Felicia E. Smith

**** * ***** ******, *** *** Arlington, VA 22202 703-***-**** ac1nj8@r.postjobfree.com OBJECTIVE: To build a long-term career in public accounting with opportunities for career growth. SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

• CPA Candidate (BEC Passed); Auditing; Compliance; Client Service; Report Preparation; Data Analysis; Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint; Peachtree Accounting, QuickBooks PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Deloitte & Touche, LLP – Arlington, VA 10/2014 – Present Senior Advisory Consultant

• Performing standard termination audits at the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation for employers electing to terminate their pension plans.

• Training and supervising five team members as well as addressing audit questions and concerns.

• Reconciling participant distribution listings and election forms to the plan’s asset statements and proof of distribution to verify payments are successfully made to all plan participants in the form of distribution each participant elected.

• Collecting and verifying sample participant data to ensure accrued benefits and lump sum valuations are calculated in accordance with the Plan document.

• Communicating with plan administrators and plan sponsors throughout audits to obtain audit documentation.

• Communicating with plan actuary’s to obtain documentation in support of benefit calculations and questions on actuarial assumptions used in determining lump sum valuations.

• Preparing and issuing audit reports on findings and working directly with plan contacts until all findings are addressed.

• Working directly with client and the client’s attorney during audits to ensure audit quality, address audit requests/revisions, and ultimately ensure client satisfaction.

• Updated the clients’ audit template and created a template for asset reconciliations to improve audit processes, which are now used as templates by the federal staff auditors.

• Preparing and distributing quarterly process and procedure recommendations to client Calibre CPA Group PLLC – Bethesda, MD 2/2012 – 10/2014 Payroll Compliance: Senior Compliance Auditor

• Performed labor union benefit fund compliance audits for various Funds including Pension, Health & Welfare and Legal funds.

• Examined bank statements and reconciliations, general ledger, tax, personnel and payroll records.

• Collected and analyzed records to detect non-compliance with Collective Bargaining Agreements.

• Prepared, reviewed and revised detailed audit reports on findings.

• Communicated with clients and attorneys about audit questions and disputes.

• Monitored all auditor production (status) reports, train, guide and assist in supervision of auditors.

• Performed auditor production report updates for all auditors to get updates on audits outstanding. Felicia E. Smith

1400 S Joyce Street, Apt 530 Arlington, VA 22202 703-***-**** ac1nj8@r.postjobfree.com Old Dominion University (ODU) – Norfolk, VA 2/2011 – 1/2012 Office of Finance: Accountant - Special Projects; Chief Operations Officer of the Monarch Project

• Acted as Project Manager for approximately 3,500 fixed assets valued at over $70.6 million, responsibilities included creating procedural guide, interviewing candidates and selecting, training and managing twelve (12) summer interns, and sending bi-weekly status report to pertinent departments.

• Analyzed departmental revenues and expenses to graphically represent trends.

• Audited departmental daily deposits and procedures to provide recommendations for improvements.

• Highlighted through presentation the costs and benefits of hiring interns versus outsourcing to an auditing firm.

• Prepared engagement letters and bi-weekly status reports when consulting with University departments. Virginia Beach City Public Schools (VBCPS) – Virginia Beach, VA Summer 2011 Internal Audit: Audit Intern

• Sampled all cash disbursements and cash receipts during audit planning stage for all eighty-five VBCPS and conducted funds audits for VBCPS.

GOVERNMENT EXPERIENCE

Internships: General Services Administration, Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Department of Education EDUCATION

Liberty University, Lynchburg, Virginia – Masters of Accountancy, 2013 Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia – Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Accounting, 2011 References provided on request