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Port Moody, Bc, Ca

Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada

• Full implementation of month-end closing procedures and preparation of monthly financial statements.• Examining and analyzing accounting and financial records, documents, and systems to ensure accuracy and compliance with established accounting standards, and procedures.• Regularly file and pay Excise Tax Returns and Provincial Sales Tax Returns across multiple provinces (BC, SK, MB, ON and QC). • Reviewing multi-currency bookkeeping, multiple sets of books, intercompany transactions, tax analysis and currency gain/loss to ensure accuracy of financial records.• Providing leadership, training, and development of Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable staff in the accounting function of their role. • Assisting with external audits on an annual basis.• Researching accounting issues where necessary for compliance with generally accepted compliance principles.

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Preparation of notice to reader and review engagements for different industries including wholesaler, real estate development, lawyers, doctors, and providing year-end journal entries• Preparation of personal and corporate tax returns and tax planning • Preparation, reconciliation, and filing of T4s, T5s, GST, PST (BC), and other tax filings• Experienced in full cycle accounting including review of bookkeeping, preparing adjusting journal entries, financial statements, and tax returns, as well as communicating best practices for file organization• Heavily involved in building the firm's library of Notes to the Financial Statements in accordance to ASPE disclosure requirements• Experienced using software such as CaseWare, ProFile, Sage 50, and QuickBooks• Exceptional interpersonal skills and ability to communicate clearly with superiors, peers, and clients• Training and mentoring junior staff at different experience levels• Proactively contributed to the firm's processes, procedures and policies to improve overall efficiency, accuracy and documentation • Accepted a 6 month secondment as an acting Finance and Operations Director for a health and wellness spa where I played a pivotal role in the start-up phase of the company including set up and oversee of bookkeeping in QuickBooks, set up of internal software (Zenoti) for accurate reporting of income and sales tax data; inventory set up and management of hundreds of different SKUs, involved in decision making and overseeing HR, operational and marketing areas of the business.

Vancouver, Bc

• Accounts Receivable• Assisted in Accounts Payable by invoice and payment entry on a daily basis• Approve hours and run reports for three retirement facilities. This task required a good knowledge of collective agreements for each facility (BCGEU and BCNU). • Run final payroll for one of the facilities on a bi-weekly basis.

Burnaby, Bc

Education record

Bachelor’S Degree, Accounting

Activities and Societies: Sauder Ethics Initiative

Associate Of Arts (Aa), Psychology