Scott Foster, Cpa Email & Phone Number

New York, United States

New York, New York, United States

New York

• Led the financial close and consolidation for the North American portfolio representing $4B in revenue, ensuring compliance with GAAP and IFRS.• Participated in multiple strategic investments, business ventures, valuation, and acquisitions/divestitures analysis for various divisions of the group.• Implemented and oversaw new lease accounting standards, involving 500+ leases across 30 subsidiaries, developed and implemented reconciliation tools, RPA, and lease accounting software for ITOCHU North America and its subsidiaries.• Oversaw the budgeting, forecasting, and reporting process for the North American portfolio. Working with 16 subsidiaries' CFOs and board of directors in analyzing and reporting performance to the parent company in Japan.• Streamlined operations across a 30-entity North American portfolio by implementing new budgeting and consolidation software, resulting in operational efficiency.• Designed and enforced internal control policies and procedures ensuring 100% compliance with JSOX and supporting conversion to IFRS.

New York, New York

• Manage audits of private and publicly traded entities in industries including: retail and consumer goods, manufacturing and distribution.• Oversee engagements such as carve-out audits, reviews (SSARS), agreed-upon procedures and employees benefit plans (DC, DB and HW).• Research and interpret various literatures in US GAAP and held discussions of its application to technical accounting issues with senior management - ASC 210, ASC 330, ASC 350, ASC 360, ASC 480, ASC 505, ASC 605/ 606, ASC 718, ASC 820, and ASC 840. • Provide recommendations regarding account policies and procedures to strengthen control environment and financial reporting.• Interact and assist extensively with client management regarding audit engagements and technical accounting issues throughout the year.• Manage multiple engagements efficiently under quality pressure and time constraints.• Prepare engagement forecasts, report on engagement economics and participate in business development activities such as networking events and business proposals.• Mentor 6 employees as a career advisor providing monthly and yearly feedback on performance and promotion.• Perform office training for interns to experience seniors on audit methodology and best practices, audit and sampling software, financial reporting and accounting issues.• Participate in multiple internal projects such as creating presentations for national training on retail and consumer goods technical accounting, improving the “champions” program, overseeing the summer 2017 internship program, creating IDEA and Excel training for local office, interviewing candidates from interns to experienced senior associatesClients (but not limited to) : Steel Partners, 7 for all Mankind / splendid / ella moss, The Leading Hotels of the World, Adore Me, Airtech, Donald J Pliner, Medical Knowledge Group, Etc...

New York

• Supervised and assisted with all phases of audit and attest engagements, including planning, development of audit procedures, development and monitoring of engagement budget and economics, staff supervision and development, execution of internal control testing and substantive audit procedures, documentation of results, and report issuance.• Prepared and completed audit work papers and consolidated financial statements in accordance with the firm and US GAAP standards.• Performed Sarbanes Oxley 404 testing, reported on the effectiveness of management’s internal controls for SEC registered clients, and served as a liaison for client’s internal audit.• Performed analytical procedures on financial statements, analyzed trends in account balances, and obtained, investigated and analyzed supporting documentation for major financial statement sections, including high-risk accounts.• Audited the financial statements of employee defined contribution and Health and Welfare plans in accordance with the financial reporting and filing requirements of ERISA/DOL.• Communicated and interacted extensively with client personnel regarding audit status, accounting issues, and additional client requests and inquiries that arose throughout the year.Clients (but not limited to) : Barnes & Noble, MDC Partners, Pioneer Power Solutions, The Leading Hotels of the World, Adore Me, Arenson Office Furnishing, Delta Galil, Etc...

Paris Area, France

• Scheduled, oversaw, participated, and reviewed staff work in financial statement audits of manufacturing, retail and marketing companies.• Prepared and completed audit work papers and financial statements in accordance with the firm and French GAAP / IFRS standards.• Identified, documented, and tested internal control procedures for privately held companies.• Member of the on-campus recruiting team and the employee interview team which assisted in the hiring decisions for new staff.• Created training documentation and provided live training sessions to new audit staffClients (but not limited to) : Vaillant group, Paprec group, Labor Hako, Solvert, L'artisan Parfumeur, Penhaligons, Biwater...

Paris Area, France

• Development of internal documentation• Implementation of an internal control dashboard• Participation in the project « segregation of duties basics »• Analysis of unusual data and transactions• Development of a self-testing project

Strasbourg Area, France

• Implementation of a sellers network (recruitment et training)• Implementation of Media partnerships (magazines)• Sales & advisory of web softwares

Master'S Degree, Audit, Management Accounting And Information System, Master

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), International Business, With Honors

Dut Techniques De Commercialisation, International Business