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Secaucus, Nj, Us

Primary roles and responsibilities:• Ensuring the Payroll Oracle HCM costing for new and existing payroll elements were properly set up and correctly mapped to the PeopleSoft general ledger to ensure financial statement reporting accuracy• Reviewing payroll general ledger related interfaces including payroll general ledger, payroll accrual, head count, FTE’s, and benefits for accuracy• Serving as a liaison between finance and payroll to solve or facilitate solutions to questions or issues that arise relating to payroll general ledger expenses and payroll tax• Reviewing daily and bi-weekly payroll tax payments, which ADP facilitates paying to the IRS• Reviewing payroll SOX controls for the payroll group within the Blackline Compliance Module• Being a liaison between the payroll group and external financial, internal, and IRS auditors providing requested information for payroll accounting related transactions and controls• Reviewing payroll tax IRS amendment submissions• Researching payroll tax changes and providing payroll tax compliance action plansKey accomplishments included:• Automating several bi-weekly and monthly payroll interface reasonableness reviews including the payroll GL, payroll accrual, headcount, FTE, and benefits interfaces utilizing an Access database to reduce the review times by 75% and 10 hours a month• Automating the payroll GL suspense process to reduce the time to identify the correct GL coding and reduce the overall $ amount of payroll expenses that fall into suspense• Reducing initial IRS state audit findings liability by over 70% through researching and providing additional support

Secaucus, Nj, Us

Primary roles and responsibilities:• Reviewing journal entries, account reconciliations, etc. prepared by the senior financial analyst and staff accountant/intern• Preparing detailed monthly foreign exchange gain/loss analysis for all international units with gain/loss exposure• Providing oversight review of foreign business units monthly/annual financial statements • Helping solve or facilitate solutions to questions or issues relating to international and joint venture accounting Key accomplishments included:• Helping prepare and review the coordinating of the acquisition accounting for various business purchases• Leading the disposition accounting for 2 variable interest entity joint ventures and 4 international business entities

Secaucus, Nj, Us

Primary roles and responsibilities:• Reviewing journal entries, account reconciliations, etc. prepared by the intern/staff accountant• Recording joint venture and international accounting related journal entries• Preparing account reconciliations primarily related to joint venture and international accounting Key accomplishments included:• Teaching a CPE class on Joint Venture Accounting open to the entire Quest Finance Team (March 2012)• Helping prepare and coordinate the disposition accounting for over 20 international business entities• Helping prepare and coordinate the recording of the acquisition accounting for various business purchases

Secaucus, Nj, Us

Primary roles and responsibilities:• Managing operational/financial audit teams of up to 7 staff and seniors while ensuring that audits are performed with high quality• Providing mid-year and annual reviews for up to 6 direct reports including senior and staff level auditors• Developing, implementing, and reviewing risk based audit plans designed to assess the effectiveness of company operations, the reliability and integrity of financial reporting, and compliance with policies and procedures• Identifying and presenting audit observations and providing value-added remediation recommendations to senior level and business unit management• Displaying strong project management, staff development, leadership, and mentoring skills• Direct involvement in the staffing process for departmentKey accomplishments:• Managing the annual company risk assessment process, in which, the company’s audit universe is assessed based upon financial, operational, compliance, fraud, and prior year audit risk to create the upcoming year’s annual audit plan• Developing standard audit controls and analytics testing templates; and training internal audit staff and seniors on how to utilize these tools• Presenting the internal audit group’s key focus and objectives to the company’s international controllers and familiarizing them with the audit process

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Primary roles and responsibilities included:• Providing assurance over financial assertions relative to client financial statements• Analyzing internal controls to gain an understanding of the overall control environment• Identifying audit risks, control gaps and deficiencies with suggested remedial action• Creating and tailoring audit plans• Researching complex technical accounting issues• Maintaining and fostering solid working client relationshipsKey accomplishments included:• Performing extensive Sarbanes Oxley 404 controls testing on SEC registered clients• Corporate field team leader of up to 4 team members with client communication including top-level management• Extensive audit planning and scoping including assisting in the completion of the overall audit strategy• Reviewing financial statement disclosures for compliance with corporate policy and GAAP

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