Background

It is with great enthusiasm that I am seeking a tenure-track assistant professor position in the accounting department at your university. I am in my final year of a doctoral program in accounting at the University of Georgia, with a planned graduation date of May 2019. Knowing early on that my long-term plan was to become an accounting researcher, I tailored my work experience to gain broad institutional knowledge about the accounting industry. In addition to working as an accounting consultant at a Big 4 firm, I helped to develop an accounting standard on derivatives and hedging for state and local governments at the Governmental Accounting Standards Board; and assisted Malaysian regulators with their IFRS adoption process while working at the Malaysian Accounting Standards Board. Not only do these experiences give me a unique perspective on the accounting industry that I can share with my students, but as importantly, they motivate my financial archival research agenda, which focuses on international accounting and capital markets, linguistics, investor tastes, audit, and Islamic finance. I believe my students deserve high-quality teaching that incorporates standard accounting theories and principles, examples of how those principles are applied in practice (e.g., current events), and summaries of relevant research that informs students. I have either taught or been a teaching assistant for introductory and advanced financial accounting classes as well as financial statement analysis, teaching undergraduate and graduate non-business majors, as well as graduate accounting and EMBA students. I earned a 4.7 out of 5.0 in my teaching evaluation for my introduction to financial accounting class for non-business majors. I am open to teaching any class at any level, but am especially comfortable teaching financial accounting, international accounting, financial statement analysis, audit, and managerial/cost accounting.

Job experience

• March 2011 - July 2013
  Assistant manager
  Malaysian Accounting Standards Board
  

  Kuala Lupur, Malaysia

  Drafted and published three technical pronouncements related to applying IFRS to complex Islamic finance transactions: Discussion Papers i-1:Takaful, i-2:Sukuk, and i-3:Shariah Compliant Profit-Sharing Contracts
  Created instructional materials on how IFRS should be applied to Islamic financial products; presented to academics and practitioners

• March 2009 - January 2011
  Senior associate
  KPMG, LLP
  

  New York, NY

  Provided on-call advanced US GAAP and IFRS accounting technical support for Fortune 500 clients through analyzing complex business transactions for appropriate accounting treatment (e.g. derivatives, consolidations and securitizations); applying relevant accounting guidance to company fact patterns, leading client discussions and preparing memorandums that summarize findings
  Presented various 1 to 3-hour firm-wide trainings on accounting for derivatives to over 200 partners, directors, and managers via online and in person; also presented educational sessions on derivative accounting and strategies to a client’s audit committee members

• July 2007 - March 2009
  Project research associate; Post-graduate technical associate
  Governmental Accounting Standards Board
  

  Norwalk, CT

  Analyzed technical research through industry guidance, public roundtables, and subject matter expert interviews for proposed accounting standard on derivatives in the government sector; co-authored standard and subsequent implementation guide
  Compiled, summarized, and analyzed comment letters;
  Authored, edited, and presented staff position papers to the Board on scoping, recognition and measurement, and disclosure for the derivatives and hedging project

Education

• University of Georgia
  PhD Accounting
  

  2016 - 2019
• University of Michigan
  MA Applied Economics; MA Business
  

  2013 - 2016
• University of Texas
  BBA Finance; MPA Acounting
  

  2002 - 2007

• CPA
  Texas State Board of Certified Public Accountants
  

  - present

  Current