Senior Accountant
Resume:
JOHANNA NARVAEZ, MBA
Dallas – Fort Worth
Email: adbh0e@r.postjobfree.com
PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
Adaptable, highly ethical, self - motivated, detail oriented and dependable Accounting professional experienced in Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical and Banking industries among others. Accustomed to handling sensitive, confidential records. Track record for producing accurate reports and meeting strict guidelines and company policies. Excellent communication, organizational and time management skills. Flexibility to travel domestically and abroad. Full professional proficiency in both English and Spanish. Passionate about learning new skills, ability to learn and adapt to new technology and work with data.
SKILLS SUMMARY
SAP, SAP B1, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft Account Reconciliations & Variance Analysis SOX Testing/Internal Controls
Kronos, Paycom, Workday, Concur Internal Audit & Compliance Reporting Knowledge of GAAP
MS Office, Tableau, SQL Report Manager Financial Planning and Analysis Process Improvement /Automation
Power BI, BPC and Hyperion. SmartSheet Financial Modeling & Valuation Project Management
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
KMG Chemicals – Ft. Worth, TX May 2018 – December 2019
Senior Accountant
Reporting directly to the Controller / Chief Accounting Officer. In charge of month-end closing procedures. Generate, review and communicate results from monthly financial reports for our Canadian and Abu Dhabi subsidiaries. Review journal entries of peers for other entities within the organization.
Prepare various monthly schedules and reports for internal users and external auditors, and provide assistance, as needed with annual audits and quarterly reviews. This includes balance sheet and income statement flux analysis, quarterly financial reporting package, balance sheet reconciliations and communicate results to upper management.
Responsible for all journal entries, adjusting entries, PPA entries, corporate allocations, accruals, benefit vacation and other allocations, as well as payroll entries.
Responsible for the management of foreign subsidiary chart of account and mapping with corporate accounts. Opening and closing reporting periods in SAP B1. Communicating closing deadlines to employees.
Maintain PP&E schedule for foreign and local entities. Prepared monthly capital spending reports for upper management. Monthly depreciation and amortization entries for Intangibles and fixed assets. Additions and disposal entries of fixed assets.
Reconcile and prepare Texas Sales Tax remittance. Reconcile sales and corporate tax for our Canada entity.
Manually reconcile daily banking activity in SAP B1. Prepare monthly bank accounts recs for our Canada and US entities.
Prepare inventory reports and reconcile inventory accounts against the Inventory Audit report. Research variance and implement solutions to accounting problems. Participate in the annual physical inventory. Calculate labor and overhead true up (annually), inventory adjustments, inventory transfers.
Reconcile intercompany transactions with the Senior Corporate Accountant.
Prepare or update accounting policies and/or memos, as required, to document treatment of new or unique transactions.
Liaison between internal and external auditors and upper management. Handle audit request in a timely fashion.
Led, participated and implemented collaboration tools and new technology to automate and streamline processes across the Accounting organization. These projects included, Sales & Use Tax, Park & Post, AP AR Optimization, Travel and Entertainment, Cash Application, STAT to GAAP Mexico project and automated FX daily feed into SAP. Design reporting solutions to help managers have more visibility to performance / productivity metrics.
Participate in Stub period close post acquisition of our company by Cabot Microelectronics back in November 2019. Actively participated in the transition cross training of newly hired Senior Accountants in Aurora Illinois as part of our company’s restructuring plan.
King Architectural Metals – Dallas, TX July 2017 – May 2018
Accountant
Responsible for all accounting and month end close activities related to freight, inventory, sales tax, HR Benefits.
Prepare journal entries, account reconciliations, accruals, adjusting entries, etc.
Monthly inventory analysis and financial reporting.
Reconcile freight claims receivable balances and review freight audit reports.
Reconcile all Health and Welfare Insurance benefit invoices and record expense to the general ledger.
Coordinate with temporary agencies to ensure agreements are in place and track hours from temp agencies.
Reconcile temp agency invoices to hours worked and approve hours for payment.
Assist with the preparation of audit schedules, annual budget and ad hoc reports.
Lead process improvement/automation projects with the implementation of SmartSheet across the organization.
Maintain Workers Comp Certificates of Insurance.
Maintain employee and temporary FTE hours report on a weekly basis.
Document HR and account department procedures in our knowledge database.
Bristol-Myers Squibb – Tampa, FL March 2014 – June 2017
Senior Financial Analyst (December 2014-June 2017)
In charge of quarterly anti bribery audits for the following markets for Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Chile, Puerto Rico and Argentina. Report on audit findings and provide recommendations and proposed corrective actions.
Performed Sarbanes Oxley testing of Internal Controls for Japan, Ireland and US Markets.
Perform monthly SAP Disbursement Audits for USP, ES CORP and R&D/Study Payments.
Audit BMS Sales force interactions with health care providers to ensure compliance with the new federal reporting requirements as established by the new Health Care Reform Transparency.
Discuss discrepancies with Sales reps and their upper managers as needed.
Supervised a group of 10 HCP reviewer in the Manager’s absence.
Created work instructions and training materials for new reviewers.
Weekly stats reporting as requested by upper management.
Lead numerous projects including but not limited to system automation testing for the new HCP Dashboard, HCP Reviewer tool, and enhancements to Concur.
Bristol-Myers Squibb – Tampa, FL
Operations Analyst (March 2014-December 2014)
Authorized submitter for changes to supplier banking information.
Provided assistance to Financial Analysts and Corporate Accountants as required.
Lead projects such as US Check to ACH migration and Abandoned Property.
Oversaw payments team located in Manila and serve as point of escalation for North America issues regarding payments.
Ensured payments team adheres to SOP’s and work instructions.
Updated work instructions and create new ones when required and cross train colleges when necessary.
Authorized manual payments and other transactions regarding payments as required.
Opened and monitored help desk tickets pertaining to payments in Vitalize.
EDUCATION
Southern New Hampshire University – Manchester, NH Feb 2018
International Master of Business Administration with concentration in Finance
Universidad del Turabo – Tampa, FL June 2014
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with concentration in Accounting
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