Senior Accountant -Monthly/Year-End Close and Accounts Reconciciliatio

SVEN ALBRECHT, CPA

Phone: 727-***-**** Email: ***************@*****.*** I LinkedIn Profile Address: 50 Eric Court Oldsmar, FL

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Seasoned accounting and finance professional with public and private industry experience in various industries from startups to Fortune 500 multinational global organizations. Demonstrated leadership and financial strengths in Financial Reporting and Analysis. He is a hands-on Accountant that enjoys problem solving, analyzing, and improving processes.

Diversified experience in the areas of month-end close, corporate controlling, capital and operating budgets, financial analysis/planning, cash management, corporate real estate financial management, compliance, tax returns and business process improvement. Excellent multi-tasking and organizational aptitudes; extensive experience in financial statement, performance reporting and accounting policies and procedures (GAAP – SEC) and Statutory requirements (Insurance industry).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Independent Consultant with ROBERT HALF, Tampa, FL June 2010 to Present

Held the following consulting projects (Only long-term projects listed):

Tax Associate – Tax Season 2023 H&R BLOCK, prepare personal tax returns for tax season 2023, trust and performed reviews and compilation reports for HOA.

Senior Accountant Assistant Controller– Interim Accounting Suppport, Crete Mechanical Group - Prepared the monthly A/R Dashboard on a weekly basis to be presented to Leadership. Assited the 2 Regional Accounting Managers and Controller with Fixed Assets, Audit Support, Cash and Treasury Support, Accounts reconciliation and other ad hoc support as needed.

Senior Accountant Consultant, Superior Group of Companies -SGC.- . SAP Fixed assets maintantnce/ review (create, dispose, review subledger, and calculating depreaciation). SAP cost center maintenance (updating statistical key figures). Cost Center allocations in SAP. Assit Controller and Director of Accounting with P&L variances analysis (Q4 vs Q3, YTD current year versus YTD prior year and review Balance Sheet and reconciliation for various accounts within SAP and ad hoc request. JE review entries. Flux analisis.

Senior Accountant Consultant, Commonwealth Capital Corp. –. Prepared monthly financial statements and variance analyisis for 3 public income funds (SEC) and 3 private income funds with Micrososft Dynamics Great planes platform. Prepared the account schedules (footnotes) that supports the monthly close packages and assissted in the preparation and filling of 10K, 10Q and annual reports.

Accounting Manager, Sciens Building Solution. – Lead timely completion of month-end close process in compliance with US GAAP and participated in the preparation of financial statements and internal management reporting including weekly jobs WIP summary report (work-in process), Flah reports summaries providing the companies’s executive-level with a snapshot of company’s key operational and financial metrics and P&L Bridge analysis.

SEC Reporting Consultant, JABIL – Assisted the SEC reporting group with financial statement tie-out, footnotes disclosures, Workiva Wdesk rollforward and the EY external auditors external checklist.

Tax Consultant, AmeriLife - Assisted with Schedule K-1 (Form 1065) federal tax return filings for AmeriLife investment in partnership interest and state partnerships tax return forms through CCH Axcess cloud tax and accounting software.

Accounting CPA Consultant for small enterprises and individuals. Processed and conducted full accounting cycle for small-size businesses in QuickBooks and Peachtree, prepared tax returns and performed reviews and compilation reports for HOA.

Senior Consultant Shared Accounting Services, Bloomin’ Brands, Inc (3 Month Contract). Prepared monthly shared services adjustments and documentation such as: prepaid rent, deferred rent, excess rent, lease liabilities, and capital leases, accounts receivables and fixed assets. Assisted in the preparation of financial forecasts and flux analysis.

Treasury Consultant, Intertape Polymer Group (5 month Contract) - Monitored company’s daily cash flow, prepared cash flow forecast in accordance with policy and performed analysis and reporting.

Accounting Director Consultant at GARI Enterprises Investments (5 Month Contract) – Temporary replacement for a director of accounting for medical – healthcare family office, commercial real estate and securities investments.

Citigroup, Tampa, FL December 2008 – May 2010

Financial Reporting Manager

Within Financial Reporting Operations (FRO), responsible for providing the ongoing continuous business support and relationship management for organizational entities of Citibank National Association (CBNA).

Monitored the integrity of the balance sheet for 9 business units through monthly and quarterly managerial review process of accounts reconciliation (GAAP) for Citibank Retail.

Performed the month-end closing and generated internal business level reports including Balance Sheet, P&L Statements, and as well as the review and approval of accounting entries;

Assisted in the annual plan/budget process, the monthly financial forecasting for Citibank Retail.

Prepared the quarterly balance sheet variances fluctuations analytics for CBNA controllers group.

Assisted the SEC regulatory group with quarterly financial disclosures related to FASB 107 – Fair Value.

