Antony Santiago, CPA, MACC

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Antony is an experienced certified public accountant (CPA) who possesses well-rounded experience in public, private, and non- profit audit & assurance services, including tax return preparation experience servicing high net-worth personal, corporate, & non-profit clients, along with experience in SAP S/4 HANA and SAP ERP FICO (Financial Accounting and Controlling) configuration. Through a career in SAP, Antony aspires to synergize his diverse exposure to various industries and nationalities, attention to detail, and keen interest in process improvement. Experience

SAP S/4HANA Financial Accounting and Controlling July 2022 – Present SAP Certified Application Associate – (C_TS4FI_2021)

Created & assigned organizational units appropriately, including company code, domestic and international plants, storage locations, purchasing organizations, purchasing groups, sales organizations, sales groups, sales offices, distribution channels, and divisions

Created & assigned fiscal year variants, field status variants, document type number ranges, posting period variants, and workflow variants (parking document workflow, JE entry review workflow)

Defined Chart of Accounts & assigned to Company code, Setup Account Groups (Assets, Liabilities, Expenses, and Income), and created GL Accounts

Created Business partner groups, role groupings, and vendor and customer account groups, in addition to structuring external numbering for account groupings and internal numbering for Business Partners

Activated & Configured Document splitting for account ranges, document types, and business transaction variants

Configured & assigned profit center, segment, and cost center appropriately for Controlling module/Cost Accounting

Posted, reversed, and changed certain elements of document header text and setup document change rules for certain document fields

Activated and employed validation and substitution steps, including prerequisites, checks, and callup points, and created messages/field substitutions using the formula editor

Created and used payment terms to create cash discounts for specific transactions

Coordinated down payment requests for SD (sales and distribution) & MM (Material Management) and analyzed special G/L indicator line items in the line-item view

Performed manual invoice clearing, including partial payment/residual payment methods for various open items

Customized the Automatic Payment Program and Dunning (customer payment request) programs

Generated exchange rate types and maintained indirect and direct quotation currency translation rates

Configured Chart of Depreciation, Asset Classes, and Asset Master Data for various types of assets

Produced & executed depreciation posting run for each asset and associated depreciation area

Possesses well-rounded understanding of the requirements analysis project phase (RICEFW’s & process template formation and localization/fit-gap analysis for various regional differences in accounting & tax law)

Obtained understanding of various implementation methods and projects based on cost-benefit analysis of business needs

Attained an overarching view of the SAP Activate implementation methodology Hellam Varon, Bellevue, WA January 2020 – July 2022 Senior Tax Professional

Took active initiate to fulfill a client need to file 20 overdue Oregon State returns by researching 20 years’ worth of Oregon state tax filing requirements, and creating an importable excel template for apportionment to use with CCH Software that I later taught to other teammates for future use with various state projects

Conducted and shared with the company detailed tax research on legal changes in order to keep the firm practices and technical reference material up to date

Scrubbed, organized, and summarized a swath of unorganized data into a pivot table to successfully file overdue trust returns for multiple beneficiaries, and established this template for future company use

Actively contributed to tax season improvement meetings – of note, wrote a Windows Power Shell script to track when tax files were most recently updated in the local company file system so as to know which files are new and old

Upheld superior client service with prompt response times and efficient, mindful, and factually accurate correspondence

Prepared and reviewed varying tax returns, including 1120, 1120-S, & 1065 business tax returns, including setup of AJE’s, FTJE’s (tax adjustments), & additional tax adjustments for new CARES Act funding and regulation changes, preparation of 1040 individual returns, 1041 estate/trust tax returns, federal and multi-state personal tax return preparation, and filing of personal foreign tax returns (e.g., form 8938, FinCen 114, & 3520)

Managed projects by optimizing channels of communication with regards to project completion, project open-items, project uptake and project hand-over to co-workers while working remotely from home and when in the office amidst the ever-changing and dynamic challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic

Conducted numerous projections of varying magnitudes, which involved prompt communication with clients and subsequent estimation of current and future tax liability

Upheld relations with the internal bookkeeping team to create budget financials utilized for book to tax adjustments and tax law change projections

Led calculation of variances between projected and actual tax liabilities to project future tax liability Costco Wholesale Corporation, Issaquah, WA June 2019 – January 2020 Internal Auditor

Oversaw the execution of several Sarbanes-Oxley internal controls tests conducted within the newly implemented SAP ERP system, including quarterly and monthly key account reconciliations, aisle endcap pallet compliance, sales rebates, and vendor contract analyses relating to long-term rebate agreements

Performed quarterly manual Journal Entry (JE) Testing, utilizing large-scale data analytics software, primarily Alteryx, and SAP summary reports/t-codes, in tandem with various quantitative and qualitative criteria to effectively identify high-risk entries and top-side entries, observe associated journal entry support via SAP, assess overall appropriateness of JEs, and perform appropriate follow-up with applicable departments

Conducted data analytics and reasonability assessments for a multitude of audit areas using software such as Alteryx, in conjunction with data drawn from the internal IBM stockkeeping system and SAP ERP FICO system to determine appropriateness of user access with regards to company title, approval limit, and whether assigned capabilities create adequate segregation of duties

