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Senior International Accountant

Strategic minded and solutions oriented SENIOR FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING PROFESSIONAL with extensive expertise in corporate finance and accounting, financial planning and analysis, team leadership and internal controls. Progressive, decisive and innovative, highly valued for expertise in executing company vision and strategy. Thrives in challenging environments by utilizing excellent communication, planning, team collaboration, analytical and organizational skills.

Core Competencies

?	Full Cycle Month End Close Management
?	Financial Reporting and 
Variance Analysis  
?	Reconciliation & Analysis	?	Budgeting & Forecasting                                 
?	Audit Lead
?	Internal Controls
?	Reduce Operational Costs 
?	Maximize Profit	?	ERP Implementation
?	Team Supervision, Training and Leadership
?	MS Office, Excel (Intermediate), NetSuite, Oracle, Blackline, MS D365,
		QB, MS Dynamics NAV,
Lawson, Full Circle





?	Project lead on Europe integration project that involved partnership with Tax and FinOps to ensure accurate statutory reporting and system functionality.
?	Review accuracy of balance sheet and income statement prior to hard 3 day entry cutoff.
?	Prepare, research variances and submit all required balance sheet reconciliations in blackline. 
?	Partner with Finance team to provide commentary on the MoM fluxes for monthly reporting package.
?	Perform GM analysis to determine if revenue and COGS are in line with expected product line margins.
?	Work closely with internal tax team to ensure accurate VAT and GST reporting.
?	Responsible for Open PO analysis and OpEx flux analysis to determine necessary accruals.
?	Review transfer pricing settlement summary and manage intercompany settlements.
?	Calculate and record the freight out and fulfillment accruals.
?	Prepare treasury, user access and SOD SOX deliverables.                                                                                                                                             


?	Lead the monthly budget vs. actual variance analysis for the marketing and technology department.
?	Utilize existing and improve financial models to identify key variance drivers.
?	Responsible for the month end close process and produce all monthly department allocation billings.
?	Analyze key company and industry trends to help the executive management team leverage resources.
?	Make recommendations to help streamline business operations based on key performance indicators.
?	Partner with the Marketing and Technology teams to produce the quarterly forecast model.
?	Manage the quarterly forecast and produce the franchisee presentation for business development decisions. 


Senior Analyst, FP&A and Accounting

?	Perform technical accounting research to determine appropriate treatment for a variety of 
transactions under US GAAP & IFRS.
?	Prepare and review of financial statements for local filings and executive reviews.
?	Drive initiative for global process alignment across all international entities.
?	Propose and implement enhancements and improvements to assigned areas.
?	Build schedules to support regulatory, statutory, and management reporting to ensure accuracy  
?	Implement processes and document controls to ensure SOX compliant internal controls. 
?	Act as the liaison between our international business leaders and our third-party accountants.
?	Perform month-end close activities including review and analysis of all balance sheet accounts.
?	Coordinate annual statutory audits with third-party accounting firms and external auditors.


?	Full Cycle GL Accountant responsible for all aspects of the production, management, and presentation of the Financial Statements.
?	Supervised 1 Accounts Payable Specialist and 1 Accounts Receivable Specialist.
?	Reviewed all balance sheet reconciliations and performed in depth income statement flux analysis to determine operational efficiency.
?	Worked as the main contact between department executive leaders to ensure all divisions were in conformity with US GAAP.
?	Prepared weekly, monthly and annual reporting to present to senior management.


Senior Accountant Consultant

?	Provided support, training, mentoring, problem resolution, and development to Accountants on an ongoing basis to make sure the department performed at a maximum performance level.
?	Supervised 1 Accounts Payable Clerk and 1 Billing/Collections Coordinator. 
?	Worked with operations and other cross-functional departments to accurately close ledgers.
?	Collaborated on the preparation of the annual operational budgets of assigned cost centers.
?	Implemented new procedures that streamlined the monthly accounting process resulting in a reduced month end close from 15 days to a hard 5 day close.
?	Initiated an income and expense flux analysis for the first working day of every month that provided early identification and correction of posting errors.
?	Developed, designed, and ensured analytical control activities were operating effectively.
?	Participated in project implementation for systems and processes to verify that requirements and enhancements worked efficiently.


Controller, Assistant Controller and Senior Accountant

?	Analyzed business operation trends, costs, and financial commitments to project future revenues.
?	Worked closely with the internal audit department on testing and implementing new updated internal controls that were in proper compliance with FASB and Sarbanes-Oxley.
?	Played an integral role in a major accounting software upgrade, which included testing, training, and implementation.
?	Streamlined operations and eliminated a manual process by working with the IT department to develop an automated system for the daily posting and reconciliation of cash receipts for all retail stores.
?	Partnered and communicated with new bank to move over 250 stores to new banking services that resulted in annual savings of over $100K in bank fees.


Senior Staff Accountant

? Managed full cycle accounting for 3 different companies including all journal entries, daily cash 
 flow, month end analysis and reconciliations.
? Analyzed and prepared daily/monthly bank reconciliations for 10 bank accounts. Utilized banking 
 websites, internal system to ensure that every transaction was booked correctly and the cash was 
 balanced at the end of each business day.
? Prepared the weekly cash flow forecast to determine if we needed to borrow or had cash on hand 
 for investment opportunities.
? Managed the debt by maintaining the long term active and cancelled notes. Calculated the 
 monthly and quarterly interest and reviewed financial covenants with Sr. Management.
? Filed timely corporate property taxes, sales, use tax and business licenses in 6 different states.
? Responsible for the reconciliation of assigned balance sheet accounts on a monthly basis and 
 resolve any reconciling items.
? Create, process and send invoices.
? Conduct accounts receivable collections and clearing.
? Daily/weekly/monthly credit card reconciliation.
? Review chargeback cases daily.
? Provide monthly financial results for specific revenue streams to various Business Areas
? Analyze and explain actuals vs. forecast/budget discrepancies to respective Business Areas
? Support Manager and Senior Accountant on ad hoc projects as needed
? Support internal and external audits as needed
? Interface with internal and external customers, independent auditors, and business partners.
? Responsible for monthly payroll analysis for over 500 employees.
? Studied new software, accounting interfaces, system operations and gained a solid understanding 
 of new accounting platform within the first month.
? Implemented a new system to analyze cash transactions and reconcile the bank to zero each 
 month; developed innovative processes to target specific transactions and identify timing 
 differences.

Staff Accountant

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Alex Smoley: Senior International Accountant in Laguna Niguel, CA

Alex Smoley

Amazon

Taco Bell

5.11 Tactical

CV Resources (Pacific Life, Too Faced Cosmetics, Christy Sports, Medterra)

Flow Sports, Inc.

Pacific Sunwear

No Fear Racing

California State University San Marcos