Financial Accounting

BRANDON MONJU Email: *********@*****.***

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Destrahan, Louisiana Overall GPA: 3.0 / Accounting Core GPA: 3.4

PROFILE

Accountant, former government agent and liaison with expertise in auditing, tax accounting, financial analysis, accounting information systems, and general ledger journal entries. Excellent communication and written skills. Attained 39 hours of accounting. CPA exam ready. Accounting programs utilized: Oracle, Lawson, Vertex, Kronos, Creative Solutions Accounting, Practice Management, Prosystem Tax, Quickbooks, H&R Block, Compeat, Aloha, Microsoft Office, & Advanced Excel.

EXPERIENCE:

INTERSHIP / CPA Firm Carrigee Moore Levy & Flynn LLP/ Staff Accountant / 2016 Translate financial information from the General Ledger to Trail Balance Sheets. Analyze Balance, Financial, & Income Statements. Create journal entries in CSA. Generate tax returns for Corporate, Partnerships, Trusts, and Individual returns. Prepared K1’s, 1065, 1040, 1041, 1120, 1120s including depreciation / amortization schedules, flow through distributions to partnerships and corporations, including fiduciary estates and trusts. Verified third party general ledger information.

Legacy Restaurant / Operations Manager / Metairie, La / 2014 - 2016

Manages projects & coordinates team activities with consistent leadership. Creates ways of extracting & organizing data for compilation, retrieval & analysis. Presents info, promotes communication & quality improvement to achieve positive results. Prepares month-to-month financial statement variance reports. Responsible for Accounts Receivable / Payable. Verify general ledger entry and journal entries. Develop and utilize spreadsheets for theoretical formulas for COST analysis. Maintain a profitable brand by operating a strict budget. Forecast labor expense through financial reports. Excellent oral & written communication. Responsible for retention, training, & education of all staff.

Business Capital Risk Control Services / Financial Analyst / Metairie, La / 2013 – 2014

Analyzed assets and liabilities, pre-investment financial analysis, and pre-employment vetting for domestic and international clients. Completed due-diligence comprehensive reports on behalf of specific clients. The vetting process covered analyzing all reports from civil / criminal litigation, bankruptcy cases, judgments, conveyances of real property, grantor/grantee indexes, analyzing UCC filings, analysis of all corporate information, state and federal regulatory agencies (specifically financial and public utilities regulators), credit and consumer analysis, looking over all property records, and reporting any derogatory facts to the end user. Organization skills a must to maintain proficiency, time management utilized in an efficient manner, and maintaining strict deadlines for the clients.

Department of Revenue Alcohol Tobacco Control / Special Agent / New Orleans, La / 2008 - 2013

Research delinquent tax cases and analyzed financial information through computer and financial institution records, Clerks of Court, Internal Revenue Service, and other governmental offices for the purpose of locating assets in order to effect the collection of the state taxes due. Conducted financial audits and overlooked financial documents and history. Analyzed all financial information while conducting these audits. Works with taxpayers, accountants, CPAs, and attorneys to obtain Statements of Financial Condition and all necessary documentation needed to request an Offer of Compromise; reviews all information before submitting offer for further approval. Collects delinquent taxes through personal contact or by garnishing wages, levying on bank accounts, filing tax liens, seizing property, revocation of licenses, or cease and desist orders. Audited vendor operations and collects taxes at special events. Looks over financial audits and conducts detailed analysis on accounts in which returns are being recommended for acceptance after the assessment has become final; makes adjustments to calculated additional tax, penalty and interest, if applicable.

Community Outreach Liaison for New Orleans region. Dealt with P.O.P. and C.O.P.S. programs. Made sure the agency was approaching problematic Alcohol Beverage Outlets that were affecting the quality of life in the surrounding community. Able to mediate & facilitate meetings between the nuisance ABO and community leaders. Has the skill set to be a problem solver. Meet routinely with local, state, and federal leaders to combat crime in a round table atmosphere. Routinely worked and coordinated with federal, other state agencies, and local law enforcement agencies to plan & execute high-risk enforcement actions with in my assigned area. Carried federal credentials for the Food and Drug Administration. Worked a task force with DEA. Worked Human Trafficking task for with FBI. Worked intellectual property rights cases with HSI. Conducts investigations under the commission for food stamp fraud and federal tobacco laws. Conducted audits on criminal and financial histories.

EDUCATION

Our Lady of Holy Cross College / Business Administration / 2008

Our Lady of Holy Cross College / Accounting Degree / 2016

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