Senior Project Team Leader

Roobina Gorjian, CPA

San Diego, CA *****

Cellular: 619-***-****

Email: *******@*******.***

EXPERIENCE

Fairfield Residential Companies, San Diego, CA

Senior Project Accountant/Team Leader, 4/2007 - 3/2024

Team leader of an accounting group tasked with the management of the accounting for 30-40 large-residential properties that comprised the company’s residential property investment fund portfolio. Responsible for financial management of the properties and for ensuring that lenders and fund investors received accurate and up-to-date monthly closure statements and proper disposition of funds. Regular collaboration with Acquisition, Cash Management, Property Tax, Asset Management and Corporate departments was required in order to meet our objectives with a changing portfolio of properties.

Supervised, reviewed and verified the work of team members and covered for other team leads.

Personally responsible for all accounting aspects for 7-10 properties, in addition to my supervisory duties.

Supported the annual audit by reviewing workpapers for accuracy and compilation.

Reviewed and approved monthly loan payments, prepared and reviewed quarterly cash balance analysis for properties, and maintained preferred and guaranteed returns for investors.

Assisted senior manager with updating property management policies and procedures.

Developed a template to aid in the transfer of construction-work-in-progress data from Sage/Timberline to Yardi for financial reporting.

Provided trial balance, utilities reimbursement schedule, estimated unpaid payroll, check run and unpaid invoices as of the sale date to the Sales department for 4-5 annual property sales.

Attended weekly team management meetings to discuss portfolio property changes and business and group issues.

The Corky McMillin Companies, San Diego, CA

Senior Project Accountant, 9/2004 - 4/2007

Maintained and analyzed general ledgers for the commercial, home building and land development sectors. Streamlined financial reporting processes to improve efficiency and accuracy. Collaborated with other project teams to ensure timely and accurate financial reporting.

Maintained general ledger for commercial, homebuilding and land development projects.

Approved bank reconciliations.

Prepared, posted and reviewed monthly journal entries.

Reconciled loan statements, buyer deposits and customer order extras WIP accounts.

Calculated cost of sales and warranty reserves.

Reviewed and posted escrow statements for commercial, home and land sales and land acquisitions.

Prepared depreciation and amortization schedules for fixed assets and deferred costs and recorded monthly activity.

Maintained preferred and guaranteed returns for project owners.

Reviewed and analyzed trial balance and reconcile major accounts. Performed analytical procedures.

Prepared financial statements on income tax basis and GAAP method of accounting.

Assisted with the annual audit.

Caporicci & Larson, CPAs, San Diego, CA

Senior Auditor, 2001 - 2004

Planned, developed and implemented audit programs for the audit of financial statements and single audits (internal controls and regulatory compliance). Supervised and trained 3-4 audit staff, documented results, and ensured that conclusions, findings and recommendations were properly supported. Investigated discrepancies, presented solutions to problems encountered and discussed audit findings with audit clients. Prepared audit reports.

Conducted audits of various governmental organizations with the budgets over 30 million dollars.

Conducted audits of various non-profit organizations in San Diego and Northern California.

Conducted audits and prepared financial statements of various health care centers in Northern California.

Conducted audits of profit-sharing plans in San Diego and Northern California.

Pannell Kerr Forster, Inc., CPAs, San Diego, CA

Audit Staff - Contractor, 2000 - 2001

Performed audits, reviews, and compilation of financial statements as a member of the audit team.

Audited hotels, mortgage companies, debt services companies, and an agricultural biotech company.

Performed SEC audits of financial securities companies.

Audited various 401(k) plans.

R. Navaro & Associates, Inc., CPAs, San Diego, CA

Audit Staff, 1999 - 2000

Performed audits and compliance testing of financial statements as a member of the audit team.

Held a US Security Clearance in order to audit US Government agencies.

Audited the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission in Washington D.C.

Audited the US Department of Labor in Washington D.C.

Audited various non-profit organizations and pension plans in San Diego.

Slabaugh, Haflinger & Co., CPAs, San Diego, CA

Audit Staff, 1998 - 1999

Performed audits, reviews, and compilation of financial statements, as a member of the audit team.

Audited various non-profit organizations.

Audited various 401(k) and Profit-Sharing plans.

EDUCATION

Certified Public Accountant License, CA -License #83857

Continuous license renewal since initial certification.

Post-Bachelor degree in Accounting (Professional Certificate)

San Diego State University, San Diego, CA

Associates Degree in Computerized Accounting

Utah Technical College, Salt Lake City, UT

Master of Science, Agronomy and Plant Breeding

University of Tehran

One of the first three women agricultural experts in the country.

Bachelor of Science, Agricultural Engineering

University of Tehran

Technical Summary

Yardi (property management accounting), Sage/Timberline (construction and real estate accounting), Outlook Soft (financial reports designer), Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, Peachtree First Accounting, Quicken QuickBooks Pro, GoSystem (trial balance system for audits planning).

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