Brinda Sullivan

615-***-****

advg9c@r.postjobfree.com

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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