Accounting Quality Assurance

Houston, Texas Area

Industry

Accounting

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Degreed Accountant at Professional Experience

Accountant at Corporate Staffing

Education

Christopher Newport University

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William "Bill" Wirt's Summary

Bill Wirt

(William W. Wirt)

Houston, Texas 832-***-**** E-mail: aboysz@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Objective

I am a degreed accountant seeking a permanent position as a senior-level financial accountant, tax analyst or assistant controller.

Qualifications Summary

I am a highly motivated financial professional with over 20 year s experience, having performed successfully in the following areas of accounting & tax:

Financial reporting & financial statement preparation

Financial accounting & general ledger reconciliations

Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable & General Journal entries

TX sales tax return & TX franchise tax return preparation

Investment accounting & Fixed Asset accounting

For-profit & non-profit budgeting

Federal income tax return preparation using TurboTax

IRS approved paid tax preparer PTIN issued March 2011 exam pending

Proficient in various computer software programs including SAP, PeopleSoft 8.0, JDE, Oracle, MS Excel, Access, Word, Powerpoint, Visio 5.0, QuickBooks Pro 2008, QuickBooks Premier 2008

Specialties

SAP conversions to new ERP platforms; advanced QuickBooks expertise, non-profit financial budgeting and management.

William "Bill" Wirt's Experience

Degreed Accountant

Professional Experience

January 2001 Present (11 years 9 months) Houston, Texas Area

Accounting

Performed all accounting tasks for 3 small businesses including booking checks & deposits, bank reconciliations, payroll, financial statement prep & analysis (BS & P&L); compiled & validated all financial transactions from various sources for the creation of financial statements.

Migrated financial data from three sold subsidiaries from JDE to QuickBooks Premier 2008; imported COAs, Customer/Vendor data, AR/AP balances & transactions, fixed assets with original cost, depreciation and NBV; savings estimated at a minimum of $50K by using QB as opposed to JDE for the subs.

Performed account reconciliation duties as a part of the transfer of financial data from merged business units into separate divisions.

Performed quality assurance reviews of general ledger account reconciliations; analyzed accounts for liability exposure and possible write-offs and worked high-level bank reconciliations.

Performed payment reviews on eight state unemployment insurance (SUI) accounts for approximately twenty companies.

Degreed Accountant

Professional Experience

January 2001 Present (11 years 9 months) Houston, Texas Area

Tax

Completed the following tax returns for 3 small businesses: Form 940 Federal Unemployment Tax Return, Form 941 Employer s Quarterly Federal Tax Return, TX Monthly Sales Tax Return, TX State Unemployment Tax Return, TX Annual Franchise Tax Return.

Monitored motor fuels tax reporting for five US terminal storage facilities using ZyTax software, with uploads of EDI files into ExSTARS, the IRS excise tax website; directly responsible for the rescinding of IRS fines and failure to file penalties totaling over $100K for all terminals in the North American region.

Degreed Accountant

Professional Experience

January 2001 Present (11 years 9 months) Houston, Texas Area

Systems and Software Implementation

Conversion Analyst for the global conversion and transition of SAP Genesis to SAP SERP (Services Enterprise Resource Plan); savings derived from this conversion from a legacy system to a newer platform requiring less human intervention: a minimum of $5 million USD worldwide over the first year.

Migration Analyst & trainer for the deployment of the Business Service Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina; updated training procedures; updated and maintained world-wide inventory of electronic GL reporting for all companies; savings from offshoring US jobs to Argentina: approx $25 million over the first 2 years.

Implementation and rollout of the ULTIPRO automated payroll service for three companies; payroll report downloads and data extraction; built employee database; created job codes; set up earnings and deduction codes; analyzed parallel testing; estimated savings: $50K minimum the first year.

Directed & coordinated the implementation of an online expense tracking application; estimated savings and reduction in fraudulent expense report submissions: approx $25K the first year; created a company property database module for import into HR Profile - ADP PC/Payroll for Windows.

Implemented & set up QuickBooks Premier for four international offices; managed all projects for company controller & HR manager.

Accountant

Corporate Staffing

January 2001 December 2007 (7 years) Houston, Texas Area

William "Bill" Wirt's Education

Christopher Newport University

BSBA, Finance

Since graduating, I have returned to school at night in order to update my accounting hours so I can qualify for and eventually take the CPA exam.

William "Bill" Wirt's Additional Information

Interests:

education, computer & software technology, music publishing & production, running, biking, swimming, cooking, playing my guitar and singing...

Groups and Associations:

4/02/02 present Houston Gateway Academy, an open-enrollment charter school - Treasurer, Board of Trustees Appointed to the Board April 2, 2002; Duties: review financial statements, review budget for upcoming school years, review personnel policies, review internal accounting procedures to comply with Texas Education Agency (TEA) rules for charter schools; hired auditing firm for required annual audit (2002), hired appraiser for property and lease value determination (2003). Currently the 4 member board is managing/overseeing a school budget of approximately $7,000,000 for the 2009-2010 school year. As a state official, my decision process is focused on what serves the educational needs of our children (approx 750 kids for the 2009-2010 school year, pre-K - 9) and the fiduciary responsibility the Board position requires per state statute, with adherence to the Open Meetings Act & the Public Information Act. Presently there are no term limits applicable to this non-paid position.

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