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Skills

  • Cash flow analysis and forecasting
  • Ad-hoc financial reporting
  • Audit coordination and follow-up
  • Intuit QuickBooks specialist
  • Calculating liabilities
  • Team management
  • Team building
  • Audit readiness and facilitation
  • Cash Flow analysis
  • Organization

Work Experiences

  • Automated recurring journal entries.
  • Achieved more accurate cost alignment.
  • Created a tracker for staff expenses and reimbursements, which resulted in category.
  • Used Microsoft Excel to accurately calculate payroll deductions and processed payroll to meet predetermined deadlines.
  • Collaborated with marketing to set up centralization of prepaid expense tracking, saving the company $10 annually through more accurate cost alignment.
  • Assessed financial risk by developing models that identified accounts holding significant exposure, leading to a $18 reduction in potential liabilities.
  • Collaborated with product on prepaid expense tracking.
  • Adjusted net capital by $17.
  • Collaborated with GL Accountants and GL Accountants to meet project maintenance accounting requirements.
  • Completed integration within 18 months.

Summaries

  • With 2 years of experience, I'm a focused Account Specialist.
  • Accelerated closing time from 14 days to 17 days.
  • Dedicated to learning, growing, and succeeding in Miscellaneous.
  • Achieved zero findings year over year.
  • Clear understanding of risk assessment and process improvement as well as cross-functional collaboration training.
  • Achieved over $9 in annual cost savings.
  • Exceptional at writing detailed reports and budgets, conducting thorough financial analysis, and strategizing for superior client service.
  • Adaptable GL Accountant with a proven ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams to reduce manual errors by 69% through cloud-based accounting integrations.
  • Achieved more accurate cost alignment.
  • Accomplished GL Accountant.

Accomplishments

  • Produced detailed financial reports on account reconciliations and identified compliance gaps, resulting in zero issues during external audit preparations.
  • Assumed ownership of the balance sheet reconciliation process, improving accuracy and reducing outstanding reconciling items by 51% over two years.
  • Automated the intercompany reconciliation process, saving 12 hours monthly and reducing account discrepancies by 35% across multiple subsidiaries.
  • Played a key role in the financial due diligence team for acquisitions, identifying and reporting over $12 in financial liabilities, enabling better negotiation terms.
  • Collaborated with team of 5 in the development of system.
  • Set up and automated over 2 journal entries, reducing manual effort and errors while improving financial reporting accuracy and speed.
  • Trained junior staff in GL accounting practices and reconciliations, improving department productivity by 69% and ensuring long-term success of internal processes.
  • Used Microsoft Excel to develop inventory tracking spreadsheets.
  • Developed a new chart of accounts, reducing close cycle from procedure days to process, improving the efficiency of month-end processes.
  • Reconciled 13 high-complexity GL accounts monthly, achieving a 32% reduction in discrepancies and ensuring accurate financial reporting.

Affiliations

  • Finance and Accounting for International Business Association
  • Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)
  • Society of Women Engineers
  • Council for International Financial Reporting Standards (CIFRS)
  • International Council of Nurses
  • Freemason
  • National Association of Black Accountants (NABA)
  • Project Management Institute
  • Association for Supply Chain Management (APICS)
  • National Association of Social Workers

Certifications

  • Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
  • ServSafe
  • Xero Certified Advisor
  • SAP FI Certification
  • Certified Public Accountant
  • Certified Payroll Professional (CPP)
  • Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP)
  • Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)
  • Lean Six Sigma Certification - Cedar Works
  • SHRM Certified Professional (SHRM-CP)

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