Responsible for all accounting functions, including monthly accruals, financial reports, account reconciliations, chart of accounts and internal controls.Filed company’s tax and regulatory filings in Illinois, California and Delaware. Filings include Corporate Income Tax, Franchise Tax, Use Tax, Payroll Tax, and Annual Reports as required for each jurisdiction.Developed a cash investment strategy to provide triple digit increase the company’s return on cash balance.Maintained company’s Capitalization Table. Scenario Modeling to help key business decision makers to understand the financial impact of various business decisions.Maintained company’s budget and provided regular variance analysis and ad-hoc reports.Oversaw the completion of the company's 2-year audit. Prepared all client deliverables and acted as sole liaison between the company and auditors.Process multi-state payroll and file state and federal payroll tax filings.Assist in company wrap-up and dissolution, including completing final legal filings to close all federal and state accounts, withdrawing the company’s rights to transact business in Illinois, California and Delaware, terminating employee group benefit plans, and processing the final shareholder distribution.Served as consultant to finalize company’s dissolution.

Responsible for developing the financial structure and budgets for a new global client with contractual revenue between $10 and $12 million annually.Acted as a conduit between two partnering companies to define the business relationship and create standardized processes for a new line of business.Managed three staff members; providing accounting guidance and leadership to structure a new General Ledger schema for a new line of business.Responsible for reviewing and explaining monthly Income Statements and providing forecast for a new line of business for the company.

Supervise team of two accountants; providing accounting leadership and direction to team to comply with GAAP and internal accounting policies.Responsible for overseeing Air, Car, Cruise, Insurance, Credit Card settlement and Purchase Accounting related accounting journal entries and account reconciliations. Developed efficiencies within team and adaquate checks to ensure that journal entries are correct and errors are detected in a timely manner. Increased transparency across the organization by working with the Finance department to investigate variances between the forecast model and the actual financial results posted to the General Ledger. Responsible for the Cash accounting processes to record cash transactions to the General Ledger. Developed efficiencies in reconciliation of Bank Balances and General Ledger through evaluation of activity for easy recognition and reconciliation. Also, worked with other departments to create efficiencies in their processing, providing reports previously unavailable to allow easier understanding of activity.Responsible for reviewing and analyizing balance sheet and income statement variances period to period and resolving any inconsistencies or errors discovered.Responsible for reviewing contracts in area of responsibility and ensuring new business is accounted for properly according to GAAP and that adaquate controls are in place to comply with Sarbanes Oxley and internal controls.

Responsible for overseeing completion of Cash Rollforwards by the accounting team for use by external reporting in compiling the Statement of Cash Flows for quarterly and annual reporting. Responsible for Air related accounting journal entries and account reconciliations. Developed efficiencies and checks to ensure that journal entries are correct and errors are detected in a timely manner. Increased transparency across the organization by working with the Finance department to investigate variances between the forecast model and the actual financial results posted to the General Ledger. Responsible for the Cash accounting processes to record cash transactions to the General Ledger. Developed efficiencies in reconciliation of Bank Balances and General Ledger through evaluation of activity for easy recognition and reconciliation. Responsible for updating accruals for estimated fraud expense. Responsibility included developing a new methodology based on analyzing various reports. Created efficiencies in calculation and presentation through data manipulation and analysis.Developed new accounting procedures for newly developed journal entries through researching generally accepted accounting principles for accounting guidance and documenting an Accounting Memo. Responsible for Purchase accounting journal entries and account reconciliations. Subject matter expert and primary point of contact for the accounting matters related to the air business.

Create and oversee implementation of reports required by the Air Business of one of the top online travel agencies to make operational and strategic decisions. Responsible gathering requirements and completing ad-hoc data requests for the strategy team and senior managers. Subject matter expert for the air business in areas involving the reporting structure and the available reporting resources. Served as liaison between business and business intelligence teams to submit, prioritize, and oversee business intelligence projects.

Provided AT&T on-site business analysis and system development support for the development and deployment of AT&T's internal project tracking application. Provided support to requirements and design elements of the project to insure user inputs and business process requirements are incorporated into system builds. System Test Team Lead for AT&T. Managed the work and timelines assigned to team members of the System Test Team.

Technical Architecture Team member, responsible for the identification of appropriate technologies, software and hardware suites for incorporation into the system. Responsible for developing competitive solicitations and for the development of evaluation reports for technologies under consideration. Provided review of submitted proposals to determine feasibility and cost impacts to project.