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Overview
Work History
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References
Certification
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Yu Ya Chiu

Fort Myers

Summary

Strong research and statistical analysis skills, detail-oriented and adept at organizing, prioritizing, and managing projects/workflows PC/Mac Literate, MS Office Suite (Word, Advanced Excel, PowerPoint, Access)

Quickbooks, Sage 500 ProSeries, OneSource Income Tax RS, GoSystem, Vertex, RIA Tax Research Engine, HFM, Oracle – BI, Ad Hoc Analysis, SmartView, CorpTax, Prosystem, Abila Language: English and Chinese (Mandarin)

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Controller

PrivateSky Aviation Services Inc.
02.2021 - Current
  • Responsible for overall accountancy operation
  • Maintain the general ledger, supervise month-end closing process and prepare financial statements
  • Monitor and prepare cash flow analysis including daily customers’ deposits and vendors payments
  • Perform monthly inventory analysis and weekly Jet-A analysis to ensure profit margin
  • Reconcile banks, credit card and balance sheet accounts on monthly basis
  • Correspond internal/external requests; business operation, workers compensation, PPP loan forgiveness, LCPA, and sales & use taxes
  • Review and process payroll
  • Prepare new hire onboarding package
  • Prepare ad hoc analysis and operation analysis as request
  • Evaluates processes to prospect opportunities for improving workflow.

Senior Accountant

Preferred Vascular Group
12.2019 - 02.2021
  • Manage AP department; implement three-way matching; process payments
  • Reconcile vendors’ statement and resolve the discrepancy with vendors
  • Ensure on-time insurance payment and commercial lease payments for entire company
  • Establish amortization and rent roll schedule to comply with GAAP reporting
  • Gather, monitor and analyze financial data (e.g
  • Inventory and fixed asset reconciliation, balance sheet account reconciliation, PPP analysis)
  • Budget expense and cost for the entire company
  • Perform month-end close processes and prepare monthly financial statements
  • Analyze and reconcile information from various systems to the general to track fixed assets for tangible personal property returns (FL, GA & OH) and inventory for COGS on monthly financial statements
  • Negotiated contract terms with the vendors, Review & Process 1099-misc and 1099-NEC
  • Systematically summarized accounts within the general ledger for business operation analysis.

Accountant

Caloosahatchee Tax & Financial Services, Inc.
01.2017 - 12.2019
  • Prepare and review financial documents and income tax returns
  • Analyze tax aspects of business transaction issues, including shareholder transactions
  • Assist partners and managers in consulting with closely held business and individual clients on financial and tax planning matters
  • Recognize, identify, and research tax issues to summarize results and propose resolutions
  • Analyze financial documents to make recommendations for improving operations or lowering tax liabilities
  • Keep highly organized and updated client files
  • Respond to IRS and State agencies on the behalf of clients.

Senior Tax Analysis, CPA

21st Century Oncology
07.2017 - 12.2017
  • Review document and analyze general ledger to prepare and file sales & tax returns
  • Perform tax research to support memorandums for declared Tax Positions of the companies
  • Estimate the Tax Payments for Federal and State Jurisdictions
  • Prepare state apportionment for income tax preparation
  • Assist ASC 740 calculation for income tax general entry
  • Correspond tax audits, tax notices, and other tax-related inquiries
  • Analyze the valuation of the fixed assets to facilitate new entity acquisition
  • Maintain tax calendars and manage various licenses and registrations to ensure tax compliance.

Tax Analysis, CPA

Hertz
02.2015 - 11.2016
  • Reconcile monthly tax accounts to ensure properly posting for payments, refunds and accruals
  • Retrieve data to calculate FIN18 tax rate for appropriate income tax accruals
  • Collaborated with the foreign tax departments to authenticate information and provide support documentation for payments and refunds to internal and external auditors
  • Quarterly scrutinized and validated the records of tax payments, refunds and unrecognized tax benefits of Local and international firms, and prepared valuation allowance analysis for the foreign entities
  • Prepared quarterly valuation allowance analysis for the foreign entities
  • Assisted in the quarterly analysis of unrecognized tax benefits regarding to the uncertain tax position.

Process Specialist, CPA

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)
07.2014 - 02.2015
  • Gathered and analyzed clients’ financial data and statements to prepare the workpapers for completing tax forms
  • Filed Federal and State income tax returns and extensions, including 1120, 1065 and 1120F and prepared 1042S for foreign investors
  • Authenticated deductions and credits to apply appropriate adjustments for minimizing the clients’ taxes liabilities
  • Proficiently used OneSource to access the clients’ filing organization chart and developed the new clientele.

Tax Analyst

Allyn International Services, Inc.
01.2012 - 01.2013
  • Assisted and Prepared Federal, State and local income and franchise tax returns on separate, combined or consolidated basis in a timely manner
  • Calculated and Prepared quarterly Federal, State and local corporate income tax payments
  • Prepared state apportionment information and state modification
  • Prepared and filed US transaction tax (sales/use, business & occupation, and gross receipts) returns for monthly, quarterly and annual filings
  • Researched tax issues to comply with state and local statutes
  • Assisted with transaction and income tax audits
  • Issued and maintained exemption certificates.

Education

MS in Taxation & Accounting -

Florida Gulf Coast University
Fort Myers, FL

Certified Public Accountant (CPA) -

07.2014

MBA in Finance -

Florida Gulf Coast University
Fort Myers, FL
07.2007

MS in Biochemistry -

National Yang-Ming University
01.2000

BS in Food & Nutrition -

Chinese Culture University
01.1998

Skills

  • Payroll Processing
  • Preparing financial statements
  • Cash Flow Management
  • Staff Management

References

Available upon request

Certification

Certified Public Accountant

Timeline

Controller

PrivateSky Aviation Services Inc.
02.2021 - Current

Senior Accountant

Preferred Vascular Group
12.2019 - 02.2021

Senior Tax Analysis, CPA

21st Century Oncology
07.2017 - 12.2017

Accountant

Caloosahatchee Tax & Financial Services, Inc.
01.2017 - 12.2019

Tax Analysis, CPA

Hertz
02.2015 - 11.2016

Process Specialist, CPA

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)
07.2014 - 02.2015

Tax Analyst

Allyn International Services, Inc.
01.2012 - 01.2013

MS in Taxation & Accounting -

Florida Gulf Coast University

Certified Public Accountant (CPA) -

MBA in Finance -

Florida Gulf Coast University

MS in Biochemistry -

National Yang-Ming University

BS in Food & Nutrition -

Chinese Culture University
Yu Ya Chiu