Accounting & Finance Manager
Wonder Line Inc /Wonder Express Inc
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :10 years, 1 أشهر
- Prepare balance sheets, profit and loss, and other financial reports to CEO and owners to give a clear view of the business
- Analyze P&L, monthly expenses, cost fluctuations, journals
- Lead a team of 4 junior accountants, providing mentorship and weekly overview
- Monitor all payments and expenditures, including payroll, purchase orders, invoices, account statements, decreased errors by 30% through organized digital and paper files
- Assisted in developing the annual budget, contributing suggestions that cut expenditures by 5%
- Developed and executed internal controls to improve accuracy and reduce error rate by 25% during 5 months
- Organized financial data for audits, saving 40 hours of manual data collection monthly
- Collaborate with internal departments to gather, analyze, and interpret relevant financial information
- Control the full-cycle accounting activities for the company and perform account analysis to ensure that journal entries and balances are correct
- Performed bookkeeping services for 10 companies(Small $12K & Medium $84K businesses) using Online QuickBooks tools
- Recorded day to day financial transactions in QuickBooks
- Stored permanent company documents, payroll documents, asset documents, loan documents, and receipts
- Managed all aspects of A/R and A/P functions
Supported all accounting records and financial statements
- Took care of sales taxes, accurate calculated and paid taxes
- Prepared and filled annual 1099/W2
- Calculated and handled employees timely payroll
- Performed all reconciliations of bank statements and credit card statements across 10 business units, month-end closing
- Prepared balance sheets, profit and loss, and other financial reports to give a clear view of the business
- Corresponded with clients regarding any issues
- Prepared monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports
- Participated in high load projects
- Supported accounting service and transaction processing (NetSuite, Avalara, ADMIN)
- Streamlined the process of checking calculations and business transactions for accuracy, saving 18 hours of manual work each week and reduced error rate by 19%
- Checked and corrected accounts payable and open bills
- Efficiently processed all A/P invoices, and ensured 100% of approved invoices were paid in full and on-time while maximizing cash-flow
- Made reports for Payrolls in USA: salaries/wages, bonuses, withholds taxes, liabilities, benefits (different kinds of insurance), commissions report
- Reported PTO and call Outs, made time corrections and timecard reports, overtime reports
- Checked and corrected taxes by state in the USA, made monthly tax reports and uploaded tax reports to Avalara
- Bank and account reconciliation, journal entries, general ledger, fixed assets, taxes, and preparation of financial statements
- Maintain monthly, quarterly and yearly accounting and reporting for our clients including QuickBooks entries, A/P, A/R, payroll journal entries
- Process multi-state sales tax, payroll tax returns, business tax, seller permits, etc.
- End of fiscal year tax prep such as form 1099/1096, etc.
- Interfaced with clients in a professional manner
- Sold tickets, was responsible for cash, customer service
- Drafted the full-cycle accounting activities for the company
- Used Visma eAccounting for billing, bookkeeping, reconciliation, accounting
- Systematized A/P invoices, ensuring 99.9% were paid one time
- Collected, evaluated and responded to customer feedback
- Made statistical analysis of sales and ticket prices, planed marketing companies to increase revenues by 20%
- Conducted administrative tasks
- Made daily, weekly and monthly reports
- Made ship clearance, planed port and pilotage cost; allocated costs and prepared projects/cruise reports
- Arranged crew and passenger movement and assistance, turn around operations in all relevant ports
- Performed accounting and bookkeeping services
- Created invoices
- Prepared and submitted reports, archived documents
- Corresponded with customers
- Completed assistance tasks
- Used market research for Scandinavia tourism to guide decisions
- Planed and controlled budget, coordinated and made financial control of projects
- Planned itinerary, liaised with coach operators, airlines, hoteliers representatives
- Agreed service levels, contracts and costs, provided pricing information
- Analyzed data and made economic forecasting, predicted profits of projects/tours
- Planed, organized, directed, controlled and evaluate daily operations
- Made market analysis for Scandinavia tourism
Implemented project analysis: financing and investment
- Prepared business plans, valued projects
- Analyzed different types of risk in projects, reworked project accounts, estimated projects costs
- Worked through logistics in the projects and evaluated its correctness and effectiveness
- Analyzed data and created economic forecasts
- Made marketing analysis of Trimtex in Norway
Analyzed campaigns, sales and marketing materials (both B2B and B2C), analyzed website traffic
- Determined which channels one should bet on, analyzed product portfolio and product category profitability
- Developed strategic market plan for Trimtex
- Contributed to further development of the brand Trimtex's position as the preferred product supplier
- Made customer-, marked- and competitors analyses
- Performed market analysis and company business strategy for Scandinavia and Eastern Europe
- Pulled together and connected shipping companies in Europe (civil and seamen)
- Cross-functional day-to-day communication with off-shore units, including logistics, accountant, amadeus, pricing, categories and sales
- Identified business risks on time
- Developed pricing strategy and optimized opportunity
- Created region specific product offers and supported the company financial manager in projects segments aimed to increase sales
Master Courses: Corporate finance, valuation, behavioral finance, decision and strategy, quantitative investments, long-term macroeconomics analysis, project finance, empirical methods in macroeconomics and finance, econometric techniques, applied programming and data analysis for business, auditing and accounting, time series analysis and prediction, project finance
Graduate study: Project management, project finance, entrepreneurship, innovation management, strategy
Bachelor Courses: Financial management and administration, financial accounting, management and operating accountings, financial statements analysis, budgeting, project analysis: financing and investment, securities market, marketing management
Specialization in Economics: strategy, micro and macroeconomics, mathematical methods in economics, statistics, business administration, public policy, administration and management, law, organization theory Bachelor thesis: Balanced Target Management in Public Sector (Drammen Municipality)