Accounting Management

RICKEY REID

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CORONA, CA *****

(C): 415-***-****

***********@*****.***

An accounting and finance professional with extensive SAP experience

seeking to obtain a position that utilizes my achievements, skills,

strategic thinking, and leadership abilities.

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE:

. Business & Investment

. Budgeting & Forecasting

. Business Modeling & Processes

. Financial Analysis & Reporting

. Cost Price Margin Profitability Variance Analysis

PROJECT MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE:

. SAP FICO module Implementation

. SAP System upgrades

. Accounting process Implementations

. Internal/External Audit engagements

SYSTEMS & TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE:

. Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, QuickBooks, Crystal

reports, ADP, Sun accounting system, Easitax, Zoption, Lotus notes,

SQL interfaces

. SAP Query Report Writer Development

. Profit Center Accounting: Introduction to PCA configuration basic

settings and master data review, assignments in profit center

accounting, actual posting maintenance and profit center accounting

planning and dummy profit centers

. General Ledger: chart of accounts, field status groups, posting key

configuration, automatic account determination, G/L display

configurations, tolerance groups, number ranges and document types

. FI Enterprise Structure: company code, business areas, functional

areas, fiscal year variant and consolidation.

. Knowledge and experience from blueprint to design, implementation,

configuration, customization, integration, gap analysis and testing.

. Experienced in customizing and configuring customer master records,

defining terms of payments, interest calculation, and customer

tolerance groups in accounts receivable

EXPERIENCE

Life Technologies, Carlsbad, CA February 2011 - July 2011

Finance/Business Analyst consultant (SAP Version: 5.0)

. Provided month-end support including resolution of month-end issues

related to order settlements, custom reports, currency revaluation and

revenue recognition process.

. Prepared Accruals, Cost Center Results & Variance Analysis

. Analyzed financial information to prepare entries to general ledger

accounts and sub ledgers.

. Monitored and reviewed accounting system reports for accuracy and

completeness.

. Provided training of new financial processes to accounting staff.

. Implemented ACH vendor payment process.

. Implemented vendor local payments to bank process.

. Performed Testing To Validate Vendor & Customer's Data Transfer

. Open and closed master general ledger for revenue and expense accounts

. Processed A/P, A/R, and cash receipts for journal entry into the G/L

system

. Developed automated lockbox banking process and provided month-end

reconciliation analysis.

. Worked with Treasury management to develop and analyze monthly cash

forecast reports.

. Worked with Fixed assets managers in creating new depreciation keys

and month-end report analysis.

. Ensured Sarbanes-Oxley controls for new accounting processes and

reports

Sutter Home Winery, St. Helena, CA August 2007 - February 2011

Finance/Business Analyst (SAP Version: 5.0/6.0)

. Provided finance departmental process support with month, quarter and

year-end closes.

. Document, formalize and direct monthly closing process through

creation of an Accounting Procedures Manual

. Developed policy and procedures for projects in Accounting, Finance,

Internal Control, Materials and Sales resulting in increased

management control of the corporation.

. Assist in creating notes to the financial statements

. Performed order to cash and procure to pay back-up responsibilities.

. Developed and Monitored corporate cash flow reports

. Established, proposed and streamlined new business protocol for

alternative risk exposure process involving areas of ordering,

purchasing, and payment transactions

. Documented policies and procedures for the accounting and finance

department for business control, preventing and avoiding risk exposure

and potential auditing

. Forecasted non-capital expenditures budget and reconciled with actual

for the functional group; prepared monthly accrual, G/L, ad hoc

reports, and account reconciliation.

. Reviewed, analyzed and updated standard costs, product margins and

cost variances; suggested and deployed actions to improve revenue and

profits

. Provide unit/revenue reports for domestic and international sales on a

weekly and monthly basis

. Review actual and accrued entries compared to plan in revenue, cost,

operating expenses, and account balances before posting.

. Responsible for producing timely worldwide consolidated financial

reporting according to GAAP, quarterly/annual report development, cash

management and foreign exchange transactions

. Developed Reference Tables To Mapping Vendor/Customer Master records

. Implemented a new process for improvements in collections

. train and develop new and existing accounting personnel

. Established, proposed and streamlined new business protocol for

alternative risk exposure process involving areas of ordering,

purchasing, payment transactions

. Worked with Finance managers, customers and vendors to evaluate and

improve sap payment and invoicing process.

. Worked with AR managers to evaluate and improve the credit management

process and reports.

. Worked with procurement and AP management to evaluate/improve purchase

order, scheduling agreements and invoicing payment process.

. Managed 1099 process and ensured yearly accurate submission to the IRS

using Easitax system.

. Lead all SAP upgrades, supported packs and OSS notes fixes related to

the finance module and related integration points.

. Identified potential improvements to the SAP system and other IS

systems processes for possible implementation.

. Wrote functional specifications as required for development projects

. Created and/or modified existing SAP reporting needs for the finance

team including the use of SAP report Queries and SQL interfaces

. Maintained project records and status reports, document changes and

additions to the system

. Completed and provided business cases for system process changes,

including preparation of system specifications, flow charts, process

diagrams and test scripts

Morrison Homes, Orlando, FL January 2007 to July 2007

Finance/Business Analyst consultant (SAP Version: 5.0)

. Analyzed and resolved customized financial and cost reports issues

. Calculated Labor And Material Variances

. Updated BOM To Eliminate Erroneous Variance

. Implement and direct monthly close and consolidation processes

. Review reconciliations and inter-company eliminations

. Manage general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, sales,

billing, collections, cash management, fixed asset activities

. Created new G/L accounts, configured and created cost and profit

centers.

