Senior Accountant Accounting Manager / Supervisor Assistant Controller

HIGHLIGHTS: CPA (Inactive)

Advanced Excel skills, including v-lookups, pivot tables and complex formulas

Advanced Access and SQL language skills

Microsoft Word, Word Perfect, Business Objects, Hyperion, Lotus 123, TOAD

Oracle Financial, Lawson, Great Plains

* Superior ad hoc reporting skills

* Experience in general ledger accounting, analysis, reconciliation, reporting, revenue posting, accounts payable, fixed assets, inventory

* Attention to detail

* Ability to effectively streamline processes

* Supervisory experience

Willing to relocate to most areas of the United States.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

FORM-A-FEED, Stewart, MN 2007 - May 2009

Accountant

* Monitor all General Ledger accounts with an emphasis on sales and cost of goods sold accounts.

* Create weekly sales reports for the salesmen.

* Prepare and enter journal entries for all companies.

* Perform month end closing procedures. This includes inventory maintenance procedures.

* Create month end reports for all companies. This includes highlighting individual products and sales territories to help explain changes in margins.

* Analyze Financial Statements for inconsistencies and make corrections as needed.

* Monitor and reconcile bank accounts for all companies.

* Create ad-hoc reports requested by management for monitoring specific products or salesmen.

* Run processes to update prices when market changes dictate.

* Maintain custom price lists for a select number of the customers and create work around calculations when necessary.

NEXTEL PARTNERS, Eden Prairie, MN 2002 - 2007

General Ledger Accountant

* Develop new reports for financial analysis.

* Analyze subscriber revenue data for six monthly bill cycles and create journal entries for these bill cycles.

* Create revenue reports for six monthly bill cycles to help in managerial decision making.

* Review, create reports and journalize line items from a joint venture settlement invoice.

* Review all of the monthly revenue data to determine the amount payable to third party vendors offering unique services through the subscribers' cellular phones.

* Prepare monthly revenue accrual based on the actual revenue and Average Revenue Per Unit from all bill cycles for the month.

* Reconcile the unearned revenue account, liability account for the third party content providers, and the liability accounts for the joint venture.

* Review monthly revenue data for all bill cycles to make re-classes between markets.

* Create monthly analysis reports that show the comparisons of recurring revenue to usage revenue.

* Provide information to internal and external auditors as requested.

* Sarbanes-Oxley documentation for areas of responsibility.

FINGERHUT, INCORPORATED, Plymouth, MN 1999 - 2002

Accounts Payable Supervisor

* Assisted and filled in for the Accounts Payable Manager.

* Balanced international accounts, including freight, duty, and commission.

* Reconciled general ledger accounts to cost variance tables for discounts, rebates and ad allowance accounts, and created worksheets for the Buyers and Vice Presidents of Merchandising based on this information.

* Created worksheets for accounts payable general ledger accounts separating company divisions and sub-totaling accounts by merchandise and overhead.

* Queried invoice tables for information required by Internal Auditors and Custom Auditors.

* Processed general ledger inventory adjustments and profit and loss worksheets for the company stores.

SCHWAN'S SALES ENTERPRISES, Marshall & Young America, MN 1993 - 1995

Fixed Asset Coordinator

* Accounted for the fixed assets of various subsidiary companies.

* Determined depreciation percentages for new fixed assets.

* Reviewed receipts and decided whether to capitalize or expense the invoices.

* Prepared necessary journal entries.

Supervisor (Not accounting work) 1995 - 1996

* Supervised 18 employees in production of food products, and supervised 20 + employees in cleaning of food processing equipment.

* Determined job duties for employees and tracked attendance and hours worked.

* Resolved any problems that occurred in production and addressed employee concerns.

EDUCATION:

Southwest State University, Marshall, Minnesota

Bachelor of Science, 1994

Major in Accounting; Minor in Business

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