Completed an audit to assess the reasonability of Costco cash card activity by independently obtaining data from third party banks and employing big data analytics alongside audit sampling, in addition to affecting necessary changes via collaboration with relevant process scrum masters

Enabled a substantial increase in intracompany synergy and teamwork by discovering and effectively communicating recommendations regarding improvements in cross-departmental processes to minimize risk of fraud and error and maximize company process utility

Single-handedly conducted overnight physical inventory process audits at various warehouse locations across the US, which involved traveling to various physical warehouses, performing wall-to-wall sample counts based on risk, inquiring warehouse departments regarding the adequacy of inventory and recordkeeping procedures, closely observing adherence to segregation of duties and inventory count protocols, and methodically documenting the entire inventory process from start to finish for future reference

Performed pallet placement (endcap) compliance audits to verify proper placement of inventory goods according to specifications set by vendors paying rebates

SAP FICO ERP Professional Training and Configuration October 2018 – March 2019

Performed a full SAP FICO configuration course with a certified and experienced SAP FICO instructor/consultant involving Financial Module configurations of company code details, GL master data, vendor, customer, and asset data, in addition to configuration of Controlling Module cost centers, profit centers, internal orders and utilization of CO module for broader analysis of created Financial Module data The Myers Associates P.C., Seattle, WA August 2017 – September 2018 Tax and Audit Associate

Coordinated the submission of tax return information for numerous clients, resulting in a 100% error-free tax season with regards to client information being delivered to the intended recipients and tax returns being filed on time for clients

Performed tax return preparation and filing for high-net-worth individuals, sole proprietorships, C Corps, S Corps, Partnerships, Trusts, and non-profit organizations

Interfaced extensively with firm leadership, reviewing client correspondences, and creating client inquiries to congregate information critical to completing financial audits of non-profit clients and related tax return preparation services

Performed in-depth research of tax law changes to optimize solutions for client expenditure and long-term savings, resulting in a 30% increase in office productivity

Participated in the combined audits and tax return preparation of large non-profit organizations local to the Seattle area

Led efforts to extract large amounts of data from QuickBooks and client-maintained data, organizing retrieved data, and analyzing this data to promptly complete financial statement preparation services and tax return preparation PwC Houston, TX September 2016 – June 2017

Core Assurance Full-Time Staff

Solely responsible for expediting the confirmation of 100 + domestic and international bank account confirmations via calm and expedient communication bank personnel and PwC’s third-party bank account confirmation service

Assisted in the process of 10-K and 10-Q filings, performing SOX controls testing, and assisting in the stand-alone audit process for SEC filers in the oil & gas industry

Conducted revenue testing over software license, post contract-service, and subscription revenues to ascertain recognition in compliance with GAAP for a major public client in the software industry

Conducted inquiries regarding the correct inclusion/exclusion of Accounts Payable as of year-end and confirmed domestic and foreign Accounts Receivable amounts for a major public oil and gas client and agricultural private client PwC Houston, TX June – August 2015

Core Assurance Summer Intern

Reviewed audit confirms for various investments held by an investment services private client and performed call-back and e-mail validation procedures for purposes of gaining comfort over the validity of audit confirms

EPS tie-out and Pension plan cost update procedures for second quarter 2015 10-Q of a major public oil and gas client PwC Sydney, Australia February – May 2014

Assurance and Advisory Intern, Private Clients Division

Performed evidence-gathering activities such as search for unrecorded liabilities, test bank reconciliations, test accounts receivable reconciliations, test sale of goods, test operating expenses & review of IT general controls

Crafted preliminary consolidated trial balance, balance sheet, income statement, statement of retained earnings, and cash flow statement for a window-manufacturing private client in Sydney, Australia

Performed 3 summer internships prior to this semester-long experience with the PwC Sydney, Australia private-clients division

Education

Washington University, Olin Business School, St. Louis, MO Master of Accountancy (MACC) May 2016

Charles F. Knight Scholar, presented to the top-ranked MACC graduate(s) (1 of 3 recipients) GPA: 3.98/4.00

Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BSBA), Major in Accounting May 2015 Dean’s List: Fall 2014 and Spring 2015

GPA: 3.61/4.00

International Business, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Experience in Israel March 2012

Visited various startups throughout Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem to witness and discover, first-hand, about breakthroughs made by Israeli startups in the automotive, healthcare, and technology sectors Skills/Certifications

SAP Certified Application Associate – (C_TS4FI_2021) - SAP S/4HANA for Financial Accounting Configuration

Alteryx, SQL, Power BI DAX and Power Query, and Excel Power Query for data analysis and ETL (extract, transform, load) data organization

Microsoft Power BI data analysis and visual presentation (Learn Power BI Course Certificate rewarded by Microsoft MVP Avi Singh – MVP ID #5002017)

QuickBooks, ProFx/CCH tax software, and Checkpoint audit and tax research database

MYOB personal accounting software, Catsoft Asset Software, & PwC Aura Auditing Software

Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word, & PowerPoint

Certified Public Accountant, WA State – License #36673

Excellent Verbal and Written communication skills along with an empathetic client understanding approach

Ardent attention to detail, thorough note-taking abilities, and ability to see the bigger picture

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