Joseph “George” Kuntz
**** ******* ***** ***** - ******* TX, 77077
Email: ************@*******.***
Highly motivated professional with extensive accounting and business analyst experience with major
corporations. Excellent communicator with strong teambuilding and multi-tasking skills. Successfully
completes tasks or projects within time and budget constraints.
EMPLOYMENT
Contract/Consulting Positions:
El Paso Energy Corporation SCI Corporation Harris County Hospital District
Christus Healthcare Weatherford Intl. BMC Software
Triad Resources Willbros KBR
WFI Wireless Pride International EquaTerra
Houston, TX
10/2002-3/2009
Streamlined accounting processes with Microsoft Access and saved two days of processing.
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Performed month end close and full lifecycle accounting functions in Solomon and Great Plains.
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Worked with outside consultants to create a financial dashboard for the management team.
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Applied knowledge of SOP 97-2, software revenue recognition to create adjusting journal entries.
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Hyperion reporting (Including translation to Hyperion, compiling of Hyperion files, balancing
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intercompany within Hyperion, and tying out PeopleSoft to Hyperion).
Used Query Analyzer to extract and import data into Microsoft Access.
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Participated in various projects analyzing deferred revenue (SAB 101).
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Implementation of Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), identifying significant accounts and auditing controls.
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Automate and distribute management reports from the Sarbanes-Oxley portal.
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Performed PeopleSoft upgrade testing with outside consultants.
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Generated financial statements for eleven hospital grants.
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Prepared audit schedules and annual reporting information.
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Payroll analysis, month end close and special projects as requested by management.
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Trained accountants on PeopleSoft functionality.
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Performed budget and variance analysis of monthly financial statements.
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Data input of inter-company transactions into JD Edwards.
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Performed month end close functions, journal entries, accruals, and account reconciliation.
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Manipulated and automated inbound logistics data into JD Edwards with Excel and Access.
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Audited inventory to ensure accuracy of financial statements.
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Created test scripts for ADP payroll conversion.
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Performed monthly accounting and analysis of internally developed software capitalized per FAS 86
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Applied trend analysis of development efforts by product line and business unit.
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Permanent Positions:
Dynegy Inc. Houston, TX
Senior Business Analyst 4/2000-10/2002
• Performed requirements gathering, participated and led JAD sessions.
• Worked with process owners, subject matter experts and end users to address application configuration
and business process issues.
• Executed system tests of updates and fixes applied by technical specialists prior to migration in the
production environment.
• Documented accounting and system procedures for system analysts and end-users.
• Supported the financial reporting business units for budgets, consolidations, account reconciliation,
journal entries, multi-currency, and month end close.
• Participated and developed the system development lifecycle (SDLC) for PeopleSoft upgrades.
Dynegy Inc. Continued
Presented training classes for end users, GL, nVision, query, and journal entry creation.
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Acted as liaison between IT and end users for customized processes.
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Executed PeopleSoft delivered test scripts and gap analysis.
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Responsible for all chartfield maintenance, including trees and combination edits.
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Troubleshooting of accounting issues in GL and interfacing applications.
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Designed detailed business requirements for corporate projects.
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Recipient of The Encore Award for outstanding customer service.
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Mariner Post Acute Network Houston, TX
Business Systems Analyst 1998-2000
• Responsible for overseeing the month-end close process on PeopleSoft and Masterpiece
• Accountability, maintenance, and development of financial reports.
• Converted data from legacy systems into PeopleSoft.
• Reviewed and requested PeopleSoft updates and fixes to the database.
• Created user-requested reports utilizing Crystal and nVision.
• Created databases for data conversion, account reconciliation and journal entry conversion.
• General ledger support for users at the corporate level.
Cushman & Wakefield Houston, TX
Staff Accountant 1997-1998
• Responsible for corporate accounting functions for ten million square feet of real estate.
• Supervised and assisted accounts payable clerks.
• Prepared monthly and annual financial statements, along with variance analysis.
• Created and automated report functions for bank reconciliations.
• Prepared state and local sales and use tax returns.
Century Development Houston, TX
Staff Accountant 1996-1997
• Responsible for overseeing month end financial reporting for fifteen properties.
EDUCATION
University of Phoenix
Houston, TX
Master of Science Degree
Major in Computer Information Systems with Honors
Post University
Waterbury, CT
Bachelor of Science Degree
Major in Accounting
COMPUTER SKILLS
Proficient in Windows, Access, Excel, Word, Masterpiece, MRI, Lawson, QuickBooks, PeopleSoft, JD
Edwards, Great Plains, Microsoft Dynamics, Rumba, Infinium, Acorde, Crystal, AS/400, Crystal Cubes,
Ross, Oracle 11i, Solomon, FRx, Siebel, Business Objects, Remedy Helpdesk System
REFERENCES
Will be furnished upon request.