Senior Accountant

Zhen Qian, CPA

Professional Experience

Business Software Alliance, Washington DC

Senior Accountant Jul.2008 – May 2009

- Perform month-end close duties; manage and oversee the internal reporting process

after close

- Assist in annual audit, including PBC items; draft financial statement, footnotes

and supporting work papers; fluctuation analysis and narratives

- Create and maintain macros to automate and accelerate report generating process by

saving 20% of time

- Administrate financial reporting systems to keep them up to date and consistent with

one another; develop and implement accounting procedures; help establish new modules in

accounting system and test effectiveness; manage the chart of accounts

- Implement the annual budgeting and monthly projection process; prepare analysis for

accurate budget and projections in compensation and benefits, rent and certain other management accounts; prepare budget vs. actual vs. projection analysis; prepare and update budget meeting packet and PowerPoint for VP

- Manage and process domestic and oversea payroll; ensure compliance of regulations

for compensation and benefits

- Supervise and train Staff Accountant and Interns; monitor and prioritize their

workflow to meet deadlines

- Assist VP of Global Operations and Controller on special tasks assigned, including

proof financial data in meeting packet to ensure accuracy and provide analysis and cheat sheet on complex issues

Staff Accountant Jul.2006-Jun.2008

- Performed month-end close duties including analyze financial statement variances and

system issues; prepare and review accruals and adjusting entries for deferred rent, prepaid expenses and in-kind contributions

- Generated monthly financial reports for departments and regions; updated analysis

schedules on bad debt, cash position and accruals

- Performed monthly bank reconciliations and Balance Sheet account reconciliations;

communicated with responsible accounting staff on reconciling items and ensured correcting entries are booked before next close

- Performed monthly revaluations on assets and liabilities in foreign currencies and

prepared entries to record holding gain or loss

- Assisted in annual audit, including PBC items; draft financial statement, footnotes

and supporting work papers; fluctuation analysis for income statement and certain balance

sheet accounts; legal and bank confirmations

- Drafted and implemented accounting procedures for emerging issues; created analysis

template with pivot table for revenue staff to easily track high volume of history transactions

- Consolidated subsidiary financials and prepared entries to eliminate inter-company

transactions

- Back up for other accounting functions, including fixed assets reconciliations,

monthly depreciation entries and analysis for investments

Accounting Intern May 2005-Mar.2006

- Assisted in recognition of membership dues, preparing A/R aging schedules and

recording bad debt

- Prepared assigned monthly financial reports

- Researched General Ledger issues and recommended and conducted fixing actions

STG International Inc. Alexandria, Virginia

Accounting Intern Apr.2006-Jul.2006

- Accounts Payable and Bank Reconciliation

Education

Master of Accountancy Sept.2004-May 2006 The George Washington University, Washington DC

Master of Economics Sept.2000 – Jun.2003 Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Bachelor of Economics Sept.1994 – Jun.1998 Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Certification and Skills

- Certified Public Accountant, Virginia (Since July 2007)

- Advanced Excel skills – expert in using variety of functions, such as vlookup, pivot

table and macro

- Proficient in Word, PowerPoint, Microsoft Dynamics (Great Plains) and FRX

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