Accounting Management

NGOZIKA LINDA OKPANKU

**** ***** **** **** # ****, Houston, TX 77099

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281-***-**** (Home), 832-***-**** (Cell)

Summary

Five years of accounting experience with strong technical knowledge of audit standards, internal control and accounting standards. Independent self-starter with strong analytical skills and excellent attention to details. Strong organizational, leadership and communication skills with a hands-on attitude. Willing to accept responsibilities beyond immediate job duties and take on special projects at management request.

Educational/Professional Qualifications

• MS Accounting, University of St. Thomas, Houston TX (May 2012)

• Master of Business Administration, Houston Baptist University (2009)

• Bachelor of Science in Accounting, University of Nigeria (1998)

• Chartered Accountant (ACA – Associate Chartered Accountant) (2006) and eligible to sit for the CPA exam

Computer skills

• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, Access, PowerPoint)

• Proficient in Peachtree and QuickBooks accounting software

Experience

Charlotte Hill, Interior Design – Staff Accountant, 2012

• Analyze and enter all purchase orders, expense reports, invoices into QuickBooks

• Conduct weekly check runs and prepare open invoices report

• Customize and extract accounting reports for management review

• Prepared and maintained Bank Reconciliation

• Reconciled GL accounts and Encore Business Card account

• Processed invoices, employee expense reports, and check requests

• Corrected General Ledger coding as necessary

• Conducted month end closing and generated all corporate Financial Reporting Balance Sheet, P&L, Cash Flow Statement

• Prepared payroll

Selected Accomplishments:

At commencement of my employment, I effectively reconciled the company’s Cash and Bank balances from January 2010, which helped the company, identify errors in their records and manage their cash flow efficiently.

Ordrec Investments Group Limited (Conglomerate - Parent company of Abbeycourt Trading, Abbeycourt Energy, Helko Marine, Helko Nigeria Limited and Berwick Engineering in Lagos, Nigeria) - Accountant, 1999 - 2004

• Designed and implemented Accounting Policies and Procedures resulting in increased efficiency and reduced cost of operations

• Conducted month end closing and generated all corporate Financial Reporting Balance Sheet, P&L, Cash Flow Statement

• Customize and extract accounting reports for management review

• Analyzed reporting Budget against Actual Expenditures for management review

• Maintained company Fixed Assets and Depreciation

• Prepared and maintained Bank Reconciliation

• Interact extensively with internal and external auditors to coordinate interim, year-end audit

• Coordinate/prepare numerous schedules, analyses and reports

• Monitor and cross check the financial reports and general ledger accounts

• Develop, sustain and synchronize the execution of accounting and accounting control procedures

• Assisted with implementation of sox controls

• Managed accounts payable; matched Purchase Orders to invoices, approved invoices for weekly check run, analyzed weekly aging report to determine payment for suppliers, provided audit for employee expense reports

• Managed accounts receivable; generated invoices for monthly client billing, maintained customer information using Peachtree, and analyzed monthly accounts receivable aging report.

• General Ledger accounts reconciliation, journal entries, provided client & supplier relations, trained co-workers on Peachtree

• Prepared cash, checks, and wired transfer payments.

• Recorded transactions pertaining to salary of employees and finances in the proper books of accounts

• Assisted the human resources department in generating the employee payroll and salary account

• Prepared consolidation accounts.

Selected Accomplishments:

• Record Analysis & Error Identification: Identified and helped resolve several large discrepancies in receivables and payables, which ensured their proper reporting.

• Policy Development: Played a key role in development of expense policies on travel and purchases, which enhanced the efficiencies and productivity of the internal audit function in the performance of expense review;

• Audit and Compliance :Prepared relevant statements and schedules, including the income statement, statement of financial position and cash flow statement, and account receivable and payable schedules for external audit purposes;

• Process Enhancement and Automation: Developed, a unique referencing format for the accounting records this unique records referencing and maintenance facilitated the prompt recovery of the company’s financial records and underlying transactions when the company encountered loss of data due to IT systems failure. It also resulted in ease of data/information transfer when the company migrated to Peachtree Accounting software.

• Efficiency: Designed several report that increased efficiency and accuracy for management decisions.

• Teamwork and Collaboration: Led the team that compiled the relevant financial forecasts, and plan to support the sourcing of funds and purchase of a 20,000mt DWT capacity oil tanker for Helko Marine Limited, which is in the busmbxeqjj

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