Accounting Assistant

GREGORY ACOSTA

Houston, TX ***** • ***-***-**zerofour • adhv4q@r.postjobfree.com • linkedin.com/in/gacosta153

ACCOUNTANT

Bilingual Accounting Professional with expertise in analyzing financial data considering the company’s goals and financial standing to provide creative alternatives and recommendations that improve profitability, solvency and stability. Collaborative leader with demonstrated success in directing cross-functional teams to make well-informed decisions, write reports, monitor financial movements, and drive process improvement and policy development initiatives that impact the company’s initiatives.

CORE COMPETENCIES

• Audit Reports • Data Analysis • Coaching

• Financial Statements • Sarbanes-Oxley • Mentoring

• Bank Accounting • Documentation • Budgeting

• Risk Management • Forecasting • Training

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES

Microsoft Office – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, Teams SQL Server Power BI SharePoint SAP-ITT Oracle Lawson Blackline eAudIT IDEA ACL Skype Zoom Computer Repair and Maintenance

LANGUAGE PROFICIENCIES

Proficient in English and Spanish.

EXPERIENCE

Schlumberger, Houston, Enclave Pkwy March 2019 – September 2020

(Oilfield Services & Equipment)

Cash Compliance Treasury Analyst

Performed financial analysis related to bank reconciliations, intercompany loan advances, bank guarantees, and bank charges. Worked closely with Cash Management team, Intercompany Advances team and Geo-Market Treasurers in order to adjust cash accounts accurately and report the final cash position each month to the Area Treasurer.

•Executed field cash consolidation of data, followed up on differences, and handled delivery to the stake holders through Blackline to facilitate timely decision-making as to appropriate next steps.

•Worked with Accenture team located in India, reviewed their work and recommended improvements to have a back-up team well prepared.

•Understood and complied with Sarbanes-Oxley requirements to comply with company and contractual requirements.

•Decreased the aging of bank reconciliation open items from 6 to 2 months to ensure the cash position was more liquid.

•Designed an open items PBI visualization to keep stakeholders updated.

•Standardized bonds and guarantees reconciliation working papers, creating formulas to automatically read and compare the reports, decreasing the time to perform this activity from 1.5 days to 3 hours.

•Became SAP-ITT and Blackline “Super User”, training over 15 employees and turned into their first point of contact for problem-solving.

•Utilized these ERPs: SAP-ITT, Oracle, Lawson, and Blackline.

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Banreservas, Santo Domingo, Isabel La Catolica St May 2015 – January 2019

(Financial Services, Banking, Investment & Insurance)

Internal Auditor

Identified, designed, prepared and executed audit tests that evaluate 100% of the population by using big data analysis tools. Reported the findings to the head of the process for correction and recommended improvements in the process controls to avoid future cases.

•Evaluated the efficacy of risk management and controls in order to catch errors.

•Ensured that the organization was complying with relevant laws to avoid penalties.

•Made recommendations on how to improve internal controls to avoid errors.

•Guided the department in the accounting and finance audit projects, designing 3 to 5 new audit tests every week to reach yearly goals.

•Introduced and explained the internal audit heat map, simplifying the day-to-day audit process for the team, most of which were IT professionals.

•Trained over 20 employees in Audit Command Language (ACL) to apply this tool in other areas.

•Used these data analysis tools: Oracle Database, ACL, MS Excel.

KPMG, Santo Domingo, Winston Churchill Ave October 2012 – May 2015

(Professional Services)

External Auditor

Integrated and managed multidisciplinary teams of auditors who visited institutions to design, program and develop the audit work to be performed, where each member had to comply with the assigned goals and commitments.

•Inspected financial statements to catch errors, misstatements, and fraud.

•Performed audits on systems, operations, and accounts to express an independent opinion.

•Reported audit findings and recommended improvements adding value to the customers.

•Completed 3 audit projects (1 retail company and 2 broker-dealers) as the auditor in charge during the third year, with a budget 20% lower than the former year.

•Guided and trained over 6 assigned junior auditors while working in audit projects.

•Conducted 11 audit projects as the audit assistant, 3 of them for publicly traded companies.

•Used these data analysis tools: IDEA, and MS Excel.

EDUCATION

Master’s degree in Financial Management (ACBSP Accredited)

APEC University, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting

Autonomous University of Santo Domingo, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

CERTIFICATIONS

•Dominican Republic CPA (Working towards CPA license in Texas)

•Archivist Typewriter

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