Manager Accounting

OBJECTIVE

Experienced Accountant seeking a challenging position where my skills in the areas of General Ledger, Intercompany, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and Payroll can be utilized to substantially contribute to a company’s goals and success.

SUMMARY

17+ years’ experience in accounting 9 years in financial statements review. Responsibilities include: a wide range of month-end accruals, journal entries, intercompany transactions reviewed general ledger and fixed assets, supervise four (4) employees, ensured policies and procedures were followed. Acted as the company’s lead internal auditor: created and posted internal audit schedule, leading 6-8 internal auditors, and presented audit results through audit reports presented to the branch management team. Issued corrective actions as result of the audits and ensured the corrective actions were effectively implemented to avoid reoccurrence.

Qualities include: meet deadlines; detailed oriented; good analytical skills; ability to multi-task, supportive, loyal, hard-working, team-oriented, work well under pressure, very responsible and positive attitude.

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

Health Plan of San Joaquin – French Camp, CA 05/2017-Present

Senior Accountant

Review P&L & General Ledger

Month-End close: Review, & Post accruals & journal entries to

Account Reconciliations

Produce & Distribute Financial Statements

Assist Finance Department as needed

B & H Labeling Systems/Tecnologias Endura – Ceres, CA/Mexico City, MX 05/2016-04/2017

Assistant Controller

Review P&L & General Ledger

Month-End close: Prepared, review, & enter accrual & journal entries to accrue for unpaid expenses & reclassified expenses hitting wrong accounts

Supervise Four Employees for the following departments: Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable/Collection (USA), Billing/AR/Collections (Mexico), and Accounting Assistant

Prepare Cost of Goods Sold/Inventory/Billing Reports & Account Reconciliations for Tecnologias Endura (Mexican entity)

Review Tecnologias Endura Financial Statements for accuracy after they are produced by the Mexican Accounting Firm

Masonite International – Stockton, CA 07/2014-03/2016

Regional Financial Analyst

Budget weekly/monthly for two cost centers: Input new budget based on previous week/month’s actuals, comment on weekly variances

Review P&L & General Ledger (GL): Review P&L compared to budget, look at General Ledger details to see actual expenses and explain unexpected expenses hitting GL by communicating with Plant Manager

Month-End close within 3 business days: Prepared, entered, & load accrual & journal entries to accrue for unpaid expenses & reclassified expenses hitting wrong accounts

Sales & Balance Sheet reconciliations: Load and update Masterpack reports created for Sales and Balance Sheet reconciliations including; Trial Balance, Sales, Sundry (debits/credits), attach pertaining proof for the division

Payroll Accrual for Division – using Kronos & Peoplenet reports: Ran weekly reports for the retail division, review for accuracy and missing pay rate/clock-ins, prepared weekly payroll accrual, load and submit to supervisor for posting to Masterpack

Approve Accounts Payable (AP) Invoices in WebNow (Perceptive Cloud): Review AP invoices for proper billing, code & approve in WebNow in a timely manner

AOP – Yearly Budget for two cost centers: Review and prepared new budget based on 6-month actuals communicating closely with Plant Manager for possible changes in rent, utilities, building repairs, labor, and other expenses expected for new projections. Submit to division controller for review. Review and make changes per management’s request. Review and submit budget based on 9-month actuals for a second time. Change and update based on management’s request via conference calls for my specific cost centers for final presentation.

Leggett & Platt, Inc. – Tracy, CA 10/2008-01/2014

Leggett & Platt, Inc. – Cerritos, CA 09/2006-10/2008

Accounting Manager

Lead the month in close within 5 business days.

Perform intercompany reconciliations

Provide support for internal audits, reviews and prepare the books before external audit arrival.

Prepared the internal audit schedule.

Fixed Asset reconciliation - Yearly

Prepared and tracked capital project expenditures (CER)

Standard Cost Changes - Quarterly

Review weekly payroll for accuracy

Prepared Month KPI’s and Operations Report

Miles, Bauer, Bergstrom & Winters, LLP 01/2005-09/2006

Accounts Payable Specialist/Accounting Manager

Prepared, enter, code, and print checks as requested

Assist Accounting Manager by running check registers on a daily/monthly/yearly basis and other areas of accounting as requested.

Create monthly allocations by location, department and percentage.

Prepare 1099-Miscellaneous reports for year end.

Peripheral Support, Inc. 04/2004-01/2005

Accounting Manager

Assist the company Controller by reviewing Accounts Receivable

Cash application

Collection calls

Review accounts receivable aging reports in a weekly basis

Month end account reconciliation

Invoicing, issuance of credit memos and write-offs general ledger.

Leisure Time Marketing 01/1999-04/2004

Account Payable Manager

Supervise two employees

Implement all accounts payable functions

Review general ledger and assist in month end accruals

Payroll process using eTIME reports

Participate in management meetings to improve internal systems and procedures.

Responsible for invoicing and compiling amounts owed from purchase orders, charge slips, sales tickets etc. and for preparing invoices and recording transactions.

Responsible for preparing accounts payable register and related reports.

Manage daily and monthly maintenance of the general ledger.

EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATION

Bachelor of Science, Accounting, California State University Long Beach

Associates Degree, Business Administration, Cerritos Community College

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING AND SKILLS

Accounting Software: Oracle (EPS – PeopleSoft Enterprise Database), Hyperion, LPCS (Query), Peachtree, Flexgen, & Masterpack

Microsoft Excel, Windows and PowerPoint.

ADP eTime, Kronos, Peoplenet

LANGUAGES

Spanish - Fluent (Read & Write)

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