Accounting Manager

Harriet Dietz 650-***-**** *************@*******.***

CONTROLLER, SEC ACCOUNTANT & INTERNAL AUDIT PROFESSIONAL

Industry Experience: Euphonix (now AVID), NUMMI, Toyota, GM, Hitachi Global, SanDisk, AVANEX, Electronics Arts, Symantec, and Accounting & CPA Firms.

15+ years of experience in SEC Reporting as a Controller / Principal Accounting Officer; Manufacturing, Computer Technology Industry and CPA firms primarily in Manufacturing, Computer (IT) and Financial Internal Audits.

Successful history as a Controller, resulting in demonstrated time management skills meeting deadlines for SEC reporting: 10-K, 10-Q. Excellent Professional Recommendations and Endorsements.

Experience with GAAP/ FASB Pronouncements accounting, consolidation and reconciliations of multiple International subsidiaries.

Reconciled fifty-five capital funds, developed budgets, researched contracts, and matched expenditures, and produced financial statements. Reconciled Nummi’s (Toyota & GM), new year car model capital project which required matching purchases, expenditures, and reconciling capital balances to $3.5M

Participation in the creation of Gantt Charts for tracking Narratives, Control Matrices, testing and remediation of Financial and Computer (IT) controls for a SOX-404 Internal Audit of a $7M client

Senior Accounting and Management experience in International Accounting, Fixed Assets, Equity, General Ledger, Treasury, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Credit/Collections and Human Resources.

Documentation of Oracle 11i computer financial application at Symantec Corp. and QAD at Xtent, Inc.

SAP, Oracle 11i, Hyperion, QAD, Microsoft Office Suite includes Access, Excel, Power Point, vlookup, pivot tables, macros, Business Objects, Connex Sox-404, People-soft, Visio systems.

Experience working with customized packaging, crating and freight forwarding services for at tenure at Euphonix (now AVID); this is one of the main freight expenses/COGS for all of their large digital sound consoles shipment methodologies.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

NETAPP, INC., Sunnyvale, CA SR. P2P OPS lEAD 2012- JAN. 2013

Write Standard Operating Procedures for financial operations, application programs, and desk procedures.

Collected 19.7M in cash in FY13Q2, from Hitachi Global Solutions Technology strengthening Statement of Cash flows for inflows of cash provided by operating activities, in time for SEC quarter end reporting.

Analyzed Un-invoiced Receipts for current year errors culminating in reversals of $755,000 in charges to cost-of sales and increasing Gross Profit in the current quarter of the Income Statement.

Balance Sheet analysis and reconciliation. Reduced escheatment liability by $89,000 increasing working capital on the Balance Sheet by the same amount.

Daily communication and Accounts Payable training of third party out-sourced team, Genpact, Inc.

SOX audit expert and preparation of external audit lead sheets, Researched accounting literature pronouncements by IAS, ASC, and IFRS. XBRL researched in ASC database.

RICHARD MOORE, CPA, Redwood City, CA 2009-Current

(CPA offering consulting for public and private small and mid-size firms)

ACCOUNTING MANAGER

Prepare SEC 10K and 10Q, footnotes, and MDA by following auditor provided checklists, including all supplemental schedules required by GAAP.

SOX - Create Gantt charts for scheduling and tracking key audit control document requests, test completion, organizing the results of tests and remediation of failed tests, reporting design and operating deficiencies.

Develop IT policy and procedure manuals and train personnel to operate ERP systems for financial applications.

AVANEX, INC, Fremont, CA 9/08 – 6/09

($200M public Optical Wavelength Semi-Conductor company acquired by Oclaro, Inc. in 2009)

SENIOR ACCOUNTING & FINANCIAL ANALYST

Consolidated Financial Statements in SAP and prepared Stock Option schedules saving the company $217,000 by completing the work of three desks; Planned and scoped global audit. Delivered SOX-404 documents which included 159 key controls, and tested Thailand, China, France and Italy subsidiaries completing 369 tests reducing annual testing time by 25%.

Audited Internal Controls over Financial and Computer (IT) reporting

Managed eight accountants in finance, cost accounting and inventory manufacturing

Researched revenue recognition issues and updated quarterly revenue memos

Documented FAS123R Accounting Summary Quarterly ESPP Expense, updated equity monthly

Prepared SEC schedules for Restructuring, Equity, Consolidations and Revenue

JEFFERSON WELLS, INTERTATIONAL 11/04 – 7/08

SOX-404 Computer (IT) and Financial Internal Audit

Internal Auditor (2005 – 2008)

Clients: Hitachi Data Systems, $80B public computer company; San Disk, $4M public flash memory company. Nummi, Inc., $200M public Toyota/GM Joint Venture:

Interviewed staff, wrote process narratives and created control matrices for Hitachi Database Systems meeting tight project deadlines contributing to company savings of $350K.

Identified and documented internal controls, significant processes, accounts, financial statement assertions and disclosures for all Processes and Sub-processes.

Prepared narratives, flowcharts, control matrices, identified, prepared test plans and tested key controls, trained staff; Identified design and operating deficiencies and remediated deficiencies.

SEC Reporting Consulting (2004 – 2005)

Clients: Electronic Arts, $3.6B public software company; Symantec, $1B public software company; Atel Capital Group, $200M public capital equipment leasing; Babcock & Brown Capital, Ltd., public Fund and Asset Management Group with $11B assets under management.

Restated 10K and 10Q financial statements for Atel Capital Group, $200M capital equipment leasing company for a timely review by the external auditors and filing with the SEC.

Consolidated and reconciled 55 funds for Babcock & Brown Capital, Ltd, in the business of funding windmill, under water cable, and airplane projects, reducing costs by eliminating one additional accountant for this project.

Performed International consolidations and reconciled variances of 15 European entities for EA

Performed treasury functions for Symantec Corporation and wrote a user-friendly Oracle 11i training manual for the performance of the treasury function and trained a staff position.

EUPHONIX INC., Palo Alto, CA 12/95- 08/04

($20M public Software/Hardware OEM/Manufacturing of digital audio equipment company)

Corporate Controller / Principal Accounting Officer

Principal Accounting Officer preparing all SEC quarterly and annual reports

Implemented Revenue Recognition from approving the contract to recognizing revenue SAB 101, 104,

SOP 97-2, 98-9, and trained Sales Vice-Presidents

Prepared the Quarterly Press Release and presented earnings report

Budget Director – prepared company-wide capital and operating budgets

OTHER SIGNIFICANT EXPERIENCE

International Accounting, IBM RATIONAL CORPORATION

Accounting Manager, RICHARD MOORE, CPA

Accounting Associate, ABBOTT, STRINGHAM AND LYNCH, CPAs

EDUCATION

MAC – Master of Accountancy in progress; Golden Gate University, San Francisco, CA

CPA Candidate; Education and Experience completed, Eligible for testing. Currently updating education for new regulations, Accounting Standard Codification, (ASC), and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)

BA – Major in Humanities / Minor in Business Finance, San Jose State University

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