Brandon Chow

Results driven professional with expertise in process optimization and cross-team collaboration. Committed to delivering accurate, efficient solutions that drive business growth and operational excellence.

Staff Accountant - Puesto - San Diego, California

(2025-07 - 2026-06)

• Oversaw daily reconciliation processes for bank fees, prior-day sales, and credit card transactions through RAMP.
• Reconciled AP transactions, ensuring accuracy through automated systems integrated at the store level.
• Managed monthly inventory processes and reviewed POS activity with restaurant managers & team members.
• Performed daily transaction imports/exports between TOAST, CTUIT, BOA ensuring accuracy and consistency.

Junior Staff Accountant - Taiyo Yuden (U.S.A.) Inc. - Solana Beach, California

(2024-09 - 2025-06)

• Verified invoices and secured coding approvals from department managers before processing payment.
• Prepared weekly disbursements of ACH, wires, and checks.
• Maintained effective vendor relationships by providing payment statuses and resolving invoice discrepancies.
• Handled intercompany billings, nettings, and audit confirmations with international offices.
• Completed month-end AP close by processing journal entries, balancing AP, and creating AP aging reports.
• Prepared month-end warehouse reports, Budget vs. Accruals, and tracked supply chain tariffs.
• Reviewed and reconciled weekly corporate credit card transactions with the Finance Director.

Junior Staff Accountant - Katz & Associates, Inc. - San Diego, California

(2022-03 - 2024-07)

• Reviewed vendor invoices for accuracy and proper project coding before posting entries to the GL in QuickBooks.
• Managed weekly disbursements, recording and processing ACH & check deposits.
• Handled receivables, billing disputes, and vendor/client communications.
• Prepared monthly utilization reports, for CEO/CFO review, before being distributed to project managers.
• Reconciled monthly credit card account and organized billing data for project invoicing and financial reports.

Junior Accountant - Gibbs & Cox, Inc. - New York, New York

(2017-03 - 2022-02)

• Headed international & domestic travel-related expenses of naval architecture & marine engineering firm.
• Decreased invoicing time by training 100+ new & existing staff on proper use of Deltek Costpoint ERP software.
• Primary company contact for 7 international clients regarding billing questions and concerns.
• Executed payments for weekly travel advances & processed $25k - $70k worth of biweekly expense reports.
• Processed and reconciled 10 American Express Corporate & Executive card accounts across all U.S. locations.
• Applied currency conversion procedures to reconcile company's monthly Australian bank transactions.
• Used Excel to manually record, reconcile, & import monthly journal entries for 3 balance sheet accounts.

Bachelor of Science - Accounting - Rutgers University (2016-12)