Senior Accountant

Keenan A. Smith

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Summary

Talented and dynamic accounting professional with extensive month-end close, complex balance sheet account reconciliations, budgeting, fixed assets, capital and operational expense forecasting, procedure documentation and internal controls expertise. Successfully partnered with organizations to streamline bottleneck processes, bring account reconciliations in arrears current, and provide forward looking analytics to enhance business p/L. Technical Experience

Proficient in Microsoft Office including intermediate MS Excel pivots, v/h-lookups, nested formulas, sumifs Accounting Software – Oracle, PeopleSoft, Netsuite, SAP, QuickBooks, Microsoft Dynamics, and Workday Work Experience

Challenger Performance Optimization October 2023 – February 2025 Senior Accountant

• Completed all month-end close activities for the US, UK, and Germany entities.

• Reviewed sales order for accuracy while creating billing schedules based on agreed upon details with customer.

• Balance sheet reconciliations.

• Accounts Payable – Enter invoices and manage inbox

• Performed a lot of ad hoc projects due to continuously trying to make processes more efficient.

• Provided additional reporting for sale of company. Omnicell April 2023 – September 2023

Senior Accountant

• Daily Cash Posting

• Month-End Close Duties – Record journal entries and complete reconciliations Intelsat November 2022 – March 2023

Senior Accountant Consultant (International Team)

• Month-end close duties – Record journal entries/uploads constructed by accountants in their respective countries, adjusting entries, depreciation, transfer pricing, currency conversion, intercompany transactions and confirming cash/revenue across 8+ entities.

• Prepare Audit workpapers for the 2022 Audit.

• Prepared monthly balance sheet account and bank account reconciliations for 8+ different entities and cleaned-up reconciling items that were outdated.

• Performed Ad Hoc Projects as requested.

BMO Harris Bank March 2022 – October 2022

Consultant

• Month-end close duties – approve offshore teams’ entries, record journal entries, reconciliations.

• Capital analysis – monthly analysis to determine the factors causing variances to budget. Also, identifying the new capital items and catch-up capital items monthly.

• Fixed Asset Analysis – Quarterly check to ensure assets are being depreciated properly. Robert Half June 2021 – March 2022

Senior Accountant Consultant; Client Roster Enlivant, CNA Insurance, Muscular Dystrophy Association

• Month-end close - Record journal entries, approve staff accountants journal entries, reconciliations, allocations, depreciation, confirming revenue totals, etc.

• Review of Staff’s mid-month Lender Reporting (Balance Sheets, Income Statement, Intercompany Reconciliations, Cash Flow).

• Navigation of Audits for select locations of clients. Providing selections and additional reports needed to complete Audit.

• Implementing new reports/spreadsheets to help make processes more efficient. Revolution Global June 2019 – February 2021

Senior Accountant

• Intercompany Accounting – Processing of invoices, journal entries, allocations, and reviewing intercompany transactions for accuracy.

• Accounts Payable – Receive, process, and verify invoices daily. Reconcile processed invoices to ensure accuracy by verifying entries and comparing system reports to balances.

• Revenue Accounting - Invoice customers, record payments received and communicate to customers if payments are past due.

• Preparation and filing of Sales & Use Tax

• Prepare financials for quarterly close process. Duties include, but not limited to journal entries, accruals, allocations, depreciation, reconciliations, and inventory calculations. Submitted to Controller for review.

• Assisting with implementation of new accounting system ERP(Microsoft 365) by doing test entries ensuring data uploads were accurate with previous systems ending balances, and communicating with the developers when finding errors in system.

InterPark, LLC October 2015 – May 2019

Portfolio Accountant

• Summarize current financial status by collecting information, prepare the balance sheet, and compile profit and loss statements. Present financials to management(CEO, CFO, and COO) on a monthly basis.

• Month-end close duties including Corporate allocations, accruals, and other journal entries

• Monthly(High risk) and quarterly(Low Risk) reconciliations completed with detailed supporting schedules.

• Prepare support for audit selections during the interim and year-end audits.

• Preparation of Sales & Use Tax

Education

Illinois State University December 2014

Bachelor of Science in Accounting

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