- GPA: 3.545
- NYU Stern MS in Accounting Merit Scholarship
- Graduate Student Ambassador, MS in Accounting Program
Resume — Updated April 2026
Steven Bleifer
Florham Park, NJ · NYU Stern '26 · Pitt '25 · Incoming KPMG
Education
- GPA: 3.956 — Summa Cum Laude
- James B. Tafel Endowed Scholarship · Anania Family Accounting Scholarship
- University Scholar (Top 2% GPA) · Beta Gamma Sigma · Dean's List, all semesters
VC
IB
HS
- GPA: 3.9 unweighted, 5.1 weighted
- 1st Chair Trombone, Regional Symphony
- Finalist, NJ All-State Jazz Competition (Featured Soloist) · Leader, Student Jazz Combo
Experience
- Collaborated with four engagement teams across education, consumer goods, and life sciences.
- Completed quarterly reporting, risk assessment, and substantive analytical procedures.
- Worked through audit planning, walkthrough procedures, and accounting standards updates.
- Implemented internal and external AI tools to improve audit quality and efficiency.
- Developed lesson plans for recitation sections, teaching ~120 students per semester.
- Led four weekly recitations and held office hours to support student learning.
- Joined a large team for a 9/30 year-end public audit in the manufacturing sector.
- Worked on tests of controls, walkthrough documentation, inventory counts, and revenue testing.
- Applied data processing and visualization tools to audit procedures.
- Coordinated with the Pitt investment team and KPMG on documentation required for the audit.
- Communicated with fund managers on behalf of Pitt regarding investment issues.
SB
SR
Organizations
LE
- Earned Excel certification from Pitt Business School.
- Built Excel and Tableau skills through Analytics Institute workshops.
AA
- Attended networking sessions with local and national accounting firms.
- Met bi-weekly to discuss current events in the accounting industry.
PE
- Managed an equity-only investment portfolio endowed by the University of Pittsburgh.
- Developed financial analysis, research, and presentation skills.
Volunteering
ACS
- One of three team leaders for a school-sponsored fundraiser supporting cancer research.
- Built a 100+ member team and led social media campaigns, raising $10,000+ over two years.
DM
- Raised $350+ individually and $1,000+ as a group.
Skills
- Audit
- Risk assessment, substantive analytics, tests of controls, walkthroughs, quarterly reporting
- Industries
- Education, consumer goods, life sciences, manufacturing
- Tools
- Excel (certified), Tableau, data visualization, AI audit tools
- Teaching
- Financial accounting instruction, lesson planning, student mentorship
- Music
- Trombone (Section Leader, All-State Finalist), guitar, bass
Awards & Honors
- Sep 2025NYU Stern MS in Accounting Merit Scholarship
- Apr 2025Summa Cum Laude — University of Pittsburgh
- Apr 2025James B. Tafel Endowed Scholarship
- Apr 2025University Scholar — Top 2% GPA
- 2023, 2024Anania Family Accounting Scholarship
- Apr 2024Beta Gamma Sigma Honors Society — Top 10% of business students
- 2022 – 2025Dean's List, all semesters at Pitt
- 2019NJ All-State Jazz Competition Finalist, Featured Soloist