GAURAV SAREEN, CPA, CMA, MST

Professional Experience:

17+ years of Complex Taxation, Auditing, and Finance experience

Strengths:

Extensive Taxation, Accounting Controller & Financial Analysis skills including:

Monthly Board Packages with Graphs, Variances, Budgets and Financials,

Financials preparation experience including 10K, 10Q notes and Monthly and Yearly Closing, Advanced general ledger entries experience, GAAP Accounting & SEC Reporting experience

Budgets Monthly and Yearly with ERP uploads and Financial Models

Advanced computer skills in Excel and ERP Systems. People Soft, Macola (Microsoft ERP), Hyperion. Data imports, queries, uploads to system of budgets.

Advanced Taxation Skills –

IRS 8+ years of experience auditing Largest US & international Complex issues and tax structures in IRS Audits.

Some Issues Audited: Advance Pricing agreements (APA), Subpart F, Sec 482 -Transfer pricing issues, capitalization v expense issues, 263 A, R&D Credit, Joint committee refunds, mergers and acquisition transactions, International Restructuring, Foreign Tax Credits, Sec 338 (H)(10).

After completing Masters in Taxation 5/ 2009 focused on Taxation

Tax Manager / GS-13 IRS Agent, International Tax Specialist / Team Coordinator Large Audits – IRS (Large Business & International Division) 2009 to Present

Joined IRS in 2009 after Masters in Taxation as Large Business IRS Agent and progressed to Tax Manager for Large Business & International Division of IRS located in San Francisco.

Worked in Federal Building Chicago, Los Angeles, Albany as Large Business Audit Team Coordinator for Taxation Audits. Main role is to conduct very complex tax audits for the IRS auditing top corporations with revenues in Billions of Dollars. Got promoted to a specialized international taxation area of tax law.

International Taxation Issues like Form 1118, Form 5471, Permanent Establishments, 1120 F Returns

Subpart F Income, Section 482 Transfer Pricing, Foreign Tax Credits Sec 901 and Sec 902, International Reorganizations Sec 367, Advance Pricing Agreements discussions for royalties, intangible valuation

Mergers Tax Consequences Audited

NOL Limitation Section 382 Losses audited

Part of subject Matter Expert Team for UNIAP Sec 263 A

Deferred Revenue Issues, Research Credit Issues Audited

Large Business Audits managed by Leading a team of Engineers, Economists, International Examiners, Financial Products Specialists

Sec Filings 10K 10Q analyzed and compared to Taxation Returns and Book tax Differences

Validating Loss Carryback claims and working with Joint Committee

Audits result in preparing adjustment write-ups for Issues with Law and Analysis

Northrop Grumman 7/2008 -1/2009

Corporate Strategic Financial Specialist 5 (Manager Grade)

Acquisition target valuation calculations

Projects include reviewing SEC Filings

DCF Analysis valuation

Leveraged Buy Out valuation

Merger Consequences on projects

Management reporting, like earnings review of competitors

North American Scientific (NASM)

Cancer Medicine, Publicly Listed Company 8/2006 – 7/2008

Tax Manager/ Senior Financial Analyst

FIN 48 & FAS 109 (Taxation related GAAP) compliance files prepared and coordinated with auditors.

Assistant Controller for few months reporting to CFO and finalizing audit.

Consolidation of foreign subsidiaries

Advanced Excel use to compile financial models using lookups, sumifs, pivot tables & macros.

Preparing yearly budget files for each department and then presenting a Budget Rollup to the Board.

Preparing Monthly Board Package of Financials & Forecasts

Monthly close entries for payroll, commissions, inventory reconciliation & accruals.

Variance Analysis - Departments Actual vs. Budget Reports sent to CFO & CEO.

Revenue Reports done for the CEO and VP of Sales

Costing for materials and overhead cost control.

Margin Analysis done for various products and reasons for variation researched.

Addressing State Business Tax Compliance and Nexus issues.

Coordinating the year-end audit and preparing schedules for the audit.

Bank Reports for credit limits against accounts receivable to the bank.

Revenue Recognition for software service contracts based on SOP 97-2 (GAAP)

LAUSD Senior Financial Manager

12/2002- 7/2006

Coordinating funds from school district head office to sites

Preparing Financial Statements and monthly closing

Performing the role of financial advisor & supervising staff

Preparing Budgets & Variance Analysis

Preparing Bank Reconciliations

Reporting to Fiscal Services relating to assets, inventory & expense reports

Dominos Pizza India (Corporate Head Office Managing 100 Stores)

10/2000 – 04/2002

Corporate Manager of Accounts

Prepared Import & Export letter of credits & foreign exchange fluctuation entries

Completed Royalty journal entries & branch related entries

In charge of capitalization accounting

Managed bank reconciliation entries and accounts payable reconciliations

Coordinated with auditors from Ernst & Young - Preparation of notes of accounts

Completed entries related to Coke marketing partnership & Chase Investments

Prepared MS Access asset register which generated depreciation schedules

Tax Audit Schedules Preperation

Cargill India ( Part of US Cargill Foods)

05/1999 – 10/2000

Management Trainee

Prepared Asset Register in MS Access & MS Excel.

Prepared some module for the systems manual.

Reconciled asset vendor accounts.

Kanodia Sanyal & Associates (CPA Firm)

10/1994- 05/1999

Audit Manager and Completed Chartered Accountant Internship – 3 years

Performed Statutory Audits- Fuji Photo films, Jindal Steel Industries. (50 Billion Dollar steel publicly listed companies)

Performed internal audits for various companies & finalized balance sheets as an auditor.

Prepared tax returns for Partnerships & corporates.

Internship doing auditing, accounting & taxation on the job along with education through ICAI. Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) –10/1994 –10/1997

Education

CPA (Certified Public Accountant), US

CMA (Certified Management Accountant), US

Masters Science in Taxation (Cal State Northridge Business School)

CA (Chartered Accountant of India.)

Bachelors of Commerce – Accounting Honors 07/1996

US Accredited by ACEI (Academic Credentials Evaluation Institute Inc. CA)

Date of Birth: Nov 6th, 1975

Nationality: US Citizen

Contact Info:

9302 Bigby Street, Downey, Los Angeles, CA 90241

323-***-**** ad2vdk@r.postjobfree.com

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