PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Technical, high energy, proactive and result oriented “hands on” professional with a comprehensive experience in all areas of accounting, month end close, financial reporting, internal controls, taxation, and audit with the ability to prepare audited financial statements footnotes and disclosures.
• Demonstrate “hands on” management style with solid organization skills, team leadership, and the ability to manage multiple assignments.
• Streamline existing month end close and financial reporting processes to achieve a tight corporate deadline.
• Excellent team leader who effectively communicate directions, commit people to action and accountability.

COMPUTER SKILLS:

Intacct, QuickBooks, Lawson M3, Microsoft Dynamics AX & GP, Oracle, NetSuite, IQ BackOffice, Lacerte and ATX tax softwares, advance Microsoft Excel and Word, CPAS Depreciation and MAS 90 and FAS Depreciation

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Corporate Controller Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provide clients with support on audit, tax, consolidated financial reporting, internal controls, cash management, cost accounting, financial analysis, forecasting and budgeting, financial statement preparation with audit footnotes, project management, system implementation, continuous process improvement by leveraging technology.
• Developed procedures to standardize processes for month end close, financial reporting, AP, AR, fixed assets, bank reconciliation and cash management by leveraging technology to be ready for SOX, quarterly and annual audit.
• Preparation of tax returns: payroll, sales, business property tax, individual, partnership, and corporate.
• Streamline month end closing process and audit process to shorten time.

Confidential, Torrance, CA

Interim, Corporate Controller

Responsibilities:

• Managed a portfolio of 73+restaurant units and supervise 1 manager, 2 accounting staffs.
• Produced monthly/quarterly audited financial statements with footnotes and disclosures, general ledger, bank reconciliations, payroll & JE.
• Maintained all facets of the accounting cycle - financial statements, general ledger, bank reconciliations, journal entries and keeping an overall accurate audit trail accounting culture.
• Managed month end close, quarterly reviews and annual audits.
• Prepared monthly financial statement reporting package consolidation of 73 units to present to CEO, Board of Directors and Parent Company.
• Oversaw the preparation and communication of monthly and annual closing and reporting of operational financial package to present to all departments comparing actual to budget spend.
• Coordinated audits and proper filing of taxes to comply with government agencies. Managed quarterly ASC 740 tax provision reporting and disclosures on financial statements.
• Managed AP, AR, fixed assets and treasury functions.
• Improved balance sheet reconciliation process to align with review and audit needs.
• Established all necessary GAAP provision calculations and reserves to record on books.
• Worked with Operation, Marketing, Procurement, Maintenance and IT departments to help them explain actual spend to their budget.
• Worked with Operation and Purchasing on a monthly basis to review monthly purchases, inventory variances, and COGS to get monthly explanations to report on Bridge to explain to Board of Directors.
• Reviewed monthly P&L, calculated COGS, selling expense and G&A for reasonableness.
• Developed accounting tools to analyze large volume of data to investigate and resolve monthly inventories, COGS and expense variance accounts.
• Implemented new efficient accounting GL and AP systems to shared service & train staffs on workflow of new accounting software.
• Developed procedures to standardize processes for month end close, financial reporting, AP, AR, fixed assets, bank reconciliation and cash management by leveraging technology.

Confidential, Harbor City, CA

Interim, VP Corporate Controller

Responsibilities:

• Managed the corporation books, owner Confidential LLC investment entities.
• Prepared monthly financial statements, balance sheet, income statement and statement of cash flows.
• Prepared monthly operational and financial data to present to COO and CEO (owner).
• Prepared annual budget, monthly actualization and re-forecast.
• Performed month end closing and reporting of operational financial package to present to all departments.
• Managed AP, AR, Payroll, treasury and HR departments,
• Managed fixed assets, CEO real estate investment properties, business and personal high end race cars.
• Implemented proper segregation of duties, accrual accounting to achieve tax savings for owner of 100K.
• Implemented balance sheet reconciliation, including provision calculations and reserves to record on books.
• Developed and implement accounting policies and procedures for all departments & streamline closing process to 10 days.
• Worked with broker to renew annual business and workers compensation insurance.
• Worked with outside accountants, auditors, tax preparer, and banks.

Confidential, Torrance, CA

Reporting and Tax Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Managed US divisions Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable, 3 AR staffs and 4 AP clerks,
• Prepared and reported the company’s financial statements package with all disclosures to Group in a timely manner for Confidential divisions.
• Produced Operational P&L to present to CFO, monthly/semi-annual financial statements, general ledger, bank reconciliation, payroll, & J/E’s.
• Managed and reconciled inter-company transactions for local entities and parent company.
• Managed construction in process and fixed assets in FAS system
• Cash management for all US entities. Managed and approved positive pay.
• Prepared various government tax filings- file sales tax, business property tax, and 1099 in compliance with federal, state and local authority. Reviewed tax deficiency notices, negotiated and performed necessary tax appeals with various regulatory agencies.
• Managed reviews and annual audits request with outside auditors.
• Managed company’s supplier, customer, company’s chart of accounts and cost center database for three entities.
• Assisted Controller and CFO to resolve complex accounting, tax, day to day issues, budget and special projects.
• Managed internal audit control (SOX) process. Prepared procedures to align with Corporate.
• Recorded and reconciled monthly inventory stock in transit, inventory stock valuation adjustments and inventory provision reserves.
• Calculated tooling and inventory balances for raw material, WIP and finished goods, included in-transit inventories and reserve balance & make necessary inventory adjustments to align with COGS.
• Worked with Plant Controller, Operations, Purchasing, IT, HR, Sales, Engineering actual spend numbers to budget. Worked with them on various projects to improve their processes, streamline and automate workflow.

Confidential, El Segundo, CA

Senior Corporate Accountant

Responsibilities:

• Performed month end close: Posted cash receipts & disbursements for all cash accounts, recorded all accruals. Processed employee travel expenses. Recorded and reconciled prepaid insurance, inter-company transactions and employee loans for North America entities.
• Performed bank reconciliation for all cash accounts for North America entities and prepared various balance sheet reconciliations.
• Assisted with year-end internal and external audits. Prepared supporting audit schedules for financial statement audit. Interfaced with external auditors on SOX audit requests.
• Coordinated Unclaimed Property account for payroll and accounts payable. Coordinated with payroll and accounts payable departments to confirm unclaimed property status.

Confidential, Gardena, CA

Assistant Controller/Accounting Manager

Responsibilities:

• Performed month end closing. Responsibilities includes posting sales, expenses, and cost of sales, inventories, and inventory transfers, lotto & lottery, accruals for Confidential divisions.
• Recorded and reconciled inter-company transactions for Confidential companies.
• Managed fixed assets. Calculated depreciation expense, managed all retirements.
• Performed bank and all GL reconciliation.
• Recorded monthly credit card fees, discount and chargeback and reconciled balance to statements.
• Reviewed long term contracts to record and recognize income to the proper period. Entailed updating long term contract files, and making calls to collect on delinquent accounts.
• Prepared and filed sales tax, business property tax & 1099’s.
• Interfaced with internal and external auditors to provide year end audit requests.

Confidential, El Segundo, CA

Senior Corporate Accountant

Responsibilities:

• Performed month end closing for fixed assets. Closed capex and load to depreciation system, record depreciation expense.
• Reconciled fixed assets sub ledger to the general ledger for both cost and accumulated depreciation and prepared roll forward fixed asset schedules.
• Prepared footnote disclosures of the monthly fixed assets additions, and retirement.