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Raleigh, Nc

Responsible for month end close and financial statements. Supervision of AP/AR areas. • Coordinate and assist with the monthly closing process, including but not limited to general journal entries, accruals, recurring entries, etc.• Perform monthly variance analysis of balance sheet and income statement accounts.• Financial statement preparation.• Reconciliation of inventory as well as other balance sheet accounts• Standard Costing calculation/ analysis• Calculate and process state sales/ use tax and assist with corporate business taxes.• Fixed asset management• Streamlining department processes and creating SOP/ standard work documents.• Coordinating sales tax VDA’s for non-registered states to limit sales tax exposure.• Coordinate and assist external auditors during annual audit.• Filing of sales tax and property tax returns.

Henrietta, New York

Responsible for leading and supervision of the Accounting and administrative areas, month end close and financial statements for an 89-Million-dollar company. • Coordinate and assist with the monthly closing process.• Development of company budgeting and forecasting models.• Coordinate and assist external auditors during annual audit.• Account reconciliations.• Creation, calculation and analysis of key performance indicators (KPI)• Consolidated financial statement preparation and presentation thereof to the BOD.• Training of department staff members and performing annual reviews.• Streamlining department processes and creating SOP/ standard work documents.• Responsible for cash flow management and analysis.

Chili, New York

Responsible for supervision of the AP and administrative areas, month end close and financial statements for a 2.4-Billion-dollar company. • Coordinate and assist with the monthly closing process, including but not limited to general journal entries, accruals, recurring entries, etc.• Perform monthly variance analysis of balance sheet and income statement accounts.• Financial statement preparation.• Account reconciliations.• Calculate and process state sales/ use tax and assist with corporate business taxes.• Running of monthly variance reports to analyze actual expenditures versus budgeted amounts.• Development of company budgeting and forecasting models.• Perform monthly and quarterly customer rebates based on specific sales criteria.• Coordinate and assist external auditors during annual audit

Pittsford, New York

Responsible for various month end closing tasks. Filing of VAT and various state sales tax returns.• Intercompany balance confirmation and reporting during month end closing.• Assisting in the month end close process including but is not limited to general journal entries for prepaid accounts and accruals.• Account reconciliations.• Running of monthly inventory reports and monthly inventory reconciliation.• Responsible for the coordination and auditing of the annual physical inventory process. • Formulate and transmit annual financial data collection package to the corporate tax team used in federal and multi state income tax filings.• Preparation and filing of California, Connecticut, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and Washington sales tax returns and British VAT return.• Point person for state sales tax audits.• Responsible for administering and calculation of companywide commission plan for 133 salespersons. Includes Canada, Latin America and United States regions.

Victor, New York

Responsible for financial analysis and financial reporting duties including consolidated financial statement preparation for foreign and domestic operations.• Provide departments with requested data and reports.• Interim Accounting Manager during Accounting Managers 4 month medical leave. Job responsibilities included but were not limited to general journal entries, supervision of the AP and AR specialists, monthly closing and reconciliation of inventory.

Rochester, New York

Responsible for the timely filing of federal and state income tax returns in addition to financial statement preparation

Rochester, New York

Responsible for the filing of state and foreign income tax returns for no regulated subsidiaries as well as sales and use tax returns

Master'S Degree, Taxation

Bachelor'S Degree, Accounting