebook, and cycle count.

Prepared budget and forecast, and managed statutory audit/tax/Sox compliance (KPMG),

Was a proxy of HQ to conduct shareholder and subsidiaries M&A restructure: Canada, Florida etc.,

Was the project lead to install Oracle 11i for a worldwide ERP system integration, result no parallel run.

Restructured AR credit limit policy/collection practice and changed calculation methods on sales commission: result collected large amount of long past-due AR from Top 3 customers, improved AR O/S rate, inventory turnover, and company cash flow.

Settled labor lawsuit from dissolving Canadian branch office, result took back 2 million US$ forfeited working capital.

Worked for parent company to reopen M&E capital expenditure tax benefit case, result received 3 million NT$ tax benefit reward from local government.

Financial director (report to Country GM) 3/2001-7/2003

Organon Taiwan Ltd., Taipei, Taiwan

(the subsidiary of the public-owned Pharmaceutics Co./ AKZO NOBEL)

Was responsible for corporate functions: Accounting, IT, HR and legal,

Managed a team of 10 direct reports through a 4 day month end closing with submitting world-wide consolidation package.

Was in charge of country(Taiwan) merge process and due diligence under a 130-country mass M&A activity on medical instrument segment.

Resolved a serious medical instrument licensing problem, result ….>avoid huge government penalty and the risk of drug licensing evoked.

F&A manager (report to CEO) 2/1992-11/1999 Aptronix Inc., San Jose, CA

(a global leader engineering service and manufacturing firm specializing in fuzzy logic software application associated business Partners: Motorola, NASA and Omron-Japan; 2 office in China)

Was responsible for corporate accounting & finance function: A/P, A/R, GL, cash flow, month end closing, world-wide consolidation and management reporting, revenue recognition(FASB SOP 97-2 /EITF Issue No. 00-21 compliance) and analysis on phase process of engineering contracts, BOM and standard cost roll-up on fuzzy logic controller & R&D software kits, cycle count, ADP payroll, corporate insurance package, employee benefit and stock option plan, and capital expenditure, legal and IT,

Managed a team of 2 supervisor 6 indirect reports through month end closing with world-wide consolidation,

Prepared budget and forecast, maintained policy and procedure bible book,

Implemented Quickbook/AccPac Plus(Sage 300) accounting systems,

Did financial preparation for USA pre-IPO with Arthur Anderson audit firm, joint-venture funding.

Conducted 2 Chinese subsidiaries formation and accounting & reporting system set-up in compliance with US GAAP requirements.

SOFTWARE

JD Edward Oracle 11i ASP &Business object infoview .AccPac Plus(Sage 300) .BaaN .SBClient .NoHo Quickbook ADP .Outlooksoft MS Excel(advanced)

EDUCATION

MBA, Finance study, California State University-Hayward, USA

BS, major in Accounting, Soochow University, Taipei, Taiwan

Business Valuation Licensing (CABIAV), Taipei, Taiwan

Licensing Tax preparer, San Jose, California

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