Geetanjali R. Bhise

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Milwaukee-**228 Wisconsin USA

ad148q@r.postjobfree.com 414-***-****

PROFICIENCY FORTE

●9 years of experience in Corporate Accounting and Statutory Disclosures including 3 years of full time articleship in Financial Auditing and Taxation.

●Solid understanding of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) and statutory compliances in preparing financial reports.

●Active associate member of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India(ICAI) - Membership number 139009. Qualified Chartered Accountant/ Qualified Indian CPA.

●Managed and lead team of more than 25 team members, proficient in resource utilization and delivering results in time sensitive environment.

●Extensive experience in defining, implementing and guiding each step through accounting cycle and preparation of books of accounts to meet legal and statutory requirements.

●Good knowledge of American Real Estate Industry Accounting, its internal business cycle including revenue and expense cycle, property accounting, and preparing management reports for board meeting.

●Strong analytical skills and analyzed project cash flows, business utility reports for inconsistencies, ambiguities, compliance requirements.

●Expert in Yardi Software and Fixed Asset Manager software.

●Estimation, preparation, review and execution of project plans based on project requirements based on onsite/offshore model.

●Proficient with functional, integration, critical path scheduling, incorporating activity time/cost trade-offs in a project schedule, tracing and improving cycle time.

●Experienced in coordinating and managing issues and defects especially with geologically distributed teams.

●Excellent verbal and written skills, especially presenting findings to technical and non-technical audiences.

●Key member in developing, streamlining and integrating business processes and designing department structure.

●Functioned as an auditor during internship, has extensive experience in tax audits, statutory audits and internal audits.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: Boxer Property (Houston, USA).

Positions Held:

●Accounting Manager : 1st Jan, 2016 to 22st Aug, 2017

Job Responsibilities and Duties:

●Prepared Monthly, Quarterly, and Annual Financial Statements, including income and expenditure statement, balance sheet, trial balance, capital statement, statement of fixed assets, notes to accounts as per Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB), theories, and practices.

●Assisted in annual audits, worked with Financial Auditor Carr, Riggs & Ingram, LLC, Houston in preparation of financial statements and related annexures and exhibits, maintaining Fixed Asset record in Fixed Asset manager software.

●Maintaining cash balance and preparing cash flow statements and co-ordinating with treasury department for funds allocation,funds moving within properties, daily issuing checks.

●Worked with internal property accountants team in reviewing their work in detail, Accounts receivable team in reviewing their work and preparing rent/lease documents, also conducting lease audits for month to month and yearly leases, and CPI calculation, reviewing bank reconciliation process on monthly basis.

●Prepare and examine accounting records, financial statements, taxes, and other financial reports.

●Produce accurate and timely monthly accounting close procedures and deliverables such as journal entries, reconciliations, and reports in compliance with GAAP·

●Month-end close, journal entries, and posting to the G/L. Handled post month end adjustment and post journal entries for prepaid rent, commission, bad debt, monthly accruals/prepays of contract services, utilities, taxes and insurance per guidelines. Preparing reports for management such as rent rolls,Graph trailing 12 months for managed and owned properties deriving Occupancy Rate and Rental Rate movement each month, Building and Tenant Improvement monthly cost report.

●Maintained monthly schedules for reconciliation of tenant security deposits, accruals/prepays of contract services, utilities, taxes and insurance.

●Participate in the monthly, quarterly, and annual consolidated P&L and Balance Sheet analysis for management reporting.

●Handled Year roll forward processes such as closing capital jobs at year end to move value of completed jobs from work in progress to the proper capital General Ledger account in Yardi accounting software and posting entries into the Fixed Assets Manager software ensuring correct depreciation is charged.

●Reviewing promissory notes, rate of interest therein and recording financial transactions while maintaining the same in physical and soft copy.

Employer: Stemmons Business Services Private Limited (Baroda, India): Offshore office - Boxer Property (Houston, USA).

Positions Held:

●Accounts Manager : 15th Dec, 2011 to 21st Oct, 2014

●Accounts Executive : 25th Jul, 2011 to 7th Dec, 2011

Job Responsibilities and Duties:

●Handled and lead internal as well as offshore accounting projects since incorporation of the company, worked closely with offshore department leads and mentored new team members, working and delivering as per the business requirement.

●Prepared Monthly, Quarterly, and Annual Financial Statements, including income and expenditure statement, balance sheet, trial balance, capital statement, statement of fixed assets, notes to accounts as per Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB), theories, and practices.

●Prepared Management reports for monthly board meeting including Cash flow report, Building and Tenant Improvement monthly cost report, Graph trailing 12 months for managed and owned properties deriving Occupancy Rate and Rental Rate movement each month, Rent Rolls, Demographic monthly report of Average Rental Rate per square feet and Monthly revenue generation.

●Reviewed internal training process and work deployment process within the department including resource allocation, troubleshooting, and final assessment and submission. Actively conducting technical rounds to hire employees and conducting yearly performance review of employees.

