MICHELE JACOBSON
Phone: 920-***-**** / Email: ***********@*****.***
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
■Cash Management ■ Allocate and post credit card expenses
■Accounts Receivable and Payables ■ Tax paper preparation
■Account reconciliations and audits ■ Advance Excel (Pivot Tables, V-Lookups)
■Purchasing ■ Budgets and variance reporting
■ADP Payroll
■Inhouse payroll, including all quarterly and year end reports, 1099’s and W2’ s
WORK EXPERIENCE
ADECCO USA Staff Accountant January, 2020 – February, 2020
■Post Credit Card Transactions to Electronic Payment log
■Post Daily Banking Disbursements to Electronic ACH log and match to Access Database
■Reconcile Pass Through accounts for 700 clients and resolve discrepancies
■Accounts Payable
■Accounts Receivable
■Resolve all invoice discrepancies
■Purchase of office and shop supplies
■Payroll and job cost employee hours
■Review and approve expense reports
■Accounts Payable using three-way match
■Purchasing
■Track milestone payments
■ Prepare detailed report of job costed invoices
■Create purchase orders for management
■Resolve all invoice discrepancies
■Perform cost testing of inventory items
Allocate and post to GL all credit card expenses
Major Accomplishments:
oDevelop new vendor relationships
Results: Provide a more efficient and economical purchasing choice.
oCreated report to track project shop hours.
Results: Increased revenue by tracking billable shop time.
oPrepared year-end inventory analysis for auditors.
Results: Simplified and shortened the audit process for all involved staff.
oConverted manual reporting to soft copy reports in Excel.
Results: Improved accuracy of and streamlined reporting process.
■Prepare monthly financial statements
■Accounts Receivable and deposit prep
■Payroll
■ Manage general ledger account reconciliations
Sales Tax reports for Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Illinois
■ADP Payroll
■Accounts Receivable and collections
■Account Reconciliations
■ Prepare necessary journal entries for month-end
and quarter-end close
■Bank Reconciliations
■Financial reporting analysis
Major Accomplishments:
oDesigned an analytical report for sales and cost of sales per unit.
Results: Provided detailed tracking of sales and current costs of sales per unit for Management to improve revenues.
oKept Accounts receivables within 30day out
Results: Created smoother cash flow
■Cash Management for eight branch divisions
■Evaluated daily investing and redemption transaction needs
■Analyzed and reconciled GL accounts for all business and subsidiaries
■Prepared inter-company interest statements for eight divisions Prepared tax papers for tax department for assigned
business entities.
■Financial Statements for assigned business entities
Performed quarter-end close for six business entities
■Daily tracking of POS phone inventory
■Monthly marketing analysis of equipment inventory
■Quarterly on-site equipment audits
■ Make monthly closing GL entries for Inventory
Division
■Analyze and discuss budget variances with division managers
■Accounts Receivable for domestic and international
accounts
■Monitored and updated Fixes Asset schedules
■ Prepared Return of Goods and Work in Process
reports for management review
■Liaison between Lake Region Mfg and CPA auditing firm.
■Reconcile and process weekly ARC to meet all
government regulations and deadlines
■Worked closely with Travel Specialists for accuracy of travel documentation
■Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable
■Reconciliations of GL accounts Financial Statements for three retail stores
■Calculate sales commissions and bonuses
■Analyze budget vs actual for variances
ERP implementation and training
Major Accomplishments:
Streamlined the reconciliation and processing of the weekly ARC, meeting all government regulations and deadlines.
Results: Increased efficiency by 70%
Created tracking system to review and calculate sales commissions and bonuses
Results: Increased accuracy and timely payments to the Travel Specialists
Reviewed and analyzed sales transactions between branches and parent company
Results: Recovered $459,000 in unaccounted sales
Facilitated, directed and trained the implementation of the new accounting software to the accounting team and travel specialists.
Results: Created a more cohesive working environment and increased the accuracy and efficiency of the sales force.
EDUCATION
■B.S. Business, Mount Mary University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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