Staff Accountant

AREAS OF PRACTICE

Tax Preparation

Journal Entry

General Ledger

Month end close

Reporting

Preparation and Analysis

Accounts Receivable

INDUSTRY LINES

Public Accounting

Facility Services

Manufacturing

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS

GoSystem Tax RS

JD Edwards Enterprise

Insight Software

PeachTree/Sage 50

QuickBooks

SharePoint

LaserFiche

MS Excel: Pivot Tables, V-Lookup

MS Office: Word, Outlook, PP

EDUCATION

Cal State University Los Angeles

Accounting Certificate – March 2015

GPA: 3.21

Cal State University Los Angeles

B.A. History – June 2012

GPA: 3.47

VOLUNTEER / MEMBERSHIPS

2014: Beta Alpha Psi – Fall Awards Coordinator

2015: Volunteer Tax Income Assistance Program

OBJECTIVE

Staff Accountant with public and private accounting experience seeking a demanding full-time position

SUMMARY

Goal oriented, motivated, and coachable

Exceptional reading, writing, and communication skills

Proven leader in all environments

Recognized for working well in teams or individually

WORK EXPERIENCE

ABM Industries

Staff Accountant March 2016 – Present

Job-level cost analysis: accurately verify that labor, union pensions, payroll costs, and other expenses are passing through to 80-100 invoices every month

Revenue Recognition Reporting: Obtain SOX-compliant backup of new contracts and prepare spreadsheet for external audit and corporate reporting purposes

Pre-bills: accurately generate reports for contractual amounts to 21 regions, process revisions, and create invoices to send to customers on a monthly basis

Contract Admin: Review recent contracts for SOX compliance, process billable amounts in JDE, and generate invoices upon request on a daily basis

Ad-hoc projects: adding GL codes in JDE, post re-classed amounts/journal entries, and organize the close calendar

BagWorld & More

AR Specialist May 2015 – March 2016

Accurate and timely invoices – prevent the company from losing money due to errors in: freight charges, sales tax, and unit prices

Process high volume invoices – sent 150-250 error-free invoices to customers by email, fax, or mail on a weekly basis

Accounts payables transactions – post purchase orders in PeachTree for accounting purposes

Produce daily reports – accurately process checks & credit card payments amount between $5,000 – 30,000 and produce user-friendly reports to help prepare quarterly financial statements

Inventory Adjustments – precisely adjust quantity of all products to reflect inventorial changes due to sample orders

Rivera, Jamjian & Dillard, LLP

Tax Intern January 2015 – May 2015

Complete and accurate tax returns – Filed tax returns for individuals, partnerships, and corporations accurately and on a timely basis

Filing high volume tax extensions – Extended 90% of remaining clients’ tax returns for a CPA firm on a very short and late notice

Tax Research – performed tax research via FASB Codification website and contacting BOE to solve uncommon tax cases (e.g. energy credits, minors claiming themselves on tax returns, etc.)

Upload processed paperwork for audits – Scanned, uploaded, and filed hundreds of tax returns and related documents for future audits

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