Accounting Management
Resume:
JOHN J. CERNICKEY CPA *** Oxford Lane
Fayetteville, Georgia 30215
**********@*******.***
OBJECTIVE To utilize my financial background in a responsible position within a stable company to achieve personal career goals.
EXPERIENCE
Hays Financial Consulting, LLC. 1/10–10/10
Accountant/Manager
Month end close; financial reporting; G/L analysis, maintenance and reconciliation; fixed asset and depreciation maintenance; AP/AR; ad hoc reporting; time and billing; and case accounting.
Short duration due to lack of business resulting in company RIF’s. Please confirm with Hay’s Managing Director Michael McClellan at 404-***-****.
Business Broker Resources, Inc. 1/09-8/09
Business Broker/Owner/President
Developed and operated a business as a Business Broker selling businesses for business owners and finding businesses for business buyers. This upstart eventually met with unsustainable results.
Fresh Express, Inc. (Chiquita) 6/01-1/09
Financial/GL Accountant – All financial accounting for plant overhead that included:
* G/L analysis and maintenance
* Month end close and plant reporting
* Monthly Corporate budget to actual variance reporting
* Monthly/yearly forecasting, budget, and trend analysis
* Account reconciliations
* Compilation, analysis, and validation of daily product manufacturing yields
* Sarbanes – Oxley (SOX) department compliance review
* Accrued liability analysis
* Invoice coding and PO review for 10 departments
* Sales & Use tax reporting
* Ad hoc reporting as requested/needed as well as assisting with internal/external audit information
* Responsible for ongoing financial awareness, support, and development of plant’s internal client organization
Delta Air Lines 11/97-11/00
Accounting Analyst - Accounting and analysis for all aircraft capital, operating, and facility bond leases.
* Leased aircraft and facility bond month end accounting
* Lease agreement review for lease set ups and terminations using FASB’s SFAS 13
* Accounting Dept. liaison for Legal and Lessor
* Monthly lease reconciliations
* Yearly compilation of company’s annual report implied debt footnote disclosure
* Month end close lease accruals
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation 1/90-8/97
Accountant - Performed accounting duties on foreclosed banking institutions throughout their closing, and liquidation. These duties included:
* Failed bank pro-forma reconciliations
* G/L-subsidiary account analysis, research, maintenance, and reconciliation for all banks in receivership
* Property management financial statement and A/R review, analysis, and accounting for a large number of owned real estate assets
* Claim liability analysis and accounting for 38 banks in receivership
* Audit preparation for outside auditors
* Journal entry preparation
* Management reports
* Inter-departmental problem investigation and resolution
* Special projects
* In-depth spreadsheet and word processing utilization
Federal Savings & Loan Insurance Corporation 3/89-12/89
Staff Accountant - Performed accounting duties on foreclosed savings and loan institutions throughout their closing, and liquidation. These duties included:
* Month/year end financial statement, supporting schedule, and significant activity narrative preparation
* Bank account reconciliations
* Journal entry preparation, review, and verification
OTHER PART-TIME BUSINESS EXPERIENCE
Tax Preparer - Seasonal self employment for individual and corporate tax clients.
Accountant - Oddo Company CPAs, P.C., Fayetteville, Georgia.
Prepared tax returns, and participated on audit and review engagements.
Prospecting Clerk - Shearson Lehman Hutton Investment Banking, Atlanta, Georgia.
Assisted stockbrokers in solicitation of new clientele.
COMPUTER SKILLS
Windows; Computer Associates PRMS ERP, LAN/WAN, Excel, Word, Walker mainframe, AS400, Showcase query, Peachtree Accounting, Timeslips Billing, BMS Case/Link, FAS Fixed Asset/Depreciation software, and many miscellaneous.
EDUCATION
B.B.A., Accounting, Georgia State University
B.A., Business & Management, Northeastern Illinois University
A.A., Liberal Arts, Wright College
EMPLOYER PROVIDED TRAINING
159 hours of self-development, computer, and workplace training include the following:
Business Writing
CPR Training
Ethics
Multi-cultural Awareness
Personal Change Dynamics
Quality Awareness
Stress Management
Time Management
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