Yalin Qiu

End-to-End Finance Operations: Experience across full-cycle accounting, cash receipts and payments, expense reimbursement, payroll, accounts payable and receivable, tax filings and management reporting in school, internet-company and US public-sector settings.

Process Improvement & Efficiency: Replaced numerous manual forms for overseas salary remittances to foreign employees with electronic templates, cutting processing time from about 1 week to 2-3 days, preventing errors at 100% of known risk points and improving overall efficiency by 20%.

Cash Security & Compliance Controls: Managed approximately RMB 1 million in average monthly school cash flow and thousands of monthly transactions, maintaining zero cash-handling errors and timely, compliant collections and payments. Experienced in voucher review, archiving and quarterly tax filings.

Data Standardization & Control Mindset: Drove data cleaning and format standardization across the parent company and subsidiaries, consolidated high-volume data with Excel VBA, and led improvements to revenue and expense analysis templates. Strengthened process traceability through reconciliations, aging analysis and budget coding.

Professional

Credentials & Cross-Cultural Adaptability: Master of Science in Accountancy from the US and holder of CIA, CMA and the Intermediate Accountant Qualification (China), with overseas finance experience and the ability to read and write English financial materials.

Accountant at Achieve Xiamen International School (AXIS) (2025-09 – Present)

Handled full-cycle accounting, accounting vouchers, quarterly corporate income tax prepayments and financial statements.

• Tax & Compliance: Completed quarterly corporate income tax prepayment filings, monitored changes in tax policy, and checked filing methodology and documentation completeness to reduce tax risk.
• Voucher & Record Management: Reviewed source documents for authenticity, compliance and complete approvals, then organized, bound and archived accounting vouchers to improve traceability.
• Full-Cycle Accounting & Month-End Close: Independently handled the school's daily full-cycle accounting, supported the finance supervisor with budgeting, entered budget codes in journal entries, and reviewed receipts, payments and account classifications to ensure the accounting records matched actual balances.
• Management Reporting: Prepared balance sheets, income statements and other core financial reports on schedule, providing the school management team with data on financial position and operating results.

Treasurer at Achieve Xiamen International School (AXIS) (2023-12 – 2024-07)

Handled cash receipts and payments and improved related processes.

• Process Improvement: Replaced numerous manual forms for overseas salary remittances to foreign employees with electronic templates, cutting processing time from about 1 week to 2-3 days, preventing errors at 100% of known risk points and improving overall efficiency by 20%.
• Expense Analysis & Budget Support: Built a comparative analysis of marketing expenses and used the preliminary findings to develop recommendations that, once implemented, supported expense control and budget optimization.
• Cash & Transaction Management: Managed approximately RMB 1 million in average monthly cash flow and thousands of tuition, fee, reimbursement and payroll transactions each month, with zero cash-handling errors and 100% compliant, on-time processing.

Instructor at Quanzhou Vocational College of Arts and Crafts (2022-02 – 2023-01)

• Delivered business and management courses using practical cases to increase student engagement and improve class performance, completing 200 teaching hours. Also provided career-planning guidance based on personal experience to encourage reflection and strengthen class cohesion.

Management Accounting Supervisor at 4399 Network Co., Ltd. (2013-11 – 2021-05)

Joined as a Financial Analysis Specialist, reviewing routine financial data and analyzing budgets. Promoted to Management Accounting Supervisor in 2017, with responsibilities expanding to group budgeting, forecasting, operating analysis, supplier and customer account management, and template optimization.

• Account Reconciliation & Receivables Management: Strengthened supplier and customer account management, performed reconciliations and aging analyses, identified outstanding items, and coordinated with Sales and Legal on accounts receivable collection.
• Data Integration & Template Optimization: Collected monthly data from the parent company and subsidiaries, then cleaned, reconciled and standardized it. Used Excel VBA to consolidate high-volume data and led improvements to revenue and expense analysis templates, completing group analysis about 2 days after month-end close.
• Budgeting & Rolling Forecasts: Served as a key contributor to the group's annual budget, combining historical operating data with plans for new product launches, project development and esports events. Prepared monthly rolling forecasts, monitored the impact of special items on income and expenses, supported timely budget adjustments and expanded budget coverage.
• Operating & Variance Analysis: Performed budget-to-actual variance and revenue-expense matching analyses by product, supplier and channel; tracked year-on-year changes in revenue, costs and expenses; and conducted ad hoc analyses of selected projects and products to identify variance drivers and support management's evaluation of product-line performance.

Accountant at City of Los Angeles (2013-04 – 2013-09)

• Reviewed procurement payments, accounted for accounts payable, reconciled vendor balances and followed up on outstanding purchase orders, gaining hands-on public-sector finance experience in the US.

Tax Accountant at KL Accounting & Legal Services (2011-12 – 2012-08)

• Prepared payroll tax, corporate income tax and individual income tax filings for business and individual clients under US tax law, and provided related basic guidance.

Master of Science in Accountancy – California State University, Los Angeles (2009-09 – 2011-12)

Bachelor's Degree in International Economics and Trade – Concord University College, Fujian Normal University (2004-09 – 2008-07)