Perform month end close for multiple full service and select service hotels across the country with cumulative annual sales of approximately $20,000,000. Calculate and record accruals and allocations for payroll, utilities, recurring expenses, and principal vendors. Reconcile and maintain all balance sheet accounts. Reconcile and balance landlord and ownership accounts and record relevant transactions. Prepare financial reports for internal and external stakeholders. Identify opportunities for improvement and develop tools and user interfaces for coworkers for data manipulation, data verification, and data summarization to improve efficiency and reliability of work products and communication. Process and perfect large quantities of third party data for direct upload into acconting software. Current efforts include creation of an entirely new database for ownership reporting that cannot be accomplished by off the shelf products.Prepare and file sales, use, and occupancy taxes in multiple jurisdictions, including Illinois, North Carolina, and Texas.

Plan and conduct examinations of financial information and income tax returns of a wide variety of taxpayers. Exercise judgement in determining analytical methods and techniques to achieve objectives.Independently perform in-depth forensic accounting and analysis of a variety of complex financial records and record keeping systems. Examine accounting systems and records, including the computerized accounting and information systems which reflect a variety of complex financial operations. Evaluate internal controls of business entities.Conducts investigative interviews of taxpayers and their representatives and summarize findings in work papers. Evaluate taxpayers’ statements for accuracy and truthfulness by systematically comparing the statements to audit findings.Produce financial investigative reports and exhibits suitable for a court of law and that show a comprehensive level of understanding of legal proceedings. As Super User and point of contact for Area, conduct queries of currency and banking information maintained by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. Maintain audit trail as required by Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration. Utilize Foreign Bank and Financial Reports and Suspicious Activity Reports. Coordinate with local Criminal Investigation Division personnel for review and selection of Suspicious Activity Reports for examination.Plan and conduct biannual audits of local Criminal Investigations office imprest fund. Assisted Criminal Investigation Division and SBSE counsel on numerous occasions. Conducted presentations to Territory and inter-Territory groups on Income Probe techniques, the evaluation of internal control, and e-commerce. Numerous temporary assignments as acting manager. Mentored less experienced agents and provided instruction to experienced agents on new technologies related to examination activities.

Direct control of all accounting functions: A/P, A/R, budgeting, control of cash, month and year end closing, oversight of financial aspects of project purchasing. Prepare financial reporting on a monthly and ad hoc basis for internal and external audiences.Manager of all business functions. Responsible for the daily functioning of the business operations including selection of major vendors including payroll outsourcing, telecommunications providers, and technology consultants and creation and maintenance of client and vendor contracts. Direct administrative oversight of the business premises and direct responsibility for operational effectiveness.Complete sales and use tax returns for Texas (monthly) and New York (quarterly). Prepare documentation for CPA to prepare income tax returns.

Commissioned on two separate occasions to create middleware to automate data manipulation using VBA and Excel. Designed and implemented add-ins that took information from legacy POS systems and output uploadable data files.

Cooordinate accounting activities and sales reporting for restaurant locations. Adapt corporate accounting procedures and restaurant procedures as additional locations were opened. Designed procedures for monthly sales tracking, weekly cash forecasting, and daily cash analysis. Responsible for payroll for approximately 12 locations and over 200 employees. Responsible for accounts receivable for all locations and catering and mail order divisions.