Controller
Resume:
Tara Jackson
**** *. **** ******, *** Angeles, CA 90047
************@*****.***
Summary
Demonstrated achiever with exceptional in-depth knowledge of accounting practices.
Skilled at learning new concepts quickly, working extremely well under extreme pressure with tight deadlines, and communicating ideas clearly and effectively.
Enthusiastic with over 21 years of experience in accounting, across several industries.
Ability to read, analyze, prepare and interpret financial statements and implement procedures.
Oversee the operations of the accounting department, including the design of an organizational structure adequate for achieving the department's goals and objectives.
Education
Master of Science - Accountancy
California State University, Los Angeles
2004
Bachelor of Science - Economics
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
1993
Career History & Accomplishments
Controller, Acuant (Formerly Card Scanning Solutions)- (11/2013-4/30/15)
Responsible for the management of 17 million dollars in revenue
Month-end close-reconciliation of all balance sheet accounts including prepaid account, accruals,
bank reconciliations, fixed assets and inventory.
Produce monthly reporting package- company financials with flux comments.
Responsible for Consolidated financials with Israel entity
Management reporting - collection analysis and Sales by product reporting,
Special Projects assigned by CFO.
Manage the accuracy and productivity of day-to-day activities of accounts payable and recording
expenses, fixed assets records, accounts receivable and recognition of revenue.
Interface with outside audit firms to complete annual audit.
Established monthly close process for company upon arrival, as well as documented procedures.
Managed cash daily – recording incoming wire to customer accounts
Responsible for cutting collections balances by half
Responsible for Tax filing- business tax, property tax and sales tax.
HR- responsible for various HR duties including payroll and coordination of benefits.
Director, Controller, Rent.com (4/2004-6/2013)
Over the course of the past nine years, promoted from Accounting Manager to Senior Accounting Manager to Controller demonstrating increased responsibility with each role. Experiencing many changes in the company from two owners, to ownership by eBay for 7 years, to ultimately 1 year ownership under Rentpath Inc.
Responsible for the management of 75 million dollars in revenue
Month-end close-reconciliation of all balance sheet accounts including prepaid account, accruals, bank reconciliations, accrual to cash reconciliation.
Produce monthly reporting package- company financials with flux comments, 10Q, 10k, state tax preparation work.
Management reporting - collection analysis and reporting, property acquisition reporting, lease stat reporting, various property reports, variance forecasting reports, report writing through Oracle & ADI.
Special Projects assigned by CFO.
Quarterly SOX testing.
Manage the accuracy and productivity of day-to-day activities of accounts payable and recording expenses, fixed assets records, accounts receivable and recognition of revenue.
Manage the executive office staff – manage duties of the Office Manager who supports over 140 staff members.
Safeguard assets and assure accurate and timely recording of all transactions by implementing disciplines of internal audits, controls and checks across departments
Monitor revenue recognition practices to ensure 100% compliance with accounting principles.
Interface with outside audit firms post company sale and participated in due diligence for company sale.
Instrumental part of system integration for the company to concur and blackline software (serving as local admin) as well as a huge contributor to system migrations from Oracle to SAP and SAP to Epicor.
Supervise the monitoring of company cash levels in various accounts – making sure levels are adequate for funding reward cards to customers and approving wires when transfers were needed.
Made sure a physical inventory was conducted, everything was tagged and items in two external systems were reconciled to the figures in the financial system.
Instruct staff on expense reclasses, billing errors, coding issues, journal entries, out of balance reconciliations. I provide guidance to 7 staff members to make sure they are always following procedures and making the correct entries to the company financial statements so that the financial are free of material misstatements.
Senior Accountant, E Capital Financial (2003-2004)
Prepared monthly financial statements from beginning to end.
Monthly close process addressed fixed assets, accruals, prepaid account, accounts receivable, sales, and cost of sales.
Month-end bank reconciliations for ten-accounts.
Prepared sales tax returns for 15 states.
Processed accounts payable.
Analyzed of monthly general ledger transactions.
Processed payroll.
Senior Accountant, American Golf Corporation(1997-2003)
Prepared bank reconciliations for twenty-seven accounts.
Prepared sales tax returns for six states.
Prepared workers compensation returns.
Prepared business tax returns.
Monthly audit of 8 general ledgers.
Supervised business license & permit applications processed.
Computer Experience
•SAP
•Oracle
•MAS 90
•Peachtree
•Quickbooks
•Blackline
•Epro
•Microstrategy
•Lotus
•Kana
•MS Word
•MS Access
•MS Outlook
•MS Publisher
•MS Powerpoint
•Epicor FRX
•Cornerstone on Demand
•Epicor Docklink
•Epicor Explorer
•Concur
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