SUMMARY

• Multi - faceted Senior Accountant with over 10 years of proven ability to manage multiple projects, undertake complex assignments, meet tight deadlines, and deliver superior performance.
• Possess excellent customer service and interpersonal skills. Apply patience, determination, and persistence to troubleshoot issues internally and externally. Make strategic decisions regarding project scopes, relevant policies, and timely implementations. Flexibility to adapt to quickly changing needs.
• Provided effective leadership in managing SOX internal controls on cross-functional team especially during stressful month, quarter and year-end deadlines; acted as key resource to department staff and division management by providing guidance on standard operating procedures for internal controls.
• Performed analysis of internal controls, systems and financial reporting; implemented new procedures that shortened the monthly close process from 60+ to 20 days.
• Generated and implemented accounting and credit policies for private religious school (K-8) that cut collection time for monthly tuition installment payments from 90+ days to 45 days.
• Project management of complex conversion of SEC filings from paper based filer to EDGAR; maintained tight regulatory filing deadlines while analyzing large amounts of data; review of source documents; conversion of word and excel files to HTML; perform XBRL tagging using U.S. GAAP Taxonomy to map Balance Sheet, Income Statement, Statement of Changes in Stockholders' Equity and Statement of Cash Flows; review instance documents, edit, test and successfully live file documents with SEC.
• Possess excellent interpersonal skills for decision-making; problem-solving; and client relationships.
• Takes initiative and leads projects with minimal guidance and supervision.
• Demonstrate strong ethics, influence and negotiation skills, and ability to effectively manage stress and engage in crucial conversations with all levels including Board of Directors.
• Provide leadership and supervision to others.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Controller

Responsibilities:

• Manage and direct financial reporting function including Income Statement, Balance Sheet; future earnings and expense analysis; financial forecasts.
• Built risk scores models for all customers based on credit ratings and payment history.
• Created bad debt policy approval for customer write-offs that range between $1,500 and $2,000.

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Assistant Vice President

Responsibilities:

• Managed preparation and filing of quarterly Form 10-Q, annual Form 10-K, and periodic Form 8-K to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
• Compiled and calculated data for quarterly FDIC assessments, semi-annual payments to OCC, and annual Confidential payments.
• Record month-end adjusting entries for restricted stock; restricted shares granted; amortization of stock compensation expense; forfeiture of restricted shares; net exercise - shares surrendered to pay taxes on vested restricted stock awards.

Senior Financial Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Project management of Controller’s department core system conversion from FIServe to Jack Henry; renumber chart of accounts; mapping G/L accounts.
• Review of A/P batches for proper authorization and G/L account coding.
• Board new fixed assets in accordance with established capitalization policy; processed monthly fixed assets depreciation; prepared monthly reconciliation of fixed assets G/L accounts to fixed assets subsidiary ledger.
• Prepared and filed annual miscellaneous income tax returns (Form 1099s); annual business property tax returns (Form 541); annual sales and use tax returns.
• Developed and monitored SOX Section 404 compliance for internal controls of Accounting, Accounts Payables, Capital, Cash Management, Compensaton, Deposits, Financial Reporting, Investments, IT, Loan Servicing, Loans ALLL, and Transactions.

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Controller

Responsibilities:

• Managed a staff of six which included accounts receivables, billing and collections, accounts payables and disbursements, general ledger, and payroll accountants.
• Served as primary liaison to independent registered public accounting firm, and outside auditors.
• Developed annual operating budget system, creating user friendly budget template in Microsoft Excel; wrote budget guidelines; established budget assumptions; formal timelines used by executive directors and department managers for budget completion and submittal.
• Prepared annual business property tax returns; annual sales and use tax returns.
• Developed and wrote comprehensive desk procedures for accounts payable, accounts receivable, bank deposits, billings and collections; month-end close; financial reporting.

Senior Financial Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Prepared roll forward of all prior period monthly reports and schedules for monthly close process.
• Recorded and posted monthly adjusting entries (payroll, overhead allocation and accrued expenses).
• Prepared monthly G/L account reconciliations.
• Completed complex variance analysis of monthly revenue and expenses for oil tankers.
• Trained Senior Financial Analyst on month-end close process.
• Wrote comprehensive desk procedures.

Senior Financial Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Updated Q1 Balance Sheet, Statement of Operations, Statement of Changes in Stockholders’ Equity and Statement of Cash Flows in Confidential (formerly Confidential ).
• Prepared supplemental lease disclosure schedules for Form 10-Q.
• Foot and cross foot Form 10-Q, as well as tie out all numbers in document; prepared cross reference binder.

Senior Financial Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Trained Financial Analyst on month-end close process.
• Monitored month-end close process including transmission of electronic journal entry uploads from SAP to Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) by multiple business units and subsidiaries.
• Prepared monthly analysis of goodwill and intangibles; property plant and equipment; investments.
• Validated monthly schedules and reports for HFM upgrade identifying mapping errors and omission of data during parallel testing.
• Record and post monthly adjusting entries (common stock true-up, satellite capital interest, currency translation).
• Roll forward quarterly Form 10-Q and annual Form 10-K in Confidential .
• Reconciliation of balance sheet accounts to appropriate subsidiary ledger.