16 years experience in accounting, international trade, financial repo

Roberta Petrescu

**** * ********, *******, ********, 60641 Tel:773-***-**** / Email: ************@*****.*** EXPERIENCE & ACCOMPLISHMENTS SUMMARY:

** ***** ********** ** **********, international trade, financial reporting and marketing

Reconciled vendors and maintained a daily relationship between companies in more than sixty-two countries in different languages (English, Romanian, Italian and German); leading teams and resolved discrepancies

Organized and detail oriented (analyzed and recalculated interest billed to the company resulted in the recovery of $120,000.00), motivated, hard worker, able to plan, multi-task and exceptional meet deadlines under pressure

Attention to detail and comfortable with reviewing and interpreting regulations, risk assessment and decision making skills

Strong multi-cultural experience working in companies with professional teams, companies with their own corporate culture and tradition

Relevant Skills

International trade

Received internal client inquiries, advised them on import/export requirements, tariff systems and other customs- related matters

Collaborated with foreign suppliers from Germany and Japan and issued orders

Organized transportation of goods from Germany or Japan

Established a process and generated the import/export documents including commercial invoices, packing list, bills of lading, and shippers letter of instructions to ensure compliance and timely delivery/release

Prepared the documents necessary for Customs

Ensured that company trade activities comply with local and international trade regulations and legislation

Advised clients on matters related to the cultural and commercial customs of foreign countries

Analyzed monitored and communicated updates about important changes in customs legislation, international trade operations and import & export programs that may or will impact the business

Reviewed contracts provided by international suppliers with attention to significant details

Assisted with implementing, updating, maintaining, and monitoring trade compliance policies, procedures, and guidelines.

Recommend ongoing improvements to import/export procedures and trade management systems to enhance efficiency, compliance and cost savings.

Accounting

Managed accounts receivable, accounts payable and petty cash

Multi-department coding, purchase orders matching and resolve all discrepancies

Prepared ACH, Checks and WIRE payments, worked with Treasury team and daily check Foreign Exchange Rates in order to make international payments

Revised coding, maintained the fixed asset and depreciation schedule and prepaid accounts records

Created new vendors in the system and established bank details, payments method, Withholding Tax code, W9, W8-BEN-E in accordance with IRS Tax regulations

Audited and approved employee travel expense submissions for all the Fitch Ratings business units in the US, assisted & trained employees to work with Travel Expense Manager SAP transaction

Prepared weekly Travel Expense reports

Worked with Tax Department in order to prepare 1099 and 1042 end of the year submission

Participated in projects for United Airlines which improved overall productivity/closing efficiencies in accounting

- Green Belt Project

Responsible for monthly inter-unit reconciliation between company and affiliates from 62 different countries at Alcatel Lucent

Worked with external and internal auditors and provide all necessary documents

Prepared monthly: General ledger reconciliations, aging reports, good receipts reports, journal entries, bank reconciliation, analyzes cash discrepancies, audited financial statements and extracting an analyzing data in Excel, etc.

Prepared and analyzed financial reports, budgeting, forecasting and analysis of departmental expenses as well as bank reconciliation

Maintained and initiated inter-company correspondence with the vendors, researched and corrected discrepancies, responded to inquiries

Worked with Senior Management to audit procedures (SOX) that ensured compliance with proper accounting controls and procedures

Developed SAP User Procedures, Training Curriculum and reference documents. Trained and mentored staff in Basic SAP

Streamlined accounting processes to reduce work paper and document requirements. Identify and implement workflow improvements

Work History

Staff accountant Aug’2011 - Present

Fitch Ratings (SAP software)

~ Fitch Ratings Inc. is one of the three nationally recognized statistical rating organizations (NRSRO) designated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in 1975. Fitch Group is a global leader in financial information services with operations in more than 30 countries. Staff accountant Feb’2011 – Jul’2011

United Airlines

~ United Airlines is the world's largest airline when measured by number of destinations served, operates a comprehensive domestic and international route network with 86,852 employees (which includes the entire holding company United Continental Holdings) and 721 aircraft. Supervisor Country Responsible Sep’2007 – Jan’2010 Alcatel Lucent, Deutschland AG (SAP software)

~ A leading communications company specializing in fixed, mobile and converged broadband networking, IP technologies, applications and services with operations in over 130 countries around the world. International Trade Consultant Mar’2004 – Aug’2007 System Trans Je Se Impex

~ German-owned company of high-end manufacturing product, exclusive dealer in Romania for Sumitomo Drive Technologies and Shulz Drahttechnik well known international companies. Financial analyst Sep’2001 – Feb’2004

Begatrans SA

~ International Transport by rail

Education

Bachelor in Business Administration

Major: Foreign Trade

Computers

Microsoft Office (Word, Excel-Pivot tables, macros, VLOOKUP, Power Point), Outlook Various Accounting Software: SAP, Walker

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