Accounting and Tax

ASRA KHATOON

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Maplewood, MN 55119

Phone: 651-***-**** Email: ***********@*******.***

Cell: 651-***-****

SUMMARY

Customer focused and result driven professional with over ten years of analyst experience in tax, accounting, and operations. A strong team player with the ability to work independently, analyze and present financial data, and communicate with all levels of management. Demonstrated success managing projects, creating efficiencies, and documenting processes.

• Tax Accounting Expertise • Budgeting and Forecasting

• Financial Planning and Analysis • Fixed Asset Accounting

• Accounts Receivable • Labor Scheduling

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

BEST BUY CO. INC., Richfield, MN 2007-2009

Senior State Tax Analyst

Responsible for preparation of state and local income tax returns in 48 states, preparing quarterly estimate and extension payments, researching tax law updates, handling state correspondence notices and responding to state auditor information requests. Also responsible for assisting the federal tax team with year-end provision.

• Created the state and local estimate and extension filing process that saved the company in excess of $100K in underpayment tax penalties.

• In the absence of a manager, led the tax team in timely filing of state and local estimate and extension payments.

• Streamlined the calculation of the state apportionment data required for the state returns, saving 50% of the time required to prepare response to state auditor’s requests.

• Created the state and local income tax filing process that guided the team to manage projects in a timely manner and prevented the team from filing late or missing returns.

NORTHWEST AIRLINES, Eagan, MN 2002-2007

Senior Planning Analyst 2006-2007

Primary responsibilities included analyzing staffing trends in the current environment to determine the number of flight attendants required on a monthly basis, as well as vacation, leaves, and early outs and recommending an optimal schedule to senior management.

• Created procedures for the pilot and flight attendant process that allowed IT to reduce the staffing process from 2 days to 2 hours.

Senior Tax Analyst 2002-2006

Responsible for federal and states tax return preparation, preparing quarterly estimate and extension payments, reviewing annual reports, reviewing state apportionment, state correspondence, preparing year end tax provision, assisting senior manager with deferred inventory reconciliations, and calculating fixed asset tax depreciation.

• Automated the fixed asset tax depreciation calculation process that resulted in prior year amendment refunds greater than $100K.

• Organized and documented the state apportionment information gathering process which allowed easy transition to administrative staff and freed 25% of tax analyst time.

• Recognized a need for one work plan source rather than multiple calendars and created one calendar in Excel then worked with the team to populate it with the information from multiple calendars. This made the tax compliance process and workload management more efficient.

• Promoted to Tax Analyst from Senior Tax Analyst.

ECOWATER SYSTEMS, INC., Woodbury, MN 2000-2002

Tax Analyst

Responsible for preparation of tax filings including state income tax, sales and use tax, property tax, annual reports, and 1099’s.

• Converted the fixed assets data from the company’s old GL system into the new GL JD Edwards saving company at least 100K in consulting fees.

• Imported the 1099 data into JD Edwards System saving the 1099 process time from two weeks to one day.

CARLSON COMPANIES, Plymouth, MN 1997-2000

Sales and Use Tax Analyst 1999-2000

Responsible for preparation of sales and use tax returns and leading the administrative staff in the mailing process to ensure accurate and timely mailings.

Billing Accountant 1998-1999

• Created monthly reconciliation and reporting process of outstanding receivables that significantly reduced bad debt by 50%.

• Automated the billing and reporting process that reduced the billing time by 50%.

• Received the Carlson Companies quarterly award for creating a process to reduce bad debt.

Accounting Clerk 1997-1998

Responsible for preparation of the customer settlement invoices or credit memos and working with field Managers to resolve accounting issues.

• Promoted to Billing Accountant

EDUCATION

• B.S.B. – Accounting – Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Microsoft Office Word, Excel and Access, Vantage Tax, Insource, Essbase, Brio, Monarch, DBS FAS, Ria Checkpoint, JD Edwards

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