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Cynphnie Hsu, CPA

Chicago,IL
Cynphnie Hsu, CPA

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Job Search Status

Open to work
Desired start date: Open to discussion

Desired Job Title

Financial Accounting AnalystAudit AssociateCourse Grader (MGMT 142A–C, MGMT 168)AP Course Instructor

Work Type

Full Time

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On-SiteHybrid
Location: Chicago, IL
Open to relocation: Yes

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Career advancementWork-life balanceCompany Culture

Summary

CPA and Series 3-licensed financial operations professional with 2+ years of experience owning daily cash flows, reconciliation, and transaction monitoring in fast‑scaling, high‑volume environments. Proven builder of financial infrastructure from scratch, including daily bank reconciliations, AR collections, and AP payment processes for new international operations. Strong analytical and systems mindset with hands‑on experience improving reliability, speed, and visibility of financial data through automation and dashboards. Comfortable partnering cross‑functionally to support accurate, compliant, and scalable financial operations.

Overview

5
years of professional experience
5

Years of total professional experience

Work History

Fulton Market Group
Chicago, IL

Financial Accounting Analyst
10.2024 - Current

Job overview

  • Own daily financial recordkeeping and reconciliation for an international supply chain broker supporting high-volume, multi-vendor transaction flows across currencies, geographies, and counterparties
  • Monitor cash movements, vendor payables, import tariffs, and fuel surcharges; prepare monthly drawdowns to ensure sufficient liquidity for volatile cost structures supporting McDonald’s systemwide operations
  • Designed and implemented new data processing workflows in response to evolving vendor systems, materially improving payment accuracy and on-time settlement
  • Led firmwide migration of a legacy master dataset (130K+ rows) from local storage to AWS DataZone, validating completeness and accuracy to support reliable querying and analytics
  • Transformed manual volume and performance reporting into live Amazon QuickSight dashboards, delivering near-real-time KPI visibility to senior leadership
  • Collaborated cross-functionally with operations, leadership, and external partners to refine financial processes for speed, reliability, and scalability
  • Built the finance function for European operations from the ground up, designing and implementing daily bank reconciliation processes to monitor cash movement, detect discrepancies, and establish operational controls from day one
  • Organized and executed company’s inaugural charity golf outing, coordinating vendors, stakeholders, and logistics and raising $72,000+ for RMHC

KPMG, LLP
Chicago, IL

Audit Associate
10.2023 - 10.2024

Job overview

  • Served as in-charge associate for first-year audit of a newly formed subsidiary of a private equity firm, owning planning, execution, and documentation of all core audit areas
  • Performed detailed testing of revenue, interest income/expense, cash, and balance-sheet accounts, ensuring compliance with accounting standards
  • Analyzed interest revenue and settlement timing structures, restructuring prior-year workpapers to improve logic, transparency, and review efficiency
  • Used Power BI analytics to assess dividend activity by investment as part of risk assessment, enabling the engagement team to focus efforts on higher-risk areas
  • Acted as primary client contact, leading recurring status meetings and coordinating across controllers, managers, and partners to meet accelerated deadlines

UCLA Anderson School of Business
Los Angeles, CA

Course Grader (MGMT 142A–C, MGMT 168)
06.2022 - 06.2023

Job overview

  • Graded and reviewed assignments for 60-student accounting analytics courses covering Excel, Power Query, Power Pivot, Power BI, Tableau, and Personal Finance
  • Built standardized grading rubrics to improve consistency, flag anomalies, and reduce subjectivity
  • Served as liaison between professor and students, improving clarity and documentation of analytical workflows over time

Subject
Los Angeles, CA

AP Course Instructor
12.2020 - 06.2021

Job overview

  • Created original content for AP Macroeconomics and AP Microeconomics class livestreams at digital education startup
  • Engaged with students virtually by posting detailed answer sheets, answering questions via Discord, and hosting weekly Zoom office hours

Education

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Los Angeles

Bachelor of Arts from Business Economics, Accounting
09.2019 - 06.2023

University Overview

  • Relevant Coursework: Analytics in Accounting III: Built executive-level analytics and Tableau dashboards to support operational and revenue decisions, Data Science for Economists: Applied regression analysis, hypothesis testing, and statistical inference to real-world datasets
  • GPA: 3.7

Skills

  • Monthly account reconciliations
  • Data analysis/visualization
  • Financial operation analysis
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Process improvement/automation
  • Project management

Certification

  • Certified Public Accountant
  • Series 3

Affiliations

  • Players Sport & Social Group Supervisor
  • Ronald McDonald House Charity Volunteer

Timeline

Financial Accounting Analyst

Fulton Market Group
10.2024 - Current

Audit Associate

KPMG, LLP
10.2023 - 10.2024

Course Grader (MGMT 142A–C, MGMT 168)

UCLA Anderson School of Business
06.2022 - 06.2023

AP Course Instructor

Subject
12.2020 - 06.2021

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

Bachelor of Arts from Business Economics, Accounting
09.2019 - 06.2023

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