Staff Accountant Accounting Assistant

ANISH TAMRAKAR

**** ****** **, **** ***, OH, ****2

*****.********@*****.*** 318-***-****

EDUCATION

Master of Science in Accounting

Regis University, Denver, CO; GPA: 3.70 Dec 2014

Bachelor of Science, Accounting

Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA; GPA: 3.31 May 2011

PROFFESIONAL EXPERIENCE

Protiviti, Cincinnati, OH, USA

Senior Analyst March 2022 to present

Internal audit controls testing across a variety of industries; Business Process & IT General Controls - SOX 404

Developing an understanding of business processes, technical skills, project requirements, and the client’s business in a variety of industries.

Ensuring timely and quality completion of assigned project phases within a defined budget.

Assisting with the preparation of client deliverables, including agendas, status reports, and final reports.

Mentoring Analysts by demonstrating the attributes of excellent client service, technical, and professional knowledge.

Execute SOX Business Process controls testing to perform reviews relating to controls that mitigate financial reporting risk of a material misstatement

Reviewing Analysts’ project work for quality and accuracy and providing valuable feedback on areas of improvement.

Document and maintain sufficient supporting information (such as flowcharts of end-to-end business processes) and facilitate the presentation of findings and conclusions in accordance with workpaper standards.

Assisting in scheduling and project prioritization for Analysts.

Communicating findings, roadblocks, and project status to the project team management.

Identifying areas for improvement within processes or providing improvement suggestions when challenges arise.

Worked with different application like Smartsheet, Jira, AuditBoard, Adobe, DataSnipper and Microsoft teams to meet clients needs

Mid-Western Autos, Middletown, OH, USA

Staff Accountant II September 2018 to March 2022

Assist Controller daily with accounting operation that included accounts payable, account reconciliation, Payroll and report preparation

Analyze revenues, Payroll, Commissions and expenses to ensure they are recorded appropriately on a monthly and yearly basis.

Develop and monitor policies and procedures with generally accepted accounting principles and state guidelines to ensure sufficient cash flow and reduced operating cost

Create month end report/schedules to support period ending final numbers/journal entries

Perform daily bank reconciliations comparing monies deposited by stores to actual deposits received by the bank. Communicate any discrepancies with company and management.

Perform ad hoc tasks for management and auditors upon request

Prepared projection for capital expenditures and reported for fixed assets.

Prepared detailed analysis and proactively improved focus on high value customer accounts thereby reducing A/R turnover from 60 to 45 days.

Wells Fargo, Des Moines, IA, USA

System Quality Analyst August 2017 to September 2018,

Reported bugs using JIRA, assure reports are easily reproducible and contains information.

Designed and executed Test Plans and Test Cases and generated Test Scripts and Test scenarios.

Worked with WARP automation tool to seed a loan in Wells Fargo Core application.

Worked closely with the developer to seed a loan from DEV environment to submit in UAT environment.

Coordinated User Acceptance Testing with the UAT group to ensure the correct business logic.

Worked closely with end-users and developer to develop a detailed understanding of the opportunities for improvement, then gathered requirements and prepared a comprehensive set of documents to define the specifications and business value of the system

Analyzed production issues and worked with the IT development team to determine root cause analysis, timeline of events and open HP Quality Central (HP ALM) tickets for releasing fixes in future maintenance releases.

Analyzed the Data flow and UML Diagrams.

Experience in sanity, backend, front-end, functional, integration, regression, smoke, cross browser, cross platform and automation testing using QTP/UFT.

Monitored the Defect Tracking Process and generated customized graphs and reports for the client using ALM.

Analyzed operating procedures and policies on an ongoing basis and recommended and implemented improvement plans where appropriate.

Understood core processes of the departments to provide input on re-engineering or streamlining opportunities.

Opened several high severity defects in HP ALM to track and managed the defect lifecycle.

Worked with the development team to resolve all the defects and updated the results of re-testing of defects in HP ALM.

Created various test data working in SOAP UI to work for entire squad in one of the first agile environment for blend to help in regression testing.

Worked exclusively with XML doing MISMO retry to submit loan from DEV environment to UAT

Analyzed business requirements and segregated them into high level and low level Use Cases, activity diagrams / State Chart Diagrams and Robustness Diagram using MS Visio according to UML methodology, thus defining the Data Process Models.

Prepared Test plans, Test Cases based on business requirements using Quality Center.

Environment: JIRA, SOAP UI, WARP, UML, Oracle/Unix, SQL Developer, SQL PLUS, HP Quality Center/ALM.

