Accountant, Payroll Officer, Bookkeeper, Accounting

Luis J. Quirindongo

BOOKKEEPER

ACCOUNTANT

AP/AR SPECIALIST

HIGHLIGHTS

● Professional with experience in small business management, bookkeeping and accounting as a contractor/linguist who has managed and kept the books of a $40K business.

● Knowledgeable of accounting concepts, such as full-charge bookkeeping, GAAP, account reconciliation and end-of-cycle reporting. Skilled in QuickBooks, payroll, variance analysis, and ledger reconciliation.

● Graduated with a GPA of 3.964 as a full-time student due to hard work and collateral research, resulting in being invited to Delta Mu Delta’s Finance chapter and the National Society for Leadership and Success.

● My career pivot to Accounting seeks more pay through more productivity time, as my SME’s monthly KPI analysis showed that 30% of the time is spent searching for leads, bidding and writing project cover letters.

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE BOOKKEEPER / ACCOUNTANT CANDIDATE 09/2021 - NOW

Puerto Rico

● I began my career pivoting to accounting, seeking bookkeeping clients to obtain more pay through more productivity time, as my SME’s monthly KPI analysis showed that 30% of the time was spent searching for leads, bidding and writing project cover letters.

● Undertook 1 year of continued education in tax preparation, advanced auditing, cost accounting and managerial accounting, financial reporting, financial modeling and data analysis. OWNER / BOOKKEEPER 10/2015 - 09/2021

Spanish Translation Services, Puerto Rico, Contract-based remote work

● Executed administrative tasks, bookkeeping in Quickbooks Online and Desktop, managing payroll, booking bank deposits, sales receipts and B2B purchases while selling professional services.

● Managed AR/AP schedules (accounts receivable / accounts payable) through bi-weekly verification.

● Day-to-day bookkeeping: Reconciled cash receipts, registered bills, issued invoices (billing), processed purchase orders and negotiated discounts and collections. Performed monthly account reconciliations.

● End-of-cycle accounting: Reached yearly profits above $52,000 through internal financial reporting, AR verification, variance analysis and cash forecasts to keep KPIs in check. Also assisted CPA with tax filings. Took time off to overcome clinical depression 02/2010 - 09/2015 Unemployed, Ponce, Puerto Rico, Unemployed

SPANISH TRANSLATOR AND LEAD EDITOR

08/2003 - 01/2010

TransPerfect Translations and Lionbridge Technologies

New York

● Conducted translation tasks, such as translation, editing, and QC, within the Outsourcing department of two well-known companies in the translation industry.

● Managed a linguistic query database for Puerto Rico and Latin America, reducing stage 1 (translation) errors by 30%. Promoted to Lead Editor and attended client meetings to address end reader (customer) satisfaction.

EDUCATION

BSci IN ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE

2020-2021

Southern New Hampshire University

● GPA of 3.963. Taxation, auditing, financial accounting, payroll taxes, cost accounting, and bookkeeping.

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