Look after the full set of books and work with an outside firm for year-end financial statements preparation.

Reconcile US/Canada Excise Tax Related GL Accounts and month end accruals

- Provide accounting / bookkeeping service for local small business

-Prepare monthly project job cost reports against budget for various construction projects and review result with project managers-Prepare claims to developers for payments to sub-contractors-Handle payroll, month-end and year-end accounting funtions-Implement Sage Timberline and provide basic IT support-Provide business advices to the owner

- Setup a new branch office

-Prepared financial statements, month end and year end closing. -Reviewed daily account payable invoices processed and arrange payments.-Acted as backup of credit controller to oversee account receivable, bad debt and FX.-Reconciled various GL accounts and provide analysis for inconsistent transactions.-Filed GST/HST returns, tax installment and reviewed corporate income tax return.-Worked with bankers, lawyers and company owners for various company projects.-Worked with suppliers and customers for credit issue and build a long term relationship-Acted as business development and financial advisor to the owners.

- Prepared financial statements and bank reconciliation for one of the subsidiaries and various accounting schedules. - Filed monthly GST, PST and QST returns for all Canada subsidiaries.- Updated monthly tax provision of subsidiaries in various countries.- Acted as liaison to provide information to KPMG to prepare tax returns.

- Prepared Canadian and U.S. subsidiaries corporate income tax returns.- Assisted in U.S. and Canadian tax provision- Filed monthly GST and PST returns and self-assess U.S. offices state use tax.- Kept track of various investment accounts gain/loss monthly for tax purpose.- Assisted in various projects assisted by Tax Manager and Accounting Manager.

- Determined, updated and implemented new procedures for filing US sales tax returns under the new system-Vertex.- Assisted in testing and maintaining exemption records in Vertex and sales tax rules due to new regulations.- Reconciled various sales tax related accounts on a monthly basis in SAP.- Worked with internal and external parties to resolve any sales tax related issues.

- Prepared quarterly and year-end Canada tax provision with SAB101, USGAAP and Fresh Start effect.- Assisted in US tax provision schedules and prepared M1 adjustments schedules.- Reviewed miscellaneous US tax returns, depreciation and other schedules.

- Prepared partnership return paperwork for Ernst & Young to prepare and review partnership returns based on accounting information in SAP.- Filed amended returns due to IRS audit.- Assisted in various projects to analyze transfer pricing tax effect.

Assistant Tax Manager ( Oct 98 – Oct 99 ) Advanced Tax Accountant ( Oct 97 – Sep 98 )Tax Accountant ( Jan 97 – Sep 97 )- Reviewed and prepared the following Federal tax returns:- Single corporation income tax returns.- Amended and/or short-year corporation income tax returns.- Organization exempt for income tax.- Reviewed and prepared the following State tax returns: - Single or consolidated corporation income tax returns.- License tax return, franchise tax return and net worth tax return.- Personal intangible property tax return and personal tangible property tax returns.- Reviewed and prepared: - Forms 1099 – Information returns.- Calculation of taxable automobile benefits for US tax purpose.- Fixed assets depreciation and intangible amortization schedules.- Calculation of quarterly estimated taxes and extension of time to file tax returns.- Reviewed assessments, tax notices and inquiries from various operation locations and supervised staff to take appropriate action.- Trained new staff to use Fast Tax Insource CS program to prepare corporation income tax returns and property tax returns and scheduled job allocation to staffs.

- Reconciled major internal holding accounts and checking accounts for withholding tax. - Submitted withholding tax from pension to IRS and other state and local tax agencies based on the assigned schedule.- Researched any pension withholding tax inquiries from clients, IRS and State authorities and reported the resolutions to the appropriate internal and external parties.- Organized year-end project to reconcile the withholding tax submitted to various tax authorities and the withholding tax from each pension plan.