Sonita Barua

**** ****** ***., ***: #***, Culver City, CA 90232 Tel: 323-***-**** Email: adod28@r.postjobfree.com

Experience

Fullstack Finance, Santa Monica, CA 7/1/2020-Present

Controller

Fullstack Finance, Santa Monica, CA 11/2017-6/30/2020

Sr. Accounting Manager

Financial services for Startups

Main point of contact with clients, responsible to train staff

Month End Process, cash flow projections, Budget to Actuals

Responsible for full accounting cycle.

Inventory management, cost and revenue accounting

File monthly/annual sales tax, apply for sales tax permits

Payroll duties

Advise and assist in implementing new systems and processes

WINC (Club W) Playa Vista, Los Angeles, CA 06/2016- 11/2017

Sr. Accounting Manager

Responsible for managing, overseeing and training the accounting team

Monitor and analyze accounting data and produce financial reports and statements

Responsible for full accounting cycle

Coordinate and work with external auditors to complete annual audits

Perform monthly bank compliance and daily bank activities

Responsible for cash management

Review and process company payroll and workers compensation insurance

Provide financial reporting for the Wholesale team

Work with GAAP and cost accounting policies

Execute and file Federal and State Sales and Excise tax returns and reports

Key player in the ERP integration and maintenance

Create monthly variance analyses for the team budgets: Forecast to Actuals

Senior Accountant 11/2015- 06/2015

Managed outsourced AP and AR department

Created Intercompany transfers and journals between subsidiaries

Performed monthly inventory reconciliations and PO management

Created and maintained GL account reconciliations

Executed Domestic and Foreign Bank wires/ACH payments

Generated monthly sales reports for Wholesale team

Responsible of monthly close schedule and all tasks involved

Filed all quarterly sales and excise taxes

Staff Accountant 08/2014- 11/2015

Collaborated with the VP of Finance in completing the month-end close process, which included: journal entries, re-class entries, inter-company entries, account analysis, Balance Sheet accounts reconciliations to the general ledger.

P/L and Balance Sheet analysis

General Cost Accounting, revenue accounting

Assisted with the preparation of Month End and Year End Financial Statements

Monthly bank and credit cards reconciliations

Record accruals with multi department heads

Managed all E-commerce chargebacks through 3rd party credit card processor

Maintain all aspects of Accounts Payable, to include annual 1099 preparation

Payroll processing and maintenance of affiliated records

Worked together with Project Managers to compile and file monthly, quarterly and annual

compliance reports

Updated fixed asset schedules, deferred rent schedules, prepaid amortization schedules

Assisted VP of Finance with Audit work

SoleSociety, Culver City, Los Angeles, CA 01/2013- 08/2014

Senior Coordinator, Operations

Compliance set up for new wholesales customers

Daily activity with Drop ship and EDI system

Responsible for fulfillment for wholesales account such as: Nordstrom, QVC and HauteLook

Quality Control regulations for incoming products

Inventory adjustments

Liquidation offerings and sales

E-commerce site allocations

Order Fulfillment and Process Allocator 07/2012 -05/2014

Operations Responsibilities

Managing and tracking all wholesale B2B sales orders into GP/ERP system

Creating and importing purchase orders into ERP system

Creating and maintaining SKUs life cycle for all inventory

Receiving purchase orders and sending out receipt recaps to cross functional teams

Perform daily activities, which are necessary in order to maintain effective inventory records

Work with Accounts Payable and Operations to ensure that inventory payments are supported by inventory receipts

Assist the management staff in planning and organizing inventory levels

Communicate and develop process enhancements as needed (performs root cause analysis on inventory discrepancies and recommends process improvements to eliminate them)

Complete special projects and assist other employees as needed (special projects, inventory process analysis, assists on packaging guidelines and inventory tracking)

Assure that return credits are accurately applied against vendor payments

Analyze and report returned products for excessive amounts and for root cause

Coordinate RTVs(Return to Vendor)

Create weekly wholesale summary for accounting

Participating in project manage new vendor set up such as QVC and consignment accounts

Review all Nordstrom’s chargebacks and process claims with Nordstrom’s AP department

Maintain and monitor appropriate levels of inventory to meet the dynamic and fast paced ordering system

Monitor Fulfillment for B2B orders along with assist with any B2C/ecommerce order issues

Project managing new B2B customer’s set up with all processes needed

Skills

NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains, QuickBooks, Microsoft Excel, Outlook, Word, Shopify, Bill.com, TaxJar,Paypal,Stripe

Project manager, innovative, problem solver, detail oriented and organized

Education

Bachelor’s Degree: Business and Finance, with Minor in Economics

California State University, Northridge, 08/2010 – 12/2012

References

Provided upon request

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