• Prepared corporate and individual income tax, franchise, and sales tax returns minimizing tax liabilities for clients.• Enhancing client accounting functions with the adoption and implementation of new software.• Reviewed risk management strategies in order to hedge against deteriorating balance sheets for larger corporate clients.• Recommended various business entity formation with appropriate working capital guidelines and parameters. Highlighted client’s systemic business risk as measured against quality earnings. • Conducted due diligence functions for clients who were involved with business acquisitions• Performed analyses and directed the implementation and measured compliance of Sarbanes-Oxley legislation. • Formulated financial portfolio strategies to maximize return on investment and expedited tax strategies and efficiencies. • Researched and documented supportable recommendations regarding corporate valuations, corporate business risk, bankruptcy risk, fairness opinions, corporate restructuring, and corporate entity selection.

• Established financial GAAP and tax reporting procedures with senior management within parent company.• Maintained assurance controls throughout the business unit to adequately safeguard cash assets and to identify potential risks in a timely manner.• Constituted a chart of financial accounts and installed a computerized accounting general ledger.• Provided senior management with detail cash flow projections along with supportable financial recommendations. Drafted and submitted product marketing position and customer demographic reports. • Performed month end financial period closings & compiled periodical financial statements with comprehensive disclosure notes.• Compiled multi-tiered financial budgets and provided strategic business model configuration recommendations. • Prepared all corporate Federal and various individual state compliance tax returns and computed all tax provisions and calculated various state tax apportionment factors analysis.• Complied monthly State of Florida Sales Tax Returns; conducted the necessary tax research to settle sales tax assessment and Sales Tax Audits. • Established and maintained banking relationships and resources to facilitate cash flow functionality.• Orchestrated legal research with outside legal counsel confirming import and export tariffs and duties.• Worked ostensibly to perfect trade mark applications in the Untied States and in three foreign countries.

• Performed tax compliance and research functions encompassing all types of business entities.• Lead Deloitte tax senior for large Consolidated Commercial Bank Tax Returns. Skilled in Banking SEC & Federal Reserve Quarterly and Year Ending filings. Reviewed all financial accounting and loan portfolio SEC & Federal Reserve filings prepared by banking clients. • Prepared corporate, individual, partnership, estate, and consolidated federal and state income tax returns.• Calculated income tax provisions utilizing FASB #109 as a component part of the audit engagement for corporate clients. Converted and restated FASB #96 income tax provisions calculations to FASB #109 results. • Gained significant exposure to non-for-profit 990 & 990-T federal tax filings.• Cultivated tax research techniques utilizing Lexis research database. Wrote extensive tax research position papers.• Demonstrated the ability to manage engagements and complete projects on a timely basis. • Enthusiastically volunteered for new assignments. (i.e. conducted beta testing on proposed software.)• Conducted extensive state tax research & evaluated multi-state corporate income tax apportionment factors.