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Accounting Assistant

Location:
San Jose, CA
Posted:
February 17, 2015

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Resume:

HIEU VU

408-***-**** E-mail: **********@*****.***

SUMMARY

Accounting major at Saint Mary's College of California.

One year experience as Accounting Assistant, proficient MS Excel

One year auditing service at KPMG

Excel in customer service, strong communication skill, multi tasks and detail oriented.

Legal to work in U.S.

EDUCATION

MS in Accounting, Saint Mary’s College of California, Moraga 2015

Courses: Financial Accounting, Financial Management, Corporate Financial Accounting, Strategic

Management & Accounting Information Systems Control, Federal Taxation, International

Accounting, Advanced Auditing, Government Not-for-profit Accounting

BS Business Administration, Webster University 2008

GPA: 3.81/4.0

Departmental Honor, 2008

Dean’s list, spring 2006

EXPERIENCE

Apr 2014 – current

Accounting Assistant at Hortus Design Sustainable Landscapes, Palo Alto, CA

Organize, track, classify, and record numerical data and financial records.

Maintain/update 1099 and other payroll tasks

Perform accounting and data entry to support managers to ensure assigned general ledger accounts are

reconciled

Process account receivables, account payables and prepare journal entries

Perform administrative tasks: file office’s papers and documents, operate a range of office machines.

Relationship Manager at Standard Chartered Bank, Vietnam Aug 2011 -Aug 2013

SME Department

Designed one of the first financial program in SCB’s regional to allow lending to small and medium

businesses. The program consists of coordinating with Credit Checks, Credit Approval, and Legal

Department.

In charged of Business Credit Applications. Proficiency with all the processes of the project and

performed on site visiting and investigation.

Successfully set up credit limit in the amount of 9 million USD for 20 suppliers of one of the biggest

coffee procurement company in the world.

Achieved company target goal of obtaining profitable assets. Acquired and retained growing/profitable

clients through effective consultative selling and creative structuring of financial solutions. Handling

customer issues & complaints, response to product enquiries in a timely manner, resolve system errors.

Product Officer at Standard Chartered Bank, Vietnam Aug 2010 -Aug 2011

Assisted Product Manager; provided training to sales and service frontlines employees to ensure great

product knowledge.

Monitored existing portfolio to ensure product performance that meet stipulated KPIs.

Developed new products according to Regional guideline in order to enhance and repackage existing

product lines. Ensured competitive advantage over other products of the same category. Researched and

explored new product opportunities overseas that can be implemented locally

Scorecard management

Stay updated on local regulations and competition's offerings in order to come up with outstanding

product features and offerings

Mar 2009 – Jan 2010

Assistant Auditor at KPMG, Vietnam

Implemented audit team servicing local and multinational clients. Followed audit program for the areas as

assigned by the Senior Auditor.

Proficient with client accounting system and internal control to evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency

of compliance with internal controls and operating procedures.

Inspected the final amount of balance sheets, assets & liabilities, profit and loss to display the true

financial position of the organization.

Verified the supporting documents of bills, receipts and reconciliation statements.

SKILLS:

Bilingual Vietnamese/English (proficient)

Proficient in MS Offices (Advance in Excel & Word & Power Point), QuickBooks



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