Daphne Tran

Accountant Supervisor - CPA Licensure in progress

Campbell, California, United States

About

A combination between an academic education and experience with a start-up as well as multinational corporate environment provides me a solid background to develop my career path in finance and accounting reaching my near goal as an accounting manager

Experience

  • Supervisor, GL Accountant at Catalyst Family Inc.
    Sep 2018 - Present · 7 yrs 10 mos

  • Accounting Associate at Mota Group, Inc
    Oct 2017 - Sep 2018 · 1 yr

    - Report to the Controller and CFO, promote recommendations to improve internal control system, increase business metrics by reducing charge-back expense - Assist external audit for IPO filing with audit trails and assertions - Generate ad hoc reports within QuickBooks; prioritize workflows and optimize process by reducing 80% recording (500+ sales receipts from 40 to 8 hours) - Sense of teamwork, community and integrity; 1099s preparation and reporting, sales and use tax filing - Take care 20+ Electronic Data Interchange platforms like Amazon, Groupon...; ability to use applicable information system to meet the work needs - Managing a global treasury platform with 1,000+ transactions per month, both by streamlining the order-to-cash, process by utilizing credit card, PayPal, Amazon Pay, Apple Pay, ... - Bank and credit card reconciliations, corresponding journal entries for month-end and quarter-end - Assist with timely and detailed budget information for operating cash flows

  • Lina's Tax Team (Campbell, CA)
    • Tax Assistant
      Mar 2016 - Oct 2017 · 1 yr 8 mos

    • Tax Intern
      Mar 2016 - Nov 2016 · 9 mos

      Administrative, clerical functions and paperwork tasks, as well as client interfaces - Input, classify, and reconcile supporting documents for more than 300 individuals and company clients - Maintain efficient filing, records retention & appropriate security; perform tax research & tax laws - Experienced with Office Tools Workspace and Pro-Series Tax System, cloud client portals, DocuSign

  • Graduate Teaching Assistant & Academic Tutor at Silicon Valley University
    Apr 2015 - Nov 2015 · 8 mos

    - Teaching Assistant in the following courses: (i) Financial Reporting and Analysis, (ii) Quantitative methods for Business and (iii) Financial Management - Support students with class materials, assignment and homework discussion

  • Accounts Payable Specialist at Manulife Vietnam Limited
    Dec 2010 - Jan 2014 · 3 yrs 2 mos

    Payable Accounting Officer at Treasury Department Hardworking with precision and creative solutions to optimize processes of full cycle AP functions under international complex corporate system, backed up for A/R and fund reports for 3 months. Skeptical with potential exposure of risk and risk mitigation planning in disbursement procedure. - Handle fast-paced payment process: daily check run with high volume of policy and medical claims and invoices (approx. 3,000 claims and 2,000 invoices monthly); manage Petty Cash reimbursement and floating. - Develop solutions to correct errors and rationales to explain anomalies; prepare analysis of and reconciling company accounts, weekly reconciliation credit cards and bank accounts; - Assist in financial reporting analysis, tax filing, interact with internal and external auditors. - Partner with cross-functional teams to support and deliver automated disbursement systems solutions; - Assist with creating accounting manuals; procedures for automated internal approval and disbursement procedure, implementing process improvements and internal change focused on time saving and efficiency: automated banking disbursement process (batch transfers instead of individual transfers, bank fee reduced by $700/month); budgeting and bank reconciliation (time saving from three days to one day to reconcile 13 accounts with approximately 5,000 transactions monthly)