Training Coordinator Accountant

PAMELA R. SCOTT

Phone 832-***-****

********@*****.***

SUMMARY

Mature and highly competent finance and accounting professional with 30+ years’ experience in financial accounting and reporting, including general ledger and payroll processes. Core competencies in data validation, analyses and reconciliations, cash management and professional employee services. Respected and demonstrated ability to create usable databases and reports, effectively investigate issues for proposing and setting up sustainable processes. Establishes working relationships with team members and others all throughout the organization.

SKILLS

Accurate financial analysis and reconciliations involving voluminous data from multiple sources

Innovative creation of sustainable and repeatable daily work processes

Report and database creation

General Ledger accounting and reporting

Meets tight and non-negotiable deadlines

Multi-tasking and adapting to shifts in priorities

Adaptive and successful interpersonal skills to accomplish results and assist others

Payroll analysis and correction processing

ERP PeopleSoft, Oracle, SAP

MS Office Suite and MS Access

Blackline finance solution

On Demand and On Track

Brio

EPortfolio

Touchnet

Generally Accepted Accounting Principles

EXPERIENCE

LONE STAR COLLEGE THE WOODLANDS, TX 2018 - SEPT 2022

ACCOUNTANT, GRANTS

Provides expert assistance to grant program staff on all financial matters, including reviewing grant performance, compliance, budgets, expenditures, contract administration, projections, and proposing improvements to processes.

Performs financial analysis and complex data comparisons involving multiple sources for financial accounting and regulatory reporting related to federal, state, and local grants to ensure full compliance with GAAP and with applicable governmental accounting standards and regulations.

Journalize correcting entries resulting from financial analysis and data comparisons, as well as journals for cost allocations to grants.

Prepares financial expenditure reports and cash draw requests with grantor agencies for reimbursement.

Ensures grant expenses reported to grantor agencies are reasonable, allocable, and allowable and in accordance with all applicable LSC, regulatory and contractual requirements.

Administers grant close out actions and submits closeout reports for final financial reimbursement.

Prepares audit schedules and provide supporting documentation for both internal and external audits.

Experience and working knowledge of FEMA, The Coordinating Board, TWC (CDER), Metallica, CARES, American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), DOE and other federal and local agencies.

Ability to exercise poise, tact, diplomacy, and an ability to establish and maintain positive working/professional relationships with internal and external customers.

Train temporary staff that join the department as grant accountants.

Ensures individual and team files are appropriately maintained and timely disposed of in accordance with the agency’s records retention procedures and schedules.

Maintains confidential and sensitive information.

Perform other duties as assigned.

ACCOUNTANT, BANK RECONCILIATIONS

(Temporary Position) May – Oct 2018

Contract assignment for complex bank reconciliations involving 11+ accounts containing operational, student and campus, and federal/state/local grant monies.

Provide expert assistance to perform and validate reconciliations, including correcting and reconciling accounting entries in General Ledger and Subsidiary Ledgers.

Research reconciling items for both resolving and clearing differences as well as analyzing existing processes for improvements to reduce reconciling items in the future.

Communicate with many departments and colleagues involved with cash management for their understanding of reconciliation results and process improvements.

Update queries in MS Access database to enhance efficiency and effectiveness of reconciliation process.

SAVA SENIOR CARE HOUSTON, TX SEPT 2017 – FEB 2018

SPECIALIST, PAYROLL GARNISHMENT

Liaison to ADP outsourced vendor for coordinating garnishment activity.

Confirmed transmitted information to/from ADP for ensuring complete transaction processing.

Prepared responses for garnishments wrongfully served, including research and corrective correspondence and supporting documentation.

Reviewed and processed payroll subpoena and verification requests.

Documented and processed unclaimed wages.

Provided support for payroll applications and other duties as assigned.

UNITED AIRLINES HOUSTON, TX NOV 2005 – JUNE 2017

SENIOR PROCESSOR, PAYROLL TAX & ACCOUNTING (TEXAS)

Completed 50 account reconciliations covering 50,000 employees monthly in accordance with established and required balance sheet reconciliation process.

Prepared and processed Journal Entries in PeopleSoft Oracle and Blackline for month/quarter/year end close.

Utilized in-depth People Soft Oracle and payroll processes for thorough research of issues for resolution and reconciliation.

Monitored cash management mailbox for payroll drafts and checks to ensure accurate and timely processing.

Processed lock box deposits on time and to the correct General Ledger accounts.

Communicated company-wide with employees and departments to effectively resolve payroll issues and answer questions; and if needed, processed appropriate and substantiated transaction adjustments.

NEXTIRAONE, LLC HOUSTON, TX AUG 1986 – JAN 2005

TRAINING COORDINATOR (TEXAS)

Maintained training schedule and coordinated training for 50,000+ employees and customers.

Managed (8) instructor schedules and would assist in keeping their certifications up to date.

Distributed confirmation letters to training participants.

Mailed invoices to customers for training classes and received payments that were forwarded to AP.

Maintained Access database.

Created and monitored the budget.

Hire temporary staff when needed to help clean classrooms, copy training materials, set-up classrooms and ship equipment to locations out of state.

Set up vendor accounts with businesses to purchase equipment, products, etc.… apartments, hotels, airlines, car rentals, taxi services, shuttle services, suppliers, and caterers. I would make travel arrangements for employees/customers and equipment.

Company had leased six 2-bedroom apartments for students where I would match students from same locations out of state to stay at the apartments instead of hotels for long stays to save money on travel budget. I would have to overnight key access to students and confirmation letters and track the return of the keys to me for future employee stays.

EDUCATION

LAMBUTH COLLEGE JACKSON, TN 1980

BBA Degree

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