Administrative Assistant Executive Support

NADEREH NIKTASH

*** ***** **** ***** ************, MD 20878

Home: 301-***-****

Cell: 301-***-****

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Objective Seeking a challenging position utilizing my experience in management, accounting, data processing, secretarial and administrative.

Professional Experiences:

Senior Administrative Assistant–FORVIS MAZARS (formerly Dixon Hughes Goodman)-McLean, VA October 2021–Present

Provide executive support to partners, directors and managers by performing the following tasks:

Provide high-level administrative support to the partners and managers

Assist with the travel and expense reporting functions for assigned partners

Coordinating calendars, scheduling and rescheduling meetings and appointments

Accurate and timely preparation of correspondence, engagement letters and various reports

Working with marketing on maintaining local CRM activity

Mailing and e-mailing out invoices to clients and follow up on the outstanding invoices

Faxing, Copying & Mailing

Provide in-office support for team and office needs in general

Networking with other administrative professionals throughout the Firm and providing back-up and cross train, as needed

Travel arrangement in Concur

Provide full scale of executive support to the entire “Tax Team” by performing the following tasks:

Assemble tax returns

Prepare and mail tax extensions

E-Filing

Scan client workpapers

Run weekly financial reports & tax due date reports in GFR (GoFileroom)

Enter tax opportunities in CRM

Create engagement code/client number in CER

Filing of tax documents

Enter and save documents in GoFileRoom

CPE Registration

Send documents to client for signature via AdobeSign

Set up client portal for uploading tax documents

Senior Administrative Assistant/Tax Processor- RSM US LLP- Gaithersburg, MD-June 2009 - Oct 2021

Provide executive support to partners, directors and managers by performing the following tasks:

Type correspondence, arrangement letters and handle proofreading

Schedule appointments, calendaring and setting up meetings, conference calls and video conferencing

Prepare travel arrangements including airline and hotel reservations, and ground transportation

Enter time and expenses; prepare expense reports

Prepare invoices

Provide back up support for the receptionist as needed

Faxing, Mailing, Copying, Scanning

Open and distribute mail frequently throughout the day

Direct incoming and outgoing telephone calls

Order Supplies

Provide full scale of executive support to the entire “Tax Team” by performing the following tasks:

Assemble tax returns

Prepare and mail tax extensions

E-Filing

Scan client workpapers

Run weekly financial reports & tax due date reports

Enter tax opportunities in Salesforce/eCRM

Handle staff Scheduling

Filing of tax documents

Setting monthly Lunch & Learn for the Tax Department

CPE Registration

Request Tax files from Iron Mountain and Log in file and send to Iron Mountain

Secretary/Administrative Assistant- Deloitte & Touche, LLP-Tyson's Corner, VA-December 2002 thru June 2009

Supported partners, directors and senior managers in Tax, National Federal Tax Services, Health and Business Development departments by performing the following:

Formatted, typed and proofed office correspondence, proposals, and memos

Formatted, edited and proofed PowerPoint presentations

Prepared invoices and created billing and correspondence files

Entered time and expenses; prepared time transfers & other SA reports and related matters as needed; reconciled credit card statements with time and expenses for partners

Maintained partner's and director's calendars and contacts

Made travel arrangements

Coordinated meetings and conference calls regularly with client service professionals

Opened and distributed mail frequently throughout the day

Directed incoming and outgoing telephone calls

Faxing; copying and other general office administrative duties

Interacted with clients and directed partner's voicemails to appropriate individuals

Secretary/Administrative Assistant- S.S. Papadopulos & Associates, Inc. (Environmental & Water Resource Consultant)-Bethesda, MD-May 2002 thru December 2002

Formatted, typed and proofed office correspondence, proposals, and memos

Formatted, printed, prepared and bound reports for clients

Transformed reports into PDF format

Scanned incoming and outgoing documents

Typed and mailed invoices on a monthly basis

Filing

Directed incoming and outgoing telephone calls

Made travel arrangements

Set up for training courses in-house

Executive Secretary –Reznick Group, CPA – Bethesda, MD-December 1997-May 2002

Typed correspondence, letters, tax forms and memos

Collected and entered weekly timesheets

Prepared expense reports

Answered partners and managers calls and attended to clients inquiries and questions

Made travel and meeting arrangements

Assembled tax returns

Prepared and mailed tax extensions

Prepared quarterly estimates

Typed invoices and posting them into the system

Printed different types of monthly billing reports

Filing, faxing, copying

Prepared Federal Express packages to send out

Worked with Human Resource Dept. on campus recruiting

Worked on small project such as First Union Deals(coordinated and organized deals, projections and documents)

Senior Data Entry/Team Leader/Supervisor- Cox & Associates, CPA, P.C.- Washington, DC- November 1995- December 1997

Supervised big projects with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

Entered financial data from approximately 15,000 audit reports into a financial database III & Access 2.0.

Supervised data entry staff consisting of five to ten employees

Provided solutions for problem reports that are not acceptable in database

Collected and reported statistical data for task order manager

Maintained and verified timesheets for data entry staff

Entered data from the reports into the database, and recorded the missing data on the input form.

Accounting and Administrative Specialist- Snyder, Kamerow & Associates, CPA, P.C.- Bethesda, MD - October 1987- November 1995

Assembled tax returns

Accounts payables, accounts receivables, daily bank deposits

Posted employees time sheets

Prepared and printed various monthly financial reports

Generated various general ledger reports for accountants through ATB and Unilink.

Payroll and quarterly estimates

Typed correspondence, letters, tax forms and memos

Insurance Administrator- Dye & Eskin Life Insurance- McLean, Virginia-May 1987-October 1987

Gathered information from clients regarding their insurance applications and processed them in to the system

Managed insurance data files

Typed correspondence, letters, tax forms and memos

Account Payable and accounts receivables

Made daily bank deposits.

Assistant Manager- Hecht Company- Tyson’s Corner, Virginia- May 1983-October 1987

Supervised the department’s staff

Performed department inventory control

Checked in new merchandise and priced them daily

Rearranged the displays of merchandise weekly

Prepared the staff work schedule

Rearranged the floor merchandise weekly or monthly for upcoming sales

Assisted the Department Manager with paperworks

Worked with the buying offices on a regular basis

Helped the other departments in the absence of their managers.

Education B.A. in Business Administration- Stockton State College, Pomona, New Jersey- May 1983

Compu Club- December 1995-August 1996

Certificate in Microsoft Office

Computer

Software: Windows 2016, Microsoft Office, Prosystem, CCH Axcess Tax, CCH Workstream, Tax Caddy, SurePrep, Tax Trak, Salesforce/eCRM, Concur Travel, Staff Trak (Scheduling), RTE (Time & Expense), IPM (Invoicing), Sharepoint, WebEx (Video Conferencing), Capture & 1040 Prime (Scanning Tax Documents), GoFileRoom, AdobeSign, STAR, CER

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