Experience as Assistant Accountant

• Employer

• From

  01 October 2016

• To

  31 December 2017

• Detail

  Outline
  Worked as an Assistant Accountant for Norway based company. Assisted Managers in various roles like bookkeeping, bank reconciliation statement, journal ledger processing, payroll and sales tax.
  
  Key Responsibilities
  
  • End users on ERP MAMUT enterprises with respect to AR, AP, Bank reconciliations, General ledger accounting.
  • Preparation of statutory accounts for more than 180 Norwegian clients from source documents till
  finalization.
  • Supervised and served as coordinator for company with internal and external auditors.
  • Calculating and checking to make sure payments, amounts and records are correct.
  • Sorting out incoming and outgoing daily post and answering any queries.
  • Managing petty cash transactions.
  • Controlling credit and chasing debt.
  • Reconciling finance accounts and direct debits.
  • Calculating and submission of client’s VAT returns on annual basis.
  • Allocation of daily assignments to subordinates and review their work done.
  • To meet deadlines while maintaining quality of work.

Experience as Senior Accountant

• Employer

• From

  01 January 2018

• To

  01 December 2019

• Detail

  Outline
  
  Workied as a Senior Accountant for a USA based CPA firm. Leading the team in sales tax and payroll and assisting manager on different tasks like preparing financials for tax return purposes.
  
  Key Responsibilities
  
  Sales and Use Tax
  
  • Prepare monthly sales and use tax filling for multiple clients, ensure entries for accruals are accurate
  and make payments on client’s behalf on timely basis.
  • Heavy focus on sales and use tax, especially completed use returns.
  • Provide guidance and oversight to sales tax team members on various subjects.
  • Reviewed all tax returns prepared by junior accountants before processing.
  • Timely corresponded with state and local tax regulators to resolve variances and other issues.
  
  Payroll management
  
  • Process payroll of over 250 client’s employees through Intuit EasyACCT Professional Series.
  • Reconcile each payroll register with tax filling reports to ensure accurate payments and timely filling are
  performed.
  • Timely Filling of Unemployment Tax returns and schedule the payment of relevant tax due.
  • Keep all payroll tools up to date including, reconciliation spreadsheets, how-to manuals and test tools.
  • Provide guidance, work direction and prioritization of daily workload for staff; resolve escalated Payroll
  issues.
  • Prepare other Quarter and Annual Tax Return forms (Form 940, 941, 944).
  
  Finance Record and Bookkeeping
  
  • Manage more than 500 Texas client’s finances with QuickBooks.
  • Maintain various bank account records and reconcile bank accounts including inter-banking.
  • Keep records of aged receivables, create spreadsheets to enhance tracking of receivables and assist
  clients to revamp A/R procedures and filling systems.
  • Collect corporate financial information from clients and record online and in DRAKE (Tax Software) to
  ensure the preparation of accurate and timely state and federal income tax returns and accurate of
  future audits.
  • Prepare annual and interim estimated financial statements based on previous year for analytical review of financial performance.
  • Maintain petty cash record on monthly basis.
  • Other assignments like searching of missing tax information, report any non-financial discrepancies.
  • Deal with clients through calls and emails to resolve their queries and collect the up to date reports for
  different purposes especially for sales tax and payroll.
  • Assist Financial manager in maintaining records and reconcile our record with record of clients to ensure
  the accuracy.