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Evanston, Il

Compile and prepare financial statements and IRS 990 tax returns

Greater Cleveland Area

Client audit preparation in accordance to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, US Generally Accepted Audit Standards, and Sarbanes Oxley Act underlying financial records and record keeping requirements;Develop client MS Excel and Access applications;Evaluate internal control systems and operating procedures;Coordinate non-profit and for-profit small business audit preparation;Comprehensive database management and Excel to Accounting Information Systems migration;Income tax preparation for individual, proprietorship, and partnership returns;Prepare requested client documentation and written communications;Performed HR On-Boarding, DOT Drug and Alcohol testing management, payroll for 135 employees in six (6) locations

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

Managed DOT Drug and Alcohol program for five locations: pre-employment, random testing, and reasonable suspicion; HR on-boarding and payroll processing for six locations. Monthly revenue analysis.

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

Monitored and maintained physical document chain of custody and digital integrity over Summer Youth Employment Program of 2014: received application documents, compiled hiring, employment, payroll, and HR compliance documents; maintained chain of custody during internal and external audits.. Reported progress, variances, recommendations, and corrections to management, via Excel and Access applications I developed. Supervised two document scanners and file room librarian; assisted HR function, performing program's youth employee payroll time sheet recalculation and reviews and payroll check/stub verification.

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

* Converted financial spreadsheet records to GAAP PC-based accounting information system;* Established general and subsidiary and ledgers Charts of Accounts; recurring journal entries; and budgetary, financial, and managerial reports;* Controller responsibilities: daily cash management, accounts payable, financial reporting; developing system of internal controls, maintaining data integrity, and monitoring accuracy of underlying accounting records;* Oversaw successful annual audits 2009, 2010, and 2011;

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

* Prepared individual, sole proprietor, and partnership clients' federal, state, and local tax returns;* Advised clients' anticipated tax issues and resolutions;* Subject Matter expert on local and state income tax preparation;* Updated proprietary tax software updates;* Liaised with H&R Block technical software support on tax application and networking issues;

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

* Performed compliance, internal control, performance, due diligence, and forensic audits in state's largest school district of 110 schools and fiscal departments;* Performed regulatory data report submissions due diligence audits, Auditor-in-charge;* Developed each engagement's audit scope, objective(s), and planning documents, performing analytic procedures, before, during, and post-testing; preparing testing and audit program; - Prepared audit engagement letter, working papers, and audit reports and letters; - Performed Auditor-in-charge during medium-sized audits, reviewing field test results, working papers, and advised auditors on internal control and data testing questions while in the field;* Developed district-wide Excel application, accounting for and reconciling school/student activity cash transactions - eliminated reported internal control weakness; reduced cash irregularities 80%;* Developed and successfully performed big data analysis using Access/Excel applications, verifying state compliance and District's reporting accuracy via sampling 10% of transported district students at the State of Ohio Department of Education's request.* Developed Adult Education Department's Continuing Education's Excel multiple variable costs break-even application to monitor class offerings' tuition/cost-recovery, reducing lost revenue curricula offerings 75%;* Assisted external auditors in performing audit tasks, reducing A-133 audit costs 25%;* Developed and coordinated indexed-student census documentation strategy district-wide implementation, reducing state funding losses, by eliminating documentation errors; external auditors used error rate (typically 15% error rate) in extrapolating district-wide errors to reduce District funding;* Passed Ohio Certified Information System Auditor exam; (qualifying IT experience outside of licensing window)

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

* Tested, implemented automated mainframe integrated accounting system for Cleveland office and eventually for Fourth District Accounting;* Balanced $45 Billion transactions accounting system nightly, 99% daily balancing rate;* Developed and implemented: - Risk assessment document for 4 of 7 business units in Accounting Department using 1992 COSO guidelines, contributing to Department achieving clean audits; - Contingency planning document and test scripts for Accounting Department; - Executed business continuity testing for Accounting Department; - Balancing procedures manual for Cleveland Office's Activity Based Cost centers and trained staffs, resulting in daily 98% balance rate and 99% Cleveland District balancing rate during the roll-out of the Federal Reserve System’s automated accounting system.* Coordinated Department preparation for annual departmental audit;* Developed and implemented Accounting Department standard operating procedures (did not develop Billing procedures) and implemented Accounting internal control best practices. - Department audit resulted in no findings.* Developed and supervised semi-annual testing of Accounting Department's Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plans;* Passed Ohio CPA exam and obtained Ohio CPA license

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

* Tested integrated accounting system projects for general ledger and deposit accounting applications in Test and Acceptance Programming Group; learned IMS/VS COBOL to examine database calls and program logic to test accounting programs and modules. Scored highest in mandatory self study IMS/VS database programming concepts curriculum. - Tested logic of programming modules, data input and output, detected and assisted in resolution of integration issues in mainframe program stacks and job streams - One of cleanest initial application implementations in Federal Reserve System; - Recruited by Accounting Department as a troubleshooting resource in preparation and during production implementation phase;

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

* Restarted abnormally ended production program applications; - Recovered aborted program disk space; * Monitored daily production throughput and nightly computer operations mainframe maintenance procedures; - Prepared systems programming maintenance and testing procedures and data recovery computer operator instructions.* Tested and installed incremental production data backup and disk space reclamation system, including technical position paper of test analysis; learned assembler language to install hooks into operating system.* Implemented disk space monitoring and reclamation software and accompanying procedure to reclaim disk space nightly and postponed disk capacity expansion 2 years without processing degradation, despite 15% annual throughput increases;

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

* Staff Accountant: performed client compilation work, using Bender G/L application software; * Prepared payroll and federal, state, and local payroll tax reporting for 7 small-to-medium sized businesses, ranging from 7 to 100+ employees;* Performed client inventory testing;* Converted actual cost general ledger to GAAP-compliance;

Master Of Science (Ms), Accounting, 3.1

Activities and Societies: As an online graduate student, I did not participate in any activities or societies on a campus at Kaplan.

I Did Not Graduate From Law School, Law

Evening Curriculum: Torts, Contracts,and Legal Research and Writing (attended one year), while working as third shift computer operator @.

Bachelor’S Degree, Philosophy, Economics

Activities and Societies: Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity officer, philosophy tutor, intramural footbal, NU Wildcats Football fan BA.

Diploma, College Prep

Activities and Societies: Debate team, football team, National Achievement finalist, National Merit Honorable Mention Football, debate.