Accounting Manager
Resume:
B raquel Simpson
*******@*****.***
Skills and Experience
• Audit
• Financial Reporting
• Financial Analysis
• Financial
Preparation
• Planning &
Budgeting
• Public accounting experience (4 years with Big 4). I am a broad-based accounting
Internal Controls
professional with extensive audit (External & Internal), risk assessment and
• Risk Assessment
management, regulatory compliance, contracts and grants, accounting operations,
• Regulatory compilations and reviews, technical research, personal and corporate taxes,
Compliance bookkeeping and financial reporting experience.,
• SOX Compliance
• Areas of Expertise
SEC Reporting
Audit
• Technical Research
• Audit Manager for several financial services, non-for-profits, local government, real
• Operating
estate, utility and health care entities
Efficiencies
• Planning, managing and supervising multiple audit engagements
• Managing People
• Determining whether financial statements and footnote disclosures are in
conformity with appropriate accounting and auditing standards.
Industry Lines • Yellow Book and A-133 Testing
• •
Non-for-Profit Knowledge of FASB/GAAP, GAAS, IFRS, GAGAS and SOX
• Local Government
• •
Health Care Understanding of Internal Control Concepts (COSO)
• •
Asset Management Performed walk-throughs and reviewed, documented, designed, evaluated and
• tested controls in a wide range of business environments.
Real Estate
•
• Knowledge of auditing processes and methodologies
Entertainment
•
• Provided value audit findings and recommendations to management/audit
Insurance
committee
• Health Care
• Technical Research
• Utility
Computer Applications
Consulting
• MS Suite
• Designed and implemented internal controls, accounting processes and reporting
• QuickBooks
functions for multiple entities; while improving accuracy, consistency and reliability.
• CaseWare
• Provided audit consulting services in an agreed upon procedure engagement
• Oracle pursuant to the Redevelopment Agency Dissolution Bill (ABX1 26), for 13 cities
• • Provided budgeting, financial statement preparation, corporation formations and
MAS90
personal and corporate tax services to doctors, professional athletes and
Education/Qualification entertainers.
s
• Managed accounts payable, accounts receivable, and payroll departments.
• B.S. Accounting,
Woodbury University
• Generated budgets and forecasts on a quarterly basis and presented to
• Passed two parts of
management.
CPA exam
• Candidate for the
• Reported on variances in quarterly costing reports.
CIA exam
• Managed payroll function for 200 employees.
B raquel Simpson
*******@*****.***
• Simpson & Simpson CPA’s 2005-2013
Monitored and
recorded
• Improved internal control efficiency and risk reduction by presenting valuable audit
company
findings and recommendations to several clients
expenses
• Produced monetary recovery of more than $1 million by identifying errors in
• Technical
contractor billing
Research
• Saved clients over $1M in tax liability by establishing corporations and properly
Highlights of Most identifying and categorizing expenses.
Recent Career
Positions
• Successfully designed and implemented internal controls, accounting processes and
reporting functions for multiple clients.
Independent Consultant
2014-Present
Ernst & Young, LLC 2000-2004
• Successfully
• Audit senior for several publically traded, financial services, entertainment and
completed multiple
health care clients. Performed walk-throughs and testing of controls. Improved
accounting, audit and
internal control efficiency and risk reduction by presenting valuable audit findings to
reporting consulting
several clients. Supervised Staff.
engagements.
Contact this candidate