OBJECTIVE:
To secure a growth level position in financial analysis and utilize
my skills and experience with SAP FICO and other Enterprise Resource
Planning (ERP) reporting and costing tools.
EXPERIENCE:
Staff Accountant II
Pure Fishing, Inc - Columbia, SC
Mar 10 - Sep 10
Responsible for > 10 million in cash management through GL
processing. Duties consist of reconcilation of all bank accounts and
statements from CashPro reports, apply bank transactions to include
ACH settlements, wire transfers, credit cards, disbursements, and
deposits, also apply the manual wires clearing the paymets against
the vendors after each check run.
Created process flow diagrams to document cash cycle processes using
SAP, including GL, AP, AR sub ledgers. Documentation was used by
management to support internal process improvements.
Utilized FAS 52 to maintain Foreign Exchange Rates, also adjusting
foreign hedging contracts for fair MTM value entries to recognize
the gain/loss for monthly accounting as per FAS 157.
Support State compliances by preparing monthly Sales and Use State
Taxes.
Prepared the fixed assets and schedule reporting acquisitions,
retirements, transfers with inter-companies, and determine
accumulation for depreciation; also generate PP&E Roll Forward
reports, and Capital Expenditure schedules.
Responsible to reconcile GL accounts and prepare monthly journal
entries and accruals for closing for payroll, co-workers bonuses,
royalty, Open PO, Goodwill, and adjustments for cash discounts in
AR, and adjusting Plant Inventory.
Prepared procurements in accordance with Sarbanes Oxley compliance,
and upload VAM COPA into SAP in Business Process.
Senior Staff Accountant
Airline Tariff Publishing Company - Dulles, VA
May 08 - Feb 10
Managed G/L accounts reconciliations, perform journal entries and
accruals, and responsible for reporting account reconciliations of
balance sheets and accounts for profit/loss statements for multiple
US and Foreign based airlines after closing. . Also reported and
analyzed the currency conversion for each country and translate to
local currency acording FAS 52.
Prepared the monthly Sales and Use State Taxes Returns.
Also prepared budget forecasts, and projections for all fixed
assets with depreciations expenses (building, computer equipments,
software).
Prepared cash flow statements on a monthly basis; analyze and
review the capital leasing purchases to prepare the cash allocation
journal entry. Register short-term and long-term payments for
Capital Lease as required.
Reviewed and prepare the final consolidation financial statements to
report to management.
Created additions, disposals, depreciation, and amortization for
Fixed Assets using straight method; responsible for tagging any new
assets that has been purchased, and provide reports to prepare
Property Taxes.
Recognized and analyzed any income and expenses generate by the
Building management; making journal entries and accruals necessaries
for different types of expenses in the building.
Financial Analyst
ACSYS, INC - Reston, VA
Aug 07 - May 08
ACSYS Customer: BAE System Regional Aircraft - Herndon, VA
Managed G/L accounts reconciliations, making journal entries and
accruals as requires, and responsible for reporting account
reconciliations of BS and few accounts for P&L statements for each
company after closing.
Reviewed the financial statements consolidation for RA20, RA30, and
RA40 (company codes) to report to the Management.
Analyzed the general ledger Accounts requested by the management,
and generating the JEs required from the analysis. Also, prepared
and discussed with managers the aircraft leasing analysis for Jets,
Shapers, and Turbo-pro by each customer aging.
Recognized and registered interest income from different agreements
received by trimesters. Also, prepared quarterly and first semester
financial statements for Jet Acceptance Corporation and Subsidiaries-
JACo, Inc to report to banks before signing for a new leasing.
Prepared reports post-closing that required overhead and its
distributions (expenses, lease revenue, etc).
Registered daily transactions and matched physical invoices with the
physical inventories, and verify the GR no invoiced.
COMPQSOFT, INC. Houston, TX Dec 03 -
Jan 07
Financial Analyst - SAP Consulting
Onsite consultant at SAP America Public Services in Washington, DC;
implemented and customized General Ledger accounting, creation of
G/L Accounts, screen layout rules, automatic account assignments,
recurring entries, validation and substitutions for NAVY, IRS and
USAMA projects (SAP's customers).
Configured and customized Account Receivable and Accounts Payable
modules including creation of Vendor Master Records, Customer Master
Records, account groups and tolerance groups.
Created manual procedures for SAP developers to aid in understanding
SAP Financial Modules (FICO) and to make an interface to transfer
data for new implementations.
Reconciled backups for federal assigned accounts and verified cost
center financials for all entries. Also reviewed pricing conditions
for all consulting projects.
Managed tracking money funded for each project and evaluated margin
for accounts assigned.
Implemented and configured settings for company codes, fiscal year
variants, opened posting periods, assigned document ranges. Also
defined tolerance groups for employees to upgrade and migrate into
SAP for clients with different software or to implement the ERP
System.
Kept reconciliation of payroll with ADP reports on week basis.
Led account reconciliation for AR/AP and support and validated
monthly operating statements.
Maintained management of tracking of vacations, deductions,
holidays, and Insurances for all employees.
Financial Analyst, South American Region
Praxair Venezuela S.A. Caracas, Venezuela
Nov 01 - Dec 02
Analyzed and audited Balances Sheet, Reports, Statements of account,
Summary, Operating & Revenue, Working Capital, Hedge, Headcount, New
Sales, Royalty, Forward as others.
Prepared monthly forecasts and budgets for South America region,
also planned schedules for Monthly Close-outs.
Allocated target in dollars to every project and verified and
validated (on a monthly basis) reviews for each project and verified
expenses and disposable money.
Coordinated financial monitoring with several Latin countries and
prepared financial forecasts each month and analyzed and evaluated
the consolidated target. Prepared monthly reports and sent to
Headquarters in Caracas.
Prepared quarterly business plans for South American Region
consolidated and discussed plans with country representatives prior
to reporting to the director.
Responsible to prepare the inventories on North-West, Central, and
North East plants every 6 months and prepared manual controls for
the plants and users.
Accountant, Inter Company-Latin America Region
Baker Hughes (INTEQ). Caracas, Venezuela
Jun 97 - Oct 01
Registered daily transactions and matched physical invoices with the
physical inventories.
Managed and maintained journal entries and accruals and consolidated
account receivables and account payables for several LAO countries.
Prepared monthly statements and submitted to multiple Latin
countries, also prepared bills to pay and made scheduled financial
payments.
Consolidated each transaction with Treasury prior to monthly
closures and calculated translations and exchange gains and losses.
Responsible for inventory and prepared procedures for receiving
spares parts from Inter-companies offices.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Financial: General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable,
and Asset Accounting.
Controlling: Cost Center Accounting, Cost Element Accounting, Profit
Center Accounting, Internal Orders,
Profitability Analysis, and Product Costing, ERP: SAP R/3 4.7, SAP
R/3 (FI/CO), ECC 6.0, SAP R/3 4.7 Configuration FI/CO
Platforms: Windows 7 Home Premium, Microsoft Office 2010 & 2007, MS-
DOS, Windows 9x/2000/NT/XP, Crystal Reports, Microsoft Dynamics 7,
FRx Reports, Blankline Recons Software, SharePoint.
Applications: MS Office, ADP (Payrolls), Sage FAS Fixed Assets,
QuickBooks, JD Edwards, Peachtree, Solomon, Enterprise Logic.
EDUCATION:
Santa Maria University Caracas, Venezuela (DEC 99) - BA Business
Administration - Accounting
Council of Public Accountants in Miranda State - Caracas, Venezuela
(JUN 00) - CPA No. 41453
LANGUAGES:
Fluent in English and Spanish. (Partial Italian)