TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Microsoft Small Business Manager
• Great Plains Software
• Infor (SxE)
• SAP
• WordPerfect
• Microsoft Office Suite
• PowerPoint
• TurboTax
• TaxAct
• Lacerte
• Corpt Tax
• 1099 - Etc.
• Go Systems RIA
• E-Workpapers
• Adobe Acrobat Professional
• Hyperion
• In$ight

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Belmont, NC

Accountant

Responsibilities:

• Manage all of company’s Mexico financial activity.
• Work with the accounting team to develop procedures for accepting, maintaining and approving financial records. Wrote formal company policies on how to process billings and non - trade invoices to comply with Mexican law.
• Liaison between company and Mexico leadership and Accounting firm in Mexico, on issues regarding transfer pricing, and intercompany loan and interest, and thin cap planning issues.
• Travel to Mexico to meet with clients, accounting firm, and bank representatives.
• Enter monthly closing entries, including journalizing of accruals, reclasses, tax entries, allocations, VAT entries and other monthly entries.
• Reconcile differences true-up the exchange gain/loss accounts.
• Reconcile several bank accounts in both USD and MXN currencies.
• Collect and provided financial documentation to in-country accountants for monthly tax filings. Reviewed the tax determinations for accuracy.
• Assisted in the opening of new sites procuring legal documentation when needed and setting up new customers to be billed as requested.
• Answer to controversies resulting from Federal and State compliance filings.
• Lead the Puerto Rico annual audits, liaison with local independent auditors.
• Electronically filed Puerto Rico sales tax returns, and manually filed the volume of business returns.
• Analyze other data in adhoc reports on an as needed basis.
• Worked to reconcile book to tax differences in the US GAAP financials.
• Mexico Billing: Coordinate and implement with IT, and outside developers, to design an in-house Mexican invoicing process and procedures. Verify that the new billing system does not duplicate billing due to the nature of concurrent sets of billing systems. Reconcile revenue recognition between both systems.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Tax Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Prepared tax returns for the Mutual Funds Form 1120-RICs, along with periodic provisions, and annual excise returns.
• Ran multiple reports periodically related to the financials of the Mutual Funds including Trial Balances, Dividend Summaries, and Gain Loss Reports, analyze the data extracted and in corporate it into the tax returns.
• Interpret Mutual Fund Financials using US GAAP.
• Ticked and tied the necessary adjustments needed for provision work-papers.
• Helped in the transition of the change of fiscal year ends for the filing entities.
• Ran periodic Compliance Testing.
• Researched associated tax issued related to the Regulated Investment Industry including new filing requirements. Highlighted variances in reports produced regarding the REIT dividend income tax character allocation.
• Analyzed other data in adhoc reports on an as needed basis.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Senior Tax Professional

Responsibilities:

• Implemented the data transfer and authentication of the prior system’s data into OneSource. Set up the entity chart and all its component accounts.
• Processed, generated and analyzed the quarterly foreign source income, foreign tax credit, and tax assets reports.
• Reconciled Foreign Source Income by tying Taxable Income number from foreign entities to the 1120.
• Used various accounting systems to merge and generate these reports, by formulating the data using Excel and access tools.
• Provided various ad hoc reports for the requesting tax preparers.
• Annualized, and de-annualized data for the Foreign Tax Credit forecast reports depending on which accounts needed such treatment.
• Set up variance analysis tables and reports that provided detailed break-down information.
• Designed new Excel models that displayed information more clearly.
• Frequent data mining, and analysis of the data, using Vlookups, and Pivot Tables.
• Provided reasoning and rationale as to why data may have changed from period to period.
• Use US GAAP Financial knowledge to analyze both US and foreign financials and convert to US GAAP where necessary.
• Monitor adjustments made to the tax return and provision to insure SOX compliance.

Confidential

International Tax Associate

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Form 5471, 8865, 8858 and 1118’s for multi-national Fortune 500 firms with revenues greater than $60 billion, within the Telecommunications, Banking, Media, and Defense Contractor sectors.
• Prepared and analyzed Income statement and balance sheet data to coincide with that on a Form 5471 and prepare the relevant attached statements.
• Performed the yearly earnings and profits calculations for foreign subsidiaries of U.S. shareholders.
• Calculated and filled-in the relevant 5471 schedules.
• Performed currency conversions necessary to situate on the 5471’s.
• Performed netting calculations on Inter-company assets and liability balances.
• Completed e-workpapers for the Form 5471.
• Ticked and tied the 5471 to the source data provided by the client.
• Worked with converting IFRS and non-US GAAP to US GAAP financials.
• As part of a client’s loan staff I coordinated with their international reporting segments to compile their financial information. Analyzing that, the reported financials adhered to US GAAP and assisted them when their mapping did not adhere to US GAAP.
• Implemented and assisted E&P analysis tables.
• Performed FAS109/FIN 48 adjustments while working on Federal and State Returns.