Viviana

Fluent written and verbal English, and unusually well evidenced for an accounting candidate. Alongside her accounting career she has taught English on Engoo since 2018, preparing students across Asia and Europe for IELTS and Cambridge examinations through grammar, writing, speaking and test-taking strategy. That is not conversational fluency — it is the level required to teach the exam. In her accounting work she has communicated directly with the IRS and state tax agencies on behalf of clients, corresponded with utility providers to resolve billing issues, and handled client contracts and invoicing. She writes clearly enough to be trusted with correspondence that carries consequences.

Every accounting role on her CV has been remote to US firms from Manila, across three employers and six years, which means she has been working US-facing deadlines — payroll cycles, sales tax due dates, year-end filings — from the other side of the world for her whole career. The Engoo teaching has run remotely alongside since 2018. Her toolkit is the right one: QuickBooks, Xero and SAP for the books, Lacerte and ProSeries for returns, Shopify, Amazon and Stripe for e-commerce clients, Excel with pivot tables and VLOOKUP, plus Airtable, ClickUp, Asana, Slack and Microsoft Teams for coordination.

She is precise where precision is the whole job. Her record is built on the unglamorous disciplines that keep a set of books clean: monthly bank reconciliations, internal audits to find and resolve variances, W-9 and certificate of insurance collection so vendor files stay compliant, and sales tax filed to state deadlines rather than after them. She has also taken on the parts of the job most bookkeepers avoid — dealing with IRS and state agency notices, handling UI claims, and running multi-state nexus reviews. She completed an MBA in 2025 while working full time, which says something about her appetite for work.