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Reston, Virginia, United States

Reston, Virginia

Gaithersburg, Md

Worked in Corporate Accounting responsible for accounting for Consumer and Enterprise International business groups.Prepared and posted journal entries for adjustment and reclasses related to revenue and cost of sales High level reconciliation of Income Statement and Balance Sheet accounts project balances to GLReconciliation of deferred revenue, deferred cost and inventory accounts, including roll forwardsPrepared, coordinated, compiled monthly variance analysis for P&L, B/S accounts for managementPrepared, compiled quarterly variance analysis (YTD/YOY) for audit committee (MD&A)Worked with internal/external auditors (interim/year-end PBCs); handle audit requests/ questionsRun project processing weekly & monthly to post system entries for revenue, overhead costs, COGS, deferred revenue, deferred cost, unbilled revenue, and resolve any errors and issuesPost-close reporting/ analysis including excess inventory reserve analysis, other inventory reports.Provided leadership and guidance to less experienced peers, helped them with issues and questionsWorked special projects including a project to review several customer contracts to assess the initial impact of implementation of new revenue recognition standard - FASB ASC Topic 606 Set up customer projects in the system, assign revenue recognition keys appropriate to the contractAssisted SEC group by providing revenue related schedules for the 10-K, 10-Q disclosuresWorked with business group financial analysts on resolving issues encountered during the close and after close, including providing them with accounting insights and helping them resolve their issuesWorked with functional systems support group to resolve system related issues and IT development group regarding developing reports, including providing them with accounting insights, and also leading user acceptance testing for system upgrades, patches, and new software.

Bethesda, Md

09/26/2014Worked in Corporate Accounting under the Banking and Reconciliation group doing account reconciliations, month-end closing, accrual analysis, and unclaimed property accountingPrepared & recorded journals entries for period close including accruals and other adjusting entriesPerformed monthly variance analysis and reconciliation of balance sheet accounts.Worked with Accounts Payable manager and staffs to regarding reconciling items and resolve timing and posting issues identified related to AP Liability account reconciliation. Worked with Banking group staffs to resolve reconciling items for cash clearing liability accountWorked with field controllers related to accrued expenses booked on short-term accrued liability and long-term liability, including obtaining the updates on the accruals, resolving discrepancies.Performed accrual analysis by analyzing period close accruals booked in the general ledger by the field controllers with subsequent expenses booked in AP sub ledger through vendor invoices.

Worked in Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) providing finance and accounting support to Discovery Creative Resources group.Month-end closing – prepared and posted journal entries for accruals, prepaids, re-classes.Booked month-end accruals for invoices received but not yet processed by APEstimated and booked accruals for various costs incurred but not yet recorded in the system (completed jobs & work orders, temp labor)Prepared P&L variance analysis of actual vs. budget for management review.Ran Cost Center report and analyzed transactions to assess the reasonableness of GL balancesHandled inquiries from vendors, consultants, internal staffs regarding invoices and paymentsKept track of jobs and works orders and associated costs in Job Tracker and Image Tracker systemEntered timesheet for outside consultants, prepared Financial Time Analysis for all staff hours

Mba, Accounting, A

Activities and Societies: Practiced Trancendental Meditation twice a dayDid special assignment under the coursework for Strategy.

Summer Course, Taxation, A

Summer Course, Audit, B+

Master Of Business Studies (Mbs), Finance, A

Activities and Societies: Member of annual campus magazine committee and also published some articles for the magazine.

Bachelor Of Business Studies (Bbs), Business, B+

Activities and Societies: Graduated in Top 5 per cent of the Graduating Class

Intermediate Of Science, I. Sc., Biology, A