Luzon Technology, Fairfax, VA, USA

Staff Accountant I December 2016 to August 2017,

Prepare consolidated internal and external financial statements by gathering and analyzing information from the general ledger system and from departments

Maintain and balance an automated consolidation system by inputting data; scheduling required jobs; verifying data

Analyze information and options by developing spreadsheet reports; verifying information

Prepare general journal entries by maintaining records and files; reconciling accounts

Prepare payments by accruing expenses; assigning account numbers; requesting disbursements; reconciling accounts

Answer accounting and financial questions by researching and interpreting data.

Worked in excel creating pivot tables and VLOOKUP for the aging accounts receivables

Prepared bank reconciliation statement using Quickbooks online

Provide accounting support for mergers and acquisition by reviewing financial information; converting data to general ledger system; obtaining supplementary information for the preparing financial statements.

Update job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publication; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations

Accomplish accounting and organization mission by completing related results as needed

Laura’s Fine Candies, Estes park, CO, USA

Staff Accountant I February 2014 to November 2016,

Prepare reports, which summarize and forecast business activity and financial position in areas of income, expenses and earnings and compile information from various corporate documents or personal documents -includes tax planning and tax strategies.

Conducted cost accounting analysis like activity based costing and break-even analysis for various items sold in the company for budget process and profit prediction.

Closely analyzed the company’s perpetual inventory system understanding the post of sale system maintaining the records in the general ledger

Prepare, examine, and analyze accounting records, financial statements, and other financial reports to assess accuracy, completeness, and conformance to reporting and procedural standards.

Analyze business operations, trends, costs, revenues, financial commitments, and obligations, to project future revenues and expenses or to provide advice.

Advise management and ensure the Company complies with periodic tax payments, reporting, and other tax requirements. Gather timesheets and enter them in QuickBooks and Spreadsheets.

Report to management regarding the finances of establishment.

Store Manager May, 2011 – February, 2014

Maintained store staff job results by coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results.

Identifies current and future customer requirements by establishing rapport with potential and actual customers and other persons in a position to understand service requirements.

Formulated pricing policies by reviewing merchandising activities; determining additional needed sales promotion; authorizing clearance sales; studying trends.

Markets merchandise by studying advertising, sales promotion, and display plans; analyzing operating and financial statements for profitability ratios.

Managed and supervised the team of 15-20 people who worked in the store.

Worked with senior executives in the company to prepare three-year business strategy plan.

Conduct Activity Based Control to calculate the break-even analysis for all the available products.

Development Credit Bank Ltd., Kathmandu, Nepal

Financial Analyst and Accounting Assistant Intern January 2009 – March 2009

Completed a research paper on confidential financial data’s and files of the company.

Attended weekly meetings and provide insight on the strategic planning of the bank.

Prepared monthly financial statement of the bank.

Handled multiple projects simultaneously while verifying that projects were closed with all necessary documents and reviewed for missing charges and invoices.

Prepared bridge gap loan for the approval of the loan requested by the customer.

Beta Alpha Psi – Ruston, LA September 2008 – May 2011

Tutoring and Volunteer

Tutored a group of more than 15 students with assignments and class projects.

Tutored accounting classes from general accounting to intermediate accounting

Worked with fraternity to develop high moral, scholastic, and professional attainments among members

Encourage cordial relations among the members and the profession.

Digital House – Kathmandu, Nepal

Accountant and Inventory Manager (MOE) January 2004- September 2007

Maintained record of daily sales and inventory using Peach Tree Accounting and Microsoft Excel

Preparing purchasing order for the computer equipment

Processed Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable in timely manner

Prepare and analyze periodic sales, inventory and labor report

Worked with the Director to create new marketing strategy to improve sales

Maintained a close relationship with vendors and customers, created discount strategy to improve accounts receivable and doubtful debts accounts.

LEADERSHIP and COMMUNITY SERVICE

Treasurer, Namaste Nepal Association (Louisiana Tech University) 2007-2009

Secretary, International Student Society 2008-2009

Member, Beta Alpha Psi 2008-2011

Public Relation, Rotoract Club of Lalitpur, Kathmandu, Nepal 2004-2006

Volunteer, Patan Jaycees, Kathmandu, Nepal 2003-2006

Attended the Rotary Youth Leadership Training June, 2006

Volunteer, Four Paws

COMPUTER SKILLS

Proficient in using Microsoft office suite, including Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Project

Capable of using accounting tools such as Sage (Peach Tree Accounting), AS400, Quick Books and SAP

Knowledge of web development scripting language such as HTML, PHP and ASP

Knowledge of graphic designing application like Adobe Photoshop, Adobe light room, Corel Draw

Worked with various database like MS SQL server, Oracle with Toad interface

Worked with different Operating System like UNIX, Windows 7/8/10, Mac

Worked with change management tools like Rational Clear Quest

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