Amy Chen

•Prepare and maintain monthly account reconciliations • Collaborate with senior management to prepare accruals and liability schedules • Reconcile balance sheet discrepancies for quarterly and year end reporting • Ensure accurate analysis of revenues and expenses • Develop improvements to drive automation of recurring processes • Point of contact for other departments with regards to monthly schedules and month end close • Assemble information for external auditors for interim and year end audit • Train new accounting staff on company software and daily due diligence Accounts Receivable • Issue invoices to clients for research services provided and maintain customer records • Participate in monthly close process by posting transactions to journals, ledgers and other records • Reconcile monthly bank statements to ensure all cash receipts and withdrawals transactions are recorded correctly • Manage high volume daily requests with regards to banking related questions and wire transfers Accounts Payable • Correspond with vendors and respond to inquiries regarding invoice discrepancies and payment status • Process high volume of invoices related to different entities within the company general ledger • Review invoices and check requests to ensure proper coding of expenses before processing for payment • Monitor and prepare analysis for accounts payable transactions account to ensure payments are up to date • Approve and review expense reports bi-weekly per company travel and expense policy • Lead process to update new accounts payable system to decrease processing time and increase efficiency

•Document 100+ invoices weekly through 2-way PO matching in Concur and code expense type for invoices in GL •Review and close fully exhausted and expired purchase orders to reduce amount of accruals •Approve 30+ expense reports in Concur per the company T&E policy •Communicate with vendors and employees through email requesting for vendor statements, vendor form, workday authorization and invoice approvals •Facilitate and implement Zendesk to help organize large amount of daily AP emails

•Hold weekly one hour sections to review intermediate accounting materials taught in class •Helped proctor and grade exams and provide valuable feedback to help improve students accounting knowledge •Collaborated with students in a group to resolve questions regarding test materials and homework topics •Make weekly lesson plans and demonstrated problem solving skills by explaining steps to solve multiple accounting problems

•Processed and matched 20+ AP invoices, receiving documents and credit memo daily in FileMaker Pro •Organized 150+ documents by filing accurately in alpha and numeric order weekly •Researched and contact vendors with discrepancies that is associated with quantity and price error on credit memo •Maintained consistent collection for outstanding charge backs and credit memos •Reconciled different vendor statements and recommended appropriate actions to reconcile discrepancies

•Addressed inquiries from economic students including planning academic courses, navigating the major declaration process, and articulating university academic policies •Assisted in planning events and organization of multiple job information events to educate students to be more prepare with their job search in the future •Oversaw fast-paced reception desk operations and directed students to appropriate staff or faculty