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Donna Kay Elich

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Red Oak, Texas 75154

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SKILLS

• Fixed Assets Account Reconciliations

• Financial Statements Cash Forecasting

• Accounts Payable Payroll

• Financial analysis of variances Accounting system set-up

COMPUTER SKILLS

• Windows Macola

• Microsoft Office AccPac

• Sage Software FAS Accounting Vision

• Fourth Shift Peachtree

EDUCATION

Bachelors Degree: BA General Business University of North Texas at Denton

140 Credit hours with 12 hours of Accounting GPA 3.40

Member: Beta Gamma Sigma, North Texas Exes

WORK EXPERIENCE

Kalogridis, Inc. (Manufacturing Industry) Dallas, Texas

ACCOUNTANT/HUMAN RESOURCES 2008

• Prepared and processed payroll for all hourly employees.

• Administered employee benefits and managed human resources.

• Prepared cost-outs for each production job.

• Provided back-up for accounts receivable.

Dallas Woodcraft (Manufacturing Industry) Dallas, Texas

ASSOCIATE ACCOUNTANT 2007 – 2008

• Streamlined payroll function reducing time to process by 50%.

• Performed general ledger reconciliation and prepared journal entries as needed.

• Used Excel to prepare financial analysis of manufacturing variances.

• Matched purchase orders to receiving documents and invoices, coded general ledger account numbers and processed accounts payable using Fourth Shift software.

• Prepared weekly cash forecast and analysis of prior week’s variances using Excel.

• Prepared and processed payroll for all hourly employees.

HKS, Inc. (Architecture Industry) Dallas, Texas

GENERAL LEDGER SPECIALIST 2005 – 2007

• Set up and managed fixed asset system using Sage FAS Accounting software. Identified and activated over 10,000 assets. Analyzed and made recommendations to management concerning disposal of unused or obsolete assets.

• Prepared general ledger reconciliation for employee benefits in Excel.

• Prepared journal entries to record monthly depreciation at each month end close.

• Prepared and recorded cash receipts using Deltek Vision software.

• Prepared and processed payments to outside consultants for each open project using Excel.

Centex Title & Insurance (Title Insurance Industry) Dallas, Texas

STAFF ACCOUNTANT 2001 – 2005

• Assisted in a reconciliation project involving all balance sheet accounts. My assignment involved reconciliation of 10 cash accounts and entailed identifying inconsistencies between general ledger and the subsidiary ledgers. Project was completed ahead of schedule with minimal impact.

• Prepared general ledger reconciliations for various balance sheet accounts using Excel.

• Managed fixed assets using Sage FAS Accounting software for over 100 branch offices initiated a project involving a major reorganization of the fixed asset system. Analyzed data structure and made recommendations to management for reorganization. Implemented recommendations allowing the system to become more user-friendly and reduced personal property tax by 30%.

• Prepared and entered journal entries to record depreciation expense using AccPac software.

• Prepared and processed cash receipts using AccPac software.

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) (Government) Dallas, Texas

FINANCIAL TECHNICIAN 1998 –2000

• Served as a team member identifying escheat funds of failed financial institutions held by state governments resulting in the recovery of over $10,000,000.

• Reconciled multiple general ledger accounts to subsidiary ledgers based on accounting standards.

• Identified and recommended actions to management for inconsistencies.

• Contacted responsible parties to ensure items were cleared in a timely manner.

• Prepared journal entries to clear reconciling items and co-ordinate efforts with other areas.

Mitchell Williams/EDS Partnership (Government) Dallas, Texas

PROFESSIONAL 1996 – 1998

• Assisted with conversion of reconciling activity from MS Excel to MS Access resulting in a reduction of staff by 50%.

• Reconciled bank activity for the national liquidation concentration account to general ledger.

• Analyzed ACH transfers, incoming wires, disbursements and outgoing wires for correct coding.

• Prepared daily net activity reconciliation reports for receiverships.

• Researched and resolved reconciling items

• Prepared daily balance sheet of liquidation cash concentration account.

Penguin Refrigeration, Inc. (Manufacturing Industry) Arlington, Texas

ACCOUNTING SUPERVISOR 1995 – 1996

• Assisted with new accounting system set-up on Macola software which reduced processing time by 30%.

• Implemented comprehensive benefit package with 25 % annual savings to the company.

• Prepared and processed cash receipts using Macola software.

• Matched purchase orders to invoices, coded and entered invoices, and processed accounts payable checks using Macola.

• Administered employee benefits and managed human resources.

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