Accounts Payable Senior Accountant

Senior Accountant and Consultant

Qualifications Profile

Dynamic, versatile, and results-focused professional, offering 25+ years of experience in in accounting and financial management, complemented with in-depth background in GAAP financial reporting and accounts reconciliation. Adept at developing strong client relationships quickly. Skilled problem solver, able to thrive in high-pressure and fast-paced environments. Expert at maximizing productivity and ensuring proper time management as well as quality controls and assurance

Technical Acumen

Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook) AS400 (MAPICS) Navision Powerlink Oracle JobBoss Financial Edge Location specific ERP /STORIS QuickBooks People Soft File bridge Maximo MRI Great Plains TriTech SAP ASW S2K Acumatica Blackline

Creative Financial Staffing Madison, WI

Payroll Accountant Consultant

2023-2024

Journal entries, reconciliations, and tax payments to different States.

Employee expenses review and approval.

Ad hoc projects.

Confie Insurance Irving, TX

SR. Account

2021–2023

Lead and execute month end close responsibilities including journal entries, reporting and analysis.

Accomplished tasks including comprehensive reconciliation and analyses of accounts on cash, prepaid expenses, fixed assets, accounts payable, accrued expenses, revenues and expenses.

Ad hoc reporting and projects

Financial Additions Dallas, Texas

GL Accountant Consultant

2020-2021

GL accountant with several monthly close duties assigned specifically to me all deadline driven

Journal entries, reconciliations, and clear payments. Made all correction entries for the accounting department

Post entries from invoices to customer accounts

Accountant Consultant

2019-2020

Account reconciliations from 2012 to 2019 to prepare for an internal and external audit

Analyze and researched discrepancies

Created Journal Entries

Lucas Group Dallas, Texas

GL Accountant Consultant

2018

GL Month End Closing, prepaid, reoccurring. depreciation, accruals, payroll and all other month end entries

Operating account and intercompany account reconciliations

Changed from ASW to SAP with no pretesting of the software or beforehand training.

VIP Resource Group Dallas, Texas

Cash Accountant Consultant

2018

Reconciled an assigned set of cash accounts continuously, which consisted of hundreds of checking accounts.

Analyzed and researched discrepancies to reconcile check books and corrected as needed.

Checked for fraud daily between 31 banks and hundreds of stores that had accounts with those banks.

Month End Closing

Next Step Recruiting Dallas, Texas

Property Accountant Consultant

2017

Performed daily transactions in the Development department.

Prepared draws, wires and journal entries for development projects

Reconciled financial discrepancies by analyzing data

A/R project for billings from 2013-2017

Aston Carter Dallas, Texas

Plant Accountant Consultant

2016-2017

Performed Daily Production Reconciliations.

Accounts payable matching.

Monthly Close process. Monthly, daily, weekly reporting and journal entries.

Other duties and special projects as given.

Resources Global Dallas, Texas

Accountant Consultant

2015-2016

Consulted and coordinated for a company that was moving the accounting operations from Arkansas to Dallas.

Trained on staff accountant duties.

Analyzed and documented process and procedures.

Consulted and worked hands on with the accounting staff reconciling cash accounts. Documented process and procedures throughout the recollection process. Daily cash applications and other projects and duties as needed.

Creative Financial Staffing Madison, WI

Cost Accountant, Weir Minerals Madison, WI

2012-2015

Supported all the different affiliated standard cost accounting procedures and operations.

Analyzed costing jobs; brought up to date work orders, debit memos, scrap and modified updates.

Accommodated for the acknowledgement of company’s staff shortage.

Accountant, UW Alumni Foundation

Accurately encoded a year’s work of complicated cash reconciliations.

Resolved and implemented current processes and procedures for the company’s new ERP system.

Recorded detailed processes and procedures for the cash reconciliation and other financial functions.

Cost Accountant, Cotta Transmissions Beloit, WI

Job costing daily. Questioned variances in the BOMS. Boosted efficiencies by re-costing inventory valuation.

Coordinated with the controller; decreased work orders and job closing exception reporting because of the launch of a new system.

Reconciled banks and multi-report inventor, initiating training and work instructions for the purpose of monthly board of directors’ statements and meetings.

Resources Global Milwaukee, WI

Accountant Consultant

2011–2012

Consulted and coordinated with a $300M consumer goods manufacturing company, setting up and preparing the accounts payable department along with written processes and procedures.

Directed all aspects of the daily and monthly whey reporting as the interim accounting manager, attending to invoicing, accounts payable, and accounts receivable processing.

Accountemps Various Locations

Accountant, Certco, Inc. Madison, WI

2009–2011

Rendered accounting services encompassing the preparation of monthly tax of cigarette, tobacco, and sales/use tax; oversight to the automation of process between the Wisconsin Department of Revenue and IT to automate cigarette and tobacco tax filing process; and the accomplishment of account analysis and bank reconciliations.

Attended to 500 to 800 payable checks each week.

Financial Account, Blackhawk Community Credit Union Janesville, WI

Inclusive Years

Completed the weekly and monthly reports for the federal reserve, board of directors, and vice president of operations.

Contributed to the quarterly call report, in the completion of month end financials, and reconciliation of general ledger accounts.

Utilized skills in preparing 1099Rs and personal property income tax returns for the Credit Union branches.

Robert Half Madison, WI

Salaried Professional- Financial Accounting, Cost Accounting

2008–2009

Offered significant support to the controller in the preparation of daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly reports for facility managers and vice presidents of operations.

Assumed responsibility in reconciling general ledger accounts and processing general ledger entries for the month end closing process.

Jack Links Cost accountant: collaborated with another facility to standardize process and procedures.

Monitored daily and period giveaway and yield amounts and pioneered operating processes for tracking waste.

Aided assistant controller tasks as necessary and assumed A/P role during her absence.

ABC Supply Beloit, WI

Auditor

2005–2008

Carried out extensive process analysis and internal audits to analyze risks.

Monitored branch performance and communicated feedback and analysis reports to the upper management.

Fulfilled inventory variance analysis, monthly reconciliations, the contributed to the profit and loss statement (P&L) evaluations.

Leveraged technical skills in automating processes, thereby emitting a permanent position.

National Guardian Life Madison, WI

Accountant

2001–2005

Accomplished tasks including comprehensive reconciliation and analyses of accounts and cash accounts along with the processing of adjustments and cash applications correct discrepancies

Took charge of all facets of the quarterly and annual financial statements and NAIC filing; along with the monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting of financial results

Leveraged technical skills in automating processes, thereby emitting a permanent position

Education

Master of Business Administration/Accounting

Lakeland College Madison, WI

Bachelor of Arts in Accounting/Business Administration

Graduated with Honors Lakeland College Madison, WI

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