Accounting Management

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Objective:

Obtain a challenging position applying creative problem solving and lean management skills with a solid company to achieve optimum utilization of its resources.

Professional Experience:

Self-Employed Finance Consultant 02/2014-to Current

Providing a complete accounting service for small business clients

Offering consulting service to several accounting firms

Director of Financial Reporting and Analysis(Contract) 07/2012-01/2014

Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts

Prepared quarterly and annual consolidated financial statements including notes

Prepared MD&A cash flow package and schedules for audit committee and board

Reviewed month end closing and prepare consolidation entries

Analysed the impact of new and proposed future IFRS on financials

Recommended solutions for complex accounting issues and new projects such as foreign exchange translation, consolidations, hedge accounting and asset valuations etc.

Coordinated and review subsidiaries’ forecasting and budgeting

Prepared multiple deliverables analysis for all new management agreements

Reviewed foreign subsidiaries’ annual financial statements

Liaised with Statistic Canada and U.S. Department of Commerce for various filing

Audit Supervisor 12/2009-06/2012

Schwartz Levitsky Feldman LLP, Toronto, Ontario

Led the completion of SLF’s largest Public client year-end audit and their SOX audit. (AMEX listed)

Served clients all across the globe in a variety of industries, including mining, power generation(GC Turbine Corp), Manufacturing (HQ Sustainable Maritime Industries, Inc)

Successfully helped clients complete their initial public offerings: Interpreted the difference among IFRS, Canadian GAAP and US GAAP to clients and investment bankers, and implemented those standards in their financial statements.

Supervised professional staffs from SLF and its affiliated firms

Liaised with representatives from the CPAB,PCAOB and the U.S. SEC during quality control inspection

Senior Auditor 09/2007-12/2009

Ernst & Young LLP, Toronto, Ontario

Executed audit engagements for a wide range of clients including: Multinationals, SEC Registrants, Pension and Non-for-Profit Sectors. Clients include: Minco Gold and Minco Silver Corp, MDS Inc, TTC, University of Toronto Pension Plan, Genesis Worldwide, Magna Entertainment, CAMH etc

Worked with managers to develop audit procedures and practices on new clients, close monitoring engagements and carve-out process

Reviewed the working paper of staff members and internal SOX auditors ensuring that the work has been performed and documented to required standards and communicate issues within these areas directly to the clients, managers and partners

Dealt with PCAOB and SEC requirements, U.S. GAAP and Sarbanes-Oxley. (MDS Pharma)

Staff Accountant 03/2007-08/2007

Bessner Gallay Kreisman, Montreal, Quebec

Full time job while attending graduate school

Financial Analyst -Costing 04/2005-04/2006

ALDO GROUP, Montreal, Quebec

Reported directly to the Controller and responsible for all Aldo Group banners: Aldo CA, Aldo US, Transit, Spring, Pegabo, Simard, Feet First, Globo, Aldo UK, Stoneridge

Reported and interpreted discrepancies and variance among PeopleSoft budget, financial statement, Open to Buy report and OTB budget to top managers

Analyzed facts and figures from cost related reports produced by Retek RMS, RDW, Arthur, PeopleSoft system and conduct inventories reconciliation.

Clearly communicated results of them and solved discrepancies with VPs, managers and staffs from banking, corporation planning dept and traffic dept.

Partnered with merchandising system analysts to analyze business process, identified improvement and subsequently functional requirements and did after implementation enhancement evaluation.

Participated in various special projects related to inventory such as hedging accounting, budgeting trend analysis, PeopleSoft 8.5 overseas Vendor after implementation evaluation, internal auditing

Assistant Controller 05/2003-02/2005

Datawind Research Inc, Montreal, Quebec

Junior Accountant (Part-time job while attending University) 07/2002-05/2003 The National Human Resources Development Committee (NHRDC), Montreal, Quebec

Education & Professional Development:

Qualified Chartered Accountant 2009

Diploma in CA program, Concordia University 01/2004-08/2006

B.COM Honours, McGill University 09/2000-05/2003

Honours in Accounting

B. A, Harbin Institute of Technology, China 09/1995-08/2000

Double major in Economics and English

Computer Skills:

SunSystem, Oracle Enterprise performance management systems(Hyperion), GAMx, CaseWare, T2 Taxprep, Retek 9 Production, PeopleSoft 8 Production, PeopleSoft nVision, Simply Accounting,

Language Skills:

English and Mandarin

Additional Data:

Enjoy Travelling (West and East Europe, South and East Asia, North and South America and Caribbean countries) and Hiking

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