Accountant/Auditor
Resume:
Deborah Rivera
**** **** ****** ***** • St. Petersburg, FL 33712
Phone: 727-***-**** • Cell Phone 727-***-**** • Email: *********@********.**.***
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Accountant/Auditor
ACCOUNTING SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT• FISCAL MANAGEMENT• FINANCIAL REPORTING •
ORGANIAZTIONZATIONAL CULTURE AND VISION• PROACTIVE BUSINESS LEADERSHIP
START-UPS and TURNAROUNDS• BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Strategic business partner and catalyst for innovative initiatives that address today’s business challenges of attaining revenue goals, controlling expenses, satisfying customers, and attracting/retaining talent while achieving business and profitability objectives. Capable of transitioning underperforming organizations into highly effective ones as well as leading organizations through accelerated growth or rapid change.
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KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS
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• Chief financial officer with 15 years of corporate accounting and management experience.
• Hands-on manager with expertise in accounting systems development, fiscal management and financial
reporting.
• Proven record of developing and implementing financial and operational controls that improve P&L
scenario and competitively. position firm.
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KNOWLEDGE AND EXPEERTISE
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• Financial and strategic planning • Budget development and management
• P&L management • Merger and acquisition negotiations
• Auditing and compliance • Cash-flow management and modeling
• Business valuations
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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Customer Service Representative, Check ‘n Go, St. Petersburg, FL April 2007 - Present
• Achieved excellence in customer growth by developing new marketing strategies.
• Increased company’s profitability by daily reminder calls; collection calls; and customer negotiations..
• Ensured excellent customer relations by listening to customers, and by embracing Check ‘n Go’s vision to exceed
expectations.
• Successfully continued company’s daily operations solo during absence of a manager.
Deborah Rivera
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Lead Teacher for At Risk Students, Pinellas County Schools Administration.
Largo, Florida August, 1988 to January 2005
• In collaboration with State of Florida Representative brought into law instruction of African American History
into the classroom as an elective. course of study.
• Wrote successful grant proposals in order to enhance and improve the student reading program
• Negotiated with speakers and artist (singers, writers, parliamentary figures, representatives of minority groups)
and made detailed arrangements,
• Served on Student Advisory Committee.
• Received numerous awards for outstanding performance including the 2005 Outstanding Teachers Supervisors Award.
Chief Financial Officer, Johnnie Ruth Clarke Health Center, Inc. St. Petersburg, Florida
1984-1987
• Developed the Center’s grant funded accounting system witch grew from $230,000 to
$655,000.
• Responsible for the hiring and direct supervision of the Center’s clerical staff; completed performance
•evaluations and assisted in developing their annual work goals.
• Successful in task completion and took the initiative to solve programmatic issues.
• Successfully assisted with the development of the Agency’s Annual Budget and Filed all Appropriate Tax
and Financial Reports for the Agency.
Staff Accountant/ Cost Analyst, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
1978-1981
• Successfully performed accounting assignments to include pension accounting, insurance accounting,
bank reconciliations, and various accounting analysis.
• Expedited numerous accounting reports as assigned, including the expedition of secretarial assignments when
necessary to meet goals, including taking shorthand
• Successfully interacted with Center’s 5,000 employees.
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EDUCATION
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Bachelor Of Arts Degree
Clark Atlanta University
Major: Business Administration – Minor: Economics
Deborah Rivera
2708 13th Avenue South • St. Petersburg, FL 33712
Phone: 727-***-**** • Cell Phone 727-***-**** • Email: *********@********.**.***
______________________________________________________________________________
Accountant/Auditor
