Liz Sandstrom Email & Phone Number

California, United States

United States

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

United States

Los Altos, Ca

• Work with Financial Services Manager on improving the City’s financial administration, including the research and training required for the implementation of a new accounting software, and designing solutions to help the City move to a more paperless environment• Prepare City-wide payroll, developing new procedures and streamlining payroll calculations, as well as maintaining compliance with City, state, and federal laws and regulations• Help track and prepare information for the City’s annual audit, analyzing data and responding to requests from auditors for the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR)

San Francisco Bay Area

• Managed and maintained accounting records for small businesses, preparing month-end close and balance sheet reconciliations, and posting A/R, A/P and GL• Specialized in estate dissolution, trust accounting, and aiding clients in designing internal controls and new procedures to help their business be more efficient• QuickBooks Online Pro Advisor

Eureka

• Led new process of preparing Employee Benefit Plan audits with the goal of efficiency; designed and implemented the process of preparing multiple audits simultaneously with new paperless audit software• Tax experience includes complex individual, partnership, corporate, and non-profit entities• Extensive experience preparing complex financial statements, researching GAAP compliance, tax implications, and analyzing year‐over‐year fluctuations• Implemented new software, helping manage upfront installations, trainings, and troubleshooting• Redesigned procedural templates and forms, encouraged firm-wide use of paperless forms, and coached team members on new technology use and operation, often troubleshooting minor IT issues

Arcata, Ca

• Helped manage the transition to new production software from non-digital records, trained staff members and performed troubleshooting with the software company• Increased efficiency in monthly inventory reporting by implementing new electronic templates for company-wide use, and instructed staff on Microsoft Office programs and network files use• Organized company recipes into electronic documents to prepare for production software calculations

• Managed administrative budget for the division of 100+ team members• Decreased monthly reporting preparation time by 50%• Expanded the role to include acquisitions support for mechanics, and collaborated with electrical engineers to make and install CAT-5 cable for re-wiring control rooms between projects

Los Gatos, Ca

• Assisted office management, filing, and organizing vendor records• Managed end of day closing, including light bookkeeping and cash drawer reconciliations• Led informational modules teaching team members about early childhood development to enable more effective sales pitches