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Skills

  • Business operations
  • Relationship development
  • Supervision
  • Bookkeeping
  • Collaboration with divisional leadership
  • ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software
  • Team building
  • Financial modeling capability
  • Advanced bookkeeping skills
  • Account reconciliation processes

Work Experiences

  • Analyzed financial statements to identify variances and trends.
  • Conducted in-depth internal audits in Atlanta.
  • Completed month-end reconciliation ahead of schedule by 5 days.
  • Actively identified and investigated high-risk accounts, resolving discrepancies, and reducing aged account balances to avoid financial losses.
  • Achieved a 23% improvement in internal reporting accuracy.
  • Collaborated with operations to optimize working capital performance, obtaining metric for the two years.
  • Approved year-end adjusting journal entries.
  • Verified over $2 in cash and credit payments on a daily basis.
  • Analyzed operational budgets.
  • Analyzed operational budgets and financial scenarios to provide actionable insights that allowed marketing to meet cost-cutting goals worth $12.

Summaries

  • Advanced knowledge of process and procedure specifications.
  • Experienced in managing schedules, leading teams, and supervising closing procedures.
  • Recognized on a regular basis for outstanding performance and contributions to the Miscellaneous industry's success.
  • Offering 4 years of financial management experience, including payroll, budgets, reports, audits, journals, expenditures, and payments for 11 locations.
  • Tableau and Asana are two of my strongest skills.
  • Adept at developing KPIs.
  • Adept at monitoring exchange rate fluctuations and implementing strategies that mitigated currency risks, resulting in $5 in annual savings.
  • Successfully revamped and strengthened controls, reorganized processes, and simplified procedures to increase accounting record efficiency and accuracy.
  • 15 years of experience in budget management by a knowledgeable accounting professional.
  • Achieved measurable reductions in overhead costs.

Accomplishments

  • Ensured compliance with GAAP and internal accounting policies across 4 departments during year-end audits, resulting in 15% fewer audit recommendations.
  • Trained 16 junior accountants in monthly reconciliations, significantly reducing data entry errors by 34%.
  • Prepared and presented monthly financial statements for 2 locations, uncovering trends that influenced strategic decisions and improved forecasting accuracy by 41%.
  • Created a real-time financial dashboard for the operations team using Tableau, improving decision-making speed by 39%.
  • Collaborated on joint projects with the finance and operations teams to enhance reporting speed, reducing financial close time by 18 days.
  • Collaborated with divisional leadership in the preparation of a 17 region-wide audit report, which resulted in 32% fewer audit discrepancies than the previous year.
  • Developed new journal entry review procedures for standard, reducing error rates by 25% and increasing team efficiency.
  • Utilized advanced financial models in Salesforce to streamline fixed asset management analysis, reducing reviews' completion time by 21%.
  • Documented and resolved metric which led to framework.
  • Partnered with cross-functional teams to review and approve journal entries for 10 departments, increasing overall accuracy by 43%.

Affiliations

  • American Society of Safety Professionals
  • American Payroll Association (APA)
  • Society of Human Resource Management
  • Risk Management Association (RMA)
  • American Medical Informatics Association
  • Freemason
  • American Marketing Association
  • Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA)
  • Financial Executives International (FEI)
  • Association of Information Technology Professionals

Certifications

  • Certified Public Accountant (CPA) Illinois
  • International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Certification by procedure
  • Project Management Professional (PMP) from Project Management Institute (PMI)
  • Certified Management Accountant (CMA) through category
  • Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) by Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA)
  • SAP Financial Accounting Certification (SAP FI) 2024
  • Certified Treasury Professional (CTP) through standard
  • Advanced Financial Reporting Certificate from Meridian 2019
  • Microsoft Excel Expert Certification (Excel Specialist) 2016
  • SHRM Senior Certified Professional (SHRM-SCP)

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