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Seattle, Wa, Us

Greater Seattle Area

Greater Seattle Area

Responsible for the financial accounting activities related to prepaid subscriber revenues, roaming partner revenues and wholesale revenues along with the associated balance sheet and reserve accounts. The revenues are sourced from four billing systems and totaled approximately $3.2B for year ended 2010.Responsible for managing a team of 8 professional accountants with three direct reports. Participated in and provided guidance for enterprise wide projects to ensure accounting… Show more Responsible for the financial accounting activities related to prepaid subscriber revenues, roaming partner revenues and wholesale revenues along with the associated balance sheet and reserve accounts. The revenues are sourced from four billing systems and totaled approximately $3.2B for year ended 2010.Responsible for managing a team of 8 professional accountants with three direct reports. Participated in and provided guidance for enterprise wide projects to ensure accounting requirements are delivered and changes in operations are accurately accounted for in financial statements.Serve as a SOX Process Owner for the Revenue Cycles and provide leadership ensuring that appropriate controls are in place throughout the cycle to satisfy SOX requirements.Communicate regularly with operational business partners to identify areas for operational improvement, share knowledge about financial trends and upcoming changes. Show less

Greater Seattle Area

Project lead for Asset Accounting on $2.4B acquisition of SunCom Wireless.Worked with independent appraisal firm on the fair value calculation of SunCom’s fixed assets at a level of detail to book the assets appropriately within T-Mobile’s accounting system.Assisted in the development and refinement of a monthly process for booking activity in general ledger between close date and system conversion.Provided direction and assistance to cross-functional teams to develop process and… Show more Project lead for Asset Accounting on $2.4B acquisition of SunCom Wireless.Worked with independent appraisal firm on the fair value calculation of SunCom’s fixed assets at a level of detail to book the assets appropriately within T-Mobile’s accounting system.Assisted in the development and refinement of a monthly process for booking activity in general ledger between close date and system conversion.Provided direction and assistance to cross-functional teams to develop process and required system tools to load 40k+ assets into SAP sub ledger to meet US GAAP, IFRS and Tax requirements. Show less

Greater Seattle Area

Supervised team responsible for performing accounting activities related to prepaid subscribers with annual revenues of $900M.Supervised team responsible for recording subscriber activity in all product lines and distribution channels for 28 million subscribers.Partnered with multiple functional areas to ensure changes in business operations were accurately represented in the financial results, analysis and communication on various projects like FlexPay and Common Replenishment… Show more Supervised team responsible for performing accounting activities related to prepaid subscribers with annual revenues of $900M.Supervised team responsible for recording subscriber activity in all product lines and distribution channels for 28 million subscribers.Partnered with multiple functional areas to ensure changes in business operations were accurately represented in the financial results, analysis and communication on various projects like FlexPay and Common Replenishment Platform.Developed and maintained appropriate internal control procedures to ensure that the controls are operating effectively in accordance with SOX requirements. Show less

Greater Seattle Area

Provided overall management of and direction for staff of 11 to create projects, review costs to ensure compliance with US GAAP, IFRS and corporate policy and settlement of projects to fixed assets.Oversaw and ensured the accurate compilation, analysis, and reporting of accounting data for capital projects and fixed assets with annual budget of $2B.Partnered with operating departments to ensure that appropriate controls exist over $10B in physical assets.Key member of SAP… Show more Provided overall management of and direction for staff of 11 to create projects, review costs to ensure compliance with US GAAP, IFRS and corporate policy and settlement of projects to fixed assets.Oversaw and ensured the accurate compilation, analysis, and reporting of accounting data for capital projects and fixed assets with annual budget of $2B.Partnered with operating departments to ensure that appropriate controls exist over $10B in physical assets.Key member of SAP implementation team for projects systems module. Worked with multiple functional areas to develop business requirements and with SAP consultants to blueprint processes in SAP.Led conversion of construction-in-progress balance of $2.0B in more than 10,000 projects.Developed and led training courses on To-be processes using the new functionality available in SAP.Reconciled $700M construction-in-progress account to project cost sub ledger and developed monthly reconciliation process. Documented and transitioned monthly reconciliation to staff accountant.Automated monthly capitalized labor and expense calculation working with ERP support team.Provided monthly capital expenditure rollforward for joint venture between Cingular and T-Mobile. Show less

Greater Seattle Area

Managed month-end closing procedures including financial statement preparation and analysis of $140 million budget for variances against actual expenses.Prepared quarterly and annual statutory financial statements in accordance with Statutory Accounting Principles and regulatory requirements.Responsible for preparation of 1120 federal tax returns.Project lead for finance division in successful merger of two $140 million companies.

Greater Seattle Area

Responsible for all balance sheet reconciliations and bank account reconciliations.Maintained the receivables for revenues in excess of seven million dollars in a multi-state environment.Controlled accounts payable processing from invoice entry to check run in a timely, accurate manner.Processed payroll for 100 employees located in five states, including payroll tax reporting.Lead for Accounting on team that designed a custom accounting and reservation software system… Show more Responsible for all balance sheet reconciliations and bank account reconciliations.Maintained the receivables for revenues in excess of seven million dollars in a multi-state environment.Controlled accounts payable processing from invoice entry to check run in a timely, accurate manner.Processed payroll for 100 employees located in five states, including payroll tax reporting.Lead for Accounting on team that designed a custom accounting and reservation software system Planned and supervised accounting conversion to custom software, including staff training. Show less