Accounting Management
Resume:
Gregory Williams, CPA, IFRS
Rowlett, TX 75089
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Objective
Seeking an inclusive meritocracy that offers opportunity for growth while leveraging my experience in technical accounting and the management of accounting functions
Education
University of Miami Coral Gables, FL
Bachelor of Business Administration December 2003
GPA: 3.82; Major: Accounting
Experience
Bank of America Corporation (October 2014 – October 2015)
Vice President – Senior Audit Supervisor
Provide expertise, advice and counsel based on advanced business and/or audit experience to a complex business and/or cross several businesses groups and provide leadership for projects and team activities. Proactively implement audit strategy for the sound application of risk based practices by defining audit scope, audit program, review and test procedures. Exercise judgment and influence senior business managers and peers. Help business partners balance their business strategy with appropriate risk management controls. Interact with regulatory agencies, external consultants and other internal risk management groups. Recent audits have included:
Performed Audit Testing of various Matters Requiring Attention (MRA) related to Enterprise Valuations, Enterprise Definition of Defaults, FINRA Rule 4210, Flood Insurance, Counter Party Portfolio Management, Fund Transfer Pricing
Coach/mentor staff (two to three), including collaboration with Subject Matter Experts and business partners, as the team work through various technical MRAs impacting the firm; ensure that MRAs are being remediate timely and action steps performed by the Line of Businesses appropriately address regulators findings.
Siegfried Group, LLP – Professional Service Partners (January 2013 – October 2014)
Senior Manger
Provide interim financial assistance primarily to Fortune 1000 companies during critical times of need. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, accounting assistance, financial reporting and analysis, accounting research, budgeting and forecasting, legacy system support, internal auditing, acquisition or divestiture support, and special project implementation. Recent projects have included:
EY LLP
Functioned as an Audit Senior on financial statement audits of SEC registrants and privately held companies in the Oil & GAS, Construction and Media industries.
Management and coordination of team members (two to four), the audit budget, collaboration with senior managers and partners.
Performed audit testing of various balance sheet and income statement accounts including those relate to FASB Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 815-25 Fair Value Hedges, ASC 718-20 Stock Compensation Awards Classified as Equity, ASC 840-40 Sale-Leaseback, ASC 805-10 Business Combination, ASC 810 Consolidation, ASC 605-35 Construction-Type Contracts and ASC 932 Extractive Activities – Oil and Gas.
Brightstar Corporation (January 2012 – January 2013)
Manager of Financial Reporting and Technical Accounting –Corporate
Assist in providing accurate financial reporting in accordance with GAAP (and SEC rules for public company), conducting accounting research as needed and assist with external auditors (“Ernst & Young”) in the quarterly reviews and annual audit:
Financial Reporting – Coach/mentor staff (three to five), including collaboration with the Global Consolidation Team and Accounting Department, as the team work through various technical accounting matters impacting the quarterly reviews and year-end audit; Ensure that financial statements disclosures (including the supporting schedules) are valid, accurate and complete and are in accordance with the applicable accounting disclosure requirements (including the adoption of new accounting pronouncements).
Accounting Research – Collaborate with the financial reporting director as the team work through various technical accounting matters related to ASC 325-20 Cost Method Investments, ASC 470-50 Debt Modification and Extinguishments, ASC 605-10-S99 Revenue Recognition, ASC 718-20 Stock Compensation Awards Classified as Equity, ASC 810 Consolidation, ASC 830-10 Foreign Currency Matters, ASC 840-30 Capital Leases and ASC 860 Transfers and Servicing; Assess various Non-GAAP matters to ensure that financial statements are not materially misstated.
Ernst & Young – Coach/mentor staff (three to five), including collaboration with all levels within the organization, as the team work through the audit request to ensure that deadlines are being met; Prior to submitting to the auditors, ensure that the respective schedules reconcile to the general ledger; Prior to submitting to the auditor, review the quarterly analytics received from the respective subsidiaries to ensure that unusual or unexpected balances and relationships are being assessed for risk/potential errors.
