PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Summary Qualifications:

Staff Accountant committed to excellence well-versed in accounting regulations standard practices and confidentiality issues. Consummate professional who leaves no stone unturned to ensure completely accurate and compliant records.

Highlights: GAAP familiarity, Month End Close, Data Analysis, Detail-oriented, Team Player, SOX compliance, General ledger accounting, Reporting and analysis, Tax law understanding, Reconciliations

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE

Methodologies/Others: Accounting, GAAP familiarity, Month End Close, Data Analysis, Detail-oriented, Team Player, SOX compliance, General ledger accounting, Reporting and analysis, Tax law understanding, Reconciliations

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Heraeus Incorporated Jul 2023 to present

Tax Associate, Yardley PA

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following (other duties may be assigned as required):

Log tax notices and follow up Support monthly sales and use tax function

Upload and maintain tax exception certificate Support with tax filing tracking

Support sales tax audits Resolve tax notices and follow up Support various simple tax filings (income, excise, gross receipts, etc. Initiate tax payments.•

Support the annual Form 1099 process. Support other tax related projects as requested

Hispanic Family Center Apr 2023 – Jul 2023

Fiscal Specialist, Camden, NJ

Maintain agency cash balances

Enter all cash receipts and reconciled operating banking balances

Prepared and enter monthly journal entries

Assisted in preparation of monthly financial reports and invoices

Assisted in preparation of the year end audits

TRANE-TOZOUR ENERGY SYSTEMS Jun 2022 – Dec 2022

Service Business Administrator, King of Prussia, PA

Book service projects (quoted jobs) in COINS accounting system.

Generate, modify, distribute, and file project related documents such as purchase orders, change orders, insurance certificates, and subcontractor agreements..

Collaborate with service project managers to update job budgets, approve costs, generate billings, and complete projects..

GLADWYNE MONTESSORI SCHOOL, Gladwyne, PA Apr 2021 – 03/2022

Staff Accountant (Contract)

Performed tuition and fee billing and tracking.

Recorded cash receipts, and posted accounts receivable and accounts payable.

Reconciled bank statements and general ledger accounts.

Maintained necessary ledgers, general ledger system, and prepared periodic financial statements.

Maintaining the general ledger, recording cash receipts and financial transactions.

Creating invoices and billing materials to be sent directly to a customer.

Posts customer payments by recording cash, check, and credit card transactions.

Updates receivables by totaling unpaid invoices.

PROJECT HOME, Philadelphia, PA Sep 2019 – 03/2021

Staff Accountant

–Responsible for the daily postings of cash receipts and assist with preparation and monitoring of cash flow reports and A/R collections.

Assists with monthly closing activities, journal entries, accruals entries, amortization of prepaid /expense schedules and recording of adjusting and reclassification journal entries.

Perform balance sheet account reconciliations and P&L account analysis.

Assist with month-end consolidation process by loading financial information into Cognos system.

Provide support as necessary to internal and external auditors.

CHEVRON OVERSEAS, Luanda, AO Apr 2013 – Jul 2019

Financial Reporting Accountant

Prepared monthly statements by collecting data; analyzing and investigating variances; summarizing data, information and trends.

Prepared state quarterly and annual statements by assembling data.

Responded to financial inquiries by gathering, analyzing, summarizing, and interpreting data.

Provided finance advice by studying operational issues applying financial principles and practices.

Prepared special reports by studying variances; prepared budgets; developed forecasts.

ARBOR EARN CENTER, Philadelphia PA Apr 2011 – Mar 2013

Staff Accountant

Set up and maintained project records in accounting and tracking systems.

Coordinated with Project Managers to track and analyze project costs.

Invoicing and following up collections with Contract Administrators Daily/monthly journal entries and expense reconciliations.

Assisted with implementation of cost standards and monitor cost variances.

Assisted in the preparation of forecasts and budgets.

WACHOVIA BANK, Philadelphia, PA Jun 2008 – Mar 2011

Financial Analyst

Monitor management of cash for the joint venture including daily receipts, disbursements, transfers of funds and information reporting. Opened new accounts, updates them and closes as requested.

Prepared balance sheet forecasting methods and implement cash management operational strategies to assist management in short and long term strategic planning.

PNC BANK, Valley Forge, PA Mar 2005 – May 2008

Tax Analyst

Prepared and reviewed income tax provisions, federal and state tax returns for mutual funds.

Calculated, reviewed excise tax work papers.

Prepared and reviewed income tax provision, excise tax distribution, compliance reporting for mutual funds and for the consolidated group such as Wells Fargo, Gabelli, Mattews Pacific, Kelmore Mutual Funds & more.

Assisted in preparation of the consolidated Federal Form 1120-RIC.

Calculated quarterly and yearly estimated tax payments. Performed 1065 Partnership returns..

INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, Philadelphia, PA Dec 2000 – Jan 2005

Tax Analyst

Audited corporate and individual tax returns, researched a variety of sources, analyzed and initiated actions tax issues obtaining applicable returns, schedules and all required information for correction of accounts and records.

COMPUTER SKILLS: Familiar with MS Office 2016, Share Point, AS 400, Lawson, Peachtree, SAP, FINIC, FACTS, Prelude and Coins.

LANGUAGE SKILLS: Fluent in English, Portuguese and Spanish

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science Degree

Dual Major: Finance & Business Administration

University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK Aug 1994

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