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KATHRYN PUGH

Accountant

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Accounting Manager with over two decades of experience in financial management and team leadership, adept at leveraging advanced accounting software to drive process improvements and strategic financial planning. Demonstrates a strong commitment to enhancing financial integrity through innovative internal controls and automation solutions, while excelling in communication and critical thinking. Passionate about fostering collaborative environments that support efficient decision-making and organizational growth.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

CONSULTANTJan 2024 - Sep 2024

Fort Collins Habitat

Managed cash budgets and collaborated on cash flow strategies, enhancing financial stability.

Developed audit schedules for balance sheets, ensuring accurate financial reporting.

Streamlined accounting processes, contributing to efficient month-end closes and reporting.

Implemented internal controls for accounts payable and banking, improving financial integrity.

Streamlined financial reporting, enhancing accuracy and efficiency, fostering better strategic planning and decision-making.

Introduced automated solutions for routine accounting tasks, reducing manual effort and improving data accuracy and process speed.

DIRECTOR OF ACCOUNTINGMar 2020 - Nov 2023

Senior Housing Options, Inc

• Supervise four staff, overseeing financial operations, process, procedures, and internal controls.

• Created and managed financial models to evaluate corporate investments and acquisitions.

• Established internal audit procedures to validate and improve accuracy of financial reporting.

• Checked payroll, vendor payments, commissions, and other accounting disbursements for accuracy and compliance.

• Evaluated and negotiated contracts to procure favorable financial terms.

• Month end and Year-end close, reconciliation of balance sheet accounts

• General Ledger review

• Annual audits for twelve entities, two audit cycles per year.

• Tax return review and approval.

• Banking – changed banks, over eighty bank accounts.

• New credit card provider and process

• Improved accounting processes, internal control improvements and resolved accounting issues.

• Budgeting and forecasting

• New construction process for accounting

• Improve Yardi process and use of software.

• Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable processing

• Investor reporting

• Monthly financial packages

• Tax exempt status sales tax and property tax.

• Reporting to the Fiscal Committee and Executive board

• Applied for grants including PPP Loans, received forgiveness.

• Resolve and improve financial reporting to the operations staff.

• Regulatory Reporting

SR. ACCOUNTING MANAGERJun 2019 - Feb 2020

Real Capital Solutions

• Supervised a staff of five.

• Month end close process including balance sheet reconciliations, including equity schedules.

• Two different software packages

• Homebuilding, Condos, and Apartments – Sage

• Budget process

• Year-end process

• MRI – Commercial

• New Entity setup – opening journal entries

ASSISTANT CONTROLLERNov 2018 - Jun 2019

Jewish Family Service & On Point Medical Group

• Payroll – Paylocity & ADP

• Month end close process including balance sheet reconciliations.

• Income statement analysis

• Special projects including updating AR accounting processes.

ASSISTANT CONTROLLEROct 2015 - Nov 2018

Eating Recovery Center

• Month end close process – improved processing from 18 days to 7 days, including balance sheet recons.

• Financial Statements including Cash Flow.

• Deferred rent schedules.

• Concur – developed, implemented, trained, wrote policies and procedures.

• AR reconciliation and improvement of the process including posting revenue.

• Corporate credit card program – policy and procedures

• Year-end audit preparation – lead contact for PBC lists and special schedules.

• Outside audits – sales tax, personal property and escheatable funds.

• Personal property and sales tax returns

• Escheatable funds (unclaimed funds) filing in all states.

• Manage staff including training staff to increase efficiency.

• Payroll processing including new PTO recording process.

• Train Corporate department leaders on how to utilize financial reports and manage budget.

CONSULTANT PROPERTY ACCOUNTING MANAGERFeb 2015 - Sep 2015

Laramar Group

• Review annual tax returns for Laramar owned properties.

• Development properties before operations and when completed moved property to operations

• Worked on procedures for the development properties.

• Construction Yardi software for development properties

• Updated budgets for development and operations

• Third party managed property accounting, monthly and quarterly reporting for each investor.

• Help develop new procedures for accounting team.

• Real Estate tax project.

BUDGET & FORECASTING MANAGERSep 2013 - Jan 2015

Carmel Partners

• Leading the budget and forecasting process using MRI budget module

• Develop and train operations personnel.

• Report to the executive team, the status of the budget and forecast process.

• Mange staff of two associates

• Help develop external spreadsheets to load overhead, payroll, rent and capital, used excel as the tool

• Assisted regional managers in calculating the CAM charges for the commercial units.

• Commercial budgets

• Quarterly forecasting for active properties, owner operated and third-party management.

• Worked with IT to develop reporting tools for inside and outside the organization.

• Help develop a new rental income tool for senior properties, student housing and lease-up properties.

• Monthly and annual reconciliations to include cash flows for all active properties including properties coming in from development

• Audit improved the process and cut down the timeline from 6 months to 2 months.

• Roll-forward schedules for auditors including fixed assets, property taxes, and insurance.

• Internal audit process

• Lender reporting includes formatting financial statements to meet requirements.

• Unclaimed funds.

• Outside audits for government organizations such as CHFA.

• Personal property tax and business tax forms for multiple states.

• Month-end close process, help develop a new outline including streamlined the process.

• Help develop a moral program for the accounting team.

• Financial analysis of the properties within the funds.

• Responsible for the accounting and reporting of over 159 funds including bank reconciliation.

• Set up new internal audit procedures, set up audit reviews on a quarterly basis for all lower tier properties.

• Reduce audit cycle from 14 to 7 months.

• Setup new audit package to reduce open points.

• Improve accounting processes and procedures.

• Record and report the sale of non-guaranteed funds.

• Supervise four staff associates including annual review and any dispensary action needed.

• Record property and fund disposals including a final audit and tax return.

• Balance equity installments between fund, investor, and property.

PROPERTY ACCOUNTING MANAGERAug 2002 - Apr 2007

Mercy Housing - Low Income Housing Provider

• Managed Property Accounting Group with over 120 properties amounted to over 10,000 units.

• Managed day-to-day accounting functions monthly reconciliations, federal agency, and investor reporting.

• External financial reporting to HUD, USDA and Investors which included financial statements and audit reporting.

• Developed accounting procedures to assist improvement of relationships between accounting and operations.

• Managed the current HUD and Rural Development property audits which supported the corporate annual audit.

• Developed the accounts receivable department to increase revenue; that was uncollected.

• Successfully turned around two 'difficult' employees

• Helped develop and write standard operating procedures for operations department.

• Part of team to successfully clean-up accounting system conversion from Solomon to Yardi.

• Corporate representative for Yardi user group

EDUCATION

MASTERS IN ACCOUNTING AND BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

Devry University-Colorado

GPA: 4.0

BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN ACCOUNTING

University of Phoenix

GPA: 3.8

SKILLS

Yardi (Experienced), MRI (Experienced), Excel (Skillful), ADP Payroll (Skillful), Paylocity (Skillful), Paycom Payroll (Beginner), Financial Edge (Skillful), Client Tracker (Beginner), Advance MD, Peachtree (Beginner), Platinum Solomon, JD Edwards (Beginner), QuickBooks (Experienced), Great Plains (Experienced), Micro Dynamics SL & GP (Expert), Sage (Beginner), PPC (Skillful), Zoom (Skillful), Microsoft Teams (Experienced), Google data (Skillful), File Share (Experienced), Dropbox.

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