On-Site Corporate Accounting

PAUL ROTTMANN 973-***-**** ******************@*******.***

linkedin.com/in/paul-rottmann-corporate-gaap-accountant Parsippany, New Jersey 07054

SUMMARY: Accounting professional with experience as General Accountant and Project Accountant.

Strengths include = research and resolution of balance sheet account analysis and reconciliations fully documented journal entries month-end closings bank reconciliations generating financial statements.

A collaborative team player who strives for internal & external customer satisfaction. Enabling corporations to calculate an accurate reckoning of their financial position, utilizing various ERP’s, in accordance with GAAP.

I have 4 excellent letters of recommendation from recent employers – would be happy to share them with you.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Facilities Dept Finance Associate at Montclair State U. (Acro Agency) - Montclair 2023 – 2023

Timely processing approximately 110 utility bills for payment each month, using WorkDay ERP software in conjunction with complex Excel spreadsheets and Adobe editor, on a daily basis. Ensuring these utility invoices were charged to the correct cost center, the proper spending category (expense account), and recorded in the correct accounting period. This job was an Acro Agency five month contract assignment.

Accountant at E. I. Associates - Cedar Knolls, NJ August 2021 – September 2021

(an Architectural, Engineering, Construction and Real Estate company)

Performed and successfully completed approximately 192 separate bank reconciliations – (on dozens

of individual corporate bank accounts). These tasks had been severely back-logged due to a prolonged

recent pandemic office shut-down. These bank reconciliations were accomplished using Skyline

Property Management Accounting Software. This job was a short-term temporary assignment – to get

caught up for the year-end audit. I was an employee of the L.J. Gonzer Associates employment agency.

Accountant / Full Charge Bookkeeper at Electronic Drives & Controls - Parsippany 2020 – 2020

Executed all general ledger tasks - using Sage 100 accounting software

Reconciled / rectified all open purchase order records & reports – cleanest level ever – using Sage 100

Reconciled / rectified all open sales order records and reports to cleanest level ever – using Sage 100

Performed all bank reconciliations - utilizing Sage 100 accounting software

Assisted with accounts payable and accounts receivable - using Sage 100 accounting software

Assisted the external CPA firm with various quarter-end and year-end tasks and projects

I was one of twenty applicants who were interviewed for this job at EDC. As part of the interview process,

each applicant was given the identical challenging 62 question accounting skill test. Management

awarded the job to me because they told me “No one else's test score was even close" to mine.

This job was a temp-to-perm assignment. After five months, I was still a temporary employee of Express

Personnel Agency. At that time, my temp job was eliminated, due to pandemic cutbacks at the company.

Per-diem K – 12 Substitute Teacher at Swing Education (various school districts) 2018 – 2024

Achieved teaching certificate in Nov. 2018. I teach per-diem while seeking an appropriate accounting job.

Accountant at Alcaro & Alcaro Plating Company - Montclair, NJ (Express Personnel) 2015 – 2016

Orchestrated and submitted daily cash flow reports (in Excel) – used every day by top management.

Reconciled 8 separate bank accts monthly (involving 6 forms of debit) using complex Excel spreadsheets

Used IBM AS400 accounting system to execute all monthly general ledger journal entries, which included recording ADP payroll, all non-automated A/P cash disbursements, and miscellaneous cash receipts. During my final two months, the company began transitioning to Intuit QuickBooks.

Implemented all monthly closings – produced month-end balance sheets and income statements.

Performed all accounting duties working alone, totally unsupervised and self-motivated.

Package Handler at United Parcel Service - Parsippany, NJ 2003 – 2013

Desktop Support at Global Processing Services (a Deutsche Bank subsidiary) - Totowa, NJ 2001 – 2002

General Accountant / Project Accountant - ( this firm provides pharma sales forces & clinical testing services )

Innovex, Inc. ( later acquired by Quintiles, which subsequently became IQVIA ) - Parsippany, NJ 1996 – 2001

Developed and established system of filing and recording information technology purchase requisitions

allowing instant status determination of any and all price quotations and purchase requisitions - - -

(while assigned the role of monitoring all information technology and telecommunication expenditures).

Reconciled inter-company payables and receivables - reducing account discrepancies to record low levels.

Achieved and maintained requisite management approvals for all ongoing fixed asset acquisitions.

Prepared fully documented journal entries, bank reconciliations, and balance sheet account analysis and reconciliations using elaborate Excel spreadsheets.

Collected detailed billing data for all types of clinical testing services being rendered to clients and then accurately generated timely monthly invoicing of those intricate services to clients.

Answered all customer queries regarding these complex invoices and resolving any client billing issues.

Used PeopleSoft accounting software package for all general ledger accounting functions.

EDUCATION

Waynesburg University, Waynesburg, PA Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration – Accounting

ACCOUNTING SOFTWARE PACKAGE SKILLS - WorkDay, Sage 100, PeopleSoft,

Skyline Property Management Accounting Software and a brief exposure to QuickBooks.

OTHER SOFTWARE PACKAGE SKILLS - Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Adobe

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