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New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

• Reviewed monthly reconciliations on Balance Sheet and Income statement accounts• Performed accounting for the firm’s fixed assets and depreciation. This includes tracking office projects and budgets and Journal Entries associated with capitalization and depreciation• Prepared monthly reports on budget variances and review for any material discrepancies• Executed Payroll journal entries for each pay period, reviewing for GL account coding and variances• Integrated new foreign subsidiary from Singapore to accounting. This involved cash to accrual conversion, review, foreign tax setup and review.• Annual Financial Statement Audit – Worked with auditors to provide data and answers to questions as they arise.• Filed and Paid State and Local taxes including sales and use, property, business licenses, and income tax. Provided reporting and data needed for our federal and state tax preparers.• Performed all accounting for the Mexico Subsidiary, this included Balance Sheet and Income statement review, Journal Entries, Intercompany invoices across entities, Fixed Assets, and some tax experience.

San Francisco, California, Us

In this role I worked closely with our Mexico office to manage the ledger. This included Bank Reconciliations, month end journal entries and account reconciliations, creating and maintaining any Intercompany Transactions between US and Mexico, along with being in line with tax codes. I worked on multi-year tax audits and dealt with the multi-currency transactions.I also managed all taxes for the US firm. I filed, paid, managed the calendar, and provided data to our tax team. This included Sales/Use, Property, Business Income, and all state and federal income taxes. I also helped lead a project to rewrite the Chart of Accounts for the firm. This involved evaluating each account, rewriting descriptions, removing or changing accounts.

San Francisco, California, Us

In my role as a team lead, I supported a team of 6 individuals by answering questions, helping with projects that came up and by training and onboarding of new employees onto my team. I also was put onto special project teams and assisted my manager in balancing workloads, conflicts and issues that would arise. I also supported my manager in routine coaching of individual members of the team. This was done while maintaining a billing load and completing all tasks that I performed as a Client Accounting Specialist as well.

San Francisco, California, Us

• Oversee and monitor all monthly billing activities for over 50 assigned attorneys which requires accuracy, efficiency, and attention to detail• Analyze and perform allocations of worked time for flat fee and phase billing matters

• Responsible for generating all types of invoices for rate schedule, lump sum, and cost plus projects.• Learned all different forms of billing including working on custom invoices that require excel and word processing skills.• Developed in my knowledge of corporate finances and billing.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

• Responsible for supporting portfolio accounting for general and separate account assets of Insurance Companies• Accurately book and verify all trades for clients to ensure accurate net asset value calculation• Compile and submit necessary documentation to assist client operations and respond to all client requests in a timely, thorough, and professional manner• Responsible for identifying any unusual or potentially suspicious transaction activity, escalating to management and assisting in resolving the issue in accordance with accounting rules and company policy• Learn to work in a high pressure, detail-oriented environment while learning on the job

Kansas City, Mo, Us

• Performed a high volume of customer transactions which require accuracy, efficiency, and maximizing the customer interactions through sale of products to ensure their needs are being met effectively. • Learned to work in a fast-paced environment that required multi-tasking, accuracy, and high attention to detail while assisting customers in their needs.• Cross-trained to do higher level financial services such as account maintenance, loans, IRA’s, CD’s, and home equity loans and lines of credit.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Accounting

Associate Of Arts (A.A.), Business/Commerce, General