. Performed AS400 conversion postings into SAP. Resolved all AS400

error postings into SAP.

. Performed project settlement and create rules.

. Provided project systems (PS) support for 12 divisions.

. Created functional and technical specs to modify customized financial

reports.

. Performed and resolved Result analysis errors.

. Resolved Project System network issues.

. Reconciled all postings from dummy profit centers.

KCI MEDICAL international, Mississauga, ON November 2003 to September

2006

Accounting/Business Analyst (SAP Version: 4.6 C)

. Researched and prepared adjustments to customer accounts. Prepared

and submitted monthly analysis reports.

. Updated provincial and federal taxes as required.

. Created and analyzed balance sheet, P&L statements and other custom

reports in controlling module to meet the business requirements

. Prepared Monthly Bank Reconciliation's

. Monitored Month, Qtr. & Yrly. Budget To Actual

. Prepared financial statements, this included P&L, trial balance and

balance sheet

. Interacted with internal and external auditors to complete audits

. Generated reports in respect of account statements, special reports to

reflect open item analysis, balance sheet and profit and loss account

statements.

. Worked on customer/vendor master records, tolerance limits per

business requirement for over payments and under payments, set up the

reason codes in customer accounts.

. Created vendor and customer master data, business transactions,

tolerance parameters, payment terms and credit management.

. Conducted unit testing and validation of process; participated in

preparing documentation and supported end-users specifically in

reporting.

. Extensively worked in controlling modules including, Cost Element

Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Internal Order Accounting and

Profit Center Accounting.

. Created new GL accounts for accounting to permit timely reporting and

created new profit centers and cost centers to enhance financial

analysis.

. implement Recurring Batch features of General Ledger module to enhance

management and financial reporting processes

. Customized screen layouts for document entry at account level and

document levels, made settings for clearing, modified the financial

statement version to more accurately reflect business and allow

accurate analysis of company.

. Configuration support for FI modules GL, AR, AP, Assets Management and

Integration of FI, CO, master data management, validations and

testing.

Accounting Analyst

. Reconciled customer payments, prepared reports and posted customer

payments, prepared and performed adjustments on sub-ledger accounts.

. Generated and analyze weekly billing reports to contact customers for

account reconciliation

. Involved in performing of parking, verifying, changing, and complete,

delete, release and posting of invoices.

. Performed and customized document postings, document reversals,

invoices and payment.

. Created templates for recurring entries in sub-ledger postings.

. Processed travel and expense reports.

. Assisted in preparing P&L statements, monthly closing and cost

accounting reports.

. Prepared and posted year-end write off's into bad debt provision.

. Performed and customized document postings, document reversals,

invoices and payment.

. Tested AP scenarios: vendor master maintenance, vendor invoice and

credit memo postings, park and posting parked invoices, down payment

clearing, automatic payment program for check payments, wire payments,

manual outgoing payments, release blocked invoices, printing the check

with the existing check number, manual check printing, cancel payment,

reinstate the check information in the check register and AP

reporting.

. Tested AR scenarios: customer master data maintenance, full, partial,

incoming payments, invoice posting and AR reporting.

. For Accounts Payable (AP), defined and customized vendor master data -

vendor groups, vendor group field status, number ranges, and vendor

account groups.

Dundee Wealth Management, Toronto, ON May 2002 - October 2003

Payroll consultant Analyst

. Performed day-to-day activities of a Payroll/Benefits Administrators,

including the processing of semi-monthly payroll for approximately

1,200 employees across Canada.

. Performed year-end variable compensation/bonus payments, merit

increases are processed and meet all analysis and reporting needs of

management.

. Performed all aspects of year-end reporting (T4, T4A, Releve1, T2200,

other tax forms and provincial WCB returns).

. Reviewed month-end payroll journal entries, reconciliation and

analysis of all payroll and benefits accounts.

. Ensured compliance with Corporate Policy, Sarbanes Oxley Act,

Government and External Auditor's control requirement.

. Ensured that internal controls/audit trails are in place, documented,

and updated as required for all payroll processes

. Created ad-hoc reports as required for Finance, HR and Management.

. Calculate and apply deduction orders

. Updates and reconciles payroll and benefit data on a monthly basis

. Reviews timesheets for days/hours worked, and calculate, records

salary adjustments as necessary

. Calculate and prepare payments for tax sheltered annuities

EDUCATION

University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA 2011 - Present

CPA Accounting program

University of Windsor, Windsor, ON 2003

Bachelor of Commerce

Major: Finance Minor: Economics

Fountium Technologies, Toronto, ON 2007

Finance/Controlling Certificate

. Full practical training on FI configuration on New General Ledger,

Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable. Configuration of Cost

center accounting, Internal orders, Profit center accounting

SAP Academy Dallas, TX 2008

Controlling Configuration Certificate

. Attended SAP Academy for CO/PA configuration

SAP Academy Profitability Analysis Configuration Certificate,

Philadelphia, PA 2008

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