Customer Service Staff Accountant

Samuel Ole

***** ***** **, *********, *****

United States 240-***-**** **********@*****.***

Fully Work Authorized No Visa Sponsorship Required. Open to Relocation PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Accounting and Finance professional with 15+ years of years of experience in the non-profit and business sector. Skilled in leadership of complex, budget and time management and including domestic travel, Time keeper and customer service for different company

Key Skills

• Project management

• Finical Reporting

• Program evaluation

• Planning and Budgeting expertise

• B.A., Accounting, Haromaya University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (Evaluated by WES)

• M.A., Accounting for Non Profit Organization, Undergraduate, IIMA International University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

• Advanced Microsoft office, Excel with pivot tables, JP,

• GP software, QuickBooks, Candidate for Uniform CPA

• Bilingual: English and Amharic

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Auditor 10/01/2018 – 10/31/2022

DMV Ethiopian Evangelical Church, Washington, DC

Ethiopia Evangelical Church with 35+ Volunteers in USA focused on body of Christ holistic development ; socially, spiritually physically and Psychologically/mentally

• Auditing and analysing financial performance. Financial forecasting and risk analysis,

• Prepare audit reports for presentations,

• Make recommendations to improve and safeguard assets,

• Evaluate operational and internal controls procedures,

• Prepare quarterly Semiannual and annual compliance reports,

• Perform physical count of cash and inventory,

• Review the overall church

• Collecting budget from all department

• Other task as assigned

Staff Accountant 01/11/2019- 03/29/2019

Salvation Army Fairfax, Virginia

Salvation Army dedicated to providing the highest quality veternal with 45+ employees in Fairfax.

• Cutting check

• Made travel arrangements for the office to include transportation, rental car, and hotel reservations. Prepares the travel authorizations and travel vouchers, to include obtaining the necessary approvals

• Organizing vendors file prepare the documents to be ready for payment

• Entering data and charges accurately and expeditiously into GP software on time to ensure proper records handling and fast payment responses

• Managing payments for venders, updating the information, generating invoices and processing payments

• Receive, sort, track incoming payment and post payments.

• Monthly vendetta report to the controller

• Process and follow up, consulting with the Venders before the due date

• Other tasks as assigned

Staff Accountant 07/16/2016- 10/16/2018

National Guard Association Washington, DC

National Guard Association dedicated to providing the highest quality veterans with 25+ employees in DC.

• Credit Card Reconciliation

• Prepare Travel documents

• Made travel arrangements for the office to include transportation, rental car, and hotel reservations. Prepares the travel authorizations and travel vouchers, to include obtaining the necessary approvals

• Cutting check

• Filling, Organizing and Maintainig vendors documents.

• Entering data and charges accurately and expeditiously into GP software on time to ensure proper records handling and fast payment responses

• Managing payments for venders, updating the information, generating invoices and processing payments

• Receive, sort, track incoming payment and post payments.

• Monthly vendetta report to the controller

• Process and follow up, consulting with the Venders before the due date

• Other tasks as assigned.

Assistant Accountant 01/25/2015- 07/15/2016

The Praxis Project, Washington, DC

The Praxis Project dedicated to providing the highest quality to the project with t 15+ staff

• Credit card reconciliation

• Entering data into QuickBooks

• Collect and attach credit receipt

• Working on updating and checking on grant expense codes

• Maintain file for potential donors

• Data entry to the disk top QuickBooks Accounting software

• Document preparation for audit.

• Other task as asigned.

Assistant Accountant 03/03/2014- 01/24/2015

Atlas Corps Service Inc, Washington, DC

Atlas Corps Service Inc dedicated to providing the highest quality to the project with 20+ staff

• Reconciliation of credit card expenses

• Handling all venders and customers issue

• Preparing aging analysis for Accounts payable and Account Receivable

• Invoicing and billing to the venders and customers respectively

• Maintain file for all venders' invoice

• Data entry to the online QuickBooks Accounting software

• Reconciliation of Bank statement every month

• Cutting checks

• Assisting in the audit process

• Checking all reimbursement and travel documents

• Other task as assigned

Budget Accountant 04/07/2007 – 02/10/2014

World Vision International Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

World Vision International nonprofit with 7000+staff members in Addis Ababa focused on child holistic development and release children from poverty through a holistic approach to child development, support carefully blend physical, social, economic and spiritual care together.

• Collecting budget from all department

• Review the overall activity and allocating the annual budget

• Oversee all accounting activities, issue checks and initiate bank reconciliation, administer payroll and petty cash.

• Recorded financial transactions, facilitate annual inventory for different project, sort financial documents for internal & external audit

• Prepared monthly journal entries and reconcile balance sheet accounts to accurately report financials.

• Performed efficient and accurate monthly close procedures; Maintain the general ledger and chart of accounts.

• Worked with assigned awards and grants to ensure the organization has satisfactory award and sub-award programs.

• Provided general financial management, such as monitoring expenditures vs. budget, to ensure that financial functions support the timely, effective and efficient implementation of programs and expenditures are compliant to awarding agencies’ policies.

• Assisted with month-end close to include maintaining fixed assets, maintaining depreciation and prepaid schedules and reconciling the equity and cash accounts..

• Prepared and processed a checks cuts for vendors and customers

• Billed to different vendors and customers, review monthly sales and purchase journals for accuracy of taxes withheld and paid

• Prepared checks and initiate bank reconciliation and posting to the general ledger, Prepared payroll and provide administrative, accurate process daily deposit and posting to the general ledger.

• Controlled petty cash and availability of cash on hand for daily activity

• Recorded financial transactions per company chart of accounts & document them

• Account Payable and Receivable

• Record fixed Assets per company policies and facilitate annual inventory of project inventories

• Increased monthly income by 10-20% through follow up before due dateManged the finical project of 2 and 800k+ USD budget

ADDITIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE

Customers Engineer 11/01/2022 – Present

NCR, Maryland

• Perform routine customers installation, maintenance, and service calls promptly and effectively

• Service electromechanical equipment like self-checkout systems within an assigned territory

• Perform maintenance repair and system overhauls

• Manage everything from network faults and traffic, to configuration, security, and remote system access

• preventative maintenance and repairs on all brands of air compressors, dryers, gas generators, and ancillary equipment

EDUCATION

Master of Arts (MA), Accounting for Non profit Organization, Undergraduate Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Bachelor of Arts (BA), Accounting, Evaluated by WES Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, Addis Ababa,

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT/AFFILIATIONS

• NAGOS Basic ITAS for Timekeepers and NIH Domestic Travel

• QuickBooks, Washington, DC

• Time management, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia,

• Budgetary Planning & Control not for government organization (NGOs) and Coaching for Performance, Organization and Management, Time management Billing and Coding, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 10/14/2009

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