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San Francisco Bay Area

• Spearheaded branch set up, repositioning business model. • Took over offshore bookkeeping, implemented QBE with ERP business blueprint. • Acted as a liaison between employees and upper management for contingent plans and approvals. • Established budget and PO controls against expenditure and purchases. • Forecasted cash requirement based on preapproved vouchers. • Strived green; maintained a paperless book-keeping and tracking system with secured backups. •… Show more • Spearheaded branch set up, repositioning business model. • Took over offshore bookkeeping, implemented QBE with ERP business blueprint. • Acted as a liaison between employees and upper management for contingent plans and approvals. • Established budget and PO controls against expenditure and purchases. • Forecasted cash requirement based on preapproved vouchers. • Strived green; maintained a paperless book-keeping and tracking system with secured backups. • Optimized BOM – made accessible and sharable in the back-end system as computing platform for cross-functional team. Show less

San Jose

• Daily accounting operations - AR, AP, FA, PR, GL, Time reporting, etc• Tax compliance (corporate income, property, payroll, international tax, etc)• Accruals and reserves • Contract compliance • Revenue recognition• Monthly general ledger close & account reconciliations• Financial statements• International Consolidations• ERP implementation• Audit support• FP&A support• Daily cash planning and forecasting• Technical accounting, research and… Show more • Daily accounting operations - AR, AP, FA, PR, GL, Time reporting, etc• Tax compliance (corporate income, property, payroll, international tax, etc)• Accruals and reserves • Contract compliance • Revenue recognition• Monthly general ledger close & account reconciliations• Financial statements• International Consolidations• ERP implementation• Audit support• FP&A support• Daily cash planning and forecasting• Technical accounting, research and implementation• Business process review (procure-to-pay, order-to-bill, etc)• Special projects as assigned Show less

Gilroy

• Reconciled bank accounts, g/l balances for the past 6 months.• Amended payroll tax returns for the past 3 quarters and balanced the yearly returns to W2s.• Customized an automated job cost report with calculated fields for job analysis.• Extrapolated the audit analysis and debated with the auditors for a winning result.• Managed the database and reporting system with text files downloaded from the archived system.

• Led accounting department; monitored full cycle accounting including A/P, A/R, G/L, Payroll, Purchasing, sales taxes, property taxes and collections for a better internal control. • Administered the policies and procedures in accordance with GAAP. Interpreted geographically different union contracts. • Delivered job-costing reports by cost center, division and category, compared against the budget. • Took ownership of financial functions; produced timely financial reporting with… Show more • Led accounting department; monitored full cycle accounting including A/P, A/R, G/L, Payroll, Purchasing, sales taxes, property taxes and collections for a better internal control. • Administered the policies and procedures in accordance with GAAP. Interpreted geographically different union contracts. • Delivered job-costing reports by cost center, division and category, compared against the budget. • Took ownership of financial functions; produced timely financial reporting with variance analysis; made forecast and plans; bench marked performance against the budget by cost center. • Steered month-end activities through revenue and cost of sales recognition. Analyzed various activities including: monthly billing, policy deployment, balance sheet review, P&L review and operations review. • Compiled and reported multi-state (CA, CO, TX, NV, NY, VT, NM, OR) payroll taxes for over 1,000 employees, met the strict filing deadlines and their unique reporting requirements. • Monitored multi-state business taxes, sales taxes and property taxes to ensure accurate and timely filing. Performed data transfers, system conversions, data loss recovery and software training process. Designed databases for QA, the Work Order System and RFP Archive System in meeting customer requirements, facilitating billing needs and improving bidding effectiveness. Show less

Full Charge Bookkeeper

Mba, Operations Research

Activities and Societies: Operations Reserach and Quantitative Methods

B.S., Agricultual Marketing