CAREER SUMMARY:

Senior Accountant with specialties is income tax, sales and use tax, daily and monthly general accounting.

EXPERIENCE:

*/**** – Present Southworth-Milton Inc Milford, MA

Sales Tax Manager

Works as sales tax manager for a multi-state equipment sales and rental dealership.

• Responsible for all Sales and Use Tax audits and monthly reporting

• Responsible for tax relater internal issues, including but not limited to approval for all exempt transactions, review of use tax calculations and issue of any sales tax credits

• Assist with month-end and year-end reconciliations and closings

• Preparing all tax procedures for various departments for new ERP Accounting System

• Prepared all documents for new ERP system

11/2007 – 5/2010 Geoffrey Brackett CPA/G&R Tax (Accountemps) Exeter, NH/Framingham, MA

Senior Tax Accountant

Worked as a contract accountant for various tax firms in New Hampshire & Massachusetts.

• Income Tax Preparation for Individuals, Corporations, Partnerships and Estate Returns

• Quarterly Payroll Reporting for Federal and State

• Review all accounting work through a number of companies and programs

• Preparation of Financial Statements

6/2007 – 11/2009 Direct Capital Corporation Portsmouth, NH

Tax Department Manager

• Prepare sales and use tax for all state and many locals

• Responsible for all personal property taxes (approx.4500)

• Bill customers for all personal property tax

• Review all sales tax exemptions

• Cleared various items neglected by prior accountant

• Prepared procedures for two accounting processes

• Implemented two different accounting programs

02/2007 – 06/2007 Youngclaus & Company(Accountemps) North Hampton, NH

Staff Accountant

• Mid-sized Public Accounting Firm.

• Preparation of Individual, Corporate, Partnership and Estate Returns.

• Payroll Tax Returns for various states.

• Preparation of Financial Statements.

• Complete bookkeeping for a variety of clients and industries including personal, manufacturing, sales, and construction.

3/2005 –7/2005 Accountemps Manchester, NH

Senior Accountant

Temporary assignment until Graduate School began in the fall.

• Private non-profit organization who serves more then 8,000 per year.

• Complete financial recording and reporting for HUD subsidized residence including A/R, A/P, journal entries, budgeting, financial reporting, and year end audit.

• Record and compute rental income and security deposits for all residential facilities, data entry of all journal entries, assist with month-end financial closings, reconciliation of accounts and assisting in the preparation of annual audited financial statements.

• Rep Payee and Client Cash Programs.

8/2004 - 12/2004 Opti Staffing and Accountemps Tacoma, WA

Accountant

Family obligations to move back to New Hampshire.

Accountant for small service company, saved company $15,000 by preparing an Access Database for client information/suppliers/warranty information.

• Accountant for large manufacturing company, assisted with a Timberline conversion that had gone awry.

• Prepared Excel spreadsheets for Opti Staffing for calculating commissions for their employees.

• Accounts payable, general journal entries, monthly closings, and collections.

4/2004 - 8/2004 Smith Manufacturing (Masiello Employment Services) Keene, NH Junior Buyer

Family obligations to move to Tacoma WA for temporary job relocation.

This position began as clerical position and quickly changed to a Junior Buyer position. This included purchasing materials for work on the manufacturing lines as well as all the maintenance parts for all line machines. Scheduling work orders for the manufacturing lines.

11/2003 - 4/2004 Sears Manchester, NH Management Lead

Family obligations to move to Keene NH for temporary job relocation.

Customer service, running the registers, a share of the responsibilities of the daily functions of the business which include but not limited to hiring, terminating, scheduling, directing and training employees, and maintaining inventory.

1/2002 - 11/2003 David L.Connors & Co. Concord, NH Accountant

Firm sold to larger company and none of the employees were retained.

• Mid-sized Public Accounting Firm.

• Tax returns for individuals, estates, and corporations

• Preparation of financial statements monthly and year end

• General monthly account for corporations, partnerships, LLCs and sole proprietors

• State sales and use tax

• Year end planning and IRS matters

• Supervisor of individual tax preparation

• In charge of all probate accounting for trusts and estates

6/2000 - 9/2001 R.J. Maloney & Co. P.C. Manchester, NH Staff Accountant

• Entry level public accounting for a mid-sized Public Accounting Firm

• Tax returns for individuals, estates, and corporations

• Met with all individual tax return clients for the income tax preparation

• Preparation of financial statements with monthly reconciliation and year-end preparations

• Also assisted in litigation work for both tax and personal litigations

EDUCATION: 12/2006 UNH NH-Durham

Master of Science in Accounting

6/2005 Hesser College NH-Manchester

Bachelor's Degree-Accounting

AFFILIATIONS: 9/2005 - 12/2006 Graduate Business Club -UNH

9/1997 - 6/2006 Boy Scouts of America Leader

1/2000 - 6/2000 March of Dimes Volunteer

SKILLS: Skill Name Experience

Numerous Tax Software 10+ years

Office Software 10+ years

(Word, Excel, Access, & PowerPoint)

Payroll 3 years

QuickBooks 7 years

Peachtree 3 years

Great Plains 1 year

Thompson Sales Tax 2 years

PTMS 2 years

Customized internal software 2 years

ERP Accounting System 1 year

AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS:

Elected Treasurer of Graduate Business Club 2006

Presidents List 1998-2005

Girl State of the Year 1997

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