Sales Accounting

Min Z. Beverly, CPA

*** **** ****** **., **** Burnie, MD 21061 USA

Tel: 410-***-**** (Home); Cell: 410-***-****; Email: ********@**.***;

SUMMARY

Professional Accountant with diversified and progressive experiences in general accounting, financial analysis and budget & planning. Excellent analytical skills, practiced at drilling down to transaction details in support of process and profit improvement. Collaborated effectively with business managers to resolve variances, refine forecasts, and identify opportunities for improvement.

Computer proficiency in Excel, Oracle, IDEAS, Jenark, MRI, FMIS and Great Plains.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Maryland Dept of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) 9/10 to present

Division of Finance and Administration, Crownsville, MD

Advanced Accountant

• Review AP, AR and follow GAAP to recognize revenue and expenditure, and calculate loan allowance.

• Cooperate with program staff as well as finance team to obtain accurate information, translate it into financial information, make journal entries and make sure business transactions are accurately reflected in the financial statements.

• Perform month-end close, account analysis, trend analysis and reconciliations.

• Identify and implement the best practices to processes that improve efficiency and effectiveness.

• Assist in preparation of annual financial reporting and auditing.

• Collaborate with the Finance Director and other team members on special projects.

Nestle – Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream, Laurel, MD 2/2008 to 12/09

Senior Accountant,

Responsible for all financial accounting aspects of its regional distribution center and capital spending of plant, reported directly to the plant controller.

• Analyzed business transactions and operations and translated them into the financial information, prepared journal entries, performed account analysis and teamed with corporate GL accountants and network accounting managers on corporate financial reporting and ad hoc issues.

• Effectively managed month-end closing cycle, accelerating month-end close from five days to three days, and provided management with timely and accurate financial reports.

• Performed variance analysis and actively worked with operational managers to review costs, reconciled variances and identified areas for productivity and cost improvement.

• Organized meetings for monthly review of financial result and forecast.

• Prepared an executable $35 million annual operating plan/ budget, cooperating with operational managers to review historical activities, trends and future obligations.

• Collaborated with managers in logistics, inventory control, maintenance and vendors, resulting in about $200k saving on repair & maintenance and $1million on freight and outside storage.

• Participated in physical inventory process and identified warehouse layout improvement that smoothed inventory control and alignment with financial ledger.

• Reconciled inventory at multiple warehouses and made adjusting journal entries to balance general ledger with perpetual inventory system.

• Tracked $220 million capital spending on new production lines against approved funding and assisted the project managers in managing capital projects.

• Facilitated communication with internal and external auditors.

• Provided financial supports and recommendations to senior management in operating and marketing areas for strategic and cost saving initiatives

Downtown Partnership of Baltimore Inc, Baltimore, MD 7/07-1/08

Consultant

Assisted Finance Director in preparing journal entries, month-end close and special projects.

Corporate Office Properties Trust (a publicly traded company), Columbia, MD 3/2006 to 7/2007

Property Accountant,

• Successfully managed full-cycle accounting functions for 20 office buildings, including account payable and account receivable, accrual, amortization of prepaid accounts, fixed assets, computation of rent and journal entry preparations.

• Generated monthly close of financial statements and performed variance analysis and determined root-cause for each material variance; presented analysis reports to senior management.

• Maintained fixed assets and depreciation records and periodically reconciled balances to general ledger.

• Participated in annual budget preparations for assigned entities.

• Used accounting knowledge and initiative to resolve problems and provided necessary explanations.

World Relief Corporation, Baltimore, MD 8/2004 to 3/2006

Corporate Staff Accountant

• Reviewed reports on grants, funds, contributions, cash, investments and expenses and made related journal entries.

• Analyzed and reconciled G/L accounts.

• Prepared corporate bank reconciliation (wire transfers, payroll, medical, flex and AP).

• Tracked spending of government grants and funds and explained financial results to program managers.

• Prepared monthly financial statements and reports and performed account analysis.

• Conducted special projects for various grants and fund programs and provided support for auditing.

Jardine Matheson Ltd. (Fortune 500 global corp.)- Trane China, Beijing, China 6/1992 –12/1997

Manager, project sales

• Actively organized seminars and presentations to promote Trane’s central air-conditioning products.

• Pioneered expansion of Trane’s market in China and increased market share from approximate 5% in 1992 to 30%.

• Made contributions to establishing Trane’s joint-venture in China.

• Developed excellent business relationships with governmental agencies, consultants and clients.

• Analyzed competitors and marketing trend, prepared technical proposals and contract documents.

• Conducted technical and commercial negotiations with decision makers for large HVAC projects.

• Generated lucrative profits for Trane and laid a solid and influential client base such as China World Trade Center, Beijing Panasonic Electronic Company, Beijing International Hotel.

• Won numerous incentive awards for outstanding project sales achievements.

EDUCATION

Double Degrees: 1. Bachelor of Science, Accounting & Information Systems, 12/2003

2. Bachelor of Science, Finance, 12/2003

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA.

MBA, International Business, 7/1999

Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT.

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