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I met Natasha Kosnac by means of the Accountants Membership of America the place she is the present president. She succeeded Peter Frank, who was a long-time president and who guided the membership by means of the pandemic lockdown. Natasha is a exceptional particular person and I discovered it very fascinating to speak along with her and determined to share who she is and what she mentioned about her agenda for the ACA and her profession.
Natasha labored at a lot of smaller accounting companies and that led her to EisnerAmper for about six years. Presently she is the chief audit officer at UniteHere, a union that represents over 250,000 hospitality and associated area staff in the US and Canada. This place has her doing fairly a little bit of touring and assembly many different those that she enjoys. She can be an adjunct professor at Hunter School, which is a part of the CUNY system sharing her information and profession experiences. She can be a brand new mother and finds managing her profession and mother duties a problem but additionally very satisfying and rewarding. A terrific profit about working at EisnerAmper was assembly her husband Fred Kosnac there. He has began his personal fractional CFO agency referred to as Crystal Oak CFOs & Advisors.
Natasha began at ACA as a typical member taking part in its occasions after which was requested to hitch the board of governors. She labored her method as much as taking on as appearing president after which as its present president. She is gung-ho in regards to the ACA and its many advantages to its members together with a forthcoming presentation by Mark Koziel on February 10 on Zoom and in particular person in Manhattan (
Natasha didn’t begin out eager to be an accountant. She studied biology and anthropology at Stony Brook College and likewise frolicked in Australia researching fruit flies. She mentioned what she did was fascinating nevertheless it didn’t seem like one thing she wished to do for the “remainder of her life.” Her father, who’s a CPA, steered she spend a little bit time working at his agency to see if this is perhaps one thing she would really like. Effectively, she cherished it, and returned to highschool to get her accounting credit and later an MBA.
She can be lively with an organization she based over 10 years in the past. Dream Dance Health gives grownup wellness and health counseling by means of dancing and now employs a couple of dozen specialists. She could be very nicely organized and has established a set of methods utilizing her inner management information that allows her to manage its operations with out being onsite. These expertise additionally assist her immensely in her “day job” overseeing the auditing on the many places of UniteHere. Natasha is an organizer, additionally having based a “Rising Stars” program at EisnerAmper educating youthful accountants’ smooth expertise similar to how one can community, advertising, social media methods, consumer relations, confidence constructing, figuring out mentors and methods to jumpstart their careers.
She actually can multitask, has quite a lot of vitality and is wanting ahead to making use of these to ACA to develop that essential group by attracting extra members, bringing in well timed and related audio system, and including youthful professionals of every kind to the membership’s board. ACA doesn’t simply admit accountants, nevertheless it contains professionals that work with accountants, e.g., bankers, attorneys, monetary planners, funding managers and valuation specialists.
Natasha is approachable and welcoming! Present up and register for an Accountants Membership of America occasion. Introduce your self if she hasn’t already sought you out as a result of you’re a new face. Do not miss the possibility to attach on the
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