Controller, team player, numerous years experience in all phases of an
Resume:
Jeffrey A. Berman
Sunrise, Florida 33323
954-***-**** (Mobile)
********@*********.***
Dear Recruiter:
In response to your advertisement regarding the Accountant position in your organization and listed on Post Job Free. I am enclosing my resume for your review. Please consider this letter as my formal application presenting my background, education and experience. With numerous years experience in South Florida, high motivation, excellent supervisory skills, coupled with being extremely professional and well organized has made me very successful.
My resume highlights my ability/knowledge/expertise in Accounting, and numerous supervisory skills in all phases of accounting, reconciling cash daily, analyzing budgeted to actual, reviewing A/P, A/R daily, and preparing monthly financials with balance sheet backups. Working as an expert in QuickBooks Pro 2007, being a “Hands On kind of Person”, working under extreme pressure situations, meeting timely deadlines, supervising numerous employees in the Accounting department, working closely with the CFO on numerous other projects, supervising and overseeing A/R & A/P make me an excellent candidate for your organization. Working for Dominos Pizza as a G/L Supervisor with over 300 stores in the state of Florida, maintaining the entire Fixed Assets Schedules for over 300 stores, producing monthly financials, processing payroll, gives me years of experience in all phases of the accounting cycle. At my last employer, Ramada Plaza Resorts, my expertise in negotiating and reviewing expenses was able to save the company thousands of dollars both monthly/yearly, maintaining payroll for over 600 employees in numerous subsidiaries, and running more cost effective numbers for the company’s bottom line. Another quality of mine was I negotiated, preformed due diligence and finalized the installation of a new Accounting system, changing over from QuickBooks to Navision and Unitime, making for better accounting controls.
Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. I would appreciate the opportunity to further discuss employment opportunities with your company, please call me, or email me so we could set up an appointment in the near future.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
Sincerely,
Jeffrey Berman
Jeffrey A. Berman E-Mail: ********@*********.***
1130 N.W. 133rd Terrace
Sunrise, Florida 33323
Residence: 954-***-****
Mobile: 954-***-****
Objective: To secure a position as a Controller / Senior Accountant with a specialization in Financial Accounting, in which my professional skills, coupled with high motivation and high performance levels will increase your company’s bottom line.
Qualifications: Over twenty years of qualified experience and expertise in all phases of financial and managerial accounting (A/P, A/R, Payroll, G/L, and Financial Statement Analysis).
Professional Experience:
Ramada Plaza Resorts, Inc. Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
First Mail Marketing, Pompano Beach, Florida June 99 to November 09
Controller
· Served as Controller for a Company doing almost $200mil per year for over 10 years
· Prepare Monthly Financial statements for 35 different corporate entities including monthly account schedules.
· Responsible for Accruals, Bank Reconciliation’s, journal entries, payroll, A/R, A/P. Quarterly taxes, and Sales tax returns
· Supervise a staff of 20 employees in Accounting Department
· Analysis of monthly account schedules for all 35 companies.
· Prepare weekly financial management reports of operations.
· Monthly budgeted comparisons of actual vs. budgeted numbers. % Variances analyzed monthly
· Worked on year - end audit closely with CPA firm.
· Negotiated all Health insurance, Copier contracts, and Workers compensation.
· Balance monthly inter-company accounts among all entities.
· Analyzed weekly sales & commissions paid.
· Supervision and Maintance of 401K plans.
· Negotiated, transformed, Due Diligence, of changeover of Accounting Software – from QB to Navision
· Preformed H/R duties: I-9s, new employee paperwork, all employee benefits, maintained employee files.
Discovery Cruise Line Ft. Lauderdale, Florida June 98 to June 99
Controller
· Prepare Monthly Financial statements for seven different corporate entities.
· Accruals, journal entries, payroll, A/R, A/P. Excise tax, Quarterly taxes, and Sales tax returns.
· Supervised a staff of 12 employees in Accounting Department
· Analysis of monthly account schedules for all balance sheet items for all seven companies
· Financial monthly spreadsheets consisting of on board revenue and passenger counts
· Updated and analyzed financial monthly spreadsheets consisting of on board revenue and passenger counts.
· Fixed and variable cost spreadsheets monthly. Verify and check weekly A/R billings, collected and evaluated.
· A/R aging weekly.
· Bank reconciliation’s
Education:
BS Degree Nova University, Davie, Florida – Accounting Major
Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida - Accounting Major
Continuous Courses;
A.S. Degree Nassau Community College, Garden City, NY
New York State Regents Diploma
Computer Skills:
Excel, Lotus 123, Word, Q & A, Symphony, Windows 95 and Windows NT, Microsoft Windows 98 / 00.
Accounting Systems used: Peachtree, AS400, SBT, QuickBooks Pro, and Navision. Payroll Software: Abra and Unitime, ADP and Paychecks processing computer systems.
Personal Attributes:
Multitasker, Communicator, Self Motivated, Organizer, Hands – On
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