Accountant

Marcial Rivera

714-***-**** adm85j@r.postjobfree.com www.linkedin.com/in/marcial-rivera Houston, TX Education:

University of Houston Downtown – Marilyn Davies College of Business Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting

Graduated: July 15, 2018 CPA Test Eligible

Skills

• Monthly Closing Entries, Bank/GL reconciliations.

• Actual v. budget/v. prior year variance analysis.

• Accounts Payable/Accounts Receivable.

• Payroll/Sales Use Tax.

• Excel (SUMIF, Vlookup), Oracle, Yardi, Outlook,

Hyperion, SmartView, Smart Accounting,

QuickBooks, Sheets.

• Bilingual: English/Spanish- Speak/Read/Write

Employment History

1st Assistant Production Accountant Feb 2021 – Present Titmouse Animation Studios (Houston – Remote)

• Responsible for processing payroll and AP for 6 animation productions consisting of 250+ employees and freelancers.

• Review 3rd party payroll batch reports for accuracy against submitted timecards, ensure all errors are corrected by release deadline.

• Reconcile monthly recorded fringe expenses for productions against actuals and bill back expenses to appropriate funding network.

• Post released payroll batches to general ledger and assign appropriate account coding to labor and fringe expenses.

• Maintain employee roster for all 6 productions, keep track of employee promotions, terminations, benefit changes, rate changes, timecard submission, vacation payouts and tax withholding updates.

• Process AP for all productions, consisting of vendor, freelance and crew invoices. Request onboarding files for new vendors. 2nd Assistant Production Accountant

Titmouse Animation Studios (Burbank, CA) Jul 2020 – Jan 2021 Property Accountant

Macerich (Santa Monica, CA) Apr 2019 – Jul 2020

• Responsible for meeting monthly/quarterly financial reporting deadlines for 4 assigned malls and their adjacent properties.

• Prepared monthly account reconciliations, e.g., fixed asset roll-forward, cash acct reconciliations, recoveries acct reconciliation, percentage rent receivable etc.

• Posted month-end journal entries for assigned properties e.g., property tax expense, utilities expense, bad debt, straight- line rent.

• Performed variance analysis between actual v prior year/v budget/v prior quarter, income statement amounts.

• Prepared quarterly budgets of straight-line rent amounts per tenant by reviewing new and pending lease agreements and drawing on prior straight-line rent account balances.

• Assisted in performing monthly cash management duties, including wire transfers, positive pays, deposits, intercompany cash settlements and creation of daily cash balance report drawing from 80+ wholly-owned entities.

• During ERP conversion from Oracle to Yardi, reconfigured formulas and reconciliation checks in property’s excel accounting binders for compatibility with Yardi financial statements and journal entry uploads. Testing Services Associate

University of Houston Downtown – (Houston, TX) Aug 2016 – Sep 2018

• Provided excellent face to face and over the phone service to customers in testing services center.

• Processed student tests scores, service requests, tests transcripts and proctored exams.

• Implemented new paperless invoice logging process decreasing processing time of department invoices. Accounting Services Intern

Walmart Global Shared Services N.A. (Bentonville, AR) Jun 2017 – Aug 2017

• Assigned mergers & acquisition project to analyze and improve upon current new business integration playbook prototype.

• Created step by step New Business Integration Guide outlining tasks from initial communication of new acquisition to full integration of new business into GSS accounting service lines.

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