MARINA BONDAREVA

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San Francisco CA 94112

(415) 606 – 0335 HYPERLINK "mailto:ad4y5b@r.postjobfree.com"ad4y5b@r.postjobfree.com

Accounting Professional highly efficient, able to analyze high volume of financial data and interact with professionals on all levels. Capable of prioritizing and managing heavy work flows without direct supervision, motivated by active learning and team interests. Selected by senior management to participate on a key cross-functional project team to address company initiatives. Well organized, detail oriented with the ability to see the whole picture, capable of performing efficiently under pressure with expertise in:

• Corporate Accounting • Payroll Accounting

• Variance Analysis • Bank Reconciliations

• Expense Analysis • SOX Documentation

• Effective Communicator • Team Player

EXPERIENCE:

2021 September - June 2022. Public Library of Science

Accountant

Responsible for creating and revising customer invoices, communicating with authors and financial institutions.

Responsible for analyzing, coding and paying large volume of invoices.

Prepared Balance sheet reconciliations, including check deposits and PAB bank reconciliation.

Prepared checks deposits and posted payments to NetSuite.

Reviewed waivers requests and communicated with team members regarding their approvals.

Processed and uploaded to NetSuite wire and credit cards payments and prepared balance sheet reconciliation.

2020 - February - October University of California, San Francisco

Accountant

Responsible for multiple Balance Sheet reconciliations, including payroll. Analyzed payroll reports and reported variances to the management.

Prepared various journal entries, including payroll journals, corrections of suspense accounts, and closing entries.

Performed General Ledger verification, explaining variances to the management and analyzing GL codes.

Participated and helped payroll team in transition from existing payroll system to Oracle.

2014 – 2019 Williams-Sonoma Inc.

Accountant

Reconcile eleven bank cash accounts pertaining to Payroll activity for more than 15,000 employees, including Canadian payroll and UK payroll, within five days without any aging outstanding items.

Analyze variances between General ledger and Bank Statements on a weekly basis and explain variances to senior management and review payroll mapping to ensure correct posting of all payroll transactions to General ledger.

Perform payroll upload from PoBusiness to General Ledger weekly. Prepare ProBusiness payroll summaries and payroll reconciliation between General Ledger and ProBusiness for all payroll transactions monthly.

Prepare 401K summary analyzing payroll reports and submitting wire request.

Prepare reconciliations of ten balance sheet accounts, including accrued payroll, garnishments payable, and payroll benefits accounts.

Prepare accruals entries for US, UK and Canada payroll.

Record payroll prefunding entries as needed.

Perform month-end closing functions, including preparing and posting of Canadian and UK payroll entries, and multiple other journals such as benefit headcounts, payroll fees, benefit reclasses, accrual entries, suspense and payroll tax reclasses,, helping the team to complete the process in two days. Validate compliance of the transactions with Lawson and financial policies and procedures.

Perform monthly payroll audit, executed SOX testing of various processes and assisted internal/external auditors with various procedural questions.

Participate in the complex process of implementation of Oracle general ledger system to replace Lawson. Prepared translation tables for payroll accounts.

Assisting team members when necessary to meet management deadlines and goals.

Communicate with banks, ADP and other departments within company to resolve customers’ requests and clear outstanding items.

Prepare Payroll journal entries by processing files obtained from the third party payroll application such as ADP US, ADP Canada, Bank of AmericaCashPro and UK Easy Labour.

2011 – 2014 Cubic Transportation Systems

Reconcile company’s Merchants accounts, analyzing cash position to determine cash movements between accounts and preparing ACH for account receivable and payable through two major banks.

Prepare and post journal entries to record transactions and clear outstanding items through Netsuite accounting system.

Process weekly invoices averaging 1.5M dollars for fortune 500 companies and maintain Merchant database.

Generate and analyze monthly aging reports for management and assisting with General Ledger month end review.

Apply Merchant payments on a weekly basis.

Communicate with various Merchants and other departments within company to resolve customers’ requests and clear outstanding items.

2010 – 2011 Union Bank of California

Reconciled USD Main account, analyzing files downloaded from Global Plus and UB GL into Intellimatch reconciliation system, identifying the breaks and assigning these breaks to the appropriate Business Units.

Performed Global Cash reconciliation, analyzing files downloaded from Global Plus and the Agent Banks via SWIFT, identifying the breaks and addressing these breaks to the corresponding Business Units.

Communicated with various Business Units, researching and assisting to resolve breaks.

Reconciled Class action House account, analyzing reports and reporting variances to the management.

Reconciled non-match receivables based on Globe Tax Services reports, analyzing various accounts and resolving aging breaks.

2000 – 2009 Washington Mutual Bank, San Francisco, CA

Accountant

Reconciled high volume payroll cash disbursement account, totaling 26,000 transactions per month with a dollar value of $23,000,000 within two days without any aging outstanding items.

Performed month-end closing functions, including analysis of 40,000 general ledger transactions helping the team to complete the process in two days.

Reconciled seven accounts pertaining to Payroll activity for more than 13,000 employees, such as 401(K) retirement plan, accrued payroll, voluntary disability, accrued sabbatical, garnishments and others bringing all accounts current.

Prepared reconciliations of twenty-three balance sheet accounts, including prepaid expense, receivable, and intercompany accounts without any carry-off items in three days.

Automated monthly analysis and reconciliation of product costs and inventory, which greatly improved the accuracy of the inventory housed and associated reports.

Performed monthly expense analysis to validate accruals and transactional activity; explain variances to senior management helping to expedite the monthly closing process with high percentage of accuracy.

Prepared accruals entries, including compensation accruals based on the annual bonus target provided by executive management, implementing needed current adjustments.

Processed heavy volume of account payable transactions, validated compliance of the transactions with financial policies and procedures, researched and determined status of uncashed checks, which resulted in significant improvement of the journal posting process.

Maintained fixed assets depreciation schedule on a monthly basis.

Researched and implemented several escheatment projects for approximately 90,000 checks related to customer rebate and disbursement accounts, which measurably improved customer satisfaction.

Prepared journal entries, cash deposits, reports and analysis on a monthly basis in accordance with GAAP.

Assisted team members when necessary to meet management deadlines and goals.

Worked independently in a remote location handling highly confidential information.

Analyzed, prepared and recorded monthly allocations of employee related expenses by headcount; performed monthly cost allocation of telephone and postage expenses.

Performed monthly payroll audit, executed SOX testing of various processes and assisted internal/external auditors with various procedural questions.

Worked with Payroll and Human Resources to resolve outstanding payroll check issues.

Prepared Payroll journal entries by processing files obtained from the third party payroll application.

EDUCATION: San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA.

Bachelor of Science Degree in Finance.

COMPUTER SKILLS: Access, Excel, Word, FCS. Extensity (GEAC), Smart Stream Reconciliations, Global Plus, Intellimatch, R&R Report Writer., Lawson, ProBusiness, People Soft, NetSuite.

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