Professional Recruiter, Administrator, Accountant
Resume:
Brinda Sullivan
**************@*****.***
Summary of Qualifications
Friendly and personable recruitment professional with diverse credentials including 2+ years talent acquisition experience at local and national sourcing agencies. Skilled at headhunting and locating top candidates, gaining enthusiasm and interest, and guiding them to ideal positions based on skills, experience, background, paygrade, and passion. Results-driven recruiting management with the proven ability to motivate others and reach desired individual and company objectives.
Experience
Blankenship CPA Group
Experienced Hire Recruiter/Senior Tax Associate August 2022 – Current
Full desk recruitment of experienced candidates for Audit, Tax, and Accounting services from entry level to senior management
Conducts tax research for state and local taxes for new and existing clients expanding business into multiple states to determine tax law for requirements of business and SALT registrations based on line of business.
Help Directors with projects including recons, GL, personal property taxes, and other basic accounting needs in the ASG department when needed.
Assists tax department with special projects as assigned by the Partner as needed including determining liability of assessments, requirements for appeals, and handling all notices.
Active member of the Marketing team
Active member of the ASG Technological Board
Tri Star Sports and Entertainment
Human Resources Assistant/Analyst (HR department went to outsourcing agency) May 2022 – August 2022
Learn about the different roles the organization is looking for to build a talent pool of potential candidates.
Use social media, professional networks or other platforms (e.g. LinkedIn, Indeed, ZipRecruiter, etc.) to hunt the talent market and message potential candidates to our open roles.
Reach out applicants by email message or calls.
Recognize qualified applicant profiles and create pipelines for future hiring needs.
Correspond with past candidates in regard to available job openings.
Work with representatives of Job Boards to negotiate terms of new recruiting pipelines for company seat.
Uses strong analytical skills for reporting.
Uses detailed sourcing strategies, Boolean searching and job posting.
Proven ability to work in teams or individually within the department and organization with very minimal interaction with management.
The Bolton Group
Manager, Client Development & Recruitment Finance and Accounting (want exp. In corporate) Oct 2021 to May 2022
Develop a pipeline of candidates aligning to specific client and business types using resources such as Boolean searches on job boards and social media, databases, and networking through cold calls, emails, and texts
Use job boards such as Monster, Indeed, and Facebook Jobs to search for potential candidates
Use LinkedIn Recruiter to communicate with professionals on LinkedIn regarding roles to fill
Post job openings on job boards and LinkedIn as well as post ads on other social media sites
Prescreen candidates
Manage calendar using Calendly to keep track of high traffic schedule
Match candidates with roles and prepare write-up information for submissions
Work with Partners and other Managers and Directors for submissions to clients
Prepare candidates for interviews
Liaison between Partners, clients, and candidates in communicating job roles, interview process including setting up times with candidates, and client feedback post interview meeting
Update candidates in Bullhorn ATS system to track communication, prescreens, client submissions, and interview tracking
Works with multiple Managers, Directors, Partners, and Senior Partners on candidate/client placements for splits
AFQualified Recruiting
Executive Recruiter (Company dissolved) Jun 2021 to Oct 2021
Write and post job descriptions on career websites and other social media job boards such as LinkedIn, Indeed, and Facebook Jobs
Regularly track and analyze applicant pipeline in ATS and present performance data
Conduct all prescreens and post interviews with each potential placement
Evaluate and assess new candidates against job descriptions based on requirements set forth by clients
Prepare, write and present progress and candidate reports to client
Conduct thorough research to navigate key companies and build accurate, encompassing lists of candidates accurately reflecting client profile
Work with recruiting roles for Finance, Accounting, and IT Audit up to higher senior levels
Have worked with other recruiters on placing recruits in technical positions as well as positions in other fields
Vaco Holdings, LLC.
Tax Staff Accountant (Covid) Feb 2020 to Jun 2021
Integral role in building a new tax team by providing retail knowledge of sales tax and tax systems to business of manual processes.
Organized filings and ensured all returns and license renewals are filed timely. Assist with income tax, payroll tax, and Partnership returns.
Preparation of all the company’s sales and use tax returns, business and occupation returns, general excise tax returns, unclaimed property and goods and services tax returns.
