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➤ Effectively supporting business development, including meeting and evaluating prospective clients, and developing proposals along with pricing models for bookkeeping projects and ongoing engagements.➤ Overseeing the creation and maintenance of client accounting files, from inception to transitional hand-off phase, including the development of the scope of work and procedural outline.➤ Nurturing and managing client relationships, as well as managing client billing for ongoing weekly work, recurring monthly service, and special projects.➤ Managing internal accounting and controls, and making periodic assessments to make improvements to processes and quality standards to meet both organizational and client goals.➤ Assigning accounts to available Bookkeepers, evaluating/balancing urgency and time constraints of each task, the schedules of available bookkeepers, and the skill sets of the bookkeepers, and the relative billing rates of each client.➤ Reviewing initial staff communications with clients and providing advice as needed to ensure clarity and accuracy, as well as helping Bookkeepers with problem-solving when necessary.➤ Driving adherence to and maintaining GAAP protocols, company protocols and standards, and established best practices.➤ Working in a hands-on leadership role and managing key accounts, including balancing and reconciling business books with bank statements, payroll for small business clients, and tax filing for small business and individual clients.➤ Efficiently managing data entry, Accounts Payable, and Accounts Receivables for small business clients, utilizing QuickBooks, and generating financial reports including balance sheet, trial balance, and P&L.

➤ Developed and coordinating accounting functions, along with ERP system and internal control processes, ensuring accuracy and appropriateness of accounting data, systems, and financial reports.➤ Established project-level budgets, including setting-up expenditure, revenue, encumbrance, and payroll projections, and implemented a SOX process that result in no significant deficiencies or material weaknesses.➤ Proactively supported the external Auditor with periodic financial reviews in accordance with GAAP, and developed process enhancements to manage risk and increase productivity.➤ Implemented major internal control systems along with new policies and procedures to ensure Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, as well as worked with cross-functional personnel to implement and improve data validation.➤ Efficiently recorded everyday financial transactions in the QuickBooks accounting system, including reviewing, coding, and inputting ACH, wire transfers, and checks.➤ Prepared daily reconciliations between the company's accounts and the bank account, as well as processed month-end standard journals and accruals to ensure income and costs were allocated to the appropriate cost centers.➤ Prepared client invoices, paid vendors and led Accounts Payable, while managing QuickBooks Payroll service, including paychecks for employees and contractors, and related taxes.➤ Approved reports for IRS 941/944 and ensured tax compliance for the State of Texas, in addition to preparing, reviewing, and analyzing monthly financial statements, retained earnings, balance sheet, P&L, and trial balance reports.

➤ Achieved objectives from USAID of an already allocated grant for a pre-determined social program by developing an execution plan, implementing a project in close coordination with municipal authorities and the local community.➤ Expertly managed social projects, teams, and resources from the initiation through the closing phase, including reporting project progress to internal management, donors, municipalities, and the community.➤ Strategically and successfully reduced the time that a municipality took to issue business operation licenses, from months to days, by working with local authorities to simplify, standardize, and automate the process.➤ Built networks with international organizations, academic institutions, NGOs, and professional bodies, while exchanging information, promoting cooperative research initiatives, and expanding the influence of AMHON.➤ Provided cross-functional support between projects and coached municipal staff and members of the local community, including providing technical training to ensure they were able to perform their assigned duties.➤ Effectively promoted awareness within the municipal government to understand national legal rules for environmental, social, and business environment.➤ Worked closely with national government agencies, NGOs, and industry to develop social initiatives, leading to local economic development across municipal governments, local communities, and disadvantaged groups.➤ Proactively supported entrepreneur women in improving their small business skills, getting permits and health licenses, paying taxes, and complying with the law, as well as helped them promote their businesses with suppliers and buyers.➤ Successfully organized business networking events and fairs in local communities, while leveraging partnerships with government officials, academia, and 3rd parties to promote the projects and the participating small businesses.

Business Consultant – USAID's Accountability of Government Program (GTAG), Tegucigalpa, Honduras – 2007Financial Account Manager – FHIS (Honduras' Social Investment Agency), Tegucigalpa, Honduras – 2005 to 2007