IME EKWERE ________________________________________ 211 Brook ridge Trail, Nashville, TN 37211 Phone: 615-480-4694 Email: ie11a2eae@westpost.

net ________________________________________ Highly Organized and Dynamic Accounting Professional, seeking a position with ad vancement opportunities where I can utilize my experience, enthusiasm, and excep tional acquired skills PROFILE * Highly organized professional with exceptional prioritization and planning skills. * Exceptional ability to reconcile accounts, records, reports and journals. * Remarkable ability to review and verify accuracy of data. * Immense ability to make independent judgments within established polices a nd procedures. * Profound ability to prepare routine administrative paperwork. * Exceptional ability to organize own work, set priorities and meet critical deadlines. * Demonstrated capacity to develop rapid and effective working relationships with people. * Takes initiative to explore issues and find potential innovative solutions . * Remarkable ability to manage a high volume of tasks while maintaining qual ity results. * Ability to Analyze, compare, interpret and predict facts and figures adept ly. * Ability to critically review and research tax issues to resolve them pract ically. * Broad working knowledge of office computer software including Microsoft Wo rd, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Quick Books, Quicken, Turbo Tax and Microsoft off ice Accounting software. EDUCATION DETAILS KELLER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT MASTERS IN ACCOUNTING JULY 2009 - PRESENT TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY BACHELOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION IN ACCOUNTING JAN 2004 - MAY 2007 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE RASC: KROGER, NASHVILLE, TN ACCOUNTING CLERK JUL 2007 - PRESENT * Efficiently analyzed accounting procedures and transactions. * Responded to Vendor inquiries in a courteous and professional manner. * Researched vendor invoice discrepancies such as shortages/overages. * Provided timely, detail-oriented and accurate reports on a consistent basis. * Researched, identified, computed and recorded charges, refunds, cost of lost or damaged goods, freight charges, rentals, and similar items. * Verified and posted details of business transactions, such as funds r eceived and disbursed, and totals accounts, on computer systems. * Assisted coordinators, lead clerks, and managers when needed under th e direction of the accounting specialist or coordinator. * Processed invoices, filed purchases / sales receipts and update. * Took on new projects and developed leadership skills by working close ly with team members. SELECTED ACHIEVEMENTS

* Operated closed loop systems (auditing unbilled accounts, PDM/PCM and rela ted reports daily, worked on Closed Loop reports on a daily basis and Investigat ed errors made by closed loop and corrected them permanently). * Maintained a working knowledge of manual desk (paying invoices daily). * Assisted, trained and helped out other clerks in closed loop and manual de sk. * Operated EJ enterprises applications (Account Maintenance, Journal number maintenance, standard entry, journal entry, reconciliation, reports, user mainte nance, journal entry maintenance, multiple division import, division maintenance ). IME EKWERE Page 2 Continued VOLUNTEER INCOME TAX ASSISTANCE (VITA), NASHVILLE, TN TAX PROVIDER JAN 2007 - MAY 2007 * Prepared and reviewed simple to complex Income Taxes. * Review financial records such as income statements and documentation of expenditures in order to determine forms needed to prepare tax returns. * Examined accounts and records and computed taxes owed according to pr escribed rates, laws, and regulations. * Performed General Accounting and Bookkeeping duties. * Prepared financial statements used for tax reporting purposes. * Ensured that establishment complies with periodic tax payment, inform ation reporting, and other taxing authority requirements. REFERENCES AND SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS WILL BE FURNISHED IF REQUIRED