Shirley A Bartell
Silver Spring, Maryland 20905
Work Experience:
*/**-*/** ********* Assistant
Heritage Christian Church
Part-time, temporary: Responsible for producing weekly worship bulletin
and monthly newsletter, processing accounts payable and bi-weekly payroll,
incoming and outgoing mail, equipment repair, supply inventory, reception
6/98-6/08 Office Manager
Dembo, Jones, Healy, Pennington & Marshall, P.C., a full-service CPA firm
Tyrrell, Mason & Pillotte, P.C., a law firm specializing in wills and
trusts;
Burt Associates Inc., a financial planning firm
Responsible for firm accounting through F/S and payroll as well as all
operational aspects of maintaining office
Processed semi-monthly payroll for 40-60 hourly and salaried employees via
payroll service, reviewed and corrected errors as needed.
Payroll included adjustments for:
401(k) Section 125 Cafeteria Plan
Health and Disability Insurance Retirement
Accrued salary payments
Designed and implemented spreadsheet to produce journal entry to properly
book payroll into departmental and pre-tax categories on G/L; designed and
maintained spreadsheet to prove gross pay by individual to G/L.;
incorporated historical data into spreadsheets to support annual
compensation adjustments; maintained personnel files
Converted to QuickBooks Pro accounting software, eliminating many hours
previously spent maintaining manual subsidiary ledgers and invoice tracking
systems
Designed and implemented custom spreadsheets for tracking employee leave
and cafeteria plan benefits to ensure accuracy and to facilitate paperless
delivery of monthly balance reports
Designed and utilized spreadsheet template for monthly preparation of firm
financial and cash basis statements for electronic delivery to directors
Designed electronic workpapers and maintained all subsidiary ledgers in
this format to ensure efficient error trapping and paperless delivery to
directors
Designed and implemented use of New Employee and Employee Exit forms to
ensure that all necessary forms were completed and processed in compliance
with employee manual and federal and state requirements
Supervised and supported time and billing administrator, reconciled monthly
A/R and WIP reports to G/L, standardized data input forms for Practice time
and billing system to ensure accuracy and completeness of all entries;
tracked and reconciled billable expenses to G/L to ensure all pass-throughs
were charged to clients; Created task-specific reports using Crystal
Reports, many of which were exported into Excel for further analysis
2/90-5/98 Assistant Controller
Nordheimer Brothers Companies, Inc.; RER Resources LP; RJR Financial Corp.,
multi-entity property management and real estate development companies
specializing in condominium conversion
Full charge bookkeeping using QuickBooks
Converted to Skyline Property Management software; created data input forms
and trained employees
Supervised production and reconciliation of monthly reports; produced and
reviewed G/L & F/S
Produced cost accounting reports for each converted unit
Prepared forecast sheets incorporating mortgage and sales information
Administered insurance for all entities and employees
Education: Hawarden Junior College, Hawarden, Iowa
Special Skills: Proficient with Microsoft Office, Crystal Reports,
QuickBooks Pro, Page Plus II