Tony Gansen, Mba, Cpa Email & Phone Number

Burlingame, California, United States

Handle a wide variety of accounting functions while reporting directly to Vice President of Finance. Process biweekly payroll for 120 employees, including 403(b) tax sheltered annuity plans. Perform period-end closing activities such as account reconciliations. Prepare all journal entries requiring department allocations such as payroll, 403(b), prepaid insurance, workers’ compensation, postage machine and copier. Prepare additional journal entries including non-operating cash and activity for thrift store operations. Perform bank reconciliations which involve voluminous donation records. Communicate directly with the Development department on any donation-related issues. Contribute to audits by preparing schedules and assisting in budget preparations. Support Finance Manager for affiliated entities, including bank reconciliations. Selected accomplishments1. Wrote detailed desktop procedures that did not exist before. 2. Caught up bank reconciliations that had lagged for nine months as a result of staff shortages. 3. Prepared breakdown of “Other Receivables” account that had been neglected for several years. Brought account up to current through combination of write-offs and settlements. 4. Disposed of fully-depreciated assets and revised asset master list, including synching with general ledger.

San Francisco, California, United States

Prepared consolidation of monthly and quarterly results to support close packages and to explain causes of change. Served as liaison for teams in Hong Kong and India. Supported accounting functions, including required statutory reporting, coordination of funding, and support for internal controls for financial reporting. Used pivot tables to filter data for detailed P&L reporting. Contract assignment.

Added new responsibilities from previous position, including review and troubleshooting of journal entries, variance and balance sheet analysis, general ledgers for foreign subsidiaries, and financial packages prepared by other Senior Accountants for parent company and domestic subsidiaries. Serve as point person for overseas accounting contacts.Review and approve parent company and domestic subsidiary ledgers. Prepare consolidating journal entries for an eliminations company and multiple foreign subsidiaries. Prepare year-end audit schedules for consolidated financials. − Key member of accounting team since 2001 that automated processes and reduced closing cycle to 10 days.− Identified need and implemented new processes between 2005 and 2008 for running balances of Hong Kong and Shanghai ledgers in local currencies. Worked closely with foreign accountants and auditors to bring reconciliations current, with process now in place that provides consistent and accurate reporting.

Maintained general ledgers for multiple foreign subsidiary ledgers. Analyzed account variances on monthly financials. Prepared elaborate analytic schedules for interim and year-end audits. Performed heavy troubleshooting with foreign office accounting contacts, including training on all processes. − Wrote detailed analytical schedules for parent company and all domestic subsidiaries for interim and year-end audits. − Maximized transparency of intercompany reporting and reconciliations for multiple foreign subsidiaries, including linking raw data to Excel-Lawson interface and training overseas accountants.− Gradually automated monthly analysis reports by enabling data extraction from Hyperion. − Only non-manager who reviewed and revised procedures drafts written by other accountants as part of a department wide project to document work flows.

Maintained general ledgers and consolidated financial statements for TCIL (parent company). Prepared schedules supporting journal entries accompanying the financial statements, monthly and quarterly reports, and year-end audit schedules. Trained other accountants in systems, policies, processes and accounting best practices. Reconciled complex account through which operating revenues and expenses were allocated based on percentage of container fleet ownership as a 3-way bank reconciliation.− Assisted in conversion of monthly processes from ACCPAC to Lawson. − Expanded monthly reporting process to accommodate increasing complexity of TCIL’s organizational structure.

Maintained general ledgers and financial statements in ACCPAC for TCI domestic subsidiary and several partnerships which were then organized under Triton. Prepared ledgers for multiple foreign subsidiaries, and quarterly and year-end reports for the TCI domestic subsidiary.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Accounting

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), History