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• Supervise multiple simultaneous engagements including leading engagement planning meetings, troubleshooting engagement issues, reviewing staff prepared workpapers, and communicating audit results to clients.• Serve as a technical advisor including researching audit issues, interpreting GAAP, and presenting findings and/or solutions.• Develop graphic packages for clients based on key metrics and ratios and presented results and recommendations to clients.

• Responsible for supervising up to two additional audit staff including communicating audit plan and risk assessment. Charged with keeping audit staff on task and ensuring quality of audit documentation.• Served as liaison between firm and clients including communicating audit timing, required documentation and audit findings to client’s upper management. Responsible for ensuring client deadlines are met.• Accessed and test effectiveness of internal controls including evaluating magnitude of discovered internal control deficiencies and communicating findings to management.• Participated in firms’ mentoring program for interns and new hires. Responsibilities include on-the-job training related to audit procedures and accounting software, promoting work life balance and assimilating staff into firms’ culture. • Assisted in developing new product line including developing audit procedures and training additional staff.

Planned and executed the audit of consolidated financial statements for publicly traded subsidiaries and privately held companies. Clients were in various industries including construction, not-for-profit, and mortgage servicing and ranged in size from 5M to 800M. Completed audit procedures for all areas of the financial statements. Performed various analytical procedures and ratio analysis including revenue trends, cost of sales trends and SGA as a percentage of sales for audit planning and post analysis.In-charged several engagements, responsible for supervising up to two additional staff and communicating results to controllers and CFO's.Assisted in developing new product line including developing audit procedures and training additional staff.Prepared and executed the audit of 401k Plans and prepared the financial statements required by the Department of Labor.Conducted forensic audits to detect possible fraud and communicated results to client.Prepared year end reporting packages to be presented to client. Helped create internal benchmarking database to allow clients to see how they compared to similar companies in similar industries.Prepared tax returns for all entity types including C corporations, S corporations, limited liability companies and limited liability partnerships. Discovered errors in previously filed tax returns resulting in refund of $230,000.

Performed various attestation services functions including audits, reviews and compilations. Prepared tax returns for all entity types including C corporations, S corporations, limited liability companies and limited liability partnerships.Internship was extended due to performance.