Staff Accountant

Darin Hansen

**** ********* *****

Ogden, UT ****4

Phone: 801-***-****

E-mail: ************@*****.***

www.linkedin.com/in/darinhansen1/

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Business Office Manager (November 2011 to October 2013) Vista College

Online- Education Futures Group (Annual Revenue $8 Million, 26 employees) -

Clearfield, UT

. Manage student accounts, billing, collections, credit card payment

processing.

. Daily review and reconciliation of bank accounts.

. Produce and evaluate weekly KPI report trends.

. Generate monthly revenue analysis for Vista College Online.

. Create annual operating budget.

. Custodian of $500 Petty Cash Fund and AMEX credit card and

reconciliations.

. Compile students' notice of withdrawal /drop and submit refund check

requests or wire transfers for unearned DOE Title IV funds and stipend

check requests to students for housing/living expenses.

. Full charge accounts payable, submit requests for purchase, process

purchase orders and submit invoices for payment to corporate accounts

payable after reviewing amounts billed and coding to appropriate

general ledger accounts.

. Prepare audit reports for internal audits and DOE.

. Manage office supplies inventory and place orders.

. Manage student book and laptop computer orders/returns and

inventories.

. Collaborate with Financial Aid Director in scheduling, posting and

reconciling student Title IV Federal tuition funding, private funding

and institutional match funds.

. Proposals to Online President and Education Director on operational

and procedural changes for the school.

Vista College Accomplishments:

. Exceeded Expectations manager rating for month of September 2013.

. Top business manager rating of 7 schools for 4 months of 2012.

. Exceeded student account collection goals in Nov. & Dec. 2012.

. Engineered macros and reports via visual basic.

. Proposal to reduce returned mail resulted in implementation of

Moodlerooms pop-up to require student to verify or update current

address.

. Collaborate with Ambassador Bookstore to produce invoice billing

file for use in reconciling books mailed to students, returns and

credits.

. Engineered collection letter & mailing via visual basic macro & mail

merge.

Staff Accountant & Payroll / Human Resources Manager (January 2007 to

October 2010) Burt Brothers Tires & Service Inc. (Annual Revenue $40

Million, 180 employees) - North Salt Lake, UT

. Prepare and post general ledger entries for revenue, expense and

accruals.

. Reconcile general ledger accounts monthly.

. Calculate and post adjusting entries.

. Prepare year end close and post closing entries.

. Prepare audit reports for state unemployment, workers compensation

and CPA firm and assist auditors in analysis.

. Audit and reconcile employee insurance plan coverage and vendor

invoices.

. Administer and process all aspects of payroll, insurance, payroll

deductions, child support, garnishments, levies and verifications for

180+ employees.

. Managed employee health insurance benefit programs and 401(k).

. Prepared IRS Form 5500 annual ADP/ACP discrimination test of 401(k)

plan.

. Directed annual employee insurance benefits open enrollment.

. Initiated problem resolution with brokers and insurance agencies in

relation to enrollment, coverage, and claims issues.

Burt Brothers Accomplishments:

. Engineered reports for management via macros, graphs and visual

basic.

. Created new personnel data forms, through the use of Visual Basic

Applications and Excel macros.

. Developed and penned company policies and procedures that had never

been officially documented.

. Streamlined payroll procedures to reduce errors, paperwork and

process time.

**Burt Brothers outsourced the payroll and human resources functions

to Innovative Staffing, Inc. on January 01, 2010 to reduce cost of

employee insurance premiums by becoming a member of a larger employee

pool.

Senior Accountant - Payroll Department (August 2000 to January 2007)

Flying J, Inc. (Annual Revenue $18 Billion, 15,000 employees) - Ogden, UT

. Prepared and generated journals entries and reconciled monthly,

quarterly and year end general ledger accounts.

. Initiated journal entries for accruals, adjusting entries and

closing entries.

. Created audit reports for workers compensation and assisted KPMG

auditors by producing audit and research reports.

. Maintained department assets inventory control and capital audit

reports.

. Cleared suspense accounts, sweep lockbox, P&L adjustments for

preliminaries.

. Produced monthly wage analysis on U.S. & Canadian travel plazas for

controller and directors.

. Created forecasts and graphs of liabilities and expenses for

management.

. Engineered process to track special bonus plan employee's balance,

vesting, awards and to estimate future liability of accounts.

. Initiated weekly ACH payroll funding of approximately $1.5 million

between subsidiary companies, partners, and limited partnerships.

. Administered payroll using Lawson 8.0 software for over 15,000

employees.

Flying J Accomplishments:

. My reconciliation reports were used as a training model for other

corporate accountants within the company for proper reconciliation

reporting.

. Developed a unique process of estimating the future liability and

expense for the annual bonus program.

. Created process to remove duplication of employee recruitment bonus

checks.

. Engineered multiple payroll processes and improved reporting using

Excel macros, Access databases, Visual Basic, and Crystal Reports

applications.

. Earned HIPPA training certification.

EDUCATION:

B.S. Finance, Minors Accounting & Philosophy: Utah State University, Logan

Utah, 1995.

Certified Payroll Professional (CPP); American Payroll Institute October

2011.

C.E.C.'s; Crystal Reports, Excel, Access and Visual Basic, Interact,

Constructive Feedback, Quick Financial Statement Analysis, Key Ratio

Applications.

COMPUTER SKILLS:

Windows, Microsoft Office Professional 2010, Excel, Word, Access, Crystal

Reports 9.0, DOS, Visual Basic Programming, QuickBooks, MAS 90, Lawson 8.0,

GBMS Acctg System, CampusVue, EasyAcct Acctg software, Paradox, Lotus,

Quatropro, SQL, FoxPro, Rumba, ADP software, TimeCorp software, Impact

Encore, FMS, Reflections, Tandem Terminal Emulators, Meridian Terminal

Emulators, IEX Scheduling.

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