MARIA E. ROSALES

**** *********** ******, ** ***. 211

Washington, DC 20015

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

American University, Office of the Controller - Full-Time Senior Accountant May 2023 – November 2023

• Manage the sponsored portfolios of various departmental faculty including Washington School of Law and School of Public Affairs - 198 foundation grant and government contract accounts (NSF, DHS, DOJ, HHS and TSA) for Restricted, Exchange transactions, Conditional funds and gift donations

• Provide regular reporting to principal investigators on financial status of grants, contracts and discretionary accounts including kick-off meetings. Assist with closeout of grants and contracts

• Ensure that related post-award processes are coordinated appropriately by members of the grants & contracts team, including award setup, review, account setup verification, and ensuring that staff is setup appropriately

• Ensure that post-award responsibilities are completed, including budget distribution, account reconciliation, e-form setup, effort reporting, cost transfers, paying invoices and paperwork finalization related to subcontract setup

• Review and reconcile financial transactions and prepare necessary corrections as needed such as cost transfer journal entries, fixed assets schedules, interest income. Work is reviewed and approved by the Accounting Manager or a Senior Accountant.

• Prepares Federal and Non-Federal Financial Reports (SF-270 and SF-425 ) monthly in accordance with the established policies and procedures, and contractual requirements while also submitting invoices and requesting reimbursement such as via the use of complicated Sponsor Cash Management Systems

• Collaborates with unit personnel to resolve financial issues, answers fiscal data inquiries from unit managers, research faculty, sponsors, external sources, etc

• Prepares assigned audit schedules, which may include the Schedule of Federal Awards for the annual Single Audit, and provides support for annual audits, desk reviews, and site visits in accordance with instructions provided by the GCA management team

• Directly supports Grants accountants on answering fiscal data inquiries from unit managers, research faculty, sponsor funder, external sources, etc

• Special duties and projects as assigned by the Office of Sponsored and Research Administration (OSARA) Director or OSARA Accounting Manager

JEFFERSON CONSULTING GROUP, LLC, Washington, DC February 2020 – March 2023 Billing Accountant - Full-Time

• Primarily leads for overseeing all contractual actions beginning with new customers account set-ups within the JAMIS Prime accounting system valued between $3 million to $35 million in revenue

• Prepares timely invoicing and in-charge government and commercial contracts worth over $65 million either individually or through multiple tasks

• Primarily leads overseeing all contractual actions modifying contracts which may consist of change orders, realigning funding; de-obligating funding; and extending period of performance

• Maintains funding pipelines for Jefferson contracts; monitors spending from various streams (elements) under a single contract including firm-fixed price, cost plus fixed fee, and time and materials contracts and task orders with incremental funding

• Maintains quarterly GSA-Industrial Funding Fee and Sales Reporting and Contract Access Fee schedules

• Assists with Waterfall backlog analysis for government contracts and pipeline

• Built in Gross Profit and Contribution Margin analysis, model use to evaluate acquisition candidates

• Assists with incurred cost submission rate proposal to the contract office and auditor within the 6-month period following the expiration of each of its fiscal years (June 30th)

• Reconciles labor distribution to payroll register and records payroll entry and accrued wages discrepancies

• Assists Corporate Controller in preparation of year-end audit requirements NATIONAL QUALITY FORUM (NQF), Washington, DC May 2014 - November 2019 Senior Accountant - Full-Time

The National Quality Forum (NQF) is a 501(c)(6) not-for-profit, nonpartisan, membership-based organization that works to catalyze improvements in healthcare

• Assisted with the month end close process for presentation of financial statements and reconciliation and analysis of critical balance sheet accounts, including accounts payable and accounts receivable, reconciliation of cash and investment accounts and maintenance of 401(k) schedules

• Worked closely with Budget Manager to develop multi-million dollar Cost Reimbursable, Firm Fixed Price, and IDIQ/budgets for Federal Contracts and for Grant funded projects

• Managed all departmental Account Receivables for both Federal Contracts (Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services, CMS) and Grants funded project and prepared and distributed weekly and monthly Accounts Receivable reports

• Ensured all departmental invoices were correctly coded and documented for payment within the period and worked with customers to ensure all invoices were paid on a timely basis

• Assisted with the Annual Operating Budget process, trained staff on the budgeting templates and software and prepared individual departmental budgets, trending, and forecasted data

• Closely worked with external auditors both during quarterly and annual audits THE WORLD JUSTICE PROJECT (WJP), Washington, DC November 2012 - May 2014 Finance Manager - Full-Time

International, multi-disciplinary 501(c)(3) with mission to strengthen the rule of law for the development of communities of opportunity and equity

• Prepared operational budgets for several program areas: the global outreach forum knows as the World Justice Forum and its regional outreach forums, the Rule of Law Index, the Opportunity Fund, and organization’s scholarship fund

• Analyzed and presented financial reports including communicating monthly and annual financial statements and oversaw all accounting functions and financial reporting duties

• Coordinated and led the annual audit schedules with audit requirements outlined under OMB Circular A- 133 and A-122, and Form 990 and served as liaison with external auditors and the Finance Committee of the Board of Directors MANAGEMENT SCIENCES FOR DEVELOPMENT, INC. (MSD), Washington, DC November 2007 - October 2012 Senior Accountant (Promoted During Tenure) - Full-Time MSD was a medium-size ($20+ million annual sales management) 8(a) Minority-Owned and Woman-Owned international development consulting firm that specialized in implementing justice and security programs worldwide; including democracy and governance, human rights and justice sector reform

• Generated and submitted multiple monthly project invoices for T&M and CPFF awards to the US Agency for International Development (USAID)

• Generated and analyzed financial statements and reports for field and corporate operations, including reconciliation of general ledger and allocation of due-to/from-to accounts, indirect cost rates, and job summary reports

• Executed a range of project accounting duties while simultaneously monitoring costs of up to six USAID- funded projects throughout Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East, worked directly with project managers to forecast and analyze variances in project budgets, and set up accounting systems and trained field accountants for project start-up

• Assisted with Implementation of Deltek GCS including setting up chart of account and indirect cost allocation process while parallel Peachtree system to Deltek GCS Premier

• Worked directly with CFO and field accountants on a range of procedures, including project funds advances, tracked and monitored allocated budget expenditures, and reviewed financial reports

• Oversaw all payroll-related activities including processing biweekly time sheets from field and corporate offices for more than 150 employees, performed allocation and analysis of 401(k) contributions, prepared 1099 forms, and reviewed and analyzed quarterly and annual payroll reports

• Worked with bank and designated CPA firms to perform quarterly and year-end review, maintained company line of credit, provided schedules for the Defense Contract Audit Agency, made payment of quarterly and annual corporate taxes and performed reconciliation of 940 and 941 forms

EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS

UNIVERSITY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Washington, DC Bachelor of Arts in Accounting

UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS, LA

Bachelor of Arts in Psychology

SKILLS

JAMIS Prime, Deltek GCS, Microsoft Dynamics SL (formerly Solomon), Colleague, Workday, Concur Expense System, Peachtree, PeopleSoft, Oracle (FAH), QuickBooks (Time), Salesforce, iMIS Software, Paychex, and ADP Payroll Systems, Databasics Time and Expense Solutions, and Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, and PowerPoint) and Outlook Languages: Fluent in English and Spanish

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