Naresh Tapiavala, CPA, MBA

8109 Case Dr, Plano, TX 75025

ntapiavala@att.net, (972) 510-8250

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
• Over 8 years of strong general accounting, financial analysis and reporting experience.
• Proven ability to improve processes to enhance efficiency, accuracy and timeliness.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, technical, multi-tasking and time management skills.
• A highly motivated, proactive, detailed and result oriented accounting professional.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Accounting Consultant, 1st Global, Dallas, TX, (03/10 - Present)
• Audited post conversion 401(k) balances.
• Reconciliation of balance sheet accounts.
Accounting Consultant, Securus Technologies, Dallas, TX, (10/09 - 01/10)
• Managed revenue based monthly commission payable to 1,800 correctional authorities.
• Prepared month end close journal entries and reconciled commission payable and paid.
• Reviewed and analyzed commission contracts.
Accounting Consultant, Orix, USA, Dallas, TX, (08/09)
• Researched management and leasing fee of foreclosed commercial property under litigation.
Accounting Consultant, Essilor Laboratories of America, Dallas, TX (03/09)
• Reconciled balance sheet accounts including royalties, prepayments and bank
Accounting Consultant, Journey Education Marketing, Farmers Branch, TX (02/09)
• Prepared audit schedules for external auditor.
Senior Accountant, ACS Systech Integrators Inc. (ACS Inc.), Dallas, TX. (05/08 – 01/09)
• Performed month-end close for parent company in USA and subsidiary company in India.
• Consolidated accounts of subsidiary company in India to parent company in USA.
• Performed inter company accounting. Prepared inter company invoices and reconciled intra and
inter-company balances.
• Reconciled and analyzed balance sheet accounts. Created reconciliation templates.
• Analyzed financial statement for monthly and quarterly variance reporting and preliminary balance
sheet review.
• Managed commission payment process. Calculated monthly commission for sales professionals
and recruiters and quarterly bonus for Vice Presidents. Revamped the commission payment
procedure, which resulted in timeliness of commission report, accuracy and saving of commission
payout by 20%.
• Prepared various month and quarter end reports for management.
• Prepared and submitted maintenance requests for customers, vendors, cost centers and GL
accounts.
• Assisted in preparation of budgets and quarterly forecasts.
• Participated in conversion of MAS 90 to JDE One World accounting system. Researched unusual
transactions and validated outputs.
• Provided information to auditors, management, tax department and customers.
Accountant III, Prime Therapeutics LLC, Irving, TX, (12/06 – 05/08)
• Performed month-end close for distribution centers in Texas and New Mexico.
• Evaluated and enhanced reconciliation process, which resulted in reduction in backlog and
accuracy of receivable, inventory and cash account reconciliations. Set up new reconciliation
templates.
• Improved inventory reporting process, which resulted in increased accuracy.
• Participated in annual physical inventory count.
• Performed monthly financial analysis by location, product type, and consolidated basis.
Coordinated with internal resources to analyze cost of sale margin, and revenue variances.
• Assisted in forecasting volume, labor cost and expenses. Prepared financial models.Provided
input in shipping vendor selection.

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• Prepared monthly flash report showing both financial and operational information. Prepared
explanation for major variances.
• Reviewed work of accounting staff. Trained, developed and provided performance feedback.
Provided input into hiring, and performance evaluation.
• Served as point of contact for external year-end audit.
• Developed, analyzed, and reported key performance metrics such as number of prescriptions,
average price per prescription, cost per prescription, shipping costs, supplies, labor efficiency and
operating expenses.
• Prepared sales tax returns for multiple states. Researched issues raised in sales tax audit.
• Developed, updated, documented and implemented policies and procedures.
Senior Accountant, EMC Mortgage Corporation (JPM Chase), Lewisville, TX (06/01 – 12/06)
• Reconciled and analyzed complex balance sheet accounts including Corporate advance, Escrow
advance, Trust Receipt, general reserve, and Suspense account. Researched, followed up,
escalated and resolved reconciling items in a timely manner and prevented recurrence of such
items in future. Prepared correcting journal entries. Prepared log of reconciliation status.
• Reviewed balances of reserves and accruals to ensure adequacy.
• Performed inter-company accounting and reconciled inter-company accounts on a daily basis.
Reduced total reconciling items by 85% and aged over >30 days by 99%.
• Prepared daily flash report, weekly reconciliation aging report, balance sheet schedules and
consolidated financial reporting package for management and reporting agency.
• Performed variance analysis of balance sheet accounts.
• Maintained general ledger and chart of accounts.
• Assisted with month, quarter and year end close process including preparation of journal entries.
• Prepared Income, Franchise, Sales and Use tax returns.
• Assisted with the audit requirements of internal/external auditors.
• Teamed with Internal Audit to review, develop, document and implement internal controls to
ensure compliance to Sarbanes-Oxley 404 requirements. Assisted in quarterly SOX compliance.
• Processed sale, modifications, write offs, third party sale, note sale and short pay of loans.
• Trained and reviewed work of new and contract employees

TECHNICAL SKILLS
• Spreadsheet - Advanced Excel
• Database – Advanced Access
• Data Mining Software – Advanced Monarch
• Accounting systems – JD Edwards-Enterprise One World, PeopleSoft, Oracle Financials/ADI,
ADP-GL module, Ariba, MS Dynamics-Solomon, Great Plains & Axapta, MAS 90, QuickBooks
• Financial reporting systems – Hyperion Essbase 9.0, Business Objects, OCIE, XTND, FRX.
• Servicing Systems - Mortgage Loan Servicing system-Fidelity, SBO 2000, WITS, Rx Express,
Salesforce, MS Dynamics CRM.

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION AND EDUCATION

• Certified Public Accountant (CPA).
• Master of Business Administration (MBA), Hofstra University, Concentration in Finance.
• Chartered Accountant (Inter), Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.
• Master of Commerce, M.S. University, India, Concentration in Accounting.
• Bachelor of Law, M.S. University, India, Concentration in Business Law.
• Bachelor of Commerce, M.S. University, India, Concentration in Accounting & Auditing.

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