●Initiated and conceptualized projects such as Monthly Sales Tax calculations, Tenant Escalation Billing, CPI calculations, coordinating with legal department and collection agency after preparing and arriving at amounts for Collection, tenant billing, credit, 30% electricity project, monthly bank reconciliation, maintaining and analysis of monthly employee expense report as part of fraud prevention and unauthorized usage.

●Conducted Lease audit review as a part of compliance of Boxer standards and procedure adherence.

●Maintained Accounts Payables, Accounts Receivables, Reviewed expense coding, amounts, validity of debt and authority limits of payables and check requests submitted.

●Handled post month end adjustment and post journal entries for prepaid rent, commission, bad debt, monthly accruals/prepays of contract services, utilities, taxes and insurance per guidelines.

●Maintained monthly schedules for reconciliation of tenant security deposits, accruals/prepays of contract services, utilities, taxes and insurance.

●Handled Year roll forward processes such as closing capital jobs at year end to move value of completed jobs from work in progress to the proper capital General Ledger account in Yardi accounting software and posting entries into the Fixed Assets Manager software.

●Assisted in Corporate and Tax Audits, preparing Operating (Revenue) cash flow and Construction (Capital) cash flow, scrutinizing books of Accounts and preparation of Annual Reports. Raising periodic service invoice to Parent company in foreign currency ( Indian rupee to USA dollar).

Employer: Malek and Associates Chartered Accountants, (Baroda, India)

Position Held:

●Consultant Associate : 1st February 2011 to 24th July 2011.

Job Responsibilities and Duties:

●Tax audits of various corporate and non corporate assess.

●Financial reporting including cash flow statement, Product Profitability analysis, Budget analysis, Variance analysis and control.

●Property Revenue generation and Profitability Analysis.

●Scrutinizing books of Accounts to comply with Accounting Standards set by Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and Companies Act,1956, India.

Employer: S.P. Vyas & Co. Chartered Accountants and Abizer Pithewan & Associates

(3 year Articleship (Internship) required per CA curriculum)

Position Held:

●Intern as an Auditor : 1st February 2007 to 1st February 2010.

Job Responsibilities and Duties:

●Prepared audit programs.

●Worked on computation of Income Tax and preparation of Income Tax returns, Preparation of Form 3CB and 3CD report and related annexure as per Income Tax Department of India.

●Compliance with requirements of Schedule VI of the Companies Act, 1956, India and Accounting standards set by Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.

●Drafted Audit Reports as per the new reporting requirements of Companies Audit Report Order, 2003 & 2004 (CARO).

●Vouched various Books like Purchase Book, Sales Book, Cash Book, Journal Book and Scrutiny of various ledger accounts.

●Analyzed Debtors and Creditors-Ageing, Recovery Period, Balance Confirmation Procedures.

●Prepared and reviewed various reconciliation statement e.g. BRS, Debtors and creditors accounts.

●Performed physical stock taking and valuation as on the year end in accordance with Accounting Standard issued by ICAI.

●Analyzed business decisions including budget making, capital budgeting and asset replacement decisions.

●Audited internal controls of an organization.

Computer Proficiency:

●Completed Information technology training (ITT) of 100 hours as a part of CA curriculum.

●Working experience of MS Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint), Yardi Software, and Tally ERP 9, Fixed Asset Manager Software.

Training and Development:

●Completed the General Management and Communication Skills training organized by Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI).

●Attended various technical and non-technical sessions/seminars including seminar on Bank Audit organized by ICAI.

●Pursuing distance ISA-Information System Audit course conducted by ICAI.

●Participating in fund management activities, voluntarily for NGO called Friends society of Baroda.

Professional Qualification:

●Chartered Accountant from Institute of Chartered Accountant of India (Completion Year-2010 National level exams).

●Bachelor in Commerce with specialization in Accounts and Financial Management from Maharaja Sayajirao University, Gujarat, India (3 Year course).

Skills:

Information Technology Training,Powerpoint,Ms Office,Tally Erp,Excel,Yardi,Specialization,Financial Management,Corporate Accounting,Financial Auditing,Taxation,Generally Accepted Accounting Principles,Gaap,Governmental Accounting,Statutory Compliances,Financial Reports,Qualified Chartered Accountant,Cpa,Resource Utilization,Delivering Results,Accounting,Property Accounting,Utility,Estimation,Written Skills,Skills Training,Information System Audit,Fund Management,Responsibilities,Tax Audits,Financial Reporting,Cash Flow,Profitability Analysis,Budget Analysis,Variance Analysis,Revenue Generation,Scrutinizing,Accounting Standards,Companies Act,Tax Returns,Audit Reports,Purchase,Scrutiny,Reconciliation,Brs,Physical Stock,Valuation,Capital Budgeting,Internal Controls,Financial Statements,Balance Sheet,Trial Balance,Fixed Assets,Cash Flow Statements,Treasury,Accounts Receivable,Cpi,Bank Reconciliation,Accounting Records,Journal Entries,Reconciliations,Contract Services,Deposits,P&l,Balance Sheet Analysis,Management Reporting,General Ledger,Accounting Software,Depreciation,Recording,Demographic,Internal Training,Resource Allocation,Troubleshooting,Sales Tax,Credit,Lease Audit,Accounts Payables,Accounts Receivables,Coding,Invoice preparation.

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