Accounting Financial

KHALID DRINA

? **** Sussex Place . Newark, California 94560 ? 510-***-**** ? 510-***-****

? ********@*******.***

Highly talented, organized, and enthusiastic professional, with the

capacity to fill several financial and accounting roles. Accurate and

highly ethical in all work-related projects, contributing immediately to

corporate financial goals and objectives. Areas of expertise include:

Financial Statements Preparation . Financial Reporting and Analysis . Financial

Reconciliations . Financial Forecasting . Variance Analysis . General Ledger

Accounting . Financial Statements Consolidation . Strategic and Financial Analysis

. Process Improvement . Team Work and Communication . Corporate Reporting . Cash Flow

Reports . Audit Review Procedures

QUALIFICATIONS SUMMARY

. Fast learner, highly analytical, and expert in finding better ways to

improve process to achieve delivery of outstanding results.

. In depth knowledge of corporate financial management and strategies,

earned value processes/procedures and variance analysis reporting.

. Posses extensive knowledge and ability in interpreting complex

financial data.

. Ability to adapt to changes in work environment, work assignments,

and/or changes in priorities.

. Strong skills working independently or as part of a team, under

pressure of complex deadlines and with frequent interruption, working

from own initiative and/or following direction, policies or

procedures.

. Ability to use analytical and decision making skills to offer options

and resolve problems in a variety of contents.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Accountant 2011

Academy of Art University San Francisco, CA

. Primarily responsible for the accounting of payroll and related

liabilities.

. Review and perform month end closing entries, which may include

various payroll and equity related accrual.

. Coordinate monthly general ledger close: validate completion of

journal entry posting, review preliminary financial statements,

prepare and record adjusting entries as necessary.

. Analyze financial variances, communicate findings and identify issues.

. Reviews and reconcile assigned balance sheet accounts on a monthly

basis, work with HR and ADP services to resolve any reconciling items

on a timely basis.

. Submit monthly reconciliation summary of all payroll accounts to

management.

. Maintain PeopleSoft financial system setups, including ledgers, chart

of accounts, control edits.

. Recommend and implement changes to the accounting system as deemed

necessary.

Financial Analyst

2010

Bank of America, Global Financial Control Providence, RI

. Analyzed general ledger and internal DDA/report discrepancies to the

legal entities controllers.

. Managed a reconciliation governance portfolio of over 100 Account

owners and thousands of general ledger accounts.

. Provided support for reconciliation governance applications to

associates internationally.

. Managed projects which impact governance application.

. Reported account reconcilement status.

. Prepared, examined, and analyzed accounting records, financial

statements reports to ensure accuracy, completeness, and conformance

with reporting and procedural standards.

. Monitored compliance with corporate policies.

. Extracted, filtered, gathered and organized data and transactional

information for analysis from a variety of data sources and automated

systems.

. Performed targeted reconciliation reviews; documented and trained

associates on policies and procedures for account reconcilement

requirements, reconciliation reporting and operating loss/charge off

requirements

Senior Accountant 2006-2009

Home Loan Investment Warwick, RI

. Handled all accounting/finance for a four person department.

. Performed all accounting functions which included journal entries,

accounts payable, bank reconciliations trial balance & financial

statements in accordance with GAAP.

. Prepared consolidated financial statements for five separate

subsidiaries using Peachtree software.

. Extracted and analyzed financial data from various information systems

for the development of monthly, quarterly and semi-annual reports.

. Participated in and gathered information for the asset liability

committee that facilitated the monitoring of cost of funds and

liquidity management.

. Performed technical accounting research and assist with implementation

of new accounting and regulatory guidance, assessing financial control

as needed.

. Participated in all aspects of the month end close including fixed

assets, accruals, and deferrals, including performing GL review and

variance analysis.

. Conducted accounting for investments including mortgage backed

securities.

. Develop financial reports for forecasting, trending, and results

analysis.

. Calculate and analyze performance metrics (ROI, ROA, and ROE).

. Provided senior management with monthly expense performance vs. budget

so that they would be aware of how their department was performing

compared to the budget.

. Assisted with year-end audit, including preparation, research and

analysis.

Senior Accountant 2000-2002

Beltram Corporation Casablanca-Morocco

. Handled all cost and general accounting for entire department.

. Conducted inventory reports.

. Prepared financial statements maintained GL and prepared accounts

payable and receivables.

. Participated in all aspects of the month end closing entries.

Securities Processor 1999-2000

Wafa Bank Rabat-Morocco

. Reviewed processing of securities and maintained investment data.

. Performed a number of functions with a high degree of accuracy

including trade processing, post trade compliance, cash processing and

reporting.

. Referred customers to Wafa Bank brokers for investment advice.

. Created and maintained new hire training guides.

. Developed unique relationship with bank customers/external contacts by

helping them with complex issues.

EDUCATION

MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION IN FINANCE, Johnson and Wales University,

Providence, RI, 2005

BACHELORS OF ECONOMIC SCIENCE, Mohammed V University

Rabat, Morocco, 1999

SOFTWARE QUALIFICATIONS

. IPS SENDERO (General Ledger, AP, and Portfolio of Securities) .

PeopleSoft . Peachtree . SBA Software for Commercial Lending . Microsoft

office including: EXCEL - WORD - ACCESS - viewpoint . HYPERION DATABASE

LANGUAGES

. FRENCH: Understand, Conversational, Read and Write, Conduct Business.

. ARABIC: Understand, Conversational, Read and Write, Conduct Business.

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