Iru Chen

**** ********* **. ******** ****** California 91745

ad1ozq@r.postjobfree.com

626-***-****

OBJECTIVE:

Obtain an accountant position utilizing my education and practical experience to support my employer’s accounting and financial organizational goals.

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS:

- Twenty years of practical hands-on experience in a variety of industries including wholesale distribution, import/export of recyclables, aftermarket auto parts distribution, and retail.

- An Accountant with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment with management consulting skills and decision making .

- Experience leading and supervising staff on projects, auditing transactions and process improvement.

- Advanced experience in: General Accounting, AP/AR, Financial Statements/reporting, Fixed Asset Management, Tax planning, Cash management, recording, Asset Management, Financial Management, Forecasting, Financial Audits, Budgeting, General Ledger, AP, AR, Payroll, Commission preparation, and sales and use tax reporting. EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Accountant

Unitech America Inc. Cypress CA ($100 million sales per year) 05/2022 – 11/2023

- It is an international accountant reconciling USD, Peso, Euro, and NTD cash flow /daily posting/ AR/ cost reports / Banks/ GL/ end month closing / inventory adjustments/making consolidation FS /supporting audits reports and solving wrong entries issues.

-Prepare payroll reports, 17 states Sales Tax, cash flow, close end of month JE, Financial reports, sales reports, with all answers and solving problems.

-Prepare and management 401K fund, ADP, AMEX credit cards, KPI and monthly reporting package for both internal and external entities (full financial package and supporting schedules) with DURKIN/Group

-Successfully facilitate monthly financial reviews with yearly auditors outside agencies in a few countries.

- Acted as the point of contact for the FY 2022, 2023 Audit with Yangtze, and Deloitte CPAs and Co.

- Successfully managed an accounting department staff of 3 (A/R Clerk, A/P Clerk, inventory personnel )

- Acted as the point of contact for semi-annual inventory appraisals

- Successfully manage the relationship with our asset-based lending entity Controller

FDH Inc. Commerce CA ($340 million sales per year) 01/2022 – 03/2023

- It is an international accountant reconciling USD, GBP, Euro, and CNY cash flow /daily posting/ AR/ cost reports / Banks/ GL/ end month closing / inventory adjustments/making consolidation FS /supporting audits reports and solving wrong entries issues.

-Prepare Daily tracker, cash flow, close end of month JE, Financial reports, sales reports, with all answers and solving problems.

-Prepare ABL loan borrowing and monthly reporting package for both internal and external entities (full financial package and supporting schedules) with DURKIN/Group

-Successfully facilitate monthly financial reviews with yearly auditors outside agencies in a few countries.

- Acted as the point of contact for the FY 2021, 2022 Audit with RG, RSM, and Birley Advisory service.

- Successfully managed an accounting department staff of 8 (A/R Clerk, A/P Clerk, tax specialist, Sr. crop accountant &Sr. accountants )

- Acted as the point of contact for semi-annual inventory appraisals

- Successfully manage the relationship with our asset-based lending entity Comptroller

LSSSC

03/ 2019 to 01/ 2022

Implementation and guidance to programs' budgets, AP disbursements,restriction funds, billing allocations, sub-ledger, and payroll ledger.

- Successfully facilitate monthly financial reviews with outside agencies

- Successfully managed an accounting department staff of 7 (G/L, Billing Clerks, A/P Clerks, payroll,and procurement specialist)

- Acted as the point of contact for annual budget and update.

- Acted as the point of contact for FY 14-20 SBC audit & Cost reports

- Successfully manages the relationship with Sr. Directors, Program Managers, and Board members.

- Managing 75 Audits for a year signal one, HUD, SBC, LA county, and States, and many others.

- Budget more than 120 programs a year and conversed from squared footage to FTE allocation.

- Improvement of procedures for Fiscal Department, AP, AR, Fix assets, prepaid schedule, concur, Paylocity set up, Colleagues, Ellucian, Fund Ez, and many others.

Controller

DECO Lighting Inc. Commerce CA ($55-$60 million sales per year) 6 Mo. Contract 10/2018 – 3/2019

- Prepare ABL loan borrowing and monthly reporting package for both internal and external entities (full financial package and supporting schedules) with DURKIN/Group

-Successfully facilitate quarterly financial reviews with outside agencies

- Acted as the point of contact for the FY 2018 Audit with Moss Adams

- Successfully managed an accounting department staff of 5 (A/R Collections Clerk, A/P Clerk, A/R sales tax specialist)

- Acted as the point of contact for semi-annual inventory appraisals

- Acted as the point of contact for FY 2015 – FY 2017 sales tax audit

- Successfully manage the relationship with our asset-based lending entity Accounting Manager

BP Fasteners Chino CA 11/2016-10/2018

-Supervised 4 accounting/ warehouse Staff

- Daily cash flow, and accurate inventory ability

- Motoring customer credit line, collecting from customers

-Supervising invoicing

-Three-way matching invoices and disputing billing

-Responded to all credit card payments, correcting invoice information

-Company tax filing and reports, including payroll, and end of month reports and budget reports Business Manager

UpStar USA Inc. Ontario California ($20-$25 million sales per year) 8/2015-11/2016

-Supervised 6 Accounting/Inventory Staff

-Solutions to Amazon and A/R factor accounts reconciling three years’ sales and applying account payable rules to disputing fees such as three-way matching for payments

-Monitoring and creating rules for company accounting and general business

- Prepare COGS, job cost (ABC), variance cost, overhead cost, direct cash flow, contribution margin, and relevant range Accounting Manager

Cozzia USA LLC City of Industry CA ($15-$25 million) 11/2013-07/2015

-Supervised 5 Accounting/Inventory Staff

- Inventory Control, Cost Accounting, Accounts Payable, Semi-monthly Payroll, Bank Reconcile, Adjusting Journal Entries, Analysis of Accounts, Account Reconciliations, Asset Account Statement, Sales reports, and Sales Tax, Payroll Tax.

- Reporting to China headquarters monthly by 7th of month,

-Prepare Audit work- BOE, Deloitte Tax LLP

- Setup Sage 100 and guiding staffs using software, create costume reports, plus other projects such as: travelling overseas and out state for inventory counts and report to headquarters Senior Accountant

ENS Granite Inc., Anaheim, California 09/2011 – 10/2013

- Inventory control, Cost Accounting, posting encumbrances, financial records, and journals adjustment, and verifying invoice payment process

- Participated in warehouse management, sales support, and accounting

- Worked overtime up to work six days per week.

SOFTWARE & SYSTEMS EXPERIENCE:

• Computer skills – QuickBooks, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access, and MS Outlook

• Knowledge of Cost / Financial Accounting and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)

• Software: ERP systems (Oracle Cloud,Quantum, GP, NetSuite, Fund Ez, Colleagues, Concur, MAS90/200, Sage 100, Quicken, SAP, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access, and MS Outlook. Traverse, TSheets, ADP, Paylocity) . LANGUAGES:

• Trilingual (read, write, speak) English, Mandarin, and Taiwanese EDUCATION:

• UCLA Extension Certificate for Accounting 2018 and Internal Auditor

• CPA Track (2 exams taken)

• H& R block Whitter, CA

Certified tax preparation trained and worked.

• Wichita State University, BA accounting / Management Wichita, Kansas

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