5671 E Grandview

Scottsdale, AZ 85254
602-791-1860
hiten.m.patel@gmail.com

Hiten Patel, CPA

EDUCATION ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY, Phoenix, Arizona
Bachelor of Science, Accountancy
May, 2004

EXPERIENCE
Shea Homes March 2008-Current
Senior Accountant
•Responsible for all accounting functions for the Northern California Division.
•Responsible for all JV accounting and reporting functions for land development projects.
•Works with IT in system coversion of JD Edwards to Oracle E1, duties include requirement
gathering, documenting, and system testing.
•Responsible for holding training sessions for new end users in Oracle E1.
•Developed detailed reports in Business Objects XI per end users request.
•Prepare and distribute divisional reporting package including balance sheets, income statements,
profit summaries, and other supplemental reports.
•Contribute to divisional budgeting, home building project forecasting, and land sales analysis.
•Instrumental in stream lining process during company’s transition to a shared services accounting
environment.
•Coordination with other departments to complete critical tasks including software upgrades,
streamlining workflows and other tasks to achieve company goals.
•Prepare monthly analysis of job costs and department overhead.
•Preparing monthly account reconciliation’s to ensure account balances are materially correct by
analyzing accounting aging, activity run rates, monthly variances, and individual transactions,
as appropriate.
•Prepare summaries, roll-forward schedule, variance analyses, and other audit schedule as
requested for annual financial statement audits.
•Ensures reporting integrity by coordinating with relevant stakeholders to ensure information used
in financial reports is timely and accurate.

Freeport McMoRan Copper and Gold Sept. 2007 – Jan 2008

(Formally Phelps Dodge)
Senior Accounting Analyst
• Prepared monthly ad hoc reports for senior management.
• Assisted in the monthly financial consolidation and reporting, including: monthly closing of
general ledgers, preparation of journal entries, account analysis, reconciliation, and the
preparation of income statements, balance sheets and cash flow statements.
• Coordinated with KPMG to accurately record post merger accounting transactions.
• Worked with international accounting teams to coordinate post merger accounting
treatment project.
• Provided flux analysis to financial reporting for 10K and 10Q.
• Attended Business Objects XI training to be able to provide management with ad hoc query
reports

PULTE HOMES May 2004 – Sept. 2007

Accounting Supervisor
 Senior Staff Accountant
Cost/Staff Accountant
• Responsible for month end close for the Tucson Division.
• Analyze income statement and balance sheet flux schedules.
• Provide Support to the division’s VP of finance, director of finance and financial analyst.
• Prepare and supply monthly reporting packet to management, financial analysts, director,
vice presidents and president.
• Supervise a team of two employees.
• Access Employee Performance Reviews.
• Review JEs and Reconciliations for accuracy and completeness.
• Maintain the general ledger; verifying accuracy of journal entries, documentation, and
account classifications; book necessary clean up entries and accruals; process and balance
inter-company transactions.
• Prepared annual tax packages for home office.
• Review and approve employee’s expense reports.
• Lead monthly overhead meetings, to meet department and VP’s goals.
• Provide Support for both internal and external audits.
• Maintain and prepare monthly SOX information to industry standards.
• Financial analysis of house gross margins, costs, and budgets.
• Coordinating with various departments to accomplish special projects.
• Involved in conversion of JD Edwards to Lawson Enterprise Accounting Software,
including training end users, and working with IT in user acceptance stage.
• Involved in user acceptance in enhancement of Lawson version being used.
• Developed Advanced Business Objects OLAP reports for detailed analysis.
• Attended Managing Human Performance and Foundations of Management Training

INTERNSHIPS
PHELPS DODGE CORPORATION, Phoenix, Arizona May 2003 – Feb 2004
Corporate Accounting, INROADS Intern
• Developed an accurate Fixed Asset System (FAS) by identifying and reconciling assets,
researching through appropriate forms and coordinating with other departments.
• Involved in Implementation of Hyperion Planning System, including verifying data and
training end users around the country.
• Prepared Various Year Financial Reconciliations for 2004 10K Report.
• Reconciling and Analyzing of Accounts
• Participated in the INROADS Leadership Development Institute (LDI)
• INROADS internship ranked amongst top five internship in the nation.

TECHNICAL Microsoft Office Suite. Basic programming skill, include C++, Java, SQL, and
Visual Basics. Proficient in Hyperion Enterprise & Planning, Hyperion Retrieve, JD Edwards,
Oracle Enterprise 1, OLAP, Business Objects – Business Intelligence software, and Crystal Reports.
Advanced Excel skills including v-lookups, pivot tables, macros, among other techniques.