Accountant (Miami )

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RODNEY C. STEPHENSON

**** **** ****** ****, **** 1 Sunrise, Fl. 33313

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Summary of Qualifications:

-- Over twenty five years Accounting experience in the Tax & Accounting Industry, Banking, Service, Health Care, and Broadcasting.

-- Over four years experience in Telemarketing with concentration in selling cleaning and relocation services

-- Excellent Team Leadership skills and the ability to communicate effectively with diverse populations.

-- Over five years in the Collection industry, calling on customers whose mortgages were delinquent for 90 days or more ; negotiated payment arrangements with customers, researched errors and disputes, maintained detail records and issued monthly statements.

-- Excelled in busy work environments; detail oriented.

-- Highly organized and dependable individual with the ability to achieve desired goals, increase efficiency, plan and coordinate Team Building.

-- Proficient in Microsoft Word, Power Point, Excel, Certiflex, Profiler, AS 400, Quick Books, Great Plains, McCormick & Dodge, Oracle Financials, Go Forte, and H&R Block At Home

Accomplishments:

-- Efficiently performed Accounting operations to allow Senior Management to focus more on policy and marketing decisions.

- Developed an accounting program which reduced the amount of time spent on bank reconciliation

- Worked aggressively with co-workers to meet deadlines especially at month-end

--Took $250,000 of Bad Debt and in 6 months collected $125,000;collected 90 % of receivables greater than 6 months outstanding

-- Quick learner: able to apply and master computer programs

Nursing and Home Care Services Ft. Lauderdale, FL

Staff Accountant 5/08- 5/12

Prepared monthly sales and use tax returns to be submitted to the State of Florida and other States

Prepared monthly, quarterly, and yearly financial statements.

Prepared closing and post closing entries

Reconciled monthly bank statements, and reviewed status of outstanding checks.

Prepared client's personal tax returns.

Prepared client's quarterly, and yearly tax returns.

Prepared quarterly and yearly budgets for management purposes

Nationwide Relocation Services, Margate, Fla.

Sales Representative : 10/10-1/11

Conducted daily telephone calls throughout the country to prospective customers to purchase moving packages.

Electronically imputed the list of items to be moved

Calculated and issued quotes associated with each move

Jackson Hewitt Tax Service, Hollywood, FL

Tax Preparer: 01/08-04/08

Prepared self-employed and individual tax returns

Prepared tax returns for corporations and small businesses

Transcontinental Warranty Co, Ft. Lauderdale, FL

Senior Staff Accountant : 11/04-12/07

Prepared monthly sales and use tax returns

Prepared journal entries, and assisted in the preparation of quarterly, and yearly financial statements.

Prepared monthly closing, and post closing entries.

Reconciled monthly bank statements, and reviewed status of outstanding checks

Prepared and submitted semi-monthly payroll information( entries) to A.D.P in order to process payroll

CleanNet of South Florida, Ft. Lauderdale, FL

Telemarketer: 09/02-10/04

Conducted daily phone calls to sell cleaning services to prospective customers located in Broward, Dade, and Palm Beach counties

Scheduled appointments for sales representatives to visit prospective customers.

Account Express, Ft. Lauderdale, FL

Temporary Accounting Consultant:(1-3). 7/99-8/02

I. Service America, Deerfield Beach, FL

Accountant : 9/00-8/02

Entered daily cash receipts into A.S.400 Computer System.

Balanced daily cash receipts to accounting records.

II. Coverall North America, Inc. Ft. Lauderdale, FL

Accounting Manager: Tax Department 01/00-8/00

Prepared multistate-monthly & quarterly sales and use tax returns

(Florida, New Jersey, Georgia, Ohio, California, North Carolina etc.)

Prepared property tax returns : Florida, North Carolina, New Jersey.

Prepared monthly bank reconciliations and journal entries

Analyzed Balance Sheet accounts and P&L accounts on a monthly basis.

Analyzed and reconciled inter-company accounts and monthly transactions.

Preformed periodic audit tests on general ledger accounts for internal and external purposes.

III. Berger & Epstein --C.P.A. Firm, Miami, FL

Tax Analyst: 7/99-12/99

Analysis of financial records to determine if methods used were in compliance with the requirements of G.A.A.P

Prepared schedules of fixed assets for depreciation purposes

Phymatrix Health Management Corporation, Palm Beach Gardens, FL

AVP-Accounting Department 5/96-6/99

Assisted in the preparation of quarterly and annual financial statements eg; income statement, trial balance, balance sheet, and cash flow

Analyzed and reconciled monthly general ledger accounts

Prepared monthly journal entries and bank reconciliations

Prepared closing and post closing journal entries

Processed and submitted vouchers from Health Care Providers for payments

from Insurance Companies

Made monthly deposits into restricted and general checking accounts

Encoded and recorded vouchers from medical professional into the accounts payable system.

Processed payment of vouchers through Certi-Flex software system.

Prepared and processed semi-monthly payroll for 150 employees.

Education:

Jackson Hewitt Tax Center 2007

Tax Certificate

University of Phoenix 2007

Masters of Business Administration in

Global Management

University of Phoenix

Bachelors of Science in Business Acounting 2005

Broward Community College

Associate of Science in Accounting 1977

American Institute of Banking 1976

Certificate in Banking

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