BAHJAT KALANDOS

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Chandler, AZ 85249

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“Career Summary / Summary of Qualifications”

Administer both technical and operational accounting aspects including overseeing & managing GL, AP, AR, PR, cost accounting, inventory accounting with revenue recognition, manage & comply with local, state, and federal government reporting requirement and tax filings.

Formulated industry standard for closure processes, GL reconciliations & drafting documentation to meet audit perquisites, prepare & publish timely monthly financial statements.

Work closely with the executive team to provide strategic financial insights & recommendations. Excellent communicator skills with the ability to interact with all levels of management to gather, analyze, summarize, and prepare necessary recommendations.

Multitask oriented with the ability to set priorities effectively, successfully changed processes.

Collaborate across IT, finance, legal, sales and marketing functions to ensure adherence to US GAAP, other reporting and compliance standards; eager to learn and deal with new concepts.

Made things happen, works well under pressure to meet deadlines, follow-through projects successfully.

Responsible, problem solver, detail oriented with a sense of urgency, can see the big picture.

Capable of making hard decisions and not afraid of making critical judgments, when the occasion arises, always tempered in a constructive manner dealing with co-workers & work issues.

Excellent negotiator negotiated several contracts with vendors and saved thousands of dollars.

Slashed payroll/benefits administration costs 30% by negotiating pricing and fees, while ensuring the continuation and enhancement of services.

Computers knowledge: MS Office, Peach-tree / Sage, Quick Books, MAS90/200, NetSuite, Network.

WORK EXPERIENCE

• The Intersect Group. 2022 – 2023

Controller: Worked as temporary assignment at Wild Horse Pass Development / Indian community. Achieved fast and in depth analysis into Dynamics AX12software preparing transactions to migrate accounting transactions to Net suite software.

Collected over $40k double payments from previous years transactions. Supervised & trained 4 people.

All Safe Global 2021 – 2022

CONTROLLER: Management of Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Cash Flow, Inventory, Payroll, Insurance, month end closing process, Bank account reconciliation through year end financials using Sage & QuickBooks 2021 Enterprise version.

Developed and implemented departmental accounting policies, procedures, and processes to establish and standardize accounting best practices, working in co-ordination with plant manager in Phoenix & headquarter company in MN.

Corrected problematic issues that were causing loss of income and unnecessary increased time of process & shortness of productivity to also include relationship of working employees with management.

Retired at age of retirement 2019 – 2021

I decided at age of retirement to retire and spent all first year of retirement when covid virus hit doing my favorite hobby “gardening” which kept me safe and healthy during that difficult period.

Beginning of 2021 I started felling boring, so I decided to go back to work full time,

Storage Equipment Systems – Phoenix, AZ. 2005 – 2019:

Accounting Manager / Controller

Directed all Accounts Receivable functions Credit evaluations and Collections. No write offs debts.

Directed all Accounts Payable functions to include purchase orders, Process timely weekly check runs.

Calculated & posted monthly commission accruals for sales staff, to be paid quarterly.

Oversee & approve weekly payroll hours processed by outside payroll agency and posting to GL.

Planned & Processed month end closing, to include all accounts reconciliations, Prepared detailed monthly financial analysis of financial statement, determined present and future performance, identified trends and recommended improvements accordingly.

Worked directly with CPA firm; Processed year end adjusting entries and Year end closing books.

Managed & Prepared, paid on Arizona website multi cities monthly contracting Sale Tax Returns. Coordinated liability insurance, Worker’s comp., and Sales tax annual audits with external auditors.

EDUCATION:

Master of Business Administration with concentration in accounting (MBA). Academy of Economic Studies. Bucharest, Romania.

(Evaluated and accredited by: International Education Research Foundation, Los Angeles, CA.)

B.A. Accountancy & Business Administration. College of Economics & Administration. Al Mustansiriyah University, Baghdad, Iraq.

(Evaluated and accredited by: International Education Research Foundation, Los Angeles, CA.)

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