Cost Accountant

Meenakshi P. Mehndi

**** ****** **, *****, ** ***77-8953 Phone:925-***-**** Email: ***********@***.***

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Principal Areas of Practice

Accounts Receivable Cash Receipts Accounts Payable

Month End/Year End Close Cost Accounting GL Entries & Balancing

Wire Transfer Processing ACH Transfer Bank Reconciliations

Purchasing Credit & Collections Expense Report

Professional Experience

Top Grade Construction, Livermore, CA Cost Accountant (05/ 2011 – 8/ 2011)

Software: JD Edwards, HCSS, EW Touch, CRYSTAL Software, MS Excel

• Set up Excel files for monthly progress Billing and subcontract progress payment. Maintain billing procedure specifications, markup percentage for extras work. Initiate and maintain Contract revenue control sheet. Prepare schedules of values for monthly billings.

• Review daily quantities in replace reported by Field Engineers against Purchase Orders and enter in JD Edward System. Maintain purchase orders for materials and subcontracts. Match Po’s against Invoices and encode them to correct cost codes.

• Track all extra work authorizations and alert the PM and estimator if work is performed without proper documents and authorizations. Issue Cost codes and verify and maintain proper documents

• Maintain revenue and budget as changes to project occurs.

• Price out Extra work tags and reconcile revenue to job cost for Labor, Equipment and Material. . Summarize extra work tags into a Change order request.

• Run cost reports mid month and review cost reports for accuracy. Research and note any variance from most current budget. Complete cost code audits as necessary to verify correct job costs.

• Review job correspondence with field personnel. Obtain billing information to prepare monthly job progress billing as per each customers requirements. Review Cost with Project Managers and accrue all pending cost for the month. Report projects billed to A/R manager so release can be requested in a timely manner. Monitor receivables and contact customers for payment and change order status. Inform Project Managers and Estimator of any collection problems.

• Reconcile issues regarding Cost and record job cost reclassifications.

Waxie Sanitary Supply Sales Administrator (11/2010 – 3/2011)

Software: AS 400, MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook

• Create Weekly Reports, Month End Report, Year to Date Reports and help track new business and daily sales. Manage pricing and margins and update AS400 systems with current cost and sell prices.

• Manage rebates for sales consultants. Assist customer service team with proposals, bids, flyers, usage reports and special projects including promotion, ,claim forms, training schedules, seminars and maintaining literature rack ,library and sample rooms. Prepare catalogs, literature and other materials for mailing as requested.

• Set up and maintain customer database. Track and Report monthly commission and attendance to Payroll manager.

• Assist in planning Annual sales Banquet. Prepare Expense Report.

Therma Corporation, San Jose, CA

Project Accountant (02/2004- 11/2008)

• Planning, monitoring and organizing departmental functions and operations.

• Review new job contracts, purchase orders and change orders. Prepare monthly progress billings, payment applications, subcontractor affidavits and schedules of values.

• Analyze Vendor PO’S and Approve for payment. Encode to correct GL.

• Prepare conditional lien waivers, Calculate monthly contract labor and material accruals.

• Provide Certified Payroll copies with billings. Review and calculate profit margins.

• Assist project managers with various reports and job costing.

• Mentoring retention values and percentage completion on contract jobs.

• Process internet billing and balancing purchase orders.

• Process and monitor sales tax items and quarterly reporting to the state.

• Train new employees on billing and accounts receivable procedures.

• Research and reconcile billing discrepancies.

• Posting and balancing receivable and general ledger. Monitor employee expense.

Computer Applications

MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint Adobe Acrobat QuickBooks

EW Touch HCSS Time Management JD Edwards AS400

Professional references available upon request.

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