EILEEN M. O'LEARY
***** ****** ******, ****** ****, MI 48135
Email: abhmic@r.postjobfree.com
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
I have over 30 years of professional work experience as an Accountant,
Accounting Manager, Financial Assistant and Accounts Payable Supervisor;
with over 19 years experience utilizing Statutory Accounting in the
Insurance Industry. Fund accounting is another specialty area I learned
while working with a municipality. I have solid experience stepping in and
completely finishing financial statements that are behind schedule,
reconciling and troubleshooting large accounts, supervising AR and AP
departments, preparing financial statements through month/year end closing
and preparing tax returns and maintaining schedules for sales, property,
payroll, premium, and some State and Federal taxes. I have excellent
communication and interpersonal skills and I am accustomed to working with
all levels of management and customers.
TECHNICAL SUMMARY
Accounting Applications: General Accounting, Life Insurance Accounting,
Fund Accounting, Credit Risk Analysis, Accounts Payable,
Accounts Receivable, General Ledger, Vehicle Inventory,
Payroll, EFT & ACH, Fixed Assets and Depreciation
Systems/Software: PeopleSoft 8, Mobius/Document Direct, Annual
Statement Preparation Systems, SAP, Rumba Main Frame,
Real World Accounting, CARS + by Thermeon Corp.,
American Fundware Accounting System, Ad Valorem Utility
Billing System, Great Plains/Solomon III, Reynolds &
Reynolds, ADP programs, Lotus Notes, MS Office (Work,
Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook), Lotus 1-2-3, Symphony,
Quicken 3, Ford Concepts, Web AMS, IQ Report Writer,
various anti-virus, firewall and Photoshop programs
Databases: MS Access, Attachmate, Essbase and Dbase
Environments: Windows 95/98/2000/ME/XP, IBM Mainframe, Novell, SCO UNIX,
MS DOS, DSL, UNIX Servers, Norton Firewall, Sybate
Firewall
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Ajilon Consulting, Southfield, MI October
2005 - August 2008
Credit Risk Analyst - Assigned to GM
. Performed annual credit reviews of all customers in their Steel Resale
and Scrap Programs
. Analyzed credit limits set in the past to establish a set procedure
for determining credit limits to be used going forward
. Conducted current credit reviews on new customers, and/or customers
requesting an increase in their credit limit
Accountemps, Southfield, MI August
2005 - August 2005
Fixed Asset Accountant - Assigned to American Communications Networks (ACN)
. Short-term assignment recording new items and reconciling all fixed
asset accounts
. Reconciled several bank accounts, bringing them current and resolving
old outstanding items
KForce, Southfield, MI May 2005 -
June 2005
Accounting Assistant - Assigned to Society of St. Vincent de Paul
. Helped the new Controller to catch up on various products
. Submissions to grantors to account for monies spent and fixed asset
schedules
. Allocated monthly expenses and billed several branches for their share
Ajilon Consulting, Southfield, MI January
2005 - April 2005
Statutory Accountant - Assigned to Ford Motor Credit Corporation (FMCC)
. Worked in their Insurance Accounting Dept., preparing the Statutory
Annual Statements for three companies
. Quickly learned PeopleSoft in order to submit journal transactions and
run updated trial balances to use in Annual Statement preparation
. Brought six months of balance sheet accounts reconciliations up to
date, for multiple companies
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE, continued
Accountemps, Southfield, MI March
2003 - January 2005
Accountant - Assigned to DaimlerChrysler Services (DCS)
. Reconciled and troubleshot several large accounts
. Responsible for the accounting of their new Subprime business
. Completed reconciling a principle account for another department that
had not been done properly in over two years, and identified every
item putting it out of balance
. Largely instrumental in tracking down over 725 questionable inventory
items (vehicles), in a high turnover area of the business.
Implemented a better system for coordinating this inventory with other
areas in the field, and kept track of existing units as they flowed
through the system
McDonald Rent-A-Car, Inc., Northville, MI
August 1996 - September 2002
Accounting/Office Manager
. Responsible for 4 locations and 35 employees
. Supervised a staff of two to three employees in the AR and AP areas of
the department
. Introduced personal computers into the Accounting Department, trained
staff on the use of spreadsheet and word processing programs
. Converted to new network computer system, implementing a new
accounting program to interface with the rental system. Streamlined
to a more automated system, reduced manual transactions by 75%
. Maintained fleet inventory in the accounting and rental systems
. Recorded all purchases and sales of vehicles, including titling and
licensing
. Prepared financial statements through month end/year end closing
. Prepared tax returns and maintained schedules for: sales/use tax,
property tax, unemployment taxes, heavy truck/tractor related taxes
. Calculated monthly commissions and bonuses for sales staff and
managers
City of Bunker Hill Village, Bunker Hill, TX
September 1992 - June 1996
Financial Assistant
. Responsible for personnel records of twelve employees, including new
enrollments, terminations and submissions of bi-weekly payroll to ADP,
maintenance of insurance and retirement program records
. Prepared all financial reports and presented them at monthly Council
meetings
. Advocated the use of PC's in the normal course of business. Promoted
the use of more up-to-date software (spread-sheet & word processing)
. Prepared and coordinated the annual budget for review by the City
Manager, Mayor and Council
. Recorded all financial transactions, performed all accounts payable
and receivable functions, reconciled bank state-ments and various
other accounting functions
. Prepared tax returns and maintained schedules for: sales/use tax,
unemployment taxes, and environmental filings for the water system
. Supervised and provided backup for the permit and water billing areas
Navajo Life Insurance Company, Sugar Land, TX Assistant Treasurer
June 1985 - September 1992
Port City Ford Truck Sales, Inc., Houston, TX Accounts Payable
Supervisor October 1981 - May 1985
Maccabees Mutual Life Insurance, Southfield, MI Asst. Manager-Fin'l
Accounting August 1969 - September 1981
EDUCATION
Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, MI
Schoolcraft College, Livonia, MI
Oakland Community College, Farmington Hills, MI
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