Senior Accountant, Accounting Manager, Controller

TARIQ WAJID

***** ********* **., #**** *******, TX 77036 917-***-**** **********@*******.***

QUALIFICATIONS SUMMARY

Highly motivated Accounting professional with 15 years of increasingly responsible experience in general accounting, financial planning and reporting, fixed asset management, payroll and income tax preparation, database administration and information systems management and proficiency in MAS 500, ADP PC/Payroll for Windows, Microsoft Office.

EXPERIENCE

New York Road Runners, Inc. New York, New York

Senior Accountant December 2006 – November 2010

•Compiled and analyzed financial information to prepare financial statements including monthly and annual accounts

•Ensured financial records were maintained and in compliance with accepted policies and procedures

•Prepared complex bank reconciliation

•Ensured all financial reporting deadlines are met

•Prepared financial management reports

•Ensured accurate and timely monthly, quarterly and year end close

•Established and monitored the implementation and maintenance of accounting control procedures

•Resolved accounting discrepancies and irregularities

•Monitored taxation issues and prepared tax returns

•Ensured accurate and appropriate recording and analysis of revenues and expenses

•Analyzed financial information to recommend or develop efficient use of resources and procedures, provide strategic recommendations and maintain solutions to business and financial problems

Interfaith Nutrition Network Hempstead, New York

Staff Accountant May 2000 - September 2006

•Prepared monthly management reports and all bank reconciliations

•Fully responsible for bi-weekly payroll and for month end closing processes to ensure all corporate deadlines were met and information was presented in accordance with accepted policies and procedures.

•Assisted with yearly audit and coordinated with outside auditors

•Ensured all financial records were maintained in compliance with accepted policies and procedures

Various Employers New York, New York

Consultant, Accountant May 1999 - April 2000

•Prepared bank reconciliation

•Payroll processing

•Assisted with monthly closing

•Prepared and post Journal entries

•Assisted with preparing monthly management reports.

•Assisted with yearly audit

Fidelity Group, Inc Great Neck, New York

Accounting Clerk March 1996 - April 1998

•Accounts receivable

•Accounts payable

•Journal entries

•A/P filing

•Assisted with Payroll processing

EDUCATION,

Queens College, City University of New York Flushing, New York

Bachelor of Art, Accounting December 1995

Queens Borough Community College, City University of New York Bayside, New York

Associate in Applied Science, Business Administration May, 1993

COMMUNITY

Notary Public New York, New York

Toastmasters International

Current member and former Treasurer of "True Potential Toastmasters”

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