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Coral Springs, Florida, United States

Miami Lakes, Florida, United States

Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

• Responsible for the supervision of subsidiaries’ international accounting and financial statement review process for various countries (i.e., Caribbean, Central America and South America).• Responsible for ensuring timely closing of the subsidiaries’ books according to established timelines as it relates to functions in their area.• Perform FIN 48 compilation and analysis.• Assists with international tax matters.• Supervises and train the staff regarding all assigned areas• Ensure that all quarterly reporting deadlines to our corporate office are also met.• Responsible for ensuring all intercompany reconciliations between parent company and subsidiaries/third party agents are completed timely.• Regularly reviews entries to the general ledger to ensure accuracy and compliance with established accounting principles and procedures.• Responsible for traveling to foreign subsidiaries and performing field internal control and operational reviews.• Prepares financial and statistical reports as required.• Coordinates and prepares for financial audits as required by company policy of corporate office.• Monitor established internal controls to ensure proper compliance• Plans and implements new procedures and changes in accounting system, as well as implementing requirements of new and existing accounting literature from the FASB as appropriate.

Coral Gables, Fl

As Senior Internal Auditor, my main responsibilities and duties included, but were not limited to, the following:• Conduct operational, financial, and compliance audits and perform independent testing of internal controls to meet Sarbanes-Oxley Act requirements• Prepare interview questions, conduct interviews and process walk-throughs, document interview and process walk-throughs notes, probe to identify key risks and controls, evaluate competency of persons interviewed.• Identify key processes & sub-processes, prepare process diagrams using MS Visio, identify key controls in processes, identify gaps in controls, and write process narratives.• Identify risks and controls, design test of controls, and prepare test plans and control matrices and perform analyses using MS Excel and MS Word.• Perform and document test of controls• Perform financial statement audits• Develop written findings and recommendations for improvement• Estimate business impacts from improvements in controls, including risk avoidance, indirect financial benefits, and direct financial benefits.• Facilitate meetings and lead group discussions of results and action plans.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

This position’s objective is to, with limited guidance, enable the organization to continuously improve operations while maintaining an effective internal control environment. This is performed by constant evaluation, testing, remediation, and process/control redesign covering all business, financial, and information system processes. The results of this work will create a proactive and highly reactive control environment enabling management to achieve their goals and objectives as well as comply with Company policies and applicable legal and regulatory requirements.DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:• Enforce the integrity of the overall internal control environment including Sarbanes-Oxley 404 compliance• Perform reviews of financial and operational internal controls from planning through final report• Lead junior staff members as required in the performance of quality reviews, technical audits and other assigned engagements by Director• Document SOX and other business/IT processes and internal controls in matrices and narratives• Review financial and operational internal controls to determine their effectiveness at addressing risks, enabling management to achieve their objectives and safeguarding of Company assets• Identify issues and opportunities for improvement within the financial and operational internal control environment and report results and recommendations to Director• Perform detailed continuous risk assessment covering all operational and financial business processes to identify risks that may negatively impact management’s ability to achieve goals and objectives• Assist with development and execution of a continuous control monitoring program utilizing the latest technologies including writing VBA test scripts for control activities and monitoring procedures to mitigate risks identified in the risk assessment process as well as administer certain ongoing system functions

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Responsible for monitoring and tracking the performance of back-office operations for a multi-billion dollar shared service center including accounting, accounts receivable, accounts payable, payroll, customer service, human resources, systems support, and other transactions and process driven disciplines. This work will provide critical information to senior management for driving the organization to continuously improve operations and will help create an efficient and effective shared services organization enabling management to achieve their goals and objectives. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: • Create, maintain, and publish performance and operational metrics for the organization on a weekly, monthly and quarterly basis including the creation and the maintenance of executive level reports, dashboards and presentations• Analyze and interpret all performance and operational metrics to identify trends, process improvements and performance opportunities• Maintain a baseline of all performance targets, accurately communicate variance over time, recommend new performance metrics or process improvements in response to variances• Conduct analysis on performance and operational metrics reports to ensure they are within set limits and to ensure compliance with SLA guidelines• Work closely with systems personnel to support metrics reporting tools• Perform ad hoc analysis using various reporting and data analysis tools

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

As Control Analyst I am able help the organization to continuously improve operations by performing constant evaluation, testing, remediation, and process/control redesign covering all business, financial, and information system processes. Duties include:•Perform various activities that support the integrity of overall internal control environment, including Sarbanes-Oxley 404 compliance•Assist with documentation of SOX, review financial and internal controls, and assist with risk assessment processes•Assist with the development of a continuous control monitoring program utilizing the latest technologies and procedures and monitor those controls on a continuous basis via closing and remediation of exceptions •Assist with, in an internal control capacity, the implementation of various financial applications including reconciliation and close process management solutions•Assist with development and facilitate implementation of BCP and DRP plans and periodically test to ensure preparedness of the plan to reduce the risk of a major disruption of normal operations of the organization•Assist with quality assurance reviews on SLA’s, benchmarking as well as SAS-70 Type II audits

• Performed and documented walk through of different accounting cycles • Test design and operating effectiveness of internal controls• Managed third party confirmations testing process• Testing of closing period reconciliations• Fraud procedures testing over journal entries through the usage of Excel and ACL

Review and record the financial activity of the Sun-Sentinel during the monthly closing process to ensure all expenses, revenues and balance sheet items are properly and accurately recorded. Work on financial system implementation teams, prepare state and local sales tax returns and prepare and analyze balance sheet and expense accounts. Use the functions and reporting capabilities of General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Payroll and Fixed Asset financial packages.

Responsibilities such as making sure that the web server hardware and software is running properly, designing the web site, creating and updating web pages. Some other duties include replying to user feedback, creating XML/CGI scripts and taking pictures from the various events held throughout the academic semester.

Macc, Accounting

Bachelors, Accounting

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