Misty Suposs

Area Business Operations Manager II (Accounting Manager) - Brown and Caldwell

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WORK EXPERIENCE

Area Business Operations Manager II (Accounting Manager)

Brown and Caldwell - 2004 to Present

Oversee complex accounting activities requiring full professional competency

Ensuring revenue is accrued in accordance to GAAP and within the contract guidelines. Averaging 35 active

projects between the Irvine and Los Angeles offices.

Provide financial and financial systems assistance to project managers and operating personnel

Make decisions and solve problems, maintain accounting and budgetary controls; project cost

control; revenue recognition; operations' financial reports; indirect expense analysis; contract support and

administration for one main office with one or more branch offices

Collaborate with Senior Management, Project Managers, and Corporate Accounting to identify risk on

projects and subsequently create a project level reserve and mitigation plan.

Works in concert with our operation managers and project managers to identify trends in the industry and

make recommendations on how to leverage individual contracts to maximum value

Monthly review of EAC and reporting of variances

Monthly review and reporting of Business Developments costs (roll up for Southern California)

Monthly review and reporting of project revenue averaging $1,500,000, project breakage, Work In Progress,

Accounts Receivable, and G&A cost analysis

Comprehensive reporting of all active projects for the Irvine and Los Angeles offices that incorporates

information from various systems to provide the Regional Controller with a full view of the project financials.

Successfully under went an accounting system conversion and trained/mentor fellow team members on

the new system

Supervision of 5 employees and responsible for their progression path. Successfully promoted two entry

level employees into supervisor positions.

Experienced very minimal employee turnover during my tenure as Supervisor

Minority Reporting and filing for Federal Contracts and for Municipalities

Contract Administrator for two GSA contracts

Hands on management and oversee the development and growth of five direct reports in the Accounts

Payable Department, Accounts Receivable Department, and Project Analysts

Brown and Caldwell - San Diego, CA - 2001 to Present

Brown and Caldwell delivers leading edge engineering and business solutions to efficiently and effectively

meet the environmental needs of public agencies, government and private industry.

Accounts Receivable/Accountant I

Brown and Caldwell - July 2001 to 2004

Apply basic principles and maintain operation of a general accounting system.

Perform a variety of routine accounting functions

Assign transaction codes to documents, assure documents being processed are included in the appropriate

accounting period

Weekly posting of invoices to the accounts receivable system

Monthly invoicing of the Navy Clean contracts, Federal contracts, and Irvine projects

Perform weekly collection calls

eTime administrator for Irvine and Oxnard

Support the Accounts Payable Department when needed

SeaWorld - San Diego, CA - 1998 to July 2001

Accounts Receivable

Monthly invoicing of vouchers

Perform collection calls on domestic and international clients

Monthly posting of payments to the Subledger Accounts

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science in Accountancy

California State University San Marcos

2007

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

HIGHLIGHTS OF QUALIFICATIONS

Expertise in all aspects of accounting, including accounts payable, accounts receivables, and financial

reporting.

Ensure proper revenue recognition on all accounts in accordance to GAAP.

Collaboration with Senior Management to ensure financial parameters are met and all performance matrices

are met or exceeded

Federal Reporting on various Government contracts.

Detailed oriented and organized with strong problem solving skills and exemplary attention to details.

Respected team player who is willing to do whatever is necessary to get the job done.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

MS Word 2007 • MS Excel 2007 • MS PowerPoint 2007 • MS Outlook 2007 • BST • Quicken

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