Real Estate Manager

Helga M. Trocha, CPA, MS Taxation

Jersey City, NJ 07302

Email: acxwuh@r.postjobfree.com Phone: 201-***-**** Cell: 917-***-****

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Experience with International compliance and research, reviewing Federal and State returns, with the ability to identify and resolve tax issues, understanding and applying tax law, decipher complex organization structures and their transactions to ascertain the correct tax filings and reporting.

KNOWLEDGE & PROJECTS:

oResponsible for reviewing and managing staff in the preparation of: corporate, S corporate, partnership, consolidated, U.S. Returns for Foreign Corps. Foreign branch office returns, resident, nonresident individual tax returns and expatriate tax returns.

oMulti State compliance: allocation, apportionment, net worth tax, report and information filings.

oIndustries worked in but not limited to: Real Estate Entities, Pharmaceutical, Publishing, Service, Private Equity, Fund to Fund, Investment Partnerships, Hedge Funds and Management Companies.

oDissolutions, liquidations, asset and stock purchases: IRC Sections 332, 367, 337, 338.

oRepresented clients on audits and responded to tax notices from foreign countries and U.S. authorities.

OTHER:

Member of the NYSSCPA's International Tax Committee.

Presented professional in house educational seminars and training for seniors and juniors.

Developed new office procedures, to assist the preparation process and streamline work.

EXPERIENCE:

TAX CONSULTING – Various Accounting Firms – Presently consulting with Mitchell & Titus LLP

Consulted at: Augustin Partners LLC, LFL Veritas, LLC; PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP; Spielman, Koenigsberg & Parker, LLP and others.

Reviewed and supervised preparation of tax returns with complex structures and issues.

Research and memos regarding tax structure for international real estate transactions, FBAR and FATCA.

BRIX + PARTNERS, LLC - New York, NY

Tax Manager 11/14 – 12/15

Managed the preparation and reviewed corporate and partnership returns, with foreign owners and/or foreign transactions.

Managed the preparation and reviewed the accounting and issuance of formal compiled Financial Statements.

Managed the preparation and reviewed resident and nonresident individual returns, with foreign income and foreign tax issues.

Managed and reviewed the “Streamline” filings for domestic and offshore individuals.

Review of FATCA and FBAR forms.

Researched: IRC 882 & IRC 874 regarding delinquent filed foreign corporate returns and disallowance of deductions, and also the feasibility of relief via a “reasonable cause” memo; state nexus, withdrawal procedures from states.

Reviewed various foreign documents such as income tax returns, statements from financial institution, investment documents and financial reports in order to determine the inclusion for tax reporting and compliance (with the help of Google translation and associates).

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TRIEN, ROSENBERG, WEINBERG, CIULLO & FAZZARI, LLP - Morristown, NJ

Tax Manager 11/06 – 04/10

Reviewed and analyzed partnership accounting and returns for private equity, investment companies and management companies including multiple state returns and foreign filings.

Reviewed corporate returns, including consolidated returns, for real estate companies, marketing companies and distribution companies including multiple state returns and foreign filings.

Completed foreign reporting forms 5472, 5471, 8621, 8865 and 8858.

Researched domestic and international issues for proper compliance and reporting.

Reviewed nonresident and resident individual returns with multiple state filings.

Reviewed foreign tax returns and financials for tax information.

Discussed with corporate officers proper reporting of tax strategies and issues.

MASTERCARD WORLDWIDE - Purchase, NY 03/06 – 10/06

Consulting/International Tax Associate

Responsible for: assembling information from various countries; analysis of the accounting; prepared and completed the foreign reporting forms 5472, 5471, 8621, 8865 and 8858.

Implemented and set up Insource tax software to aid in the accounting and reporting of the tax information.

Presented to CFO the benefits of implementing the Insource tax software.

Conducted VAT and Sales tax research for Canadian compliance and subsequently expedited the filing of six years worth of delinquent filings of VAT returns, requiring negotiation with Canadian tax authorities.

Assisted in FAS 109 calculation.

Responded to federal and international tax notices.

Calculation of Foreign tax credit and completion of form 1118.

JH COHN, LLP - Roseland, NJ 11/05 – 03/06

Supervisor - International Tax Analyst

Managed the team and was the liaison to a Fortune 100 company on the FAS 109 engagement.

Was the contact with a COO of a foreign company regarding the engagement of analyzing the financial statements and managed the preparation of tax filings for a company that was 7 years delinquent in its U.S. filings, with 14 foreign subsidiaries. This project included: Subpart F income determination, liquidations, mergers, distributions and stock options issues.

Conducted research for tax issues regarding dissolutions, liquidations, asset purchases and stock purchases: covering IRC Sections 332, 367, 337 and 338 for proper compliance.

ERNST & YOUNG, LLP - New York, NY 10/03 – 09/05

Financial Service Operations – Senior Tax Analyst

Supervised multiple private equity and management company engagements.

Prepared securities analysis reports for the applicable M-1 adjustments.

Identified and resolved issues which required the coordination of information between clients and staff.

Reconciled the combination of an entity structure of four brother / sister companies which were U.S. and Japanese entities spanning 4 years.

RSM McGLADREY, INC. - New York, NY 01/03 – 10/03

Supervisor

Managed the preparation and review of a consolidated corporate tax return having approximately 20 entities in 25 states, pre and post a stock acquisition by a foreign parent.

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LESLIE SUFRIN & CO., PC. - New York, NY 03/97 – 12/02

Senior Tax Accountant

Managed an international account with 3 foreign owned Corporations and 5 flow-through entities with resident and non-resident partners in real estate, hedge funds, private equity and consulting industries.

Managed staff and reviewed the following tax returns: corporate, S corporate, partnership, consolidated, foreign corporations, foreign branch office returns, resident, nonresident, expatriate and multiple states returns.

Researched tax issues for compliance dissolutions, liquidations, asset and stock purchases: IRC Sections 332, 367, 337 and 338.

Participated and defended positions on federal audits, including responding to tax notices.

EDUCATION:

09/98 - 12/00 Master of Science Degree, Taxation Graduated: 12/2000

Bernard Baruch College of the City University of New York, New York, NY

09/86 - 08/91 Bachelor of Arts Degree, Accounting and Information Systems

Queens College of the City University of New York, New York, NY

SOFTWARE: Prosystems, Go Systems Audit, Go Systems Tax, Fast Tax, CCH Tax Research, BNA, Insource, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word

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