KATHERINE LONG

**** ***** **. **** ***, Woodridge, IL 60517 C: 630-***-**** ac2c0i@r.postjobfree.com

Summary

Skilled Staff Accountant with 3+ years of experience, time management and efficiency with tasks and challenges. Strong

work ethic and sense of ownership needed to excel in a fast-paced environment. Capable employee successful at

managing multiple projects and consistently meeting deadlines under pressure.

Highlights

Analytical reasoning Strong organizational skills

Complex problem-solving Expert in customer relations

Accomplishments

Accounting experience with operating accounting software to record, store, and analyze information.

Auditing experience with financial statements, audits, reviews, compilations in manufacturing, non-profit,

education and healthcare.

Experience

Staff Accountant 04/2016 to 09/2017

The Duchossois Group, Inc. Chicago, IL

Manage and reconcile 50% of family members’ investment portfolios.

Collaborate with office team to create a consistent weekly strategy for Accounts Payable and check processing.

Provide monthly projected cash flow budgets and quarterly reports to family members.

Research and analyze significant areas of family members’ financial state and suggest areas to increase profit.

Streamline each family members’ assets in Excel to properly record value based on annual insurance policies.

Staff Accountant 07/2015 to 4/2016

Piper Jaffray Chicago, IL

Update cash procedures and perform monthly cash reconciliations to increase month end productivity by 20%.

Maintain the general ledger, working with various teams for automated entries as well as posting manual entries.

Record journal entries in the subsidiary ledger of management fees received.

Collect 85% of fees that were outstanding for over 180 days.

Report key performance metrics for manager review, specifically in cash, accounts receivable/payable and expenses.

Audit Intern/Associate 01/2014 to 07/2015

Mueller & Co., LLP Elgin, IL

Performed over 50 audits in four industries: 50% manufacturing, 27% not-for-profit, 18% education, 5% healthcare.

Reviewed and improved over 25 cases of ineffective journal entries, posting processes to the general ledger and month end procedures at client companies.

Prepared over 200 financial statements for clients and provided extensive footnotes on all significant financial

areas.

Completed 6% of the firm's audits to achieve business objectives.

Education

Master of Arts: Accounting 2015

Aurora University Aurora, IL, USA

Accounting with high honors, GPA: 3.8

Skills

Advent software, Great Plains, Microsoft Excel, business processes, Adobe software, financial statement analysis, Lawson