Accounting Assistant

Mailing Address:

P.O. Box ******, St. Albans, NY

11412

Phone: 917-***-****

Email: ************@*****.***

EDUCATION

**** - ******* ** ******** ************** Degree (MBA) - Accounting

Specialization - NYIT

1998 - Bachelors Degree (BBA) - Accounting Concentration - Audrey Cohen

College (MCNY)

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS

Guru: Excel; QuickBooks Pro/Premier and Payroll.

Knowledge: Fund EZ; Yardi; TaxWorks; Tax Act; Turbo Tax; Great Plains;

PaySoft; PeachTree; SOP 91-98; Lotus (for Windows); ADP; Paychex.

Familiarity: MAS 90; Quicken; Timberline; MS Forecaster; FRx; Fundware;

QuickArrow; ProSystems FX; Lacerte; PeopleSoft; RIA; Rumba and Gateway

Mainframes; Access and Bloomberg.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY - ACCOUNTING EXPERIENCE

Controller (Consulting) 7/07-10/11

Highbridge Advisory Council

Substituted for CFO during final audit review and maintained financial

performance. Supervised and directed financial staff through year end

closings and total audit support; oversaw accounting practices and

administered internal controls; completed Corrective Plan of Action and

SA-813; account analysis;

shuffled Restricted, Temporary Restricted, Operations and Payroll

account; FAS 116-117; FSA - 125; 941 reconciliation; 990 Review with

auditor; ER 403B reconciliation including SERP; conducted NYS Year End

closing report schedules; prepared all year end financial reports and

notes to financial statements SOP 98; Managed Fixed Assets $48M schedule;

reviewed contracts for specifications including pricing and terms;

prepared and presented Board Members' packages.

Finance Manager 2/04 - 9/05

MT Ultimate (Public Company)

Created Accounting Department from scratch, and compiled financial

reports for SEC write-up; designed and computed the financial modeling

and Annual Reporting; 2002 Sarbanes Oxley Compliance. Process SOX 302

and 404 Compliance for Public Companies; forecasted financial stability

by applying GAAP; financial Analysis and provided budgetary feedback;

Accounts Receivable and monthly closings;

Cash & Treasury Management; Cash Flow; Payroll Management and prepared

year end financial reports; was vital in the success of obtaining a loan

for the company; Petty Cash Management; supervised the 2 clerks. Some

human resource.

Accountant/Bookkeeper 1/02-2/04

JH Cohn, LLP (CPA firm)

Expertise in Quickbooks Pro and Excel Bookkeeping; ADP and Paychex; Sales

taxes (ST-100 - out of state VAT); ST809; W2's; 940/941's, NYS45; 1099;

and 990PF; POS-Point of Sale (retail); Sales Journal; NYC400; Lacerte -

1040; 1065 and 1120 tax assistance; prepared extensions and worked

closely with IRS for client benefit; escrow account reconciliation -

construction and legal; job costing, and time billing. Performed some

internal auditing; GAAP; Revenue Recognition computation; some

supervision and some work review; FRx Reporting; Great Plains and Quick-

Arrow (software) downloading into Excel; SOP 91-1 - computer and customer

contracts; Partnership and some international accounting; gained Treasury

and Foreign Exchange accounting experience; coordinated in preparing the

platforms for not-for-profit accounting schedules; reconciled merchant

accounts, bank statements, and lockboxes; generated Oracle reports such

as General Ledger and Accounts Payable Suppliers Reports

Special Client Contribution: Automated the manual time-keeping;

departmentalized Paysoft Payroll Summary and Detailed report.

Accountant (Consultant) 1/00- 1/02

Mt. Sinai School of Medicine: NOT-FOR-PROFIT

Grant income and pension (including SERP) calculating, allocating and

monitoring; fund allocations; government contracts and required

schedules; updated required phase 2 audit proforma

OTHER EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE

Staff Accountant (Credit Analysis) 9/99-1/00

Bankers Trust (Consultant/Merger)

Credit reporting for bank's derivative/non-derivative instruments; FX

Risk and Settlement

Staff Accountant (Budget Analysis) 5/98-9/99

Goldman Sachs (Consultant/Dow-)

Supervised all departmental budgeting responsibilities under Fixed Cost

Budgets over $350,000;

Assistant 11/95-8/96

American Express (Re-Org)

Filtered canceled/completed SBS projects for customer billing; monitored

direct mailing and customer reactions.

Assistant 11/94-10/95

JPMorgan Chase (Chase Manhattan Bank, N A - Merger)

Performed basic Excel accounting tasks such as bank reconciling and

travel vouchers.

Assistant 7/94-10/94

Kidder, Peabody & Co Inc (Merger)

Updated Excel Deal Project Time Sheets and Call Report Database Systems;

researched cusip numbers on Bloomberg.

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