Accountant

RENITA PHILLIPS

**** ** **** ******  Kansas City, MO 64118  816-***-****

**************@*****.***

SUMMARY

Accounting professional within financial services who manages internal customer and external vendor relationships, performs audits, compiles financial statements, researches and resolves audit problems, and prepares shareholder reports. Demonstrates effective techniques in teaching new employees that evolved to higher roles and documenting and streamlines procedures that improved learning and processing. Strives for excellence to achieve the best outcome.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE/ QUALIFICATIONS

• Computer expertise with Windows environment; specifically, Word, Excel and Lotus 1-2-3.

• Auditing experience including problem solving techniques.

• Ability to answer phone queries in a professional manner.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

MERGIS GROUP (SPHERION STAFFING), Kansas City, MO 09/2009 – Present

Junior Accountant

• Currently assisting custody in Insurance Services with day to day duties.

• Assisted various departments with research projects.

• Assisted completing Schedule Ds.

• Researched and recorded income payments.

• Reconciled current security positions to client and accounting records.

• Answered internal questions concerning outstanding problems.

WADDELL & REED SERVICES, Overland Park, KS 04/2000 – 12/2008

Staff Accountant

• Performed complete audits quarterly and ensured that documentation was accurate for submission for annual and semi-annual reports.

• Provided information to managers, associates and outside vendors to verify information or gather numbers on entire funds portfolios/activity.

• Completed monthly internal reports on the tracking of fund activity.

• Trained new employees to complete monthly tasks to insure the accuracy of information and they advanced into their roles.

• Prepared quarterly financial statements and portfolios of fund holdings for shareholder reports.

• Proofed the manager’s letter that was included with entire shareholder reports for printing.

• Completed, verified and filed government required quarterly reports.

• Generated new procedures for a new process for gathering monthly information consolidated from Lotus to Excel that generated spreadsheets that ensured accuracy and speed.

STATE STREET, Kansas City, MO 12/1997 – 03/2000

Fund Accountant

• Prepared daily cash available.

• Reconciled holdings between two separate accounting systems daily.

• Trained new and transferred accountants on daily procedures.

• Researched any discrepancies that existed daily.

• Completed monthly objectives in a timely manner.

• Priced funds on a daily basis.

EDUCATION

BS, Accounting, Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, MO, 1993

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