West Point Underwriters, Tampa, FL August 2007 – October 2008

Controller

Oversaw and directed all accounting functions that included month-end closing, review of accounting reports, payables, cash flow, financial statements preparation and all supporting documents including the accounting package and balance sheet reconciliations with a team of 4 direct reports

Performed management reporting, various financial and operations analyses and ad hoc reporting using Access tool to import data and generate queries.

BearingPoint, Washington, D.C. / Phoenix, AZ / Mexico, D.F. January 2004 – July 2007

(Formerly KPMG Consulting Services)

Senior Consultant – Financial Services: Lending & Leasing Group

As a consultant to the management team was responsible for managing enterprise initiatives and projects by identifying, creating, and implementing projects and training to assist in the development and improvement of processes, workflow, resource allocation, and organizational structure.

Implemented Sarbanes-Oxley control documentation and testing; Established Process Control Models (PCM) assessment and provided feedback to senior management on the effectiveness of the processes in place – Nielsen Mexico / Freddie Mac.

Participated in the re-statement of the Financial Statement of one of the world largest mortgage-asset-backed securitization financial institution – Freddie Mac.

Assisted the global external reporting unit of one top financial institution with the quarterly earnings release and the investor relation file while company’s segment was being spun-off – American Express Financial Advisors.

Team leader for the implementation of internal control assessment for a quasi-government financial institution; implemented a new accounting policy to address the correction and adjustments process of financial statements – Fannie Mae.

Team manager of a cost of servicing gap analysis project for a Specialty Products Group (HELOC’s) unit of a Mortgage Bank that resulted in a 1/3 saving of the initial costs – IndyMac Bank Mortgage.

MetLife – Tampa, FL December 2000 – December 2003

Senior Financial Analyst- Real Estate Financial Management Division

Performed accounting and analysis for real estate portfolio investments –Commercial & Residential- and served as a liaison between contracted property management firms and real estate investments to insure the accurate and timely submission of operating reports.

Produced and reconciled various reports to meet GAAP and Statutory requirements including: FAS 144 – Impairment Analysis, FAS 115 Market Valuation, and FIN46.

Assigned portfolio of properties (West Coast 780MM – e.g. 49 Fremont St., 425 Market St.) included timely completion of month-end close, quarterly P&L Flux analysis in excees of 200M, recording sales of existing and acquisition of new properties and maintained the book value roll-forward.

Rewarded cost and special bonus for archievement on the CPA examination and becoming a Certified Accountant of the State of Florida in September 2003.

TSC – Telecommunication Service Center, Tampa, FL January 1996 – January 2000

Accounting Manager

Assisted CFO with preparation, review, and analysis of financial statements and managed company’s month/year end closing and Tax return with the assistance of one accounting associate while taking night semesters at the University of South Florida for a second BS – Finance and requirement to sit for the U.S CPA examination

SIEMENS, Caracas, Venezuela August 1991 – Nov 1995

Promoted within Siemens International rotating program Caracas – Munich headquarters and Siemens International grading and benefits levels.

Planning and Budgeting Manager

Conducted, prepared, updated, monitored two consecutive Capital & Operating budget years with the support of CFO, COO, and the commercial managers of four divisions: Telecommunications, Energy, Medical, and Power (Trains -Subways).

General Accounting Director Manager

Directed Siemens Venezuela monthly, quarterly, and year-end closing. Supervised an accounting team of 14 associates with the day to day accounting workflow to meet all required deadlines as well instructed HR (Payroll) and every other division within the organization for their deadline to meet accounting ones and prepared the consolidated financial statement and reporting packages and explain the variances analyses in two different versions: the local -Siemens Venezuela – (Spanish) and Siemens headquarter Munich, Germany (discussed in person in German) for 3 successful consecutive years. Coordinated the local external audit with KPMG, Caracas and the Siemens Headquarter internal audits (in German).

KPMG, Caracas, Venezuela 1989 – 1991

Assurance Associate

SIEMENS, Caracas, Venezuela

Treasury Assistant 1988 - 1989

While attending college at the evening, assisted CFO with cashflow requirements, planning and banking relationships and Finance department ad hoc projects.

EDUCATION

FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY, FL 2014 Master in Accountancy -Taxation & Fraud Examination (6/10 completed)

University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 2000

Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Major in Finance and Accounting

Universidad Santa Maria, Caracas, Venezuela 1990

Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Accounting

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION

Certified Public Accountant (CPA), State of Florida 2003

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Fluent in English, Spanish, and German, both written and spoken.

COMPUTER SOFTWARE

Excel, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Microsoft Access, Lotus Notes, PeopleSoft, Microsoft Dynamics Great Planes, Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, Essbase, Hyperion, SAP, Workiva Wdesk, CCH Axcess Tax, EY Intelligent Checklist, QuickBooks, Visio, MRI, Faro-Cognos Tool, Millennium, Peachtree, Fox Pro, SAGE-MAS 90-500, IBM AS400, TurboTax, Spectrum

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