NEHAL PATEL
**** ***** *** ~ Fullerton, California 92833
714-***-**** (home) *******@*****.*** (cell)714-***-****
ACCOUNTING ASSISTANT
A highly talented Accounting Assistant with 8 years experience and knowledge in preparing & reviewing the budget revenue, expense, accounting documents & invoices & expertise in Excel. Maintain excellent working relationships with clients. Able to clearly communicate ideas to clients/customers verbally and in writing. Effective team member who can also take the leadin fast-paced, challenging environments. Fluent in English, Hindi, and Gujarati.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Cash Application Coordinator
• Post and apply cash to invoices, credit memo, and debit memo on account.
• Create chargeback for returned merchandise and update, maintain an inventory records.
•Responsible for to create, edit and void debit memos and credit demos for all Billabong group of company.
•Responsible for closing all the Cash Batch, Wire Batch and Credit Card Batch at the Month End.
•Write off bad debts under 20, match and post all the memos with charge backs, post cash on account/ post cash to the General Ledger accounts.
•Compute and post sales rep commission, discount, reimbursed to the major Intercompany accounts and International accounts and employee commission accounts.
•Prepare deposit and Create and maintain daily and monthly cash report.
Accounting Assistant
•Participated in accounting functions associated with accounts receivable and accounts payable.
•Provide support in general ledger activity, which included inventory account analysis, account reconciliation, journal entries, & month-end closing.
•Created and input vendor invoices on a regular basis and extracted valuable data onto the balance sheet.
•Collects and tracks subcontractor preliminary notices and lien waivers, contracts.
•Assist in reviewing annual & half-yearly audit, prepare audit schedules
•Assist in wholesale entry & reconciliations bank transaction for Partnership entities.
•Calculate cost of material, overhead and other expenses, based on estimate, price list.
•Handled day-to-day journal entries, reports, and income/sales, sales receipt deposits, bank account reconciliation, and performed various routine adjustments to company documentations, records, logs, journals, etc
Computer Skills
MAS90, AS400, QuickBooks, Peachtree
Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook Express; Windows Operating Systems – XP/Vista/Window 7
WORK HISTORY
BILLABONG, Irvine, California 2009 – Present
(Element, Vonzipper, RVCA, Honolua, Kustom, Dakine, Plan B, Tigerlily, Xcel)
Cash Application Coordinator (2012 – Present)
Accounting Assistant (2009 – 2011)
WALTER WHOLESALE ELECTRIC CO., Brea, California 2004 - 2006 Accounting Assistant
PONY EXPRESS MAIL, Anaheim, California 2002 - 2004
Accounting Assistant
DUPAGE MEDICAL GROUP, Downers Grove, Illinois 2000 - 2002
Accounting Assistant
EDUCATION & CERTIFICATION
RM COMMERCE COLLEGE, Rajpipla, India
Bachelor of Science, Accounting, 1997
REGIONAL OCCUPATIONAL CENTER, Anaheim, California
Certificate in Basic Accounting, 2004
APTEC COMPUTER EDUCATION CENTER, Anand, India
Computer Information Systems, 1999