Senior Staff Accountant

ACCOUNTING PROFESSIONAL

CPA Candidate Passion COMMITMENT Results

Results driven accounting professional with demonstrated ability to juggle multiple projects and deadlines with ease and organization. Excellent written and oral communication with the ability to lead and participate in cross-functional teams. Excellent interpersonal and relational skills with the ability to quickly develop relationships of trust and confidence with a variety of people and personalities, at all levels within an organization.

Areas of Key Strengths:

Analytical

Time Management

General ledger experience

Auditing

GAAP Knowledge

Escrow Accounting

Bank Reconciliation

Payroll Knowledge

Financial Statements Compilation

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Digital Media Arts College April 2015 – Present

Senior Staff Accountant

Analyzes bank statements to facilitate accurate and timely reconciliation of all college bank accounts such as the payroll, accounts payable international and master operating account. Responsible for researching and correcting adjusting and/ or reconciling items. Analyzes Balance Sheet and PNL accounts to identify errors and propose adjustments with minimal supervision utilizing strong technical accounting knowledge for contribution to accurate and timely financial statements. Assists with quarterly and annual financial statement preparation.

Compiles, verifies and updates college-wide outstanding check ledgers and reports to determine which checks are subject to escheating and returns same to the appropriate governmental agency. Complies with Title IV policies and procedures to ensure timely return of Title IV funds.

Analyzes and reconciles Title IV program accounts and prepare and update documents for monthly fund drawdowns and returns. Reviews and compares G5 to Workday to ensure that amounts are accurately recorded and funded. Complies with Department of Education Title IV reporting and reconciliation requirements.

Prepares accounting journal entries for interest allocation, financial aid activity, and stale check activity.

Coordinates the preparation of regularly scheduled and special billings and financial statements for local, state, federal, and private funding sources including the FCCSC. Interacts with internal and external auditors, participates in audit support and/ or provides information and access to accounting records as required. Monitors and reviews accounting and related system reports for accuracy and completeness. Supervise and/ or lead lower level technical staff.

BenefitMall (Formerly CompuPay), Miramar, FL May 2010 – March 2015

Client Funds Accounting Analyst

Responsible for analyzing data from various systems, testing the validity of the process flows, and documenting resolutions. Also partner closely with management; IT, Product Support, banks and vendors to brainstorm and streamline processes. In addition, I am responsible for identifying ways to streamline and automate daily tasks to improve process flow effectiveness, efficiency, as well as makes recommendations for corrections and prevention of errors or omissions.

Prepare and reconcile client funds balance sheet accounts to sub ledgers

Prepare consolidated financial statements by gathering and analyzing information from the general ledger system and from other departments; provide narrative disclosures to reconciling items as needed

Prepare routine or non-routine financial-related reports; verify the accuracy of data processing for accounting information

Prepares general ledger journal and accruing entries

Identify, research, and provide solutions related to exceptions

Work with other departments to research, analyze, and resolve balancing issues

Request disbursement and or collection needed to fund the client funds account(s) to resolve reconciling items or variances

Ensure an accurate and timeliness of the monthly, quarterly, and year end close

Work closely with manager on system enhancements and process improvement projects

Test system and transactional processes and document the progress

Investigate and audit transactional processes for accuracy and report findings to manager

Attend task force meetings as a back-up to manager

Prepare, compile, and review internal audit schedules and reports for external audit

Update / implement accounting procedures by analyzing current processes and recommend ways to improve efficiency of processes and systems (computer and program driven functions)

Senior Reconciliation Specialist

Reconciles client escrow bank account transactions per ledgers

Monthly Reconciles client escrow balance sheets

Identifies and researches exception items such as bank-returned ACH items or general ledger processing errors.

Prepares routine or non-routine financial-related reports

Prepares journal entries as needed to record the daily reconciliations

Work with other departments to research, analyze, and resolve variances

Tracks and resolves outstanding reconciling items

Performs related assignments as required

Interact with several different functional areas such as Tax Filing, Treasury, Operations, and Corp Accounting

Compliance Analyst

Work with internal business units during implementation, testing and coding of systems in accordance with agency specifications and system functionality.

Create and maintain informational databases to provide readily available compliance data to all internal business units as well as being a knowledgeable resource on matters of payroll and tax regulations.

Collaborate and discuss tax authority regulations and determine the best course of action to take to ensure compliant systems and processes with Compliance staff

Local tax set-up, administration and coding for all systems. This includes research, agency relationship and maintenance of conversion databases

System coding and/or auditing of required control file records associated with payroll tax processing in all system

Assisting the Director in managing workflow and staff by coordinating quarterly meetings of the Tax Division, working on training sessions, and personnel time and attendance issues

Sugar Company of Jamaica Ltd 2006-2009

Senior Internal Auditor

Assist in the preparation of the long range and annual audit plans.

Conduct on-going discussions with senior managers to ensure that concerns are addressed and audit issues are resolved.

Ensuring the continued professional development of junior staff.

Determine resources required and assign specific audits to appropriate staff and exercise control over the quality and timeliness of audit work.

Ensure that all audit findings are substantiated and audit conclusions are based on results of audit tests and documentary evidence.

Produce reports, within a pre-determined time scale, recommending to senior management changes/corrections, which will result in improvements in their areas of operation.

Prepare final audit reports ensuring management responses and implementation dates for all recommendations.

Conduct follow-up investigation to determine the implementation status of recommendations agreed to during audit reviews.

Conduct control self-assessment workshops for important operational areas.

Participate in strategic company projects.

UHY Dawgen Chartered Accountants (Incorporating Paul Goldson & Company)

2004-2006

Audit Senior

Training and Supervising staff

Analyze financial statements and evaluate companies strength and weaknesses

Converting clients’ financial statements from Jamaica GAAP to IFRS.

Advise clients on the inadequacies of the systems of control over their operations

Review audit working papers and preparation of audited accounts

Internal Auditor for a variety of clients

Preparation of audit plans and budgets prior to commencement of fieldwork

SKILLS

Proficiency in MS Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook, ACL, ALL Clear, Peachtree, QuickBooks, Campusvue, Accpac, Accounting and MasterTax

Experienced in balancing priorities, meeting deadlines and working in a confidential environment.

Enthusiastic team player who exercises initiative, adaptable, trustworthy, loyal and responsible.

Training/Education

CPA Candidate

Chartered Accountant – Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales

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