CHRISTINA VIZZERRA

**** **** **** *****, *******, AZ 85042 602-***-**** ado3hl@r.postjobfree.com

May 3, 2021

Director of Human Resources

City of Phoenix

Dear Sir/Madam:

I am applying for the Accountant II position posted on the City of Phoenix website. I appreciate your consideration for this position.

Presently, I am an Accountant II with the Phoenix Police Department’s Fiscal Management Bureau, Grants Unit. For the last year, I financially managed various state and federal grants and inter-governmental agreements including budgets, financial and programmatic reporting, contracts, purchasing, billing’s, and travel. In this position, and as an Accountant I with the Phoenix Aviation Department, I acquired extensive experience with governmental accounting procedures, generally accepted accounting principles, and preparing budget and financial reports for capital improvements, expenditures, and assorted projects.

I have extensive experience with accounts payable & receivable, and cost accounting. I regularly interpret and comply with City ordinances, administrative regulations, statutes, and rules and regulations pertaining to grants management. I am an advanced user of Microsoft Excel and Access, as well as the BRASS and Sherpa budgetary and SAP financial systems.

I am seeking this transfer to an Accountant II position to expand my experience in the accounting field and continue my professional growth with the City of Phoenix. I look forward to meeting with you to discuss how my experience will benefit your department.

Sincerely,

Christina Vizzerra

Christina Vizzerra

2417 E. Alta Vista, Phoenix, AZ 85042

602-***-****

ado3hl@r.postjobfree.com

Profile Summary

Experienced accountant with a successful career in governmental accounting.

Extensive knowledge of the rules, regulations and laws relating to grant and general accounting.

Significant experience and knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles.

Highly adept at evaluating accounting processes, systems, and procedures to ensure accurate and efficient reporting.

Possess excellent analytical, organizational, and interpersonal skills.

Advanced Microsoft Excel and Access, BRASS/Sherpa Budgeting and SAP financial experience.

Employment & Experience

City of Phoenix Police Department, Fiscal Management Bureau 2019 – Present Accountant II - Grants

Grant Management

I financially manage grants and Inter Governmental Agreements for local, state, and federal agencies including the Arizona Criminal Justice Commission, United States Department of Justice, the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety.

Grant management includes preparing budgets for grant application, maintaining all documentation including the Solicitation, Application, Financial and Program reports, Grant Adjustment Notices, and correspondence. and monitoring grant financial activity in various accounting software programs.

Annual city grant budgeting in the BRASS/Sherpa budgeting systems. This includes applying grant adjustment requests, for reprogramming of budgets, request to extended program periods and programmatic changes in scope to prepare and adjust budgets in the BRASS budgetary and SAP financial systems.

Processing grant related to capital and operating purchases. I oversee and perform accounts payable and receivable functions. Including reviewing purchase requests to ensure completeness, ensuring proper entry of accounting and purchase data into the ProcurePHX purchasing system, ensuring compliance with all City procurement policies and administrative regulations, and researching customer invoice payments.

Monitoring grant funded personnel overtime and salary expenditures, by pay period, and preparing monthly journal entries to transfer funds to the correct grant cost center from the general fund.

Complete monthly, quarterly, semi-annual and end of year grant recap detail of activities as required by the Police Department, Arizona Attorney General’s Office, and Governor’s Office of Highway Safety.

Complete and submit all required financial and pragmatic reports to various granting agencies to ensure grant goals are being met prior to submittal.

Monthly reconciliation of revenues and expenditures of the Police Department Access grant tracking database to the City of Phoenix SAP financial system.

Meeting department of Finance deadlines for analyzing and interpreting budgetary, expenditure and revenue statements and financial reports for grants to be included in the City’s Annual Financial Report (CAFR), and Statement of Federal Expenditures (SEFA) annual reports.

Manage affiliated law enforcement agency agreements, tracking and auditing of all agency funded expenditures for these agencies.

Monitoring and managing the law enforcement agencies reimbursement request for approved purchases, travel, and expenses prior to reimbursement.

Accountant I

Aviation Administration – Phoenix, Arizona

2015 – 2019

Verify daily revenue transmission of data from Parking Revenue Control System to credit processor (Chase Payment Tech) reports.

Allocation of revenue to appropriate parking facility.

Perform monthly analysis of operating and maintenance expenses that are included in a comprehensive report sent to Aviation management.

Review monthly labor hour activity and create summary reports of work order charges for various aviation projects.

Reconcile parking fee revenue from source documentation to SAP.

Process employee credit card refunds and frequent parking payments

Review and challenge credit card disputes (chargebacks).

Verify, allocate and reconciliation of the pre-paid parking program.

Provide statistical airport parking activity reports to financial consultants.

Account Clerk III

Finance Department Accounts – Phoenix, Arizona

2015 – 2015

Entered/Updated and uploaded scanned documents to vendor master data into SAP and E-Procurement.

Updated Small Business Enterprise (SBE) classification information in the vendor master records monthly.

Reviewed and released invoices in SAP.

Provided quality customer service by responding to voice mails and emails daily.

Sorted incoming mail, scanned documents, and filed scanned documents daily.

Account Clerk III

Street Transportation Department – Phoenix, Arizona

2004 – 2015

Researched, prepared, and process Payment Control Documents, Departmental Purchase Orders, Contract Order Releases, Purchase Requests and Account Receivable/Account Payable into SAP.

Monitored and maintained procurement budget for Street Transportation Sign Shop.

Collected and audit various labor and material reports for accuracy prior to input into the SAP/CATS system.

Used SAP to manage all issues and receipts for the Street Signing & Striping inventory, having a value in excess of $635,000.

Reconciled contract monitoring system and SAP.

Coordinated with the Finance Department’s Collections and Risk Management Sections for billing of restitution for damaged city property.

Served as the billing liaison for the Right-of-Way Management program by resolving account disputes by contracts.

Reviewed Street Department contracts for completeness and accuracy,

Assisted citizens, employees, and contractors by keeping accurate records to resolve internal and external questions.

Assisted Management Assistant II on various special projects and reports, including the Departments name Affirmative Action Business Plan.

Audited parking meter coin collections.

CONTINUING EDUCATION

Grant and Financial Training

PCF & OP Budget 3+9 Forms

Budget Overview, June 2019

Sherpa Budgetary Training

Nuts & Bolts of Supervision, April 2005

EDUCATION

South Mountain Community College, Phoenix, Arizona

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