accountant

ARTHUR J. RUDNICKI, CPA **** ALDER DR HOFFMAN ESTATES IL 60192 847-***-**** **************@*******.***

‘ I am a CPA professional with a Masters in Accounting and over 10+ years of transactional, managerial, and financial accounting experience. Responsibilities were not limited to bank reconciliation, journal entries, month end close, reporting, Sox, and external auditing requests. Software use not limited to SAP, PeopleSoft, Excel, Word, Windows, Access, and Power Point. I have experience in the following industries: financial services of a manufacturing, educational, insurance, banking, and computer leasing.” Salary is negotiable.

PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE

OptionXpress, 311 Monroe Chicago, IL 60606 10/11 to present

Accountant- Contract temp to hire

• Assist in Month end process including posting payroll, employee benefit entries

• Prepare daily Futures positions spreadsheet for daily reporting to National Futures Association

• Assisted in transition from Great Plaines to Peoplesoft

• Special projects or assignments

• Assist in compiling information for Internal and External Auditors

• Great Plaines experience and Excel and Word 2007

Aon Hewitt, Lincolnshire, Il 9/11 to 10/11

Accounting Consultant

• Implementation project of SAP 8.8 to SAP 9.0

• Updating contracts and amendment contracts

• Testing contracts and amendment contracts in support environment

Unemployed due to a personal matter 05/09 to 8/11

Navistar Financial Corporation, Schaumburg, IL 8/06 to 4/09

Sr. Accountant

• Closing duties for one company. 5 day closing period

• Over 400 reconciliations per month with a two-week period.

• Derivative entry each month.

• Set up new deals for securitization deals. Terminating old deals from the GL. (Once a quarter for each new and old)

• Accounted for a series of 8 securitization deals.

• Assisted in the annual budget and forecasting for SPE company

• Assisted in restatement entries for years 2002-2008. (Restatement period)

• Answered questions regarding Sox compliance for SPE Company and external auditors.

• Process Improvement of cash posting (automated) from older deals to newer deals due to a change in accounting. This process improvement cut time off the close since it was automated instead of manual change in the GL posting.

Career Education Corporation, Hoffman Estates, IL School Accountant 11/04 to 8/06

• Closing Responsibilities for Two Schools in Gibbs Division.

• 4 day closing responsibilities including journal entry and accrual preparation.

• AR recording. Bad Debt recording

• Revenue Posting. GL Posting

• Expense Analysis during close.

• Balance Sheet Reconciliation of two schools, which included a process improvement of more detailed backup to support the balances. Cash reconciliation for both schools

• Assisted with auditors both internal and external (SOX and external audit) with the process improvement in support of balance sheet reconciliation. This cut the time the auditors spend on the audit and follow up.

Allstate Insurance Corporation, Northbrook, IL 10/00 to 11/04

Senior Accountant/Consolidated & Close Accounting

• Prepared monthly Income Statements and Balance Sheets for Allstate Bank and Northbrook Technology of Northern Ireland.

• Prepared consolidated segment financial statements for Corporate & Other.

• Prepared Corporate Expense Analysis including Allcorp, NTNI, NBS and various others which included new report to compare current period to prior period balances and described the variances.

• Assisted in annual planning process for the Allstate Bank budget and Allcorp.

• Prepared Business Unit Forecast for Allcorp.

• Reconciled the CTA account for Allstate Corporation annual audit.

• Special Projects and account reconciliation and cash flow statement issues.

• Reconciled and assisted in preparing various entries in during the closes process.

• Allstate Bank, Allstate Insurance Corporation, and NTNI audit assistance

• External Reporting (Coordinated and designed the process and data flow for the following external reporting reports

• Prepared quarterly Financial Thrift Report for Allstate Bank for the Office of Thrift Supervision.

• Prepared and reviewed monthly Cost of Funds Report for Allstate Bank for the Office of Thrift Supervision.

• Prepared quarterly Holding Company Report for Allstate Bank for the Office of Thrift Supervision in relation to Allstate Corporation’s SEC 10-K and 10-Q filings.

• Prepared CMR quarterly for Allstate Bank for the Office of Thrift Supervisor.

• Prepared BE financial statement reports regarding International Insurance Subsidiaries for Allstate quarterly, annually for the U S Department of Commerce.

• Prepared and implemented certain information for various schedules for the segment as it relates to external reporting which is done by Corporate Accounting who prepares the 10K, 10Q, Annual Report Proxy Statement for the SEC and prepares the Earning Release and Investor Supplement Package for Investors.

• Process improvement of coordinating the various schedules to support the preparation of the TRF report

MERIDIAN LEASING CORPORATION, Deerfield, IL 8/88 – 9/00

Senior Accountant / Financial Accounting Department

• Classified new equipment, renewals, secondary purchase and sub leases per FASB 13.

• Helped in process improvement of automating (excel) the classifying of leases per FASB 13.

• Posted items G/L accounts including balance sheet, income statement and control.

• Posted cash and credit items to G/L including control and receivable accounts.

• Reconciled and recorded OPL trial balance including net book value report.

• Reconciled and recorded DFL income on an effective interest method including MLP, unearns and residual values including net book value report.

• Reconciled terminated inventory and record depreciation expense and analysis values per broker.

• Responsible for analyzing and reconciling furniture and fixture, computer equipment (EDP), household improvements, and vehicles accounts with step down on new leasehold figures.

• Assisted auditors in year -end audit.

Staff Accountant / Financial Accounting Department

• Classified new and renewal leases per FASB 13, record and input cost into system.

• Amortized deferred debt cost on a sum of the year’s digit basis, record fixed asset schedule on straight-line basis.

• Recorded fixed asset schedule on straight-line basis by recording expense and accumulated depreciation.

• Variable OPL and deferred upfront payment schedules per GAAP to streamline revenue.

Lease Analyst / Financial Accounting Department

• Classified new equipment leases per FASB 13.

• Reconciled and record OPL depreciation expense for smaller company.

• Maintained Liability schedule for some accounts.

• Recorded Brokerage Sales Transaction

COMPUTER SKILLS:

SAP database, People Soft, Meridian Proprietary Leasing, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Windows, Outlook,

EDUCATION

Dominican University

Graduate School of Business, Master of Science Degree in Accounting.

Illinois State University

Undergraduate School of Business, Bachelors of Science Degree, Finance major w/Business Administration minor.

Certified Public Accountant

Issued by the Board of Examiners

State of Illinois License

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