MICHELE RUGGIERO-SHEEHAN

Brooklyn, NY ***** • 917-***-**** • adrjhr@r.postjobfree.com

ACCOUTING MANAGER

OPERATIONS, ANALYSIS, MANAGEMENT

Highly motivated and experienced accounting professional with 20 + years of experience in operational accounting both as an individual contributor and leader. Highly proficient in managing and developing teams from the ground up. Proven ability executing system conversions creating greater efficiency in operations. Financial Services and Non- Profit industry experience. Extensive skill set in audit management and internal projects. Areas of Expertise

Operations • Staff Engagement & Retention • AP, AR, GL • Payroll • Consultative Communicator Supervision & Management • General Ledger System Conversions • Audit • Analysis • Month-end Close Financial Reporting • MS Office • NetSuite/Oracle • Infinium • Solomon • Pegasus Opera Reporting Directly to C-Suite

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

The Society for the Propagation of the Faith, New York, NY • Oct 2017 - Present Accounting Manager

• Supervise an accounting staff of 4, including managing all HR issues for investigation and resolution

• Support outside auditors to facilitate annual Audit

• Maintain employee paid time off schedule to ensure adequate staffing

• Participate in all Investment Committee meetings

• Direct the Accounting team to complete monthly general ledger close and reduced monthly close by 3 days

• Established new entity and assisted in developing Impact Investment Fund

• Ongoing development of policies to ensure proper internal controls

• Manage Charitable Gift Annuity program and annual reporting to NYS Department of Financial Services

• Yearly production and mailing of all 1099 MISC and NEC forms to recipients and IRS

• Analyze Amex corporate credit charges, cross check all receipts, and submit payment

• Process bi-monthly payroll including 403B Contributions and coordinate funding

• Coordinate with 3rd Party Consultant for Charitable Gift Annuity and Trust Programs

• Review all reconciliations monthly to ensure all journal entries are booked correctly

• Process all Accounts Payable timely including checks, ACH and Wires

• Reconcile all Investment accounts monthly

• Established an Electronic Payment system working with 3rd party vendor and our bank

• Negotiate price and cost with all vendors to ensure competitive pricing

• Manage Accounts Receivable of $20 million per year and ensure the timely payments

• Responsible for Fixed Assets ensuring all entries are properly booked and accounts reconciled Eleqtra Inc, New York, NY • Apr 2009 – Oct 2017

Finance Manager

• Oversee all office operations for the New York Office

• Execute all bank reconciliations on a monthly basis and complete monthly close

• Analyze expense accounts and reconcile general ledger monthly

• Administrator for bi-weekly payroll processing and HR organizing the funding of 401K and HSA accounts

• Process and upload all employee expense reports

• Conduct vendor management, selection, and negotiation

• Ensure proper cost allocation between many different projects

• Liaise with Head office in London to prepare budget and forecast

• Manage relationship with tax consultant and PEO for payroll processing and HR issues MICHELE RIGGIERO-SHEEHAN • Page 2

• Maintain lease agreement for subtenants

• Analyze and reconcile intercompany accounts monthly to ensure accuracy

• Work with London office on annual audit, provided explanations required

• Download all corporate credit card accounts into template to upload to general ledger monthly

• Successfully organize annual meeting for all employees, including London office, within budget limits Mansueto Ventures, LLC, New York, NY • Nov 2007 – Oct 2008 Senior Accountant

• Oversaw accounting for various aspects of newsstand publication revenue and expenses

• Documented procedures for various processes including Newsstand, Paper Inventory & Commissions

• Successfully implemented Paper Inventory on Solomon eliminating manual data entry

• Audited and managed corporate credit cards bringing delinquent cards from 14 to 1

• Managed Advertising contracts, reviewed and amended the accrual process for Advertising commissions American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Jersey City, NJ • Nov 1986 – Dec 2006 Senior Financial Analyst (Mar 1997- Dec 2006)

• Responsible for maintaining accurate, detail general ledgers for 12 related organizations and Corporate

• Successfully transitioned 12 related organization general ledgers to new Oracle software system

• Trained employees on new journal entry format for upload to new software package (Oracle)

• Helped facilitate the conversion of project subsystem to general ledger

• Managed several audits and worked directly with outside auditors to gather information required for audit

• Created airline expense journal entry from data spreadsheet which reduced processing time from 5 to1- days

• Preparation of schedules and statements for presentation at Finance Committee Quarterly Meetings

• Developed reports to reconcile contribution revenue for related organizations

• Reconciled contribution reports to Accounts Receivable system to ensure general ledger accuracy Senior Accountant (Jan 1989 – Mar 1997)

• Responsible for accurately recording revenue and expenses for Corporate

• Maintained the general ledgers of seven related organizations

• Converted manual ledgers for seven organizations to facilitate computerized processing

• Transitioned manual processing of Accounts Payable for seven organizations to computerized processing

• Supervised two Accountants and one Accounting Clerk

• Participated in computerized preparation of monthly journal entries to reduce processing time

• Effectively handled the quarterly billing for $3,000,000 product line

• Accounted for member program revenue ensuring all receipts have been accrued for on a timely basis Accountant (Nov 1986 - Jan 1989)

• Recorded and reconciled various expenses for Corporate and Miscellaneous Accounts Receivable System

• Computerized the preparation of manual journal entries which was used to upload data to mainframe system

• Reduced the need for administrative position by computerizing process

• Managed the Miscellaneous Receivable System which was a subsystem of all miscellaneous transactions EDUCATION

PACE UNIVERSITY – New York, NY

BBA, Public Accounting

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