Tax Accountant Resume Cleveland/Columbus, Ohio - Hire IT People

TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES:

Proficient in the use of MS Suite Products, Bloomberg BNA, RIA Checkpoint, CCH, GoSystem Tax RS, CaseWare, Sage Fixed Asset, BNA Income Tax Planner.
Comprehensive knowledge of corporate financial statement analysis and the application of financial theory.
Understanding of the global financial markets and the role it plays in a global economy.
Ability to develop strategies with an overall goal of tax minimization.
Effective analysis skills regarding the US tax laws that help to insure compliance for income reporting requirements.
Collaborative use of business analytics and financial scenarios to model expected financial outcomes.
Effective oral presentation and communication skills.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Tax Accountant

Confidential, Cleveland/Columbus, Ohio

Responsibilities:

Prepare and review; income tax returns for high net - worth individual clients, s-corporations, c-corporations, partnership, various fiduciary tax returns including gift, trust, estate filings, and informational returns for qualified retirement benefit plans and non-profit entities.
Perform research on complex international, federal, and state/local tax issues.
Assist senior management in the development of planning strategies that help our clients achieve their tax and overall financial goals.
Draft response memos for tax notices that were receive from federal, state and local authorities under the guidance of a senior manager.
Assist in various special projects including but not limited to; process and technology improvements within the tax department to increase overall efficiencies.
Calculate and organize tax computations and tax account reconciliations along with the supporting work papers.
Prepare quarterly provisions/projections under the care of a senior manager.
Act as a liaison between client and senior management to ensure proper gathering of client work papers and accompanying correspondence in a timely manner.
Act as a mentor to interns and help guide their development through their internship experience.
Contribute written articles on various tax topics for the company outreach newsletters.

Tax Intern

Confidential, Cleveland, Ohio

Responsibilities:

Provide general assistance to staff, managers, and partners in a variety of tax matters as requested.
Develop the foundational skills needed to navigate tax preparation software, and accounting document management systems.
Preparation of simple individual income tax returns, and simple trust returns.
Assist staff with performing tax research for US Federal/State/Local jurisdictions where entity files a return.
Develop core tax accounting skills.
Risk Management Intern

Confidential, Brooklyn Heights, Ohio

Responsibilities:

Developed multi-asset class portfolios containing real and synthetic securities while using integrated risk management techniques to track profit/loss and other financial metrics including implied volatility, interest rate term structures, and credit spread structures.
Generated multiple positions using trading strategies including but not limited to covered equity long/short, convertible arbitrage, and global macro strategies.
Accessed portfolio performance by running various tests including: Monte Carlo, VaR, Projections, and Stress Testing.
Created transparency reports based on aggregate portfolio/position holdings including: Market Value and Exposure, Scenario and Stress Test, Risk and Exposure, Value at Risk, Sensitivity Ladder, Holding Greeks, and Liquidity Reports.

Public Service Laborer

Confidential, Berea, Ohio

Responsibilities:

Ensured safety and sound usage of public infrastructure in a high paced, team oriented working environment.
Responsibilities of this job consisted of manual labor including but not limited to the following; concrete, asphalt, landscaping, public safety initiatives, water pipes/plumbing and construction projects.

FRM Financial Risk Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Extensive coverage of risk management concepts focusing on enterprise risk governance, risk and return trade-off analysis, fundamental asset pricing models, and data quality management.
Reviews basic probability and statistics, regression and time-series analysis, and quantitative techniques such as Monte Carlo methods, Volatility forecasting models, and Value-at-Risk estimations.
Details the mechanics of financial markets and the characteristics and usage of financial instruments.
Presentation of the most widely used valuation and risk modeling techniques including but not limited to basic bond valuation and hedging, binomial trees, Black-Scholes-Merton model, VaR, and stress testing techniques.