Accounting & Finance Career Research

DST Systems, Inc

Accounting & Finance - Accountant - Kansas City, MO

Research, balance, & pay unclaimed property to the respective states on mutual fund accounts. Match social security numbers from different states to mutual fund accounts to locate people who owe child support. Balance & pay state withholding to the respective states within state & SEC guidelines.

Avg. Salary: $50,000   ·    Company Rank: Not Available

Westcon Group

Accounting & Finance - Financial Specialist - Tarrytown, NY

• Recruited to execute worldwide strategic growth plans of company reporting to the Group CFO. Propelled company into new geographical, product and customer markets in IT distribution generating incremental sales of $706MM (25%) and incremental EBITDA of $36MM (35%) through six deals worldwide. Led and institutionalized company-wide M&A function. • Sourced, evaluated and executed the Company’s strategic acquisitions/inve...

Avg. Salary: $200,000   ·    Company Rank: Not Available

Ernst & Young LLP

Accounting & Finance - Financial Specialist - San Francisco, CA

• Led 2-5 person financial due diligence teams; identified unique purchase price adjustments, contract negotiation points and working capital adjustments; findings resulted in client’s favorably renegotiating purchase price, terms and/or reducing risk. • Completed 20+ US/international deals each valued up to $1BN. Specialized in buy/sell side, JV and carve-out advisory services to strategic/financial clients. Authored tho...

Avg. Salary: $200,000   ·    Company Rank: Not Available

KPMG LLP

Accounting & Finance - Financial Specialist - San Francisco, CA

• Executed M&A, financing and lead advisory services; point person for UK inbound deals to US, promoted to Manager. • Hand-picked by KPMG national partnership to perform in-house due diligence on Arthur Andersen.

Avg. Salary: $200,000   ·    Company Rank: Not Available

Arthur Andersen

Accounting & Finance - Financial Specialist - London, Outside United States

• Consulting: Provided strategic advisory services including in-depth competitive market analysis and business valuations. • Assurance: Performed financial statement analysis to establish external audit opinions on financial statements.

Avg. Salary: $200,000   ·    Company Rank: Not Available

Real Estate Investor

Accounting & Finance - Financial Specialist - New York, NY

• Built residential property portfolio, negotiated favorable financing resulting in a 10% ROI to date despite challenging market.

Avg. Salary: $200,000   ·    Company Rank: Not Available

Colgate-Palmolive Company

Accounting & Finance - Auditor - New York, NY

Executed and delivered comprehensive financial and operational reviews of key business cycles at international subsidiaries and manufacturing plants located globally (requiring 80% travel annually). Performed process walkthroughs and internal control testing, evaluating adequacy and effectiveness of control environments and financial transparency, identifying weaknesses, and recommending value-added improvements based upon...

Avg. Salary: $95,000   ·    Company Rank: Not Available

Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP

Accounting & Finance - Auditor - Orange County, CA

Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP-Orange County/Los Angeles 2006 – 2007 The largest of the Big 4 Auditors, PwC has more than 163,000 employees and $26.2B in revenues (2009). Experienced Associate—Risk Advisory Services (Internal Audit Services) Planned, performed and supervised co-sourcing and outsourcing services to Fortune 500 Companies in Internal Audit Services and Sarbanes Oxley 404 Compliance for manual and syst...

Avg. Salary: $95,000   ·    Company Rank: Not Available

KPMG LLP

Accounting & Finance - Auditor - Orange County, CA

KPMG LLP-Orange County/Los Angeles 2004 – 2006 A Big 4 Auditor, KPMG had over 136,000 employees and $20.1B in revenues in 2009. Associate—Internal Audit Services, Risk Advisory Services Supervised, planned, and performed co-sourcing and outsourcing services to Fortune 500 companies in U.S. and abroad in Internal Audit Services and Sarbanes Oxley 404 (SOX 404) Compliance for manual and system controls. Respons...

Avg. Salary: $95,000   ·    Company Rank: Not Available

Walt Disney Corporation

Accounting & Finance - Auditor - Anaheim, CA

Created process improvement avenues for current and potential operational concerns in park operations, customer service, communications, technology, and general work force deployment. Supervised 20-40 team members in park operations as well as the Operations Development Team. Initiated comprehensive research and issue identification for Guest Services operations through root cause, technical, operational and performan...

Avg. Salary: $95,000   ·    Company Rank: Not Available