Tyco International (August 2009 – January 2012)
Senior Corporate Auditor/Supervisor
Performed a variety of financial, compliance, forensic and operational engagements such as Financial Statements audits, ASC 605 audits, Swiss Filling audits, Proxy Statement audits, Foreign Corruption Practices Act (“FCPA”) audits, Controls Self Assessment audits, Finance Transformation Risk reviews and Operation Excellence reviews:
Balance Sheet audits (ADT Mexico, ADT Advanced Integration, Allied Company and Westlock Company) – Coach/mentor staff (two to three), including collaboration with the Global Technical Accounting Group, as the team work through various technical accounting matters; performed data driven analytical review to identify potential accounting risk (including control weaknesses), high risk transaction/anomalies and process improvement opportunities; Test the operating effectiveness of Internal Controls (including ITGC) to ensure consistency in the application of controls across the company’s operation; effectively draft audit findings (based on issue, true root cause, and impact: financial and/or operational) and provided management with practical value-added recommendations that address the condition (finding) and the root cause.
ASC 605 audits (ADT LATAM – Argentina, Chile and Mexico; ADT Canada and USA; SimplexGrinnell) – Coach/mentor staff (three to five), including collaboration with the Global Technical Accounting Group, as the team work through various technical accounting matters related to ASC 605-35-25 Construction-Type Contracts and ASC 605-10-S99; Performed data driven analytical review to identify potential accounting risk (including control weaknesses), high risk transaction/anomalies and process improvement opportunities; Test the operating effectiveness of Internal Controls (including ITGC) to ensure consistency in the application of controls across the company’s operation; effectively draft audit findings (based on issue, true root cause, and impact: financial and/or operational) and provided management with practical value-added recommendations that address the condition (finding) and the root cause.
Swiss Filling audits – Coach/mentor staff (three to four) as the team performed audit procedures to ensure that financial statement footnotes (related to section 16 officers) are in accordance with the Swiss filling guidelines; effectively draft audit findings (based on issue, true root cause, and impact: financial and/or operational) and provided management with practical value-added recommendations that address the condition (finding) and the root cause.
Proxy Statement audits – Coach/mentor staff (three to four) as the team performed audit procedures to ensure that Proxy Statement disclosures are in accordance with Regulation S-K guidelines; effectively draft audit findings (based on issue, true root cause, and impact: financial and/or operational) and provided management with practical value-added recommendations that address the condition (finding) and the root cause.
FCPA audits (EMEA and South America) – Coach/mentor staff (one to two ), including collaboration with the Global Forensics Accounting Group, as the team performed procedures to ensure that third party transactions (vendors, agents and distributors) were in accordance with Tyco Third Party & Anti-Bribery Program; performed data driven analytical review to identify high risk transaction/anomalies (including potential fraud schemes); effectively draft audit findings (based on issue, true root cause, and impact: financial and/or operational) and provided management with practical value-added recommendations that address the condition (finding) and the root cause.
Controls Self Assessment audits (Acquisition- Hiter Company and Chemguard Company) – Coach/mentor staff (two to three), including collaboration with the Global Forensics Accounting Group, as the team develop controls self assessment matrix; evaluated risk coverage provided by the control structure's design and identified gaps in the design of the controls related to fraud schemes; effectively draft audit findings (based on issue, true root cause, and impact: financial and/or operational) and provided management with practical value-added recommendations that addressed the condition (finding) and to strengthen control environment.
Finance Transformation Risk reviews (ADT Canada and Tyco Fire & Security) – Coach/mentor staff ( two to three), including collaboration with Deloitte, as the team partner with the business in order to support and facilitate managing the transformation risk across the Company; defined Corporate Audit’s response to the identified risks and monitoring implementation of mitigation plans for key transformation risks; performed procedures to ensure that systemic and historic enterprise control deficiencies and risks (Information Security, SOD and User Access, ERP implementations, fraud risk) are assessed and addressed during the transformations.
Operation Excellence reviews – Work with project leads, including collaboration with E&Y, to expand current service offerings based on experience and audited entities’ feedback; focus on key process improvement opportunities based on business objectives; provide guidance to team members about how to select and leverage methodology, tools, and technology options to maximize personal impact and minimize costs (e.g., virtual meeting tools); share lessons learned from process and practice change initiatives across organizational boundaries.
Deloitte (June 2004 – August 2009)
Senior Auditor
Perform financial statement audits for a variety of public and private companies such as: City National Bank of Florida, Perry Ellis International, Embraer Aircraft Holding, Nortel Communication and Federal National Mortgage Association (“Fannie Mae”):
One of the audit seniors for the audit of City National Bank of Florida. Daily responsibilities included the management and coordination of some of the team members (four to five) along with the audit budget, audit testing of the company’s account balances including marketable securities in accordance with ASC 320-10 Investments in Debt and Equity Securities, audit testing of the company’s fixed assets in accordance with ASC 360-10 Property, Plant and Equipment and audit testing of the company’s internal control to meet the reporting requirements of Section 112 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act.
One of the audit seniors for the audit of the publicly traded (NYSE) Perry Ellis International. Daily responsibilities included the management and coordination of some of the team members (three to four) along with the audit budget, audit testing of the company’s trademark valuations in accordance with ASC 820 Fair Value Measurement, audit testing of the company’s stock options in accordance with ASC 718-20 Stock Compensation Awards Classified as Equity and audit testing of Sox 404 procedures.
Lead audit senior for the audit of the publicly traded (Brazil) Embraer Aircraft Holding, Inc. Daily responsibilities included the management and coordination of the team members (six to seven) along with the audit budget, and audit testing of the company’s account balances including marketable securities in accordance with ASC 320-10 Investments in Debt and Equity Securities and income tax provision in accordance with ASC 740-10 Income Taxes.
One of the audit seniors for the audit of the publicly traded (NYSE) Nortel Communication. Daily responsibilities included the management and coordination of some of the team members (three to four) along with the audit budget and audit testing of the company’s revenues recognition in accordance with ASC 985-605-25 Software Revenue Recognition.
One of the audit seniors within the single-family area of the Multi Year (2001-2004) Restatement, and 2005-2006 Audit of Fannie Mae. As senior I interacted with Fannie Mae Senior Management to facilitate the completion of audit procedures related to single-family interest income and guarantee income areas comprising more than $2 billion in Assets and $600 Million in revenues. I also managed a team of auditors tasked with the implementation of audit procedures for my areas and completed research around several technical accounting issues.
KPMG (January 2004 – March 2004)
Tax Intern
Prepare income tax returns, federal and state
Del Monte Fresh Produce Co. (May 2003 – September 2003)
Tax Intern
Prepare income tax returns for U.S. group, quarterly estimated income tax payments for
federal and state, sales tax returns, property tax returns, and ASC 740-10 tax provision.
Research U.S. tax compliance issues and occasional international tax issues.
University of Miami (August 2001–December 2003)
Tutor
Assist students in understanding the complex topics related to Accounting, Statistics, Marketing, Political Science and Economic.
Honors
University of Miami
Cum Laude
Henry King Stanford Scholarship
President’s Provosts Honor Rolls
Capra Family Scholarship
Accounting Department Scholarships
Marvin Brittman Business Scholarship
Skills and Certifications
Proficient in AS2 system, Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Macros
International Financial Reporting Standards Accreditation
Data Analytics Accreditation
Microsoft Office Expert for Office Excel 2010
Affiliations
The Institute of Internal Auditors (August 2009 – Present)
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (January 2008 – Present)
National Association of Black Accountants (September 2001 – Present)
Beta Gamma Sigma (September 2001 – Present)
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