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María Guadalupe Garduño Castañeda is a seasoned accounting professional with 13+ years of experience in financial management, bookkeeping, and team leadership. She has worked in various industries, including healthcare, technology, and small businesses, and has expertise in financial reporting, analysis, and accounting software like QuickBooks.

Experience

  • Strom Properties
    • United States
    • Accounts Payable Manager
      • Jan 2024 - Present
      • United States

  • Foothill Financial Services
    • Sunnyvale, California
    • Bookkeeper
      • Jan 2011 - Present
      • Sunnyvale, California

      Supporting the team with the Bookkeeping, AR, AP process, recording accruals and journal entries to maintain the General Ledger using Enterprise Solutions (QuickBooks), adjustment entries to balance the amortization and depreciation versus the Business Tax Return Balance Sheet for a variety of small business-like Veterinary, Daycare, Dentist, Family Practice, Restaurants, Landscaping, Pets Grooming, Senior Care and Startups. Also processing individuals Tax Returns using Lacerte during the Tax Season under the supervision of an EA.

  • TEVA Solutions
    • United States
    • Full Manager Bookkeeper
      • Nov 2014 - Jan 2024
      • United States

      In charge of the General Accounting, AR, AP process, recording accruals and journal entries to maintain the General Ledger using Enterprise Solutions (QuickBooks), Ledgersync, Bill.com, Passpack, Box and Expensify.For a variety of small business form different industries like Law Firms, Marketing, Business Consultants, Construction, HR Recruiters, Travel Agencies, Valet Parking, Coaching, Restaurants, Auto Body Shops, Gyms, Real Estate Developers and Technology Startups. Client onboarding, setting SOP's, bank recons, monthly and year end financials reporting, cash flow, payroll, filing quarterly and year end payroll reports; systems and clients management.

    • Accounting
      • Apr 2018 - May 2020
      • San Jose, CA

      Supporting the accounting team auditing the expense reports and sales team commissions calculations as well as special auditing projects.

    • Full Charge Bookkeper
      • Feb 2014 - Jul 2014
      • San Jose, CA

      Handling the full cycle of accounting, A/P process, coding and entering expenses, run checks, bill clients, bank deposits, managing the General Ledger. Sales and Use Tax Returns, Bank Reconciliation.Cash Flow, Bad Debt negotiation, setup procedures to optimize workflow

    • Senior Accountant
      • Jul 2010 - Nov 2013
      • San Jose, CA

      Manage all aspects of accounting, focusing on the General Ledger, managing the Company’s Chart of Accounts, ensuring accounts were reconciled timely and books were close within the expected time line. Providing lead direction and development of new staff by teaching, training and providing performance evaluation, oversight of the accounting functions within the area of assignment and perform the more advanced and complex professional accounting duties, as well as payroll review and Use and Sales Tax calculation.

    • Bookkeeper and Office Clerk Volunteer
      • 2009 - 2010
      • San Jose, CA

      Volunteer at the Church, helping the community with my work in the Church office front desk, scheduling masses, customer service, also in charge of the Vocations Director bookkeeping using QuickBooks.

  • Rota Care Free Clinic MV
    • Mountain View, CA
    • Interpreter / Office Clerk Volunteer
      • 2008 - 2010
      • Mountain View, CA

      Volunteer at the Clinic, helping the Community.Performing as an interpreter for Doctors and patients, helping at the front desk scheduling and calling patients, super user for the patient’s electronic files with eClinicalWorks Software

    • Translator / Marketing Management
      • 2008 - 2010
      • San Jose, CA

      Working on growing Dr. Gallardo’s practice, focusing on the Hispanic market, educating this population on the variety of illnesses related with spine alignment.Weekly Magazine Article Translation and marketing management

    • Assistant Director Of Finance
      • 2002 - 2003
      • Mexico City Area, Mexico

      Supporting the Finance Director with the Headquarter communication, meetings scheduling, coordinating and performing the oversight of the external Audits, as well as payments authorization.

    • Accountant
      • 2000 - 2002

      Performed General Accounting and Administrative duties managing the main company business transactions as well as the Property Management and Parking Lot.Gas Distribution Division Implementation leading to 80% improvement on the efficiency and timing of our services

    • Junior Accountant
      • 1998 - 1998
      • Mexico City Area, Mexico

      Prepaid expenses record and analysis, evaluating the reasonability of the payments and documentation according with the Company policies; reporting employee’s payroll discounts for failing to backup their expense report.

    • External Auditor
      • 1996 - 1998
      • Mexico City Area, Mexico

      Working as a Junior External Auditor while still at College in one of the big five, taking physical inventories, identifying obsolete inventories suggesting changes in the process of storage and control of inventories to avoid excessive expenses and losses; auditing expenses, bank reconciliations, customers, vendors, subsequent events according to the Mexican GAAP for various companies from different industries like Service, Manufacture, Non-Profit.

Education

  • 1993 - 1997
    Universidad Iberoamericana, Ciudad de México
    Bachelor's Degree, Accounting

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