Accountant Sales
Resume:
Uzma Siddiqui, MBA
Katy, TX 77449
Cell: 832-***-****
adgq35@r.postjobfree.com
EDUCATION
Certified Salesforce Administrator (201) –Credential ID-18026559 Dec 2017
Pursuing Certified Public Accountant (CPA) Certification Expected Dec 2019
Eligible and actively pursuing Certified Public Accountant Licensure within Texas
Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, TX
Master of Business Administration (MBA) Accounting/ Finance, GPA 3.7 Dec 2011
Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, TX
Bachelors of Business Administration (BBA) Accounting Dec 2009
EXPERIENCE
American Midstream June 2018 – Present
Senior Accountant
Coordinating monthly, quarterly, and annual closing activities
Reconciling of financial statement line items and assisting in various quarterly and year-end tasks including: drafting/reviewing 10Q and 10K disclosures including footnotes
Preparing deferred financing cost amortization schedule and processing month end JEs
Preparing financial statements, verifying all transactions and disclosures are in compliance with GAAP and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Interacting with external auditors on a daily, quarterly and annual basis to ensure timing objectives are met and issues are proceeding toward resolution
Analyzing variance schedules on balance sheet and income statement, including preparing documentation for and writing MD&A
Perform other special accounting project assignments and studies or analysis as required by management
Sysco Business Services, Cypress TX Oct 2015 – June 2018
Senior Accountant
Planned, performed, and completed financial packages of operating companies, making proper corrections and reporting results and recommendations to management.
Monitored assigned companies’ financial packages identifying trends, variances, exposure items and potential errors.
Performed and following up with operating companies. Communicate findings to management.
Performed weekly, monthly, quarterly and year end close activities, and provide GL account coding for expense invoices and internal orders.
Responded to operating company inquiries regarding financial guidelines.
Created recurring entries and run standard reports on monthly basis
Consolidated financial data for all Operating companies via Monarch for Scripting JEs of all OPCOs.
Reconciled the balance sheet subsidiary ledger to the summary level account in the general ledger and updating on BPC (SAP)
Lead and participated in projects as assigned. Exhibiting flexibility and ingenuity when performing special projects
Identified, developed, and drove standardizing opportunities and work to increase efficiencies.
Worked on conversion operating companies from SAP platform to AS400 platform
Provided monthly trend analysis for SAP OPCOs.
Lead on a project to automate the accrual and payments activity for OPCOs local agreements
Achievements
Improved JE process for the whole team by scripting monthly JE
Created automated reconciliation template to minimize time and errors by using Macros (VBA)
Created Intercompany charges database to easily apply to agreements accruals
Created trend analysis spreadsheet to highlight reconciling items for higher management
Created Macro based template to help analyze reconciliation
Cardtronics March 2014 – Oct 2015
Senior GL Accountant
Prepared general journal entries in accordance with company standard using GP
Reconciled all assigned general ledger balance sheet accounts monthly and updating on Blackline software
Played essential role regarding the Monthly Financial Statement Close Process
Performed monthly Income Statement account fluctuation review and preparing written variance explanations.
Managed multiple deadlines and responded quickly to management requests.
Developed and maintained quarterly and annual budgets.
Prepared the transaction detail reconciliations using ReconNet software
Responded to Internal Audit, SOX audit and external audit requests
Performed special projects and analysis as requested
Ran month end reports using Hyperion for executives and managers
Completed task of Balancing Intercompany accounts monthly
Worked on Project Capitalization.
Reduced time of 5 days to 2.5 days in the analysis during month close.
Managed contractual payment terms in CORE (system)
Reviewed and Revised merchant payment terms as required
Generated and reviewed monthly merchant commission reports and follow-through to payment
Acted as Liaison with Business teams to foster understanding of contractual terms and impact on commissions
Supported the Business teams through contractual changes and generate analytics
Acted as a leadership role in integrating new acquisitions
Fulfilled ad hoc reporting requests
Assisted in process development, improvement, and documentation within the Merchant Accounting team
Performed special projects and analysis as needed
Achievements
Reduced time of 5 days to 2.5 days in the analysis during month close.
Developed and organized Bank Branding terms in the system
Speeding up the payment process and increased client’s satisfaction by reducing time via automatic group terms in the system.
Champion Energy Services
(Retail electricity provider to residential, governmental, commercial and industrial customers)
Commissions Analyst/ Audit Analyst May 2011 – March 2014
Assessed Broker Contracts and their payment structures
Reconciled all weekly, bi-weekly and monthly upfront/post-pay payments paid to energy brokers
Created Payment database for broker commissions audit to track their contracts and payments using Excel
Reported the inconsistencies and coordinated with the sales, enrollment and billing teams to get them corrected
Performed month-end commission processing and analysis
Calculated commissions on weekly and monthly basis, performed commission audits, as well as solved elevated commission problems and issues.
Partnered with sales team, IT or other related group to resolve commission issues
Responsible for providing month-end financial data to Accounts Payable
Achievements
Created Payment database on excel and used it to resolve broker’s issues and their audit
Recovered 500K overpaid to broker by using my own payment database
Created Blend and extend payment calculator to find the correct amount of upfront payment for the extended contract, used by many people (sales and accounting)
Created SQL queries for others to use in order to pull specific information.
AWARDS AND CREDENTIALS
Extensive Income Tax course, H & R Block (Fall 2010) • President’s List, 3.5 GPA from Lone Star college system (Spring 2011) • Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society, Member (2010)
COMPUTER SKILLS
Microsoft Office Suite (Advance level of Excel and Access) • Microsoft Outlook • Quick Books • OCA in Oracle 9i DBA • ERP-ISIGMA • Great Plains • Citrix • DocLink • CORE • ATM Manager Pro • SQL Queries
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