Management Project

Shaquita Winters Burke

*** ********* *** • Clinton, Mississippi 39056

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Experienced Financial Professional with proven leadership skills in corporate accounting, internal auditing, and governmental accounting. Established expertise in billing, forecast analysis, month-end close, reconciliations and executive reporting with over 18 years of financial experience. Proven successes in internal audit, billing, asset management and internal controls and process improvement. Known for taking initiative in assessing risk and identifying areas of improvement. Especially skilled at meeting challenges and deadlines. Areas of expertise:

● Financial management ● Forecast Analysis ● Billing

● Fixed Assets ● General Ledger Analysis ● Cash Management

● Month-end Accounting Close ● Balance Sheet Reconciliation ● Process Improvement

● Business Process Mapping ● Internal Controls ● Risk Based Auditing

● Operations and Process Controls ● Issues and Risk Management ● Executive Reporting

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

DIAMONDJACKS CASINO AND HOTEL, Jackson, Mississippi 2012-Present

Senior Accountant

Perform various accounting functions including month end close, financial statement preparation, perform internal and external regulatory audits.

• Review and analyze financial statements and financial reports for impact to company’s overall cash flow and profit and loss position.

• Perform various account reconciliations involving monthly cash, expense and balance sheet accounts. In addition to, maintaining bank reconciliation records.

• Perform daily audit of casino patron cash flow activity to validate compliance with regulations outlined in the Bank Secrecy Act.

• Assist in daily internal controls by reviewing casino financial processes and assisting in internal and external audit process.

IBM CORPORATION, Jackson, Mississippi 1999 - 2012

Account Interface Manager 2011 – 2012

Managed overall project office functions relating to internal controls, asset management, billing, and vendor management. Work on project control posture to ensure continued audit readiness and compliance to established processes and procedures. Responsible for monthly billing and invoice generation and payment. Worked with finance team on revenue roadmap opportunities to ensure project financial target attainment.

• Performed review of internal controls to ensure compliance with contractual requirement while maintaining audit readiness.

• Reduced three month lag time on troubled outsourcing account with negative revenue by implementing a process to ensure correct and consist billing each month through internal controls points and process verification.

Business Operations Analyst 2008 – 2011

Developed and implemented processes and procedures highlighted in IBM project management program with focus in areas of issues and risk management, asset management, vendor management and billing. Performed monthly tracking and calculations of all billing elements for project new services data required for invoice generation and payments

• Developed a process for consistent monthly billing of out of scope services which allowed a focused account to properly plan for financial metrics.

• Minimize contract audit exposure by documenting and tracking process controls for contract compliance involving several internal processes such as asset management, issues and risk management, billing and financial management. Supported all controls reviews and ensure that tasks are executed in compliance with Program Management System (PgMS), audit, and business controls requirements.

Global Services Financial Analyst 2005 – 2008

Prepared various financial reports for senior management and delivery executive for outsourcing account that disclose organization’s overall financial position; monitored and analyzed cost and revenue fluctuations for contract; facilitated preparation of and reporting for the annual budget; performed billing process task to ensure proper invoicing; other duties as required.

* Developed accurate forecasts and made recommendations for roadmap items to help minimize gaps from forecasts to plan.

* Prepared and presented monthly QTQ/YTD/YTY trend analysis for cost and revenue to project executive and headquarters finance executives.

* Aided project executive in solutioning revenue roadmap items on outsourcing contract which enabled contract to operate in the black for first time since deal was signed.

* Established open communications between project and delivery executives as it relates to forecasting to facilitate full understanding and agreement on actions needed to make overall contract a success.

* Ensured audit readiness and that all processes are being performed and are in compliance with established guidelines by complete semi-annual control assessment.

* Developed and maintain process for recording and tracking request for service (RFS) hours to ensure proper billing each month.

Internal Audit Team Leader 2001 – 2005

Planned and led both audits and consultative engagements exercising Institute of Internal Auditor’s standards and techniques for risk-based auditing. Gathered and analyzed data for internal audit group; researched laws, regulations, and company policies and standards. Negotiated audit findings with executive management, and identified process problems, causes, and business effects of risk areas requiring management focus. Communicated results of internal audit to stakeholders and followed-up on audits and organizations for implementation of recommendations. Evaluated and analyzed Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), Section 404 and 302, compliance procedures for strategic outsourcing and procurement processes.

* Led consultative engagements for purpose of assisting line management in developing and operating effective risk management programs.

* Led audit reviews focusing on documentation and testing effectiveness for defined key controls over business processes and financial reporting in managing associated risks.

* Performed internal process audits in order to independently appraise corporate, geography, divisional and local management of the soundness of financial and operational controls.

* Updated audit program to decrease client churn and increase audit effectiveness.

ADDITIONAL RELATED EXPERIENCE

IBM CORPORATION, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

Career Professional Accountant 1999 - 2001

MS DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, Jackson, Mississippi 1994 –1998

Branch Director: Fixed Assets and Grants Management 1998

Accountant/Auditor III 1997

Accountant/Auditor II 1994 - 1997

EDUCATION:

Masters of Business Administration; Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi

Bachelor of Science in Accounting; Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Microsoft Office, AS400, POST, CFO Portal, Hyperion Essbase, SAP, QMF/SQL Queries Quicken, and Lotus Smartsuite

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