Veronica Fisher-Wiggins

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Byram, MS 39272

advk1c@r.postjobfree.com

Objective: My goal is to take on conventional and the most unconventional challenges to deliver results that exceed expectations.

Profile: Experienced financial specialist with 9 years of excellent analytical skills and support operations through analysis of key performance indicators and trends. Hands -on experience in quantitative / statistical analysis, budgeting, accounting, and forecasting. Expert in financial modeling and business valuation. Has demonstrated the ability to rapidly adapt to new technologies and possesses expertise with MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access, SAP and Prism. Additionally, an accountant with over 12 years of experience and an auditor with over 6 years of experience. Other responsibilities include but not limited to; preparing and filing sales tax reports along with completing period end adjusting entries, sub-ledger review for data integrity, variance analysis and analyzing and compiling financial data.

Senior Cost Accountant APTIV

August 2021- Present Brookhaven, MS

Key Responsibilities:

Collecting and analyzing data for operational costs. Set standard costs of manufactured goods. Developing and analyzing cost standards

Carrying out cost-volume-profit (CVP) analysis, including for small businesses

Establishing costs of business processes such as administration, labor, shipping, etc.

Performing account reconciliations. Preparing audit reports and presenting their findings to management. Recommending changes to the company’s processes and policies to reduce cost and maximize profit. Advising executives and upper management on appropriate costing based on financial data. Managing the company’s balance sheet and accounting books. Supporting other company accountants with invoicing and capital expenditure

Plant Accountant

2021- July 2022 PECO Foods- Canton

Key Responsibilities:

To ensure that the company runs efficiently by summarizing, recording, and paying business transactions. Manage the clerical and administrative functions and directly supervise the clerical employees of the accounting department at the assigned facility. Other responsibilities include analyzing trends, costs, revenues, financial commitments, and obligations incurred to predict future revenues and expenses. Primary responsibility is to balance the accounts of the plant which involves several areas of finance and investing. Prepares budgets, tracks revenues, and expenses to ensure profitability of the company. Preparing, reporting, and paying the appropriate tax obligations of the manufacturing plant to the proper governmental agencies. Tracks inventory, pays invoices for services provided, and submits invoices to other companies for services rendered by the plant. Record and maintain information concerning company-owned properties.

Sr. Financial Analyst Raytheon Aerospace Technology Forest, MS 2016 - 2021 July

Key Responsibilities:

Perform SAP Earned Value Internal Reporting. ·Request and review weekly / monthly variance analysis prepared by IPT(s). Work with PM and IPTL to baseline new programs in accordance with Raytheon policies. WBS Dictionary, Program Log, and Responsibility Accountability Matrix. Prepare charts and present financial data at weekly Program Performance Reviews. Run monthly comparisons in PMX and BW Queries. Make corrections where necessary to ensure alignment. Support quarterly EAC processes and prepare and review EACs with appropriate management levels. Support unbilled collection analysis and activities for the business. Worked in Prism to assist MPM’s with Material Detail Forms and Material Analysis to effectively. identify supplier delivery issues, developing performance improvement strategies, and leading the implementation to support program needs and timely material delivery daily and during EAC. Establish and maintain the overall baseline for the program. Provide a consistently thorough cost and schedule analysis. Prepare finance charts for PMR, monthly operating reviews and other reporting activities. Raytheon's Six Sigma and critical thinking skills to propose sound and innovative business solutions to increase operational efficiencies to insure business area and program success.

Accountant & Compliance Auditor Fortenberry & Ballard CPA 2015- 10/2016

Key Responsibilities:

Collect and analyze data to detect deficient controls, duplicated effort, extravagance, fraud, or non-compliance with laws, regulations, and management policies. Report to management about asset utilization and audit results and recommend changes in operations and financial activities. Prepare detailed reports on audit findings. Review data about material assets, fixed assets, net worth, liabilities, capital stock, surplus, income, and expenditures. Inspect account books and accounting systems for efficiency, effectiveness, and use of accepted accounting procedures to record transactions. Examine and evaluate financial and information systems, recommending controls to ensure system reliability and data integrity. Prepare, examine, and analyze accounting records, financial statements, and other financial reports to assess accuracy, completeness, and conformance to reporting and procedural standards. Compute taxes owed and prepared tax returns, ensuring compliance with payment, reporting and other tax requirements. To audit and properly account for these long-term tangible assets on your accounting records. Specific transactions that affect fixed assets include the purchase, revaluation, depreciation, and sale of the asset. Properly accounting for these transactions is important to the accuracy of your business’s financial records and reports. Analyze business operations, trends, costs, revenues, financial commitments, and obligations, to project future revenues and expenses or to provide advice. Report to management regarding the finances of the establishment. Establish tables of accounts and assign entries to proper accounts. Develop, maintain, and analyze budgets, preparing periodic reports that compare budgeted costs to actual costs.

Lead Tax Preparer McGee Tax Law

Contract Jackson, MS

Prepare and file simple and complex tax returns, company's year-end closing as well as filing annual tax reports. Ensuring clients comply with federal and state tax laws. Interviewing clients to get an exact picture of the financial situation. Responding to internal revenue service, state and local government notices, and document requests. Utilizing information provided by clients to prepare individual tax returns and inputting them into tax preparation software. Assisting in providing exceptional client-services to establish and maintain strong working relationships with clients and increase retention by solving their taxation issues in a timely and efficient manner. Following all company procedures regarding information handling to ensure client confidentiality Preparing tax returns in compliance with firm's policies and adhering to the firm's written tax practice standards as well as 1040 procedure manual. Staying and maintaining up-to-date knowledge of latest tax laws, regulations and changes as well as researching tax questions.

Financial Analyst

Experience: 2013 – 2/2016 Jones & Jones CPA Firm Key Responsibilities:

●Determines cost of operations by establishing standard costs, collecting operational data. Identifies financial status by comparing and analyzing actual results with plans and forecasts. Guides cost analysis process by establishing and enforcing policies and procedures; providing trends and forecasts; explaining processes and techniques; recommending actions.

●Improves financial status by analyzing results; monitoring variances; identifying trends; recommending actions to management.

●Reconciles transactions by comparing and correcting data. Maintains database by entering, verifying, and backing up data.

●Recommends actions by analyzing and interpreting data and making comparative analyses, studying proposed changes in methods and materials.

●Increases productivity by developing automated accounting applications and coordinating information requirements.

Sr. Staff Accountant

Key Responsibilities: Jones & Jones CPA Firm

●Protects operations by keeping financial information confidential.

●Generation, analysis, reviewing and communication of financial data that reflects actual finance performance against the budget.

●Assist and supervise quarterly and annual entries and filings.

●Oversee preparation of accounting records, research of transactions and reports.

●Perform regular and recurring accounting functions that require professional competence.

●Document accounting procedures and transactions that will later be used for financial management procedures and auditing.

●Prepare tax schedules and apply basic knowledge of tax rules to assist in tax reports and returns.

●Apply the financial policies and procedures of the company.

●Research and collect data to be used in transactions.

Take part in the annual operating budgeting process, analysis and review of annual operating budget proposals.

Experience: 2007- 2011 Mississippi Department of Human Services Accountant/ Auditor II Professional

Key Responsibilities:

●Make routine reports concerning results of examinations.

●Maintain accounting ledgers and the preparation of fiscal statements and reports.

●Perform analyses of the department accounting function to determine the legality of fiscal activities.

●Work in accordance with the established regulations, procedures, and administrative directives under the director.

●Conduct cost studies, prepare tabulations, and report conclusions.

●Maintain purchase orders, registers, and fiscal records.

●Develops and modifies complex accounting systems, controls, and balances, and prepares fiscal statements and analyses. Operated on a software program SAP stands for Systems, Applications and Products in data processing.

Experience: 2003- 2007 (Company Downsizing) WAPT- Channel 16

Credit (Traffic) Manager

Key Responsibilities:

●Accountable for the credit granting process: consistent application of credit policy, periodic credit reviews of existing customers.

●Assessment of creditworthiness of future customers.

●Manage relations with collection agencies.

●Manage relations with credit insurance providers.

●Maintain corporate credit policy.

●Create a credit scoring model.

●Monitor the credit granting and updating process.

●Manage the financing program.

●Assist in review and compilation of financial statements generate reports for management.

●Manage relations with credit insurance providers.

●Maintain corporate credit policy.

●Create a credit scoring model.

●Monitor the credit granting and updating process.

Manage the financing program.

Key Accomplishments:

● Maintain top rating for Clear Channel 2 years by controlling bad debt exposure and expenses.

● Maintain consistency of a strong cash flow through efficient collection and determining credit.

Education:

Grambling State University Degree Received: 1995 Major: BS Accounting/ Minor: Business Admin.

Jackson State University Degree Received:2015 MBA

Technical Skill:

Mathematics, Business and Economics

Cost Accounting, Finance Knowledge, Data Validation Techniques, Budgeting, Risk Management, Data Visualization, Asset Management

Computer Application:

Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Power point) General Ledger, MS Access, Windows SAP,

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