Monitor federal and state tax legislation to assess the potential impact on income tax compliance.
Prepare all tax reporting for company Timesheets, Gross Revenue, and additional activity monthly to determined taxable sales.
Assist with Income Tax, Payroll tax, and Partnership returns
Use CCH Axcess tax for return filings
CCH and RIA for tax research
Prepare Partner Quarterly Distributions
Additional responsibilities, tasks, and projects as assigned by management
Delek US Holding
Staff Tax Accountant (New opportunity) Aug 2017 Feb 2020
Processes monthly fuel/excise tax, gross receipts, and business tax related returns for various entities.
Reviews periodic property tax payments, audit payments, and all other payments as necessary. Ensures reconciliations are completely timely and variances requiring credit/rebills or JEs are submitted monthly.
Completes monthly related excise and gross receipts returns and reconciliations accurately and timely
Responds to tax jurisdictions relating to above items
Sox Controls and Compliance
Tax research and documentation using CCH and RIA along with other methods including jurisdictional websites
GAAP Compliance
Process and review property tax payments provide by third party agency accurately and timely
Ensured all returns and paperwork is compliance for tax audits
Tractor Supply Company
Staff Tax Audit and Technology Analyst (New opportunity) Oct 2005 to Aug 2017
Participate in or lead cross-functional teams tasked with code evaluation on behalf of the business across a variety of products.
Representative of Tax Team for Quarterly Training Meetings for all company new management employees in training on Taxware system, engaging in technology, and introducing any governmental and jurisdictional laws, rules, and regulations that have changed within the taxing systems
Work to develop standardization practices in products and services in coordination with the appropriate business owner, highly complex taxation of products and services.
Recorded savings by disputing taxability of Skus during a sales tax audit and disallowance.
Worked with auditors during state and local audits where at times had 3+ audit periods for one agency and up to 22 opened audits for the company
Project Manager for Sku Override Project that eliminated the ability of override sales tax at store level without proper cause. Tax overrides reduced from approximately 350,000 per month to zero companywide.
Knowledgeable of company products with twelve years of sku maintenance and monitoring for taxability purposes.
Developed on going working relationships with multiple departments within the company for support control
In depth understanding of how to seek tax laws, rules and regulations in all states to handle all taxability issues timely.
Monitors changes in sales tax rates and other fees at all jurisdictional levels determines impact to the Company and manages the coordination with other departments to ensure any changes identified are properly tested for quality assurance purposes and updated timely in our Taxware application system which supplies information to each point of sale for open stores, stores preparing to open, and e-commerce
Researches and maintains custom product codes in the Taxware Application system to ensure proper taxability of each SKU for the company’s various types of tax exempt customers
Use CCH and RIA to research tax laws, rules, and regulations for changes or additions
Improved effectiveness of operational processes by recognizing the core issues and building plans to create processes and procedures that resolve hiccups in the workload as well as building new and accurate standard operating procedures
Maintains sales tax compliance department policies and procedures as well as state taxability guidelines which are used as a reference point by other departments including Customer Service, help Desk, and Store Operations as well as each individual store.
Filed Gross Receipts business licenses timely for TN and other states; excise tax returns for multiple states
Additional Job Experience Roles:
Hewlett Packard, Sales Tax Analyst (Audit Compliance), Aug 2004 – Sept, 2005
Warren Distribution, Accounting Clerk (A/P, A/R, Audits), Jan 2001 – Aug, 2004
Wal-Mart, Manager, Jun 1993 – July, 1999
Core Strengths and Technical Skills
GAAP SOX Compliance Critical Thinking Tax Technology Finance & Accounting
Process Improvement Project Management Account Management Deadline Driven Analytical Problem Solving Customer Service Excellence Reporting Management
Top Echelon (Big Biller), Bullhorn, CCH Axcess, CCH Research, RIA Research, SAP, Avalara, Sovos Taxware Web Tool Kit, SAP Business Objects, QuickBooks, Microsoft Office
Typing at 55wpm
Education
BSc Accounting
Belmont University 2009
University of Phoenix 2004
EA in Progress
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