Telena Toney
Project Accountant II - Fairfield Residential Company LLC
Charlotte, NC 28204
***********@***.*** - 704-***-****
Diverse, top-notch, talented accomplished Accountant with over 20 years of extensive experience in Accounting, Office Administration and Customer Service. Dedicated to superior internal and external customer relations. Easily adapts to changing environments with the ability to be flexible. Authorized to work in the US for any employer
WORK EXPERIENCE
Project Accountant II
Fairfield Residential Company LLC - Charlotte, NC - August 2016 to March 2017 Preparing Draws for Redevelopment Accounting for various properties.
• Responsible for all aspects of the accounts payable process for 19 new construction projects including invoices, funding project costs via submittal of monthly draws.
• Review and approve supplier invoices related to a project.
• Review and approve time sheets for work related to a project.
• Review and approve overhead charges to be applied to a project.
• Review account totals related to project assets and expenses.
• Investigate project variances and submit variance reports to management.
• Confer with receivables staff regarding unpaid contract billings.
• Monitoring and maintaining budgets, validating and maintaining accuracy of all Timberline and Yardi data related to project accounting, and coordinating the efforts of interrelated departments and external personnel.
• Completes project related performance reporting, budget maintenance and control, and construction funding and payments.
• Bank Reconciliations
• General Ledger Account Reconciliation
• Month End Closing of all Properties.
• Weekly Cash Analysis Reports
• Review and maintain projects contracts and change orders.
• Journal Entries and Reclasses
• Transfer expenses into and out of project-related accounts.
• Report on project profitability to management.
• Close out project accounts upon project completion.
• Analyze and review vendor/company contracts.
• Resolve accounts payable discrepancies.
Senior Property Accountant
Campus Crest Group - Charlotte, NC - May 2012 to March 2016 Receives and process incoming invoices for 15 Student Housing Properties Operational / Construction and Development.
• Process incoming Vendor Packets, Property Payable, Electric and Water/Sewer invoices pertaining to properties.
• Oversee the preparation of all invoices for entry into One Site Accounting, Real Page Accounting System and Dynamics Microsoft Nav 2013 Financials.
• Monitors the entry of information and data, and verifies invoice accuracy, coding and data entry for submission to property management record keeping.
• Compile and run month end report for all accounts payable.
• General Ledger Account Reconciliation
• Month End Closing of all Properties.
• Process General Manager expense reports and checks.
• Process Student/Residents FAS Refunds.
• Develops and maintains the records of financial transactions for the establishments. Verifies, allocates, and oversees the posting of details of business transactions to subsidiary accounts in journals or computer files from documents, such as sales slips, invoices, receipts, check stubs, and computer printouts.
• Compile Monthly Accrual Reports for all Properties working closely with General Managers, Area Managers, Regional Managers and Vice President of Operations.
• Preparation and compilation of monthly financial reports and analysis to show statistics, such as cash receipts and expenditures, accounts payable and receivable, profit and loss, and other items pertinent to operation of business. Ensures the maintenance, updating and effective summarization of applicable ledgers and computer files/reports.
• Assist with vendor set-up and vendor file maintenance obtaining W-9's and COI's as necessary to process invoices for weekly payments, and assist with annual 1099 preparation.
• Managed (3) Accounts Payable Coordinators
• Train new Property Accountants.
• Provide notary services for the company.
• Analyze and review vendor/company contracts.
• Provide resolution for accounts payable discrepancies.
• Process payables for various locations (Asheville, NC, Carrollton, GA, Cheney, WA, Fort Wayne, IN, Lawrence, KS, Lubbock, TX, Milledgeville, GA, Moscow, ID, Mt Pleasant, MI, Muncie, IN, Murfreesboro, TN, San Angelo, TX, Slippery Rock, PA, Waco, TX).
Vendor Recovery Auditor
Capital Conservation Group - Denver, NC - July 2011 to May 2012 Streamline Payables-Manual Examination of Invoices
• Increase Positive Cash Flow
• Manage company's disbursement process through specific preventative reporting immediate return of loss capital purchasing Internal Audit
• Managed Vendors Increase Profit
• Reviewed a minimum of 85% of processed invoices for an identified scope. Reviews performed onsite and offsite
• Vendor Compliance Reviews
• Fixed Asset Reconciliation
• Notary services for the company.
• Inventory / Expense Item Examination
• System / Technology Consulting
• Tax Statue Compliance
• Review and Product Classification
• Claim Comparison
• Vendor Scrubs / Custom Reporting / Excel Spreadsheets / Final Analysis Report
• 90% Travel from State to State
• C.A.E.S.A.R - Compliance Accordant Evaluation Solution and Reporting Software, Excel, Word, AS400, QuickBooks etc.
• S&D Coffee- Concord, NC / Tarheel Paper Corporation, Winston Salem Train and provide back-up for receptionist
McGrann Paper Corporation - Charlotte, NC - February 2006 to July 2011 Charlotte, NC (2/2006 - 7/2011)
• Receives and sort incoming invoices.
• Processes incoming vendor, office payable, and freight, outside warehousing invoices.
• Compile and run month end reports for all accounts payable.
• Process company expense checks.
• Itemize and enter coding for corporate credit cards.
• Request and process W-9 from company vendors.
• Train and provide back-up for receptionist.
• Provide notary services for the company.
• Analyze and review company contracts.
• Provide resolution for accounts payable discrepancies.
• Process accounts payable for various locations (Rancho, CA; Albany, NY; Watertown, NY; Charlotte, NC).
• Performs other incidental and related duties as required and assigned
• Prepared outgoing customer invoices.
• Processed 5,000 invoices or more weekly.
EDUCATION
Diploma in Academic and Business
Garinger Business & Finance School - Charlotte, NC 1989 to 1992
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
SKILLS
• Customer Service Relations, Data Entry, Business Accounting, General Accounting, Internal/External Communication, Filing (Alpha & Numeric), Microsoft Office, Ten-key 17,960 kph, Auto Sig. Machine
(microfilming), Datatel, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Access, Light Oracle, Great Plains, Accuterm, Traverse, Real Page Accounting System, One-Site Accounting, Dynamics Microsoft NAV 2013 Financials, SharePoint, Timberline-Sage 300 CRE, Yardi Voyager, Nexus Payables, CIS-Invoice Router/Document Manager, Work Day-Time/Payroll, RDA, Excel-Pivot Tables, Microsoft Outlook, Project Point, Business Intelligence.