Charles Nichols III
** ******** ***** ****, *******, MA 01776
Day Phone: (best) 978-***-**** Cell: 978-***-**** Email: ad2ngg@r.postjobfree.com ACCOUNTING ASSISTANT – Software Experience & Capabilities
• Microsoft Office 365
• Microsoft Access DB and Excel
• Lawson Accounting Software (MWRA)
• QuickBooks Pro
• Advent AXYS Portfolio Management Software
• Currently studying for Fundamental Payroll Certification
• Member of the American Payroll Association
WORK EXPERIENCE
Mass Water Resources Authority, Charlestown, MA 7/2022 to 4/2023 full time
• Processed daily Payables and Non-recurring Payables for the General Ledger in Lawson Accounts Payable System
• Completed Manual Timesheets for Payroll on Thursdays; Friday’s ran automated approved payroll timesheets.
• Archived MWRA files for late Q2 Finance/Admin Dept. move to Chelsea, MA Nichols Asset Management, LLC: Accountant Assistant: 6/2009 to July 2022
• Maintain Account Payables and Payroll and general report preparation in QuickBooks and made ACH transfers for bills.
• Daily reconciliation of 30 institutional Pension custodial accounts worth $550 million with Advent AXYS portfolio software and Excel Templates. *
• Assist with preparing monthly institutional client reports including monthly reconciliation for performance, compliance, and minority commission reports.
• Implemented and maintained a database for institutional accounts with account key access to Depository Trust Confirm, built Archive for Proxy voting Compliance and Trade Confirms. *
• Ran monthly proprietary quantitative model in Microsoft ACCESS DB using S&P Capital IQ financial data to rank over 2,500 public companies for investment purposes and produced monthly quantitative reports as needed. *
• Knowledge of; Google Docs, Sage, Great Plains and Salesforce.
• Analyze P&L expenses for the current year against the prior year, to look for cost savings possibilities and utilized Rakuten (formally known as Ebates.com), saving the firm 2% per year on office supplies.
*Institutional business 2009- 2016 NAM Closed institutional business in April 2016 The Family Office business continues.
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EDUCATION
Southern New Hampshire University
• Accounting Certificate completed GPA 3.6: 3/2017 Middlesex Community College
• Courses: Business Mathematics, Accounting I, and II, Math Connections, Microsoft Computer Applications, Excel Spreadsheet Applications, Microsoft Access Data Base ACCOMPLISHMENTS and VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE
• Fourth Degree Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do 2018
• Saint Bernard Rescue, Sudbury, MA 2008-2016