Accounting Manager

Guadalupe (Paloma) Franco

**** *. *** ***** ****. # 2024 Las Vegas, Nevada 89030

Cell: 602-***-**** E-mail: **************@*****.***

Staff Accountant

** HIGHLIGHTS OF QUALIFICATIONS **

*Over fifteen years of experience as a Government Accountant and Bookkeeper.

*Competent of methods and techniques of variety software for instance: Government Accounting Systems, MIP Government Series, Oracle, Intermediate Excel, Intermediate Access, PowerPoint, Microsoft word, Quick-books, PeopleSoft, and Sage.

*Bilingual Spanish read, write and speak

**PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE**

Sister’s Cuts, El Paso, Texas.

Bookkeeper (2013-2016)

*Responsible for accounts receivables, and Accounts Payable.

*Responsible for bank reconciliation, bank deposits and transfers between accounts.

*Set up initial accounting system from manual system to QuickBooks. Set Up Chart of Accounts.

*Assist with financial reporting, maintenance, account reconciliation, including maintenance and documentation of internal accounting controls.

*Perform audits review and verify accuracy of journal entries and accounting classification assigned to various records.

*Assist in the preparation of annual budgets, updates and strategic plan for business operations.

El Paso Police Department Headquarters, El Paso, Texas

Grant Senior Accountant (2012-2013)

*Administering and monitoring 37 Grants/initiatives totaling $15 million for EPPD.

*Responsible for monthly financial expenditure reports in order to request Grant reimbursements.

*Monthly Account Reconciliation for various Federal Grants.

*Quarterly Federal Financial Reports (FFR’s) cumulative actual federal monies and un-liquidated. Obligations incurred local matching contributions, and non-obligated federal funds balances.

Auto Dynamics, Menlo Park California

Bookkeeper (2010-2012)

*Summarizes details in the specific ledgers, keeping things in order and providing accurate statements to the outsource Accountant. Responsible to mail out monthly statements to customers, pay vendors; and input employees time payroll and report it to ADP. Many of the duties performed on a daily basis. Some of these functions were:

Daily deposits, maintain personnel files, watch over petty cash expenditures; Responsible for daily entries in both Accounts Receivable and Account Payable Journals.

**STATE OF ARIZONA EXPERIENCE** (2001-2010)

Arizona Department of Health Services

Controller’s Office

Accountant

*Responsible of daily grant cash balances minimum $2,500,000 in funds, monitors cash on hand to comply with the Cash Management Improvement Act. And make daily Deposits drawn from federal funds into State Treasurers office

*Prepared daily reports for example: cash analysis, revenue and expense summary, grant balances funds, accrued expenditures and cash request for each Federal funded program.

*Create daily federal Oracle reports (ad-hoc), including account balance inquiries reports for each program. Monthly Department’s revolving fund reconciliation.

Guadalupe (Paloma) Franco

2125 N. Las Vegas Blvd. # 2024 Las Vegas, Nevada 89030

Cell: 602-***-**** E-mail: **************@*****.****

Staff Accountant

Department of Economics Security

Division of Child Support Enforcement

Special Project Accountant

Responsible to analyze documents, processes and procedures, research accounting issues, and policies. This includes upper management recommendations. Assist in Department special projects. Support the preparation of Comprehensive Annual Financial Report Schedules (CAFR).

Manages and monitors finance related problems maintained and make sure that process is accurate. Develops and maintains written process and procedures of all activities associated with the Unit.

*Developed chart of Accounts from Non-Government Financial system to a Financial Government System for the Department. (MIP government series)

*Maintained and reconciled one monthly control Account and four sub-accounts net amount of 24 million for the State, and yearly estimation of 293 million.

*Created department step by step procedures, and create monthly report from Government data to Excel.

Department of Economics Security

Division of Unemployment Insurance Tax Office

Accounting Manager

*Oversee 85 million per quarter amount deposit into accounts, and 66,000 checks daily process *Learned and Manage Remittance process in a week.

*Responsible for setting goals, and objectives for two units Accounting and Remittance Process.

*Motivates, empower, lead, direct and assess 3 supervisors, sub direct 27 employees, and 12 quarterly Kelly Temps.

*Implemented strategic long-range unit procedures, established quality control, and meet Federal Department of Labor Criteria.

*Upgraded Federal Unemployment Tax Act F.U.T.A. refund process last updated 1997

Department of Economics Security

Division of Business and Finance

Fiscal Service Specialist

*Resolves problems to and revisions of Agency Accounts. For instance, Expired Warrants, Cancelled Warrants, Expenditures, Revenue documents, encumbrances, journal vouchers, cash receipts, creates and process proposed adjusting journal entry, and verifies for accuracy, timeliness and proper preparation (correct preparation correct distribution, sequence numbers).

*Gathers and compiles data and writes detailed monthly reports by summarizing financial transactions and status of accounts for a given period.

*Examines and verifies such fiscal transactions as billing and invoices, payments, and payroll, by compiling and spot checking figures by thorough examination in comparison with validated records.

**Education**

Notre Dame de Namur University; Belmont, California; B.S. Business Administration/Accounting

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