Accounting Accounts Payable

Sim Su, MBA

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Competent and reliable Accountant with 7+ years of experience in Corporate

Accounting, Public Accounting, and Technical Accounting. Well-versed CPA

candidate, having passed majority of CPA exams recently. Fluent in Mandarin

Chinese and Japanese. Advanced excel skills.

Industries: Information Technology, Public Accounting, Not-for-profit,

Manufacturing

Programming Languages: C, C++, Java, SQL2000

Computer Software: Lotus Notes, Access, Word, Excel (V-lookup, Pivot Table,

Macro), PowerPoint, Visio, Project Plan 2000

Accounting Software: Oracle ERP, MRP 9000, Voyager Yardi, QuickBooks,

Quicken, Peachtree, Lacerte, EasyACCT, ATB, Concur, and Hyperion

Experience:

Xstrata Copper Recycling, San Jose, CA Jan

2010 - Present

Accounts Payable Supervisor/ Senior Accountant

Responsible for various functions in the Accounts Payable, Revenue/Cost,

Inventory, General Ledger, and Tax functions for a subsidiary of a

manufacturing company that headquartered in Europe

. Manage Accounts Payable Specialist; review and approve invoices weekly;

responsible for company's cash disbursement in a timely and accurate

basis

. Reconcile AP aging reports; review and post AP accruals; assign GL

account codes for Purchase Orders, Material requisitions, and Expense

Reports.

. Prepare Revenue (Settlement) reports for Hedged Revenues, Actual

Settlements, Cost of Goods Sold, and Variance Reports to the management

. Book cash receipts, resolve discrepancies between actual settlements and

customer contracts

. Maintain depreciation, amortization, and lease schedules; Record payroll

Journals and calculate payroll accruals

. Update Hyperion upload spreadsheet and ensure the month-end close

process is timely and accurate

. File annual property and quarterly Sale/use taxes and submit various

financial reports to corporate headquarters

Symantec Corp, Mountain View & Cupertino, CA Nov

2006 - Dec 2009

Accountant - Corporate and General Ledger Accounting

Processed, maintained, revaluated, and reconciled intercompany accounts.

Provided variance analysis to the Treasury Department of hedged to actual

monthly activity. Provided guidance and training to international offices

on the I/CO entity structure, tax agreement calculations, and all

intercompany processes. Upload GIS transactions to Oracle and tested new

set up entities in Oracle.

. Designed a P/L matrix and resulting push report, which showed real-time

elimination results at the entity relationship level, eliminating 80 man-

hours of manual reconciliation time during the monthly consolidation

close

. Completed assigned reconciliations on a timely basis for the company's 3-

day month-end close; counted on to finish early and to help co-workers

to meet their deadlines

. Reduced by more than 80%, processing time of at least 2000 journal

entries per month for Global Applause and Kicker employee incentive

awards, through the automation of charge-back cost

. Primary contact for resolving inter-company related issues, on foreign

currency and associate legal requirement, for the Treasury, Tax, Payroll,

and Revenue departments

. Ensured that company's FX gains/losses for international subsidiaries

were always complete, accurate and presented properly for FAS52 and other

statutory accounting requirements

. Removed the need for additional third-party auditors or extra overtime,

by anticipated auditors requirements, maintaining excellent records, and

preparing appropriate files in advance to aid in smooth audits

. By clearly explaining requirements of our business system processes,

helped to ensure new entities set ups within Oracle, produced a product

that went live on time and produced accurate reports

. Received Symantec's "Applause Award" for the successful development of an

internal reporting tool to automatically upload cash pooling entries,

saving company time from booking manual entries.

Fong, Ko CPAs and Associates, Los Altos, CA

2006-2006

Staff Accountant

Provided accounting and bookkeeping for clients. Prepared tax returns for

individual, partnership, corporation, nonprofit organization and trust,

ensuring compliance with payment, reporting and other tax requirements.

Accounting:

. Compiled financial statements for corporations in accordance with GAAP

. Prepared reference to ensure fair presentation of financial statements

. Identified improper journal entries and recommended adjustments to client

. Processed semi-monthly payroll checks for the clients and asked payroll

tax related questions

Tax:

. Reviewed financial statements and prepared income tax returns for

partnerships, corporations and exempt organizations

. Researched and prepared information to help clients respond to taxing

authorities' notices

. Assisted in preparation for the IRS audits, communicated with clients to

gather the information required by the IRS

. Handled special projects, such as research and investigate tax and

issues, file S-Corp election, applied for exemption for non-profit

organization and revive corporation status

RK Management Group, LLC. San Jose, CA 2004-

2006

Accountant/Office Manager

Involved with the day-to-day operations of the internal finance department.

Responsible for AP, AR, Revenue, and General Ledger accounting of the

company. Prepared daily cash flow analysis and projections to ensure the

financial stability of the company.

. Prepared bank reconciliation; researched and resolved payment issues;

analyzed customer aging reports and assisted in the collection process

. Purchased and processed invoices for payment; researched and resolved

accounting errors, such as invoice errors, errors with expense reports;

reconciled vendor statements

. Reconciled sponsor accounts and bill for any differences

. Supervised staffs of two

Education:

Master of Business Administration: Business, Accounting Concentration

(GPA: 3.97)

University of Phoenix, San Jose, CA

Bachelor of Science: Business, Management Information System Concentration

(GPA: 3.7)

San Jose State University, San Jose, CA

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