Wai L.

Senior Staff Accountant at dntl bar
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(386) 825-5501
Location
Brooklyn, New York, United States, US
Languages
  • English Native or bilingual proficiency
  • Cantonese Limited working proficiency
  • Taishanese Professional working proficiency

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Experience

    • United States
    • Hospitals and Health Care
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Senior Staff Accountant
      • Sep 2022 - Present

      Working as an Accountant at DNTL Bar. • Maintaining and ensuring proper processing and coding of entire accounts payable cycle for all locations. • Assisting in month-end close (i.e., prepare work papers for schedules for monthly bank reconciliations). • Preparing monthly journal entries and maintain workbooks for various areas including but not limited to: Operating expenses, fixed assets and depreciation, bad debt, and inventory allocations. • Prepare account level analyses and reconciliations to support amounts for general ledger accounts. • Determining and making appropriate accruals for current period reporting. • Reconciling accrual schedules and prepaid schedules & amortizations to the General Ledger, (i.e., prepaid insurance, prepaid expenses, loan equipment schedules and operating lease schedule allocations). • Execute financial statement analysis and document meaningful explanations for fluctuations and analytics. • Work cross-functionally and coordinate with various business owners on month-end close process to help drive key system initiatives and improvements, while also maintain documentation on the company’s accounting policies, best practices, and standard operating procedure. • Assist in annual financial audits, including preparing audit schedules and responding to audit inquiries. Show less

    • United States
    • Book and Periodical Publishing
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Senior Staff Accountant
      • Mar 2021 - Sep 2022

      • Leading and monitor the month end close to ensure deadlines are met and all items are recorded. • Preparing monthly financial statements and analyses. • Preparing monthly journal entries including inter-company entries, balance sheet reconciliations, budget and budget analysis and ad hoc reporting and analysis as required. • Reviewing accounting policies and processes; assist in research, development and implementation of new or updated company policies and processes. • Responsible for accounting functions including maintaining general ledger, cash reporting, preparing royalties, supporting monthly close (journal entries, account reconciliation, analysis). • Calculating reserves, provisions, accruals and allocations across our publishing businesses. Show less

    • United States
    • Food and Beverage Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Assistant Controller
      • Jun 2018 - Mar 2021

      Currently working as the Assistant Controller at Café Grumpy LLC. • Generating accounts receivable invoices for wholesale customers, resolving invoicing disputes for customers, contacting customers on the status of past due invoices, and collecting on unpaid invoices. • Recording of accounts payable invoices, communicating with vendors to resolve billing disputes, and cutting checks to pay vendors for services rendered. • Reconciliation of monthly bank statements for multiple company subsidiaries. • Monthly inventory stock-take and reconciliation of Green Coffee purchases. • Month-ending journal entries to close out the books for all store locations & online sales. • Managing, recording and verifying monthly employee reimbursement expense reports. • Assisting the company President/Financial Controller with monthly profit & loss statements, implementation of financial controls and overall improvements to the accounting system. Show less

    • United States
    • International Affairs
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Accounting Clerk
      • Oct 2015 - Jun 2018

      Working as an Accounts Receivable Clerk & Billing/Collections Clerk at Trustforte Corporation. • Entering, Recording and Depositing Accounts Receivable checks and credit card receipts received for Services Rendered to Clients, Customers and Corporations using QuickBooks. • Entering Accounts Receivable invoices using various e-billing systems, while complying with client instructed guidelines, ensuring proper coding of invoices, and billing rates. • Maintaining, creating, and sending out monthly statements to respective corporate clients/vendors, while also reconciling any discrepancies with there respective account balances. Show less

    • Accounting Assistant (Temporary)
      • Jan 2015 - Feb 2015

      Worked as an Accounting Assistant at Cameo Wealth & Creative Management recording both Accounts Receivables and Accounts Payables for high profiled clients. • Entered, Recorded and Deposited Accounts Receivable Commissions and Residuals checks for high profiled celebrity clients using Datafaction. • Entered, Cut checks and Paid Accounts Payable invoices using Datafaction, that primary consisted of credit cards, utilities and tax payments also for high profiled celebrity clients. Show less

  • Escada US Subco LLC
    • Greater New York City Area
    • Accounting Intern
      • Feb 2014 - Sep 2014

      Worked as an Accounting Intern at Escada US Subco LLC primarily in Sales Audit organizing shipment documents and posting payment invoices for each shipment. • Assisted in Evaluating and Implementing Sales Audits on existing shipment invoices by exporting the information onto Excel spreadsheets and calculating whether or not there are any variances between the actual amounts and the estimated amounts of each shipment invoice. • Entered and Posted Accounts Payable invoices using SAP, for all parties involved in the process of each shipment that arrives into the U.S. from Germany, which includes the Broker, the Freight, as well as the Customs invoice amounts. • Coordinated and implemented large Weekly Cash Deposit Logs and Daily Sales Activities onto Excel spreadsheets for over a dozen Escada Stores and outlets all across the United States. Show less

Education

  • City University of New York-Brooklyn College
    Bachelor of Science - BS, Public Accounting, (CPA Qualifying, 150 Hour Requirement)
    2009 - 2012
  • City University of New York-Brooklyn College
    Bachelor of Science - BS, Business Management, & Finance
    2009 - 2012
  • CUNY New York City College of Technology
    Associate's degree, AAS – Accounting
    2007 - 2009

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