Steven M. Buckley
**** ******* **, ********* ** *8269
Tel.: 704-***-****
Cell.: 516-***-****
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Summary
Dynamic take charge senior accountant with more than 15 years experience in general ledger month, quarter, and year end closes with financial statement preparation, analysis, and reconciliation on a consolidated basis as well as over 10 years of personal and small business tax return preparation. Extensive knowledge of fixed assets and depreciation as well as intercompany reconciliations and multicurrency bank reconciliations on a large degree. Involved in many system upgrades including a complete fixed asset conversion in which I was project leader and completed the project ahead of schedule.
Professional Experience
H & R Block, Charlotte, NC, Nashville, TN, Deer Park, NY 01/98 – Present
Senior Tax Advisor
• Prepare individual and small business tax returns.
• Advise clients on advantageous tax benefits.
Delek Mapco, Franklin, TN 10/08 – 11/08
Consultant
• Prepare quarterly consolidated financial statements.
• Help in the preparation of 10Q.
• Improved process of financial statement preparation saving 2 hours at month end using V-lookups.
• Verified all current year real and personal property tax payments for 50 plus locations.
CIGNA Government Services, Nashville, TN 02/08 – 03/08
Consultant
• 1099 correspondence.
• Created and updated procedure manuals.
• Improved 1099 reconciliation process.
First Funds, LLC, New York, NY 05/06 – 11/07
Senior Accountant
• Supervision of three Accounting clerical staff.
• Prepare quarterly commercial rent tax returns on time avoiding interest and penalties.
• Inter-company reconciliation.
• Financial statement preparations, analysis and reconciliation of all accounts.
• Answer audit questions and prepare information for external auditors.
• Review and approve all wire transactions.
• Bank reconciliation for six accounts - 20,000 transactions per month with multiple currencies.
• Ad hoc reporting to senior management.
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Commonwealth Bank of Australia, New York, NY 11/05 – 04/06
Consultant
• Prepare Federal Reserve Bank report FR2900 daily.
• Analysis of Financial Statements and reconciliation for reasonableness and accuracy.
Royal Bank of Scotland, New York, NY 01/94 – 11/05
Senior Accountant
• Supervision of four Accounts Payable staff.
• Close monthly consolidated books.
• Answer audit questions and prepare information for internal and external auditors.
• Review and approve all wire and check transactions in multiple currencies.
• Monthly currency conversion process for 15 different currencies.
• Clear all system suspense accounts for 15 different currencies.
• Prepare and reconcile inter-office billings for nine offices.
Staff Accountant
• Prepare quarterly commercial rent tax returns.
• Development of accounting and financial management reports.
• Maintain fixed assets system for over 12,500 assets. Converted the System 5 fixed asset system to Computron.
• Analyze the ledger on a day-to-day basis to see if expenses were reported correctly.
• Prepare necessary bank reconciliation for three accounts including the payroll bank account.
• Inter-company reconciliation for five companies within the consolidating group.
• Prepare payroll entries of two million dollars on a biweekly basis.
• In charge of the account certification process.
Accomplishments
Tested all upgrades of the Computron financial system.
Improved rent accrual process for all cost centers.
Assisted in the implementation of journal entry uploads into Computron.
Education
S.U.N.Y. Old Westbury, Westbury, NY 08/90 – 05/93
Bachelor of Science Degree, Accounting.
CPA Eligible - Sitting for CPA exam in August 2009.
Computer Skills
Proficient in Microsoft Suite, Excel, Word, Outlook, Access, PowerPoint, AccPac, Lotus 1-2-3, Computron,
H & R Block Tax software, Turbo Tax, Taxcut.