CPA Firm Profile

Jay Saadian, CPA, has over 30 years of administrative, management and advisory experience. While serving as the Chief Financial and Administrative Officer for several companies, he has maintained a private practice over these years. His extensive list of responsibilities over the years have included management oversight in the areas of accounting, finance, information technology, human resources, risk management, investments, pension, and other employee benefits.

Jay Saadian, CPA

Having Implemented Personnel Policies and Procedures Manual; Accounting and Internal Control Policies and Procedures; budget development, preparation and controls; and many other corporate policies, he can provide you invaluable expertise in many areas of your company's operations.

A few of his professional accomplishments:

• Has served his clients with utmost diligence, care and professionalism. Some of his clients have been associated with him for the past 10 to 20 years.
• Through diversification and close monitoring, and under his direct supervision, one not-for-profit organization saw their endowment investments grow from about $2 million in 1982 to about $55 million in 2000.
• He has centralized and automated accounting and financial reporting for a company and its subsidiaries.
• Converted payroll systems to in-house processing for greater efficiency and cost savings.
• Has obtained tax-exempt revenue bond (over $10 million) to fund the renovation and expansion of existing retail and food-service areas for an organization.

As a Senior Auditor with Price Waterhouse, he planned, organized and supervised all phases of annual audits for a wide variety of for-profit and non-profit clients of this international accounting firm. This work required documenting and evaluating internal accounting controls and procedures; reviewing data processing systems; writing internal control memoranda and management reports; preparing consolidated financial statements; and training and evaluating professional staff assistants.

As a Senior Accountant with Aronson, Greene, Fisher & Company, he was responsible for planning, controlling, supervising and executing audited and unaudited engagements for a wide variety of clients of this regional accounting firm. Prepared financial statements and various corporate and individual income tax returns. Identified and resolved accounting and business problems; supervised and trained professional staff.

Jay is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He is a licensed Certified Public Accountant in Virginia, Maryland and California.