Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Noelle Starr, CPA, MST is currently a financial analyst at Michael Baker International. She focuses on budgets and forecasts, specializing in IT Services. While utilizing her strong analytical skills, she deep dives into variance analysis. Previously, she worked at FullBloom, where she created budgets for over 200 departments and started the Women's Professional Growth Network. She also worked at Temple University Hospital in the Budget Department. She graduated from the Gabelli School of Business at Fordham University with a major in Public Accounting and minor in Economics. She also earned her Masters in Taxation in February 2017 from Fordham University. Additionally, she is a licensed CPA in the state of New York and passed the exams on her first attempt. Her education and qualifications gave her the essential skills for any position in business. She enjoys problem solving and working in a team-based environment.
•Responsible for the creation of the budget and various forecasts for over 200 departments •Facilitate weekly meetings with department heads to analyze budgets and discrepancies •Quantify variances from different programs for proper analysis •Manipulated data from various sources, such as sales, to compare to budget •Started the Women’s Professional Growth Network (WPGN) to support women in the organization with their personal and professional advancement •Lead and organized monthly meetings of 75+ participants for the WPGN
• Responsible for the development and monitoring of assigned departmental budgets and financial operations • Facilitate meetings with department heads to analyze budgets and discrepancies • Perform qualitative and quantitative data analysis; project definition, planning, execution, and summarizing results and business implications. • Work with hospital management to validate information and facilitate analysis of data in order to support operational and strategic decision making • Support the planning and approval of the capital budget • Saved the hospital over $35,000 by analyzing department productivity statistics for consistency and reasonability
• Prepared federal, state, and local tax returns for high net worth individual, estate, trust, partnership, S Corp, gift tax, and various other types of returns • Calculated quarterly projections for estimated tax payments for 50 individual and business clients • Responded to IRS and State Department of Revenue notices for clients – confirm penalty assessments; if incorrect reassessed the penalties and requested an abatement • Maintained and organized active communication with clients to manage expectations, ensure satisfaction and deadlines • Managed and reconciled the books and records for over 60 clients, including private equity, attorney, motels, etc. in QuickBooks and prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements • Tracked and calculated intercompany receivables between over 35 entities • Converted client’s financial statements from GAAP to tax to reconcile book-to-tax differences • Created W-2, W-3, 1099, and 1096 Forms for year-end compliance and file Form 941 and NYS-45 forms quarterly