Nancy Pauken ad0d0b@r.postjobfree.com 831-***-****

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Lucid Motors (DeWinter Group) Fixed Assets Accountant November 18, 2021-May 18, 2023

• Manage domestic R&D and IT Fixed Assets: account reconciliation, asset capitalization and cost adjustment.

• Work with project managers to track projects and troubleshoot issues.

• Analyze opex accounts for potential capex activity and perform reclasses when needed.

• Ad hoc reporting and support, period-end journal entries, audit and SOX support.

• Flux analysis, rollforwards.

Monterey Mushrooms Watsonville, CA February 8, 2021-November 10, 2021

Interim Senior Accountant

• Manage PP&E for both domestic and global growing operations.

• Month-end close: account reconciliations, recurring entries, depreciation.

• Ad hoc analytical support for tax returns (federal and multi-county property) and external audits.

Santa Cruz Nutritionals Santa Cruz, CA December 2008-October 2020

Senior Corporate Accountant

• Manage period-end closings, including account reconciliations, regular and adjusting JEs, cost center review and flux analysis, accruals and reversals, and ensuring the integrity of the final financials.

• Fixed Assets, including review of initial capital requests, track spending against project budgets, close projects to asset accounts, book depreciation, reconcile accumulated depreciation between FA system and GL, dispose and transfer assets, communicate and resolve issues with project managers for both domestic and international locations, capital budgeting.

• Commissions, including calculation of monthly broker commissions, troubleshooting and resolution of contract disputes, commissions forecasts for annual plan, monthly commissions true-up, calculation and accrual of market development funds, and reconciliation of all commission- and development-fund accounts.

• Expense allocations, including monthly and annual recalculation of expense distribution based on updated headcount, monthly JE and true-ups as needed.

• Manage customer chargebacks, including monthly review, analysis and reconciliation of all chargeback accounts, companywide compliance with policies and procedures, reclassification of charges among related accounts, and ensuring customers are billed in a timely manner.

• Financial audits, including Debt, AR, Fixed Asset, and Revenue rollforwards, ad hoc and regular reporting, explanations of questioned audit items, and ensuring all audit requests are in compliance and submitted in a timely manner.

• Foreign currency and intercompany transactions, including translation of all non-USD activity, interaction with foreign vendors to ensure goods and services are received both physically and in our PO module, and payments and refunds are reconciled against bank notices.

• Taxes, including VAT filing, fx translation, calculation of gains and losses, and true-up; and calculation of property and sales taxes.

• Ad hoc management reporting.

• Budgeting and forecasting, ratio analysis, financial statement analysis, variance analysis.

• Inventory analysis, variance analysis, and calculation of standard costs and product pricing.

• Design and implement new policies and procedures, write instruction/procedure manuals.

• Test for data integrity with system changes and upgrades, review and update system settings as needed.

• Troubleshoot and resolve issues arising from system failures.

• Ensure data integrity on an ad hoc basis, and make adjustments and corrections as needed.

• Work with IT and our system vendors to update algorithms when system changes are required.

• Build tables and views for ad hoc system data retrieval, and design general-use queries, real-time analytical tools, and management reports.

• Train users, create forms and write technical documentation.

• Design and develop financial models to analyze and track corporate financial activities and performance.

• Create financial models, and generate analyses and statements for internal reference and external presentations.

Finance Consultant October 2000-December 2008

• Seagate Technology: Sr Sales Programs Analyst, Sr Warranty & CSO Accountant, Sr Credit & Collections Analyst

• Plantronics: Sr Intercompany Accountant

• Aviza Technology: Sr International Accountant

• Solectron: Sr Consolidations Accountant

• Santa Cruz Mortgage: Sr Corporate Accountant

• City of Santa Cruz: Sr Accountant

Seagate Technology Scotts Valley, CA November 1996-October 2000

Senior Analyst-International Tax

• Assisted in development of global transfer pricing policies and strategies.

• Participated in annual economic transfer pricing and FSC studies, and international tax and customs audits.

• Worked with upper management in handling tax issues related to the incorporation of international legal entities.

• Provided technical tax support for international tax compliance issues.

• Performed monthly intercompany treasury transactions: offsets, round robins and cash transfers.

• Analyzed margins and audited prices of intercompany transactions on an ongoing and ad hoc basis.

• Calculated worldwide cost allocations, intercompany cross charges, and R&D cost sharing.

• Analyzed international income distribution, cost structures, and third party contract prices.

• Reviewed and analyzed worldwide legal entity financial transactions for annual independent audits.

• Consolidated input from divisions worldwide to create quarterly transfer pricing system upload, employing both calculated mark-up and cost plus transfer pricing.

• Assisted in modeling possible scenarios relating to creating and dismantling of business units and legal entities worldwide.

• Interfaced with all levels of organization to maintain current and accurate intercompany pricing.

• Developed, implemented and administered systems and tools to effectively and efficiently manage data flow.

QUALIFICATIONS SUMMARY

• Advanced knowledge of GAAP, Excel power user (pivot tables, lookups, query tools, macros, graphs & charts), data mining (OBDC, Power BI, SQL, Crystal, Insight), and miscellaneous ERP/finance applications (AS400, ManMan, Oracle: multiple versions & system implementation, FAS, SAP, Essbase.

• Extensive and varied Finance experience across a multitude of industries: auto manufacturing, agriculture, tech manufacturing and intellectual property; commercial, residential, and institutional construction and real estate; sporting goods and sportswear; pharmaceuticals; natural foods and supplement manufacturing and distribution; retail; architecture and engineering; mortgage and banking; local municipalities.

• Strong written and oral communication skills, excellent analytical, research and management skills.

• Proven ability to think critically, work with all levels of an organization and solve complex problems with optimum productivity and efficiency.

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced unstructured environment while driving measurable results.

EDUCATION

BA Economics University of California Santa Cruz, CA

Graduate coursework completed includes Business Analysis and Communication, Marketing, International Marketing, International Economics, Management Accounting, QA, Content and Copy Editing.

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