Elizabeth J. Bigge

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Accountant / Financial Analyst

Experienced in general accounting, financial reporting. Known for process improvements resulting in efficiency, accountability, audit ability, and transparency. Technically proficient in multiple financial systems and applications. Financial services work experience range from small to global corporations in the broad range industries. Six-sigma Greenbelt certified. Software used: ACBS Access AS/400 Bassets Belvedere Bloomberg CBS Fiserv Computron

Foxfire FRx Great Plains Dynamics Hyperion HFM Infor Lawson Monarch NetSuite Oracle Peachtree Quickbooks SAP SharePoint Solomon IV Sun TM1 JDEdwards and Business Objects.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

ECOCHLOR, INC – North Haven, CT 4/2020 – 11/2020

Business Manager – Customer billing and collections; Accounts Payable processing with improved controls; bank reconciliation; international and domestic payroll; hired and supervised staff; onboarding processes, for both domestic and international employees. ELITE PLACEMENT GROUP 10/2019- 3/2020

Subway – Milford, CT, International Accounting - Consultant ROBERT HALF MANAGEMENT RESOURCES 4/2019 -9/2019

Yale New Haven Health – New Haven, CT

General Accounting - Sr Accountant – Consultant

Account reconciliations, research and resolutions, fixed asset capitalization, month-end close. IBASE OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY, LLC – Fairfield, CT 10/2017 – 1/2019 Financial Accounting Analyst – Month-end close, financial reporting, track projects and budget differences, and balance sheet reconciliation. Created and trained a team for the Accounts Payable process, cash application process, and intercompany entries. STEVEN WINTER ASSOCIATES, Inc. – Norwalk, CT 11/2016 – 8/2017 Financial Analyst – Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reporting for management, and Board of Directors, check accuracy of other accounting staff.

• Project management reporting and analysis.

• Revise financial reports for functional analysis.

• Fixed Asset process improvements for security and GL balance validations. ROBERT HALF MANAGEMENT RESOURCES 2016

Platform Specialty Products Corp – Waterbury, CT

Consultant – BPC to HFM ledger mapping, and testing. ROBERT HALF MANAGEMENT RESOURCES 2015

Chef’s Warehouse – Ridgefield, CT (3 mos project)

Consultant – Processes improvement project for cash and sales reporting. Chart of account analysis for standardization and reporting across businesses. PRAXAIR, Inc. 2014 – 2015

USIG, CFS – Danbury, CT

Accountant – Industrial Gas Merchant/On-site Billing; review legal contracts and documents for accurate invoicing; maintain various databases; logistics and product management; communicate Elizabeth J. Bigge

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and collaborate with sales teams and customers to resolve tax, volume, and price issues.

• Responsible for 920 active accounts, billing out $11.4M per month.

• Consistently attain department goals and improve billing metrics. GENERAL ELECTRIC CO. 2002 - 2014

GE International, Inc, - Shelton, CT (2010 – 2014) Accounting Analyst

Global accounting and analysis, reconciling and maintaining multi-currency intercompany balances,

• Intercompany multi-currency billing; lending; cash sweeps, etc. working with a broad range of businesses, from Energy to Healthcare.

• International Intercompany third-party billing.

• Quarterly DR reporting of intercompany balances and loans; consolidated.

• Corporate Tax account reconciliation.

GENERAL ELECTRIC CO. (2007 - 2009)

GE Asset Management, Stamford, CT

Financial Analyst – Controllership, Fixed Income Investments Analysis, accounting, and reporting of investment portfolios for insurance investment stakeholders (management, clients, credit agencies).

• Increased standards for custody asset reconciliation process, rating each month in terms of sigma. Reconciliations attained, and maintained, six-sigma.

• Created standard operating process for the application of the FAS 157 reporting process, validating security price sources and assigning appropriate leveling.

• Reduced the number of regular conference calls by more than 60%.

• Created a new process and cash flow for a $1.1 billion Commercial Mortgage Loan portfolio with a monthly cash inflow of $8M.

• Efficient SOX reporting and progress tracking.

• GE Management Award – Implementing FAS157 Process, 2008 GE Corporate Financial Services, Norwalk, CT (2002 – 2007) Business Accountant/Analyst – Controllership, CFS Treasury - Analysis and reconciliation of cash application processes, defects, and solutions for efficiency, integrity and controllership; accounting for loan discounts and premiums traded on the secondary markets; completed, “Ending Net Investment,” for allocation of interest charges, and Country Risk Reporting to monitor risk of various global investments. Participated in quarter close process.

• GE Management Award – Improvements resulting from Six Sigma Greenbelt project created workflow solution to resolve cash open items – creating a reduction of 68% within the first year.

• Created workflow process for over $18.4M in payments received by check annually.

• Fixed asset reconciliation. Created roll-forward process with analysis by age, category and location.

EDUCATION

Master of Science in Accounting - Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT (24 credits, 3.0 avg) Master of Business Administration – concentration in Finance/Accounting (graduated) Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT

Bachelor of Science in Economics (Gregory Zeck Scholarship) Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT

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