Southeast Florida Audit Associate

Chana Mpafe CPA MBA 651-***-****

Doctorate in Business Admin *****.*****@*****.***

University Of South Florida Palm Beach Florida

Corporate finance executive and CPA with more than 20 years of leadership experience in finance, Internal Audit and accounting management. Adept at building finance and accounting teams for executive decision making. Specialist in synchronizing sales, operations, and management with financial goals as a catalyst for growth and profit. SOX Compliance expert.

Regional Finance Controller August 2014 – Present

Wastepro: Palm Beach FL

Managing Accounting, Costing, and Finance for Southeast Florida Region of Wastepro with Regional revenue of $300 Million including 6 Hauling Division with 900,000 single family homes and Consolidation and intercompany allocations.

Monthly Forecasting, Quarterly forecast, and Annual Budgeting. Monthly variance analysis and Monthly operational reports on financial results

Cost driver and identification specialist. Implementor of business strategy for millennial labor force using innovative technology solutions.

Operations and HR team go-to solutioner for claims adjustments, scheduling, and compensation decision making

Management of cash flow with overall responsibility for Account payables and Account receivables

Special projects and capital expenditure projects forecasting, costing, and analysis. Approval of capital expenditure, tracking of capital expenditure, and management of resources related to expenses.

Directing the month-end close process from billing to financial disclosure of results to the executive leadership team.

Approval thresholds, GAAP, SOX Policies of Journal Entries, prepaids, capitals etc.

Cash flows and AR management. System transitions and asset management

Contract negotiation and contract interpretation

Managing 28 unique cities and contracts. • Working on City Bids and RFP/RFQ costing and proposal packages for city requests. Implementing CPI increases and price changes.

Cloud Migration finance team liaison.

Cloud audit SOC2 voluntary Compliance standards validation and PCI DSS compliance.

Finance Controller May 2011 – August 2014

Veolia Environmental /Advanced Disposal: St Paul MN

Veolia is an environmental company servicing municipalities and individuals on their environmental and recycling needs. A multibillion-dollar company with St Paul & Buffalo Landfill divisions contributing $125Million annually to its global revenue. I served as the Finance Controller for both divisions. As the Pivot of all finance-related activities, I am consequential in any operational decision making and their underlying ramification to the firm.

Introduced RFID system and tagging for all recycle to promote tracking of individual housing activities to promote targeting information strategies for ecofriendly habits

Coordinating all activities relating to the general ledger and ensuring the seamless transition and accuracy of accounts.

Lead personnel on all company tax, internal, external, Sarbanes Oxley, and statutory audits.

Preparing Journal entries, weekly, monthly forecasts, Budgets and financial statement preparation for management decision making.

Defining and introducing tools to be used by management for accessing financial status and costing of unique projects. Analyzing Account Receivable and coordinating collections activities on major accounts.

Preparing municipalities and prospective customers Requests for proposals for the bid process on expectant city and county contracts. Calculating expectant EBITDA, ROGFA, and IRR on said contracts.

Budgeting on an annual basis. Capital requirement assessment and request applications.

Senior Financial Analyst Sox Compliance April 2008 – May 2011

Hoffman Enclosures: Anoka MN

Coordinating all GL activity relating to Canadian and Mexico operations. Including all Canadian tax issues (GST taxes and QST taxes). Currency adjustment and holding account maintenance. Filing and correspondence for all foreign tax requirements.

Ensuring the viability of the financial statements in accordance with the Mexican and Canadian regulations and providing monthly financial analysis for Canadian statements. Data mining, audit liaison, contractual re-assessments, foreign operations financial statements (Mexico and Canada).

Ownership of SOX reporting requirements and working with internal and external auditors to identify additional areas in which such documentations are necessary. Advisory and complimentary work with IT on accounting system.

Monthly review of accounts reconciliations using Black Line. Variance analysis on key account balance and summary reports requested on various accounts based on materiality.

Staff Accountant September 2006 – April 2008

Dolan Media Minneapolis

In charge of all lawyer’s weekly newspaper division and subsidiaries. Preparing the client audit list for auditors. Developing and standardizing the month end process. Introducing month end reports necessary for assessment of financial statements.

Preparation of lead sheet and flowcharts for monthly audits. SOX and GAAP compliance of financial statements and records. Quarterly expenditure review and analysis. Cost control and cost allocation among the various entities. Revenue and deferred revenue allocation.

Bank statements reconciliations for entities, accounts merging, removal and addition based on revised internal financial information formats. Lean events to reduce time frame of the close process.

Migration of fixed assets schedule from excels to FAS system. Re-assessment and translation of depreciation from 4-4-5 system to monthly basis and preparing journal entries.

Introduction of bi-annual capital asset purchase re-imbursement with the Minnesota Department of Revenue. Managed all annual, quarterly and state sales tax audits.

Audit Associate June 2002 – June 2004

Deloitte & Touché Afrique Central Douala Cameroon

Monitoring and overseeing the auditing process from start to finish.

Discrepancies identification the data or figures.

Assess the audit for accuracy and compliance.

Using the data perform risk and control assessments.

Submit all audits and reports to the auditing manager.

PBC list preparation and communication to client

Variance and financial statement analysis.

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