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Yiming "James" Deng

Saint John

Summary

Professional with strong background in accounting, equipped to drive financial accuracy and efficiency. Skilled in financial analysis, budgeting, and regulatory compliance. Known for reliable collaboration with teams and adaptability to changing needs. Excel in delivering results through strategic planning and problem-solving.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Accountant

J.D. Irving, Limited
07.2024 - Current
  • Prepared and posted monthly period-end journal entries; delivered variance analysis and key insights to senior management for informed decision-making.
  • Led and mentored a team of 3 full-time accountants and 1 co-op student, providing training, performance feedback, and ongoing development support.
  • Improved accounting policies, procedures, and systems by streamlining reconciliation processes and participating in cross-functional projects to drive efficiency, accuracy, and scalability.
  • Acted as audit lead for the Marine group; coordinated audit requests, ensured timely and accurate responses, and maintained strong relationships with internal and external auditors.
  • Contributed to multiple ad-hoc projects, including preparing a 10-year budget forecast (roll-forward model) and resolving aged intercompany AR/AP balances to improve financial accuracy and intercompany reconciliation.

Accountant

J.D. Irving, Limited
08.2023 - 07.2024
  • Managed day-to-day accounting operations to ensure financial accuracy and compliance; successfully supported year-end close for two separate legal entities in collaboration with the team.
  • Reconciled general ledger accounts and analyzed expense data, net worth, and asset balances to support timely and accurate reporting.
  • Onboarded and mentored 3 rotating co-op students, ensuring a smooth transition and effective knowledge transfer during each work term.
  • Partnered with business teams to modernize outdated reconciliation processes by leveraging advanced Excel functions, significantly improving data accuracy and efficiency.
  • Streamlined month-end close procedures, reducing the time required for financial reporting and enabling faster decision-making.

Indirect Tax Analyst

Greenergy Fuels Canada Inc
04.2022 - 05.2023
  • Lead role for general accounting responsibilities and sales tax data collection, consolidation, preparation.
  • Regularly assessing the suitability of tax processes, provincial/federal registrations, and software tools against the evolving requirements of the business.
  • Drive for continuous improvement to increase quality, efficiency and exceed internal and external customer expectation - improve Excel template to compile all reports and increase the efficiency and accuracy.
  • Build and maintain strong working relationships with all stakeholders - Monitor internal stock reporting team, enhance internal control to eliminate potential mistakes.
  • Prepare balance sheet reconciliation on time and in a compliant way. Reconciling monthly Sales and Use Tax general ledger accounts.
  • No acc reporting for accounting team. Prepare and review financial documents, reports, and statements.

Stock & Finance Analyst

Greenergy Fuels Canada Inc
08.2019 - 03.2022
  • Overseeing Stock Control and Validation across all internal systems for Greenergy North American Entities.
  • Design and streamline current inventory reconciliation process to increase efficiency around 20%.
  • Leading the external inventory audit, answering queries from external auditors. Provide feedback to internal accounting team and suggest for improvement.
  • Analysis and investigation of Gains/Losses on a weekly basis, great beyond the expectation at 0.25%.
  • Internal business stakeholder stock liaison – Responsible for query management.
  • Terminal liaison for all stock reporting requirements - Identify potential non-compliance in terminal and provide suggestions to meet accounting standard.
  • Oversees reports regarding AR process. Ensures billings and receivables are correctly processed in a timely manner.
  • Maintain documentation in accordance with SOX and Tax team.

Office Manager

Greenergy Fuels Canada Inc
05.2019 - 07.2019
  • General Helper for finance department - Process invoices for Accounts Payable department and reduced the number of outstanding invoices.
  • Design and create internal Account Payable KPI Report for management. Allows Greenergy to track the credit and reduce the overdue invoices over 10%.
  • Manage weekly retail customer reports of approximately $600,000. Communicate and maintain good relationship with customers.
  • Scheduling business travel for employees.
  • Process cash flow reports on daily basis.

Student Accounting Associate

Commercial Property Limited
01.2017 - 03.2017
  • General helper to finance team.
  • Account Payable function and help with weekly payment run.
  • Monthly Bank Record Reconciliation.
  • Help and answer queries from external auditor team.

Education

BBA -

University of New Brunswick
Saint John, New Brunswick
05.2019

Skills

  • Advanced in Excel
  • Financial statement review
  • Data analysis
  • Internal control
  • Generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP)
  • IFRS/ASPE reporting
  • Financial reporting
  • Audit support
  • Variance analysis
  • Software (Oracle Fusion, TriplePoint, Toptech)
  • Data visualization (Power BI, Tableau)

Certification

  • Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) (2023-01 - Present)
  • Elective: Assurance & Taxation

Timeline

Senior Accountant

J.D. Irving, Limited
07.2024 - Current

Accountant

J.D. Irving, Limited
08.2023 - 07.2024

Indirect Tax Analyst

Greenergy Fuels Canada Inc
04.2022 - 05.2023

Stock & Finance Analyst

Greenergy Fuels Canada Inc
08.2019 - 03.2022

Office Manager

Greenergy Fuels Canada Inc
05.2019 - 07.2019

Student Accounting Associate

Commercial Property Limited
01.2017 - 03.2017

BBA -

University of New Brunswick

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