Richard D. Hinrichs, CPA

Seeking a position as a ...

* Senior Accountant *

Providing Exceptional Skills And Experience To Any Organization From Day

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Top-performing, solutions-driven accounting professional with experience

providing successful financial leadership, federal and state compliance,

and a history of meeting and exceeding goals and objectives. Proactive

professional with the ability to perform all accounting services, special

projects as they develop, and financial reporting. Dedicated, hard working

individual with the personal communications skills to work at all levels of

the organization.

Professional Skills and Abilities:

Internal and External Customer Relationship Strategic Planning and

Financials Management Implementation

Internal Controls Process and Procedure Forecasting

Financial Audits Development Revenue/Expense Trends

Developing and Implementing Budgeting and Financial Project Management

Business Financial Models Oversight Building and Maintaining

Developing, Managing, Federal And State Taxes Professional

Maintaining and Overseeing Improving Operational Relationships

Internal Controls Efficiency Financial Performance

Accounting and Finance Team Analysis

Management

Professional Experience

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CAHUILLA CREEK CASINO, ANZA, CA 2010 - 2011

Controller

. Supervised accounting staff for preparation of journal entries to be

recorded into the general ledger. This includes A/P, Payroll, revenue

audit and purchasing staff.

. Preparation and presentation of financial statements to management and

Board of Directors. IredHire

. Analyzed expenses and various revenue sources and discussed with the

respected managers. This data is used to create a management expense

report showing possible reasons for variances when comparing actual

results to the budget.

. Contact person for state, external and IRS auditors for the casino.

NORTH STAR CASINO AND BINGO, Bowler, WI 2005 - 2009

Controller

. Perform all financial functions such as analysis and reporting,

accounting control implementation, financial and accounting policies

and procedure development, implementation and management.

. Managed controls with multiple regulatory requirements including Title

31 reporting.

. Worked closely with the IT department to purchase equipment, maintain

network and communications and utilizing technology to improve overall

accounting and finance operations.

. IredHireHired, trained, developed and coordinated a team of 75 finance

and accounting professionals.

. Identified and eliminated internal auditing violations in relation to

the count team and cage/vault departments. Developed and implemented

new ticketing out and count room procedures for the ticket counting

process.

. Successfully eliminated state audit findings.

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Professional Experience (Continued)

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. Created, presented and provided oversight of annual budgets. Analyzed

expenses, forecast revenues and led in planning and modification

meetings with tribal leaders. Automated the budgeting process so that

data could be downloaded into Great Plains from Great Plains.

Responsible for providing tribal leaders with financial performance

analysis and reporting on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis.

. Prepared financial statements, general ledger and journal entries,

account reconciliation, cash flow analysis, and created a purchasing

department to manage costs.

. Adjusted financial forecasting to world and national economic trends

and utilized these perspectives in all forecasting.

. Contact person for state, external and IRS auditors for the casino.

FINANCIAL CONSULTING SERVICES, New York, NY 1999 - 2005

Senior Accountant/ Certified Public Accountant

. Provided public accounting services in a consultant capacity that

included auditing, financial performance analysis, financial statement

preparation and taxes.

. Worked with small and medium sized businesses. Created financial

statements, balance sheets, internal auditing and financial

performance analysis.

. Contracted out to several New York City CPA firms on a seasonal basis.

. Familiar with foreign tax credits and foreign income for high wealth

individuals.

. Research and tax implication of tax law changes, impact of clients'

customers modifying their contractual arrangements and tax effect on

individuals when their investments have a reorganization.

DIAMOND AND GEYER, Farmingdale, NY 1990 - 1999

Senior Accountant

. Maintained small and middle size business accounting records including

general ledger, journal entries and their documentation, account

reconciliations and the preparation of financial reports including

balance sheet, income statements and statement of changes to cash

flow.

. Prepared corporate, partnership and individual tax returns and

utilized interstate tax laws to assist clients in tax planning for the

coming year.

. Analyzed company internal controls and made recommendations for

improvement.

. Kept clients abreast of new tax law changes and guided them in year-

end tax planning.

. Supervised a staff of accountants on certified audits and performance

reviews, trained junior staff members during quarterly consultations.

. Provided advice on the implementation of business, financial and

accounting software and hardware.

. Researched clients tax questions and provided advice on situations and

the range of possibilities which could have an impact on their

business operations.

Licenses and Education

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New York State Certified Public Accountant

Notre Dame University

Executive Certificate in Leadership and Management, 2008

Queens College, University of New York, Queens, NY

Bachelor of Science in Accounting, Information Science and Economics

1428 Turnstone CT

Hemet CA 92545

951-***-****

abhg62@r.postjobfree.com

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