Staff Accountant

YANI PADRON

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Katy, TX **449

832-***-**** Email: ****@******.**

OVERVIEW:

A highly motivated, dependable analytical professional, with fundamental understanding of accounting principles, compliance rules and regulations. Reliable professional able to work well independently as well as part of a team to achieve desired results. QUALIFICATIONS AND STRENGTHS:

• Account Reconciliations

• Annual Reporting

• Organizational Skills

• Communication skills

• Research and Analytical Skills

• Internal/External Audits

• Regulatory Compliance

• Preparing and analyzing monthly, quarterly, and

annual Reports

• Self Motivated hard working and dedicated

• Team player as well as independent

• Fluent in English and Spanish

• Effective deadline time management

• Advanced Microsoft Office

(Excel, Outlook, Word) including Pivot Tables and

V-Look Ups

EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration – Columbia Southern University May 2011 PROFFESIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Accounting Associate January 2006-April2016

EXL Services, Houston TX

Client- Carriage Services, Inc. a provider of death care services and merchandise in the United States with 64 funeral homes in 27 states and 32 cemeteries in 11 states.

• Prepare supporting documentation for state audits related to trust accounting

• Detailed compliance review, and submission of annual reports

• Work with multiple insurance vendors to obtain documentation used in monthly, quarterly, and annual reports

• Obtain, and analyze third party reports used to support total company fees due for consumer protection filing.

• Use in-house accounting software to generate reports for license and permit renewals, along with remittance checks and/or wires to recipients

• Liaison with the offshore team in India, to prepare and review monthly reconciliations and training offshore team on various tasks, including analytical projects

• Maintain monthly account reconciliations, and monitor local, and state laws to ensure compliance adherence

• Complete monthly, quarterly and yearly state required report filings for Funeral and Cemetery locations

• Generating and providing reports for locations to pay taxes and fees

• Prepare income and expense reports for perpetual care funds

• Prepare capital gains/loss quarterly reconciliations

• Work on withdrawal of funds projects, including compliance review, and requesting permission from the state to withdraw funds out of trust

• Assisted in testing reports from a system conversion

• Keep Senior Management informed and updated on a consistent basis of new issues and the status of projects, tasks and deadlines

Processor October 2005-January 2006

OPI International, Houston, TX

Client- SCI- North America’s largest single provider of funeral, cremation and cemetery services.

• Prepared payment reports for Funeral and Cemetery customers

• Ensured that monthly payments were processed and applied properly

• Processed funeral claims, with third party insurance trusts, and coordinated fund withdrawals with Trustees Collector August 2004-April 2005

Bally Total Fitness, Paramount, CA

• Call center environment. Very fast paced environment with more than 1,000 inbound and outbound calls. Assistant Manager March 1999-August 2004

Pier 1 Imports, Los Angeles, CA

• Managed and supervised staff with professionalism, motivation, and organized delegation.

• Accountable for employees to have provided excellent customer service, handled customer phone and personal orders

• Endeavored to meet store sales, and customer satisfaction goals

• Interviewed new applicants, and provided new employee training

• Prepared employee schedules for optimal floor coverage, through accurate calculation of payroll hours

• Contributed to preserve store’s visual presentation

• Performed daily sales audits, and bank deposit verification

• Inventory management

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