Accounting Consultant
Independent
Total des années d'expérience :14 years, 10 Mois
Providing accounting and financial services with sole proprietorships and small startups
•Consulting on appropriate accounting policies and accounting software options
•Setting up accounting systems. Migrated accounting systems for several companies
•Corporate and personal tax advice for income tax optimization. Helped companies avoid penalties by identifying tax non-compliance issues and making voluntary disclosures
•Government grant applications. Obtained crucial hiring grants for companies hiring first-time employees
Management of day-to-day financials, financial statement preparation, internal and external reporting
•Work with the leadership team to develop the annual budget
•Processing payments and refunds and acting as the main financial contact for retailers and fundraisers
•Acting as the main contact with auditors, banks, payroll and insurance
•Informing management on financial performance, forecasts, trends and transactional data analysis
•Applying for government grants, completing claims and reports for government funding, maintaining positive relationships with funding agency contacts and ensuring accurate submissions
•Management of treasury and development of a short- and long-term cash flow forecast
•Ensure that all corporate documentation is accurately recorded and maintained
Achievements:
• Brought $30, 000 in government grants in 2014 and $75, 000 in 2015 for training and new hires
• Initiated a project in conjunction with the development team to automate payment processing and payment data transfers between QuickBooks and the company’s fundraising platform and created extensive Excel sheets that reduced the effort needed to close each month
• Made process improvements that allowed consolidating two previous positions to only one person, replacing a Finance Manager and a CFO
• By changing the auditors and negotiating a fixed rate, was able to save $10, 000 on the review cost
Weekly analysis of projects, budget status, external expenses and client invoicing
- Pricing, monitoring and updating projects from the proposal stage to deployment and closure
- Tracking yearly license renewals and organizing collections
- Monthly revenue reporting, reconciliation and ongoing forecasting of projects
•General Ledger and Month End Reporting:
- Reconciliation of GL and reporting systems on a monthly basis, including bank and credit cards
- Calculating deferred income and unbilled revenue
- Posting monthly accrual and amortization journal entries and preparing management reports
- Calculation and filing of HST returns including remittances by due dates, reconciling payroll taxes
•Administering HR, payroll and company benefits program
•Accounts Payable and Receivable
Supported the control and administration activities performed by the program manager.
•Coordinated all program-level measurement and reporting; aggregated and published inputs from financial management, value measurement, resource management, individual projects
•Supported financial Estimate-At-Completion (EAC) analysis and review of EAC, project financial summary and client financial summary reports
•Data analysis, metrics, earned value and productivity analysis
Business Controls Analyst, October 2011 - March 2012
Compiled the monthly French Sales Tax return using SAP, QMF and Excel and handled all accounting activities in support of the submission of the return and payment including:
•Gathered and analysed information necessary to calculate owed Sales Taxes and available deductions
•Calculated the tax liability for the tax return and provided treasury with the forecasted liability
•Identified tax errors and corrected them, saving tens of thousands of dollars in potential fines
•Updated the processes for calculating taxes to reflect changes in French tax law
•Created Excel sheets that considerably increased the speed & reliability of multiple manual processes
Business Controls Analyst, April 2009 - September 2011
•Analysed contract management, billing, costs & subcontracting on IBM ERP implementation projects
•Identified risk behind end to end processes, process review, test execution, documentation of testing procedures, created score cards for management, Sarbanes-Oxley testing
•Identified project problems and assessed implemented corrective actions
•Performed root cause analysis regarding defects and created action plans
•Developed testing procedures and documentations. Implemented process improvements that reduced workload by 1/3 allowing new tasks to be on-boarded and creating savings of $20, 000/year
•Participated in a 3 month side-project, improving Workstation Compliance in IBM from 88% to 97%, the target level for Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance