Accounting Manager

Demonte Miller

**** ****** **** *********, **** *4203 *************@******.*** 216-***-****

Proven ability to handle all aspects of student eligibility and recruitment. Extremely skilled in responding to student inquiries and determining backgrounds, goals and objectives. Hands on experience of creating and implementing treasure and project finance reporting, loan agreement and payment collection policies monitoring, monitoring and bank accounts analysis, calculation of net cash, cash balance reporting, scheduling of subordinated loans, associated to financial strength of, companies, maintain cash, debt, and interest schedules, maintain online access to all bank accounts keep track of associated, service agreements, archive all project finance folders in a standard format this also, includes availability of all important documents electronically, work closely with project finance analyst for all existing and new, funding projects, track expenses and sources of funding for efficient funds management, maintain banking relationships act as liaison between bank personnel, and management, prepare and submit the funding proposals to banks, perform as a complete backup to project analyst, keep strict confidentiality of information.

Key Strengths:

Financial Reporting

Fiscal Budgeting

Microsoft Office Products

Communication

Team Building

Account Management

Relationship Building

Problem Solving

Customer Service

PeopleSoft

Cash Flow analyst

QuickBooks

Sage Intelligence

Sage Fixed Assets

Education

Degree - Western Governors University- Salt Lake City, Utah

B.S Accounting Expected Graduation June 2020

Honors and activities: Dean List 2016, Spring 2017, summer 2018, Spring 2019

Professional Experience

Senior Accountant

Liberty Healthshare, North Canton, Ohio June 2019 to Present

Conducted and reviewed monthly, quarterly and annual financial reporting packages for senior management, project leaders, and department managers against budgets/forecasts. Performed actual vs. forecast variance analysis, recommended and implemented action to correct variances.

Research expense variances for both fixed and variable expenses. Prepare appropriate adjustments for review. Responsible for maintaining fixed asset records.

Analyze budget versus actual and year over year variances for income statement

Prepare general ledger account reconciliations, intercompany eliminations & journal entries.

Reconciled inventory accounts and investigated stale balances or suspicious transactions. Improved inventory accuracy from roughly 65% to well over 90%.

Assist CFO on process improvement projects as well as implementation of companywide check reconciliations process.

Managed 5-person Finance operations responsible for Accounts payable check reconciliation.

Optimized team performance and increased morale by establishing regular team meeting which provided an open forum for team members and management to openly discuss policy and procedural changes.

Accounting Analyst

Tribute Software Inc, Hudson, Ohio July 2017 to June 2019

Sets up and maintained accounting and fiscal control records and procedures. Ensures journal entries, reconciliations and records are in compliance with accounting regulations, SOX controls and company policies.

Performed due diligence for new/changing initiatives. Performed sensitive and incremental cost/benefit decision analyses. Conduct audits. Help clients build financial models and provide analytical support for business initiatives and particularly those with GAAP impacts.

Assisted in leading reconciliation efforts for all Tribute software customers, with values fluctuating between $10 to $12 million in any given month.

Successfully identified external employee fraud by accurately running queries and reports and communicating the findings to payroll department by developing financial queries and reports for the payroll and billing department to use to reconcile accounts.

Reconciled assigned balance sheet accounts, researching issues resolving questionable items, and analyzing month-to-month variances to spot trends and capitalize on potential cost savings

Accountant 2

ZFTRW Automotive, Independence, Ohio August 2015 to July 2017

Supported regular period end closing responsibilities including but not limited to, journal entries, expense review, accruals, account analysis and intercompany transactions and balancing

Analyzed bank accounts and lockboxes, investment of excess cash and draws on lines of credit. Cash Application

Performed general ledger review and general account reconciliation responsibility for select accounts and fixed assets accounting.

Performing ongoing Sarbanes-Oxley review and control testing in conjunction with other North American Shared Services and TRW Operating Units accounting department personnel

Effective communication skills - including the ability to listen to the needs of others, research and comprehend complex matters, articulate issues in a clear and concise manner, and present findings as well as recommendations in both oral and written presentations.

Performed inter-company account balancing, account analysis, tax computation, sales and use tax filings, fixed asset accounting, month end closings and trial balance submissions to headquarters.

Prepared a weekly and monthly Yield Analysis and Calculate labor, overhead, and Material costs.

Key Accomplishments

1.I was promoted from Senior A/R collection representative to Accountant 1 with 6 months of my hire date.

2. I am solely responsible for balancing accounts totaling $280 million dollars monthly.

3. I have collected $48 million dollars in delinquent accounts since starting.

4. I work great in teams and also can thrive in a fast pace work environment.

A/R & Cash Application Supervisor

Ct Partners, Beachwood, Ohio 2014 to July 2015

Analyzed bank accounts and lockboxes, investment of excess cash and draws on lines of credit. Cash Application.

Supported internal and external related to banking related issues. Reviewed discrepancies of bank charges with banking institutions. Administered credit card programs - both receipts from customers and corporate purchasing cards.

Managed petty cash accounts. Established daily reports for management. Created bank deposits and process credit card transactions maintaining Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance. Analyzed and carried out check and electronic payments. Analyzed and presented remediation of payment exceptions.

Strong working knowledge of GAAP and experience developing/managing complex reconciliation processes among multiple systems.

Effective communication skills - including the ability to listen to the needs of others, research and comprehend complex matters, articulate issues in a clear and concise manner, and present findings as well as recommendations in both oral and written presentations.

Strong project management skills and an ability to work well with all levels of an organization.

Comfort with initiating and responding to change; demonstrated ability to identify, develop, and implement process/system improvements to a known or supposed weakness.

Ability and desire to learn new skills and improve existing capabilities, particularly technology (ERP systems, data warehouse reporting tools, MS Access, advanced Excel, etc.).

Created charts, reports and summaries of key economic and financial results. Ensured debt payments are carried out on time. Recognized exceptions and applied remediation solutions

Managed detail aging, computerized and manual cash batch, data entry and sale journal.

Performed a filing and maintained and organized customer billing files.

Resolved client's billing issues

Key Accomplishments

1. I have been counter trained and have learned some billing procedures and was able to step in and help our billing department when they were under staffed.

2. I am the sole A/R employee for a publicly traded company that has over 400 employees globally.

3. Helped to establish new collection method which was utilized company wide.

4. In the last 30 days I have been able to collect and reconcile 1.56 million in delinquent account.

Business Office Manager

Strayer University, Akron, Ohio 9/2012 to 12/2013

Analyzed monthly balance sheet accounts for corporate reporting. Generated financial statements and facilitated account closing procedures each month. Trained [6] new employees on accounting principles and company procedures.

Analyzed Financial Aid Reports, including Refunding Report, Student Requirement Report and Temp. Report Customer Service, Developed efficiency-enhancing workflow/process improvements that made it possible to accommodate increasing responsibilities necessitated by staff reductions.

Applying of Cash and Credit Accounts

Analyzed monthly balance sheet accounts for corporate reporting. Generated financial statements and facilitated account closing procedures each month. Trained [6] new employees on accounting principles and company procedures.

Responsible and accountable to operating budget, salary and incentive plans for staff

Provided information to students as well as identified and resolved billing complaints.

Responsible for the collection, posting, and management of account payments.

Prepared, reviewed and delivered account statements, invoices and bills.

Key Accomplishments

1. Was the regional trainer for the Business office at Strayer University

2. Stayer Business office employee of the Winter Quarter 2014

3. I am very punctual and have a great ability to multitask.

4. I have been able to collect and reconcile 1 million dollars in delinquent accounts.

Licensures

Federal Student Loan Officer

Project Management

Software skills

People Soft, Oracle, Excel, Power Point and Microsoft Office, SAP,QAD,GIFCO, Sage Products, SQL, Microsoft Dynamics, Quick Books and Trulinx.

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