CLAUDINE SISCO
*** ****** *** • Rutherford, NJ **070
Phone 201-***-**** • E-mail ********@***.***
Professional experience
Scholastic, Inc. 06/08-Present
Financial Analyst
**** ******* ***** **d activities including Journal Entries and Variance analysis.
2000 Prepares and distributes monthly reports to Directors, Vice Presidents and Senior Vice
Presidents of ten
2001 Overhead divisions.
2002 Develops yearly operational and capital budgets as well as quarterly forecasts for ten
overhead divisions.
2003 Analyzes monthly and quarterly performance results compared to Budget, Forecast, and Prior
Year results.
2004 Researches and analyzes various divisional expenses.
2005 Communicates to Senior Management on monthly financial results.
2006 Works closely with divisions in order to analyze, track and report on divisional spending
trends.
2007 Perform various ad-hoc projects as needed by Business Manager..
McCarter & English, LLP 04/07-02/08
Budget Analyst
2008 Prepared yearly capital, personnel, and expense budgets for Chief Operations Officer.
2009 Maintained Fixed Assets database, computed and reconciled depreciation for all offices.
2010 Analyzed and reported on expense variances between Budget financials and Monthly
Financials.
2011 Reviewed capital expenditures against the capital budget for overtures.
2012 Prepared all tax forms and analyses for fixed assets.
2013 Liaison for all budget matters for Department Managers and Office Managers.
Chadbourne & Parke, LLP 04/04-04/07
Senior Accountant
2014 Prepared various financial analyses for monthly financial package such as Client Fee
Ranking, Client Hours ranking, Executive Summary, and Inventory aging.
2015 Maintained Fixed Assets database, computes and reconciles depreciation for all offices.
2016 Analyzed Weekly Cash Flow and distributes report to entire firm.
2017 Completed and Analyzed financial information for various Industry surveys and government
surveys such as the Citibank Law Survey.
2018 Prepared Quarterly and yearly property taxes.
2019 Reconciled monthly bank statements.
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP 11/00-04/04
Financial Statement Accountant
2020 Participated in the monthly close process including account analysis, G/L analysis and
journal entry preparation.
2021 Prepared payroll variance, premium report, and various different expense slides for monthly
management meeting.
2022 Analyzed various different P&L and balance sheet accounts and researched discrepancies.
2023 Maintained fixed assets database using FAS and computed depreciation.
2024 Communicates with upper management about problems with various different adhoc projects
on a monthly basis.
Enterprise Rent-A-Car 10/97-
2/99
Financial Statement Accountant
2025 Prepared interest, depreciation, overhead entries as well as various other journal entries.
2026 Reconciled bank statements.
2027 Prepared various asset, liability, and profit and loss schedules, as well as account analysis on
a monthly basis.
2028 Supervised three accounting professionals and delegated monthly accounting closing tasks.
2029 Knowledge of accounts payables and accounts receivables.
2030 Prepared monthly and quarterly sales tax returns.
2031 Reorganized accounts receivable cycle process.
2032 Processed fixed assets and analyzed their depreciation.
Banco Popular De Puerto Rico 2/94-3/97
Assistant Accountant
2033 Prepared reports to monitor performance and delinquency trends.
2034 Streamlined and improved existing procedures through TQM principles and Lotus 1-2-3.
2035 Prepared, journalized and reconciled entries for daily Mastercard and Visa settlements.
2036 Researched accounting discrepancies and reconciled monthly expense accounts.
2037
Education
Ramapo College of New Jersey
5/93
BS: Accounting
2038
Computer Skills
Excel, Word, PowerPoint,Essbase, Hyperion Planning, Catalyst,
Concur, Lotus, WordPerfect, D-Base, Sage FAS Fixed Asset
Database, CMS, Elite, JBA, Hyperion Reportwriter, Imagebase,
and Accounting Plus