Zachary Dylan Rife

10+ years in management & business analytics

Accountant Analyst

Ten years of management and business intelligence, now pursuing a B.S. in Accounting & Data Analysis at Liberty University — pairing operational excellence with GAAP discipline, statistical rigor, and modern business data tooling.

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Years experience

Management, operations, and business analytics

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Current GPA

Liberty University

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Current Degree

Accounting & Data Analysis

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Languages & Tools

Python, SQL, Excel, Power BI, Git, Bash, LaTeX, RMarkdown

01 — About

Accountant, Analyst

As an Accountant and Entrepreneur using modern data science tool kits to study the world around me, I’m most deeply concerned with the factual basis’ for economic success. Modern technology convolutes this exploration, but I’ve found fundamentally ventures either live or die by their accounting, economics, or risk management.

02 — Skills

Three pillars of every venture.

Financial Theory, Applied Statistics

Accounting

  • Financial Accounting (GAAP) 80
  • Managerial & Cost Accounting 75
  • Tax (Individual & Corporate) 70
  • Audit & Internal Controls 65
  • Financial Statement Analysis 75

Economics

  • Microeconomic Analysis 70
  • Market & Industry Analysis 75
  • Cost-Benefit Analysis 80
  • Macroeconomic Indicators 60
  • Pricing & Demand Modeling 65

Risk Management

  • Operational Risk Controls 80
  • Financial Risk Assessment 70
  • Compliance & Regulation 70
  • Statistical Risk Modeling 75
  • Fraud Detection & Forensics 60
  • Python
  • SQL
  • Excel
  • Power BI
  • Tableau
  • QuickBooks
  • Git
  • GitHub
  • RMarkdown
  • LaTeX
  • Bash
  • Linux
  • GAAP
  • IFRS
  • Python
  • SQL
  • Excel
  • Power BI
  • Tableau
  • QuickBooks
  • Git
  • GitHub
  • RMarkdown
  • LaTeX
  • Bash
  • Linux
  • GAAP
  • IFRS

03 — Experience

Where I've spent my hours.

  1. Expert Bookkeeper & Tax Advisor — Payroll Tax Team

    Intuit Inc. Remote (Expert Network)

    Member of Intuit’s Expert Network and Payroll Tax Team — supporting small businesses across bookkeeping, payroll, and federal/state tax questions.

    • Help businesses set up, clean, and maintain their books in QuickBooks Online.
    • Process payroll and resolve payroll-tax issues for multi-state employers.
    • Research and answer federal and state tax questions for businesses and other Intuit experts.
    • QuickBooks Online
    • QuickBooks Payroll
    • Excel
    • Federal & State Tax Research

  2. Managing Member — Accountant

    Ridgeview Ledger Co. (1494 Systems LLC)

    Founder and managing member of an independent accounting practice serving small-business clients.

    • Provide accounting, advisory, and technical services to small-business clients.
    • QuickBooks Online
    • Excel
    • GAAP

  3. Operations Supervisor

    TPUSA Inc. (Teleperformance USA)

    Front-line operations leadership across nearly a decade with the company — owned KPIs, schedules, and coaching for a customer-facing team.

    • Salesforce
    • Workforce Management
    • KPI Reporting

  4. Business Analyst (Contract)

    Amazon Inc.

    Contract business analyst supporting operational decisions with data, dashboards, and reporting.

    • SQL
    • Excel
    • Data Visualization

04 — Projects

Selected work.

Each project is reproducible — link goes to the source where the project exists.

    • Data Analysis
    • R
    • Statistics

    Statistical Analysis of Network Intrusion Detection

    MATH 211 portfolio: probability, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, and regression on the UNSW-NB15 dataset (n = 15,000), closing with a propositional-logic detection signature.

    Records
    15,000
    Features
    49
    Tests
    3 (t, χ², z)
    Case study → Source ↗
    • Accounting
    • Power BI

    Financial KPI Dashboard

    Replace this with a real project. Idea: a Power BI dashboard that turns a trial balance into a live KPI view — current ratio, gross margin, working capital, AR aging.

    KPIs
    12
    Source
    TB → DAX
    • Accounting
    • SQL

    SQL → Audit Working Papers

    Replace this with a real project. Idea: SQL queries that produce reusable audit working papers — Benford analysis, cutoff testing, journal-entry sampling.

    Procedures
    5

05 — Education

Foundations.

Liberty University

B.S. Accounting & Data Analysis

GPA 3.7. CPA-track curriculum spanning the full financial, managerial, tax, audit, and accounting-analytics stack.

  • Advanced Data Analysis for Accounting
  • Audit, Assurance & Forensic Accounting
  • Business Law & Accounting Ethics
  • Finance, Strategy & Operations
  • Financial Statement Analysis
  • Individual, Corporate & Partnership Taxation
  • Intermediate Financial Accounting I & II
  • Managerial & Cost Accounting

Liberty University

A.A - Honors. Psychology

Foundational degree completed prior to the current B.S. program.

Honors & Affiliations

  • Dean's List

    Liberty University

    Recognition for sustained academic achievement.

  • Delta Mu Delta — International Honor Society in Business

    Liberty University chapter

    Honor society for top business students; membership is by invitation based on academic achievement.

  • Omega Nu Lambda — National Honor Society for Online Students

    Liberty University chapter

    National honor society recognizing academic excellence among online learners.

  • Psi Chi — International Honor Society in Psychology

    Liberty University chapter

    International honor society in psychology; membership is by invitation based on academic standing in the discipline.

  • Tau Sigma — National Honor Society for Transfer Students

    Liberty University chapter

    National honor society recognizing transfer students who achieve academic excellence at their new institution.

06 — Contact

Let's talk.

If you have a problem that needs an honest review — I'd like to hear about it.

Email rife.zacharyd@icloud.com Send a message → GitHub @rifezacharyd See the code → LinkedIn /in/rifezacharyd Connect →