Staff Accountant Corporate

BEIMENET (BEN) ASSEFA

Garland, TX ***** 214-***-**** ***@***************.***

Professional Summary

Accounting professional with 20+ years extensive experience conducting full financial statement preparation and analysis, deep experience in intercompany & elimination journal entries, month-end

& year-end closing, able to work in environment with limited supervision, detail-oriented and, organized, ability to meet a constant stream of deadlines. Throughout the course of my long years career, I have perfected my documentation and reporting and account reconciliation abilities. Worked for few months as Life Insurance agent with American Income Life Insurance Company. Career Objectives: To work remote senior staff accounting position for long term and take advantage of advanced opportunities.

Skills

NetSuite, QuickBooks, Peachtree Accounting, Microsoft Office Suites (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint). proficiency in Microsoft Excel (Vlookups, Pivots, etc.) Work History

Senior Accountant 11/2021 - To Date

Nile Express, LLC (Dallas based Freight Services Co)

• Responsible with different accounting task including, coordinating accounting functions and programs; preparing financial analyses and reports; Preparing revenue projections and forecasting expenditure.

• Compiles and analyzes financial information in preparation for entry into various financial statements and accounting reports and makes appropriate journal entries for recording in the general ledger by checking calculations, reviewing basis for figures, and balancing and reconciling figures.

• Assisting with preparing and monitoring budgets; Maintaining and reconciling balance sheet and general ledger accounts.

• Reconcile accounts monthly to ensure accurate reporting and ledger maintenance.

• Closely work with executive management team and interact frequently to help make operational decisions, financial management, accounting tasks and advise on strategic planning including business plan development.

Senior Staff Accountant 08/2016 to 09/2021

United Medical System – USA

• Responsible with different accounting task including, coordinating accounting functions and programs; preparing financial analyses and reports; Preparing revenue projections and forecasting expenditure. Vast experience in Intercompany and elimination transactions.

• Assisting the Controller with financial and operational analysis and reporting and assisting in the preparation of external audits.

• Assisting with preparing and monitoring budgets; Maintaining and reconciling balance sheet and general ledger accounts.

• Process monthly intercompany transactions and elimination entries.

• Resolve account discrepancies and verify financial transactions.

• Analyze financial statements for discrepancies and alert the Controller if necessary.

• Reconcile accounts monthly to ensure accurate reporting and ledger maintenance.

• Generate timely financial statements for more than 25 partnership entities and also produce consolidate financial statements.

• Reconcile monthly intercompany accounts and verify accuracy of elimination entries.

• Make monthly cash analysis to calculate and determine the amount of distributions to LLC members and provide to CFO for further analysis and authorization.

• Prepare documentation for annual corporate tax return filling.

• Assists in yearend audit · Assists Controller with special projects as necessary Staff Accountant 05/2007 to 07/2016

USMD, Inc.

• Maintained and reconciled general and subsidiary ledger accounts, verify accuracy of data, and report, identify, and correct errors.

• Support timely monthly, quarterly, half-year, and year-end financial close, including assigned journal entries, balance sheet account reconciliations, accruals, and Process monthly intercompany transactions and elimination entries.

• Resolve account discrepancies and verify financial transactions.

• Maintain and update records and reports for profit and loss, taxes, liabilities, and assets.

• Reconcile accounts monthly to ensure accurate reporting and ledger maintenance.

• Reconcile monthly intercompany accounts and verify accuracy of elimination entries.

• Make Monthly Bank and Credit Card Reconciliations.

• Assists in yearend audit · Assists Controller with special projects as necessary Corporate Accountant 06/2002 to 04/2007

Triad Hospitals, Inc

• Responsible with different accounting task including, General Ledger account reconciliation, bank reconciliation, travel document and invoice approval, handling of inter-company transactions, fixed assets, payroll and payroll tax reconciliation, handling of joint venture working capital interest calculation and recording, preparation of different budget to actual transaction activities, and other project tasks.

• Reconcile accounts monthly to ensure accurate reporting and ledger maintenance.

• Prepare documentation for External Auditors.

• Reconciling the company’s bank statements and bookkeeping ledgers

• Assists in yearend audit · Assists Accounting manager with special projects as necessary Accounting and Financial System Consultant 01/2001 to 05/2002 Robert Half International Inc

Full time consultancy service – Provided accounting services to different companies int the areas of:

• Bank Reconciliation analysis

• Account analysis for different sectors

• Fixed assets maintenance

• Budget set up and maintenance

• Journal entries and account analysis

• Reconcile accounts monthly to ensure accurate reporting and ledger maintenance. Education

B.A. degree: Accounting

Addis Ababa University - Addis, Ababa

GPA: 3.09

- Complete all Becker's 4-part self-study CPA review courses.

- Certified Financial Planning Certificate from SMU.

- Updated my training and experience in preparation of individual tax returns and small business tax returns based on Drake Tax Software.

License Types

Texas Department of Insurance General Lines Agent: March 2022 - Life, Accident, Health, and HMO

March 2022 - Property and Casualty (P&C)

Accomplishments

• Collaborated with team of 3 members in conversion and migration of financial data such as customers, vendors, inventory items, and G/L accounts from QuickBooks to Meditech software.

• Collaborated with team of 5 members in conversion and migration of financial data such as customers, vendors, inventory items, and G/L accounts from Meditech software to NetSuite.

• Participated in a team to develop a budget system with Microsoft Excel for 27 inter-related independent entities, Elimination Entity budget and Consolidated budget report.

• As owner of Small Business Consulting entity, I helped for formation of Taxi Association, Limo owners Association, Black Car Trade Association, and two Christian Orthodox church in the Dallas Fort Worth area.

Affiliations

National Society of Accountants

Additional Information

I) I own and operate a Small Business Consulting Co. called (Beam Small Business Consulting, LLC) with focus to provide hands-on entrepreneurial consulting services for Minority business startup and small businesses in the Dallas/Fort Worth metropolitan area. Developed deep experience and networks in my community to work with minority small business owners’ management team interact frequently to help make operational decisions, financial management, accounting tasks and advise on strategic planning including business plan development.

II) I am Executive Board member of Mutual Assistance Association for the Ethiopian Community.

III) Beam Consulting works with Ethiopian community faith-based organizations throughout Dallas/Fort Worth metropolitan area.

Refences

Present upon request.

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