Project Manager Management

Pamela A. Stoklosa

**** ***** **** *** . ************, Ohio . 43147

614-***-**** (cell) . Email: ablwrb@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Experience

Degreed Accountant with over 15 years of experience in financial analysis,

month-end close, project management, billing management, internal controls,

policies and procedures, systems implementations, and intercompany

reconciliations. Industry experience includes retail, real estate, energy,

transportation/aviation, manufacturing, education, and insurance.

2006 - 2010 Independent Consulting Through Various Consulting Firms

. Otterbein College - Consulting in Associate Controller position.

- Backfilling Associate Controller position during payroll

implementation. Preparing monthly proof of cash.

- Supervising Accounts Payable staff in preparation of weekly

check runs and ACH payments.

- Approve Accounts Payable vouchers, identify encumbered funds

through use of Oracle based Banner system, flag 1099 payments

and purchase order entries.

- Completed Sarbanes Oxley testing for compliance.

- Reconciling Benefit Accounts.

. Heating and Cooling Products -Consultant for Inventory

Reconciliation/Forensic Accounting project.

- Researched and identified lost steel coils.

- Tracked destination of invoiced and uninvoiced steel coils.

- Provided forensic proof that steel coil purchases were actually

delivered to company processors.

. Wendy's International - Consulted in Senior Benefits Analyst position

during Wendy's/Arby's merger.

- Reconciled group insurance and retirement plans.

- Prepared Senior Executive Retirement Plan quarterly payments and

monthly reconciliations.

- Prepared monthly Medical, Dental and disability invoices.

- Reconciled Group Insurance Trust and prepared monthly accrual

report.

- Worked with auditors for quarterly Sarbanes Oxley compliance, as

well as year end audit.

- Trained Arby's counterpart as position was moved to Arby's

headquarters in Atlanta.

Comair - Project Manager for System to System Inventory Interface

Synchronization project.

- Led project team in finding divergences between Lawson General

Ledger and Trax Inventory Management System.

- Used Microsoft Visio to track the path of airline parts and then

determined how such Inventory parts were being accounted for in

each system. Established best practices processes once

individual divergences were identified.

- Made recommendations to correct divergences between two

inventory systems.

- Set up new monthly close process using automated Access macros

which reduced the number of days for monthly closing.

Skanska - Consultant for Financial Statement review project.

- Analyzed differences between Financial Statements and Trial

Balance.

- Made recommendations for consistent journal entries in both

systems to allow for system to system balancing on a month to

month basis.

Bellataire- Consulted in CFO position during search for a new CFO in

New York City.

- Prepared monthly Financial Statements for several months to make

current.

- Analyzed accounts receivable collections, cash and debt.

- Prepared monthly Cash Flows.

- Reviewed Financial Statements for reasonableness.

- Assisted in standardizing monthly close process.

Limited Brands - Consulted in Project Management office for SAP

inventory implementation

reconciliation. Assisted in identification of

SAP inventory system out of balance.

- Tracked reconciliation teams progress.

- Prepared Dashboards, Glide paths, and PowerPoint presentations

of implementation reconciliation for upper management.

Nationwide Insurance- Consulted in Enterprise Shared Service Center.

- Analyzed monthly Trial Balance trending.

- Reconciled actuarial prepared ERP Liability entries for

Nationwide.

- Participated in month end close using PeopleSoft. Contributed to

reduction in number of days to close.

Big Lots - Consulted in Store Audit department.

- Reviewed workings of department. Made recommendations to allow

for compliance with Sarbanes Oxley and external audit.

- Created detailed Policy and Procedure manuals for use by staff.

- Trained Staff Accountant on Month-End close and account

analysis.

- Participated in standardization of Month-End close process by

defining Chart of Accounts and standardizing journal entries.

NetJets - 08 04 to 01 06

Billing Manager - Directed operational and administrative functions of

the billing department.

- Managed a staff of 5 closely to ensure high customer

satisfaction levels and appropriate billing performance.

- Prepared and distributed complex monthly bills to owners.

- Corresponded with diverse clients on a daily basis to address a

variety of concerns.

- Reported operational metrics. Identified, defined and designed

business improvement initiatives. Coached employees.

NiSource - 02 04 to 08 04

Special Project Accountant - Co-facilitated Sarbanes Oxley compliance

project.

- Wrote action plans for initial roll-out of Sarbanes Oxley 404

documentation process.

- Presented overview of the Act to 50 accountants in order to

prepare them for project.

- Made determination of testing pass or fail. Followed through

with testing until all tests passed.

- Project completed and Accounting department was to be

outsourced. Offered position with NetJets.

Limited Logistics - 12 02 to 01 04

Contract employee

- Assisted the Finance Department with management of accounts

payable function during corporate wide consolidation.

- Found full-time position with NiSource.

American Electric Power - 12 00 to 11 02

Accountant - Performed the month-end close process and produced

financial statements for the Rockport, Indiana plant.

- Analyzed monthly financial statements. Reviewed for

reasonableness.

- Used Nvision to generate financial reports from PeopleSoft.

- Prepared Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) reports.

- Chosen to work on testing team for PeopleSoft upgrade.

- Layed off due to 30% company wide reduction in force.

Ledford Residential Trust - 8 98 to 10 00

Accounting Manager - In charge of closing the books for 158

properties.

- Analyzed actual versus budget income and expense items.

- Researched and explained account variances from JDEdwards FASTR

report.

- Analyzed property investment account value in comparison to

Bank's property investment account value in preparation for

refinancing of several properties.

- Layed off due to merger.

Education

Bachelors Degree in Accounting - The Ohio State University

Software System Experience

PeopleSoft, SAP, JDEdwards, Lawson, AS400, Nvision, Hyperion, Essbase,

Macola, Banner, Microsoft Access, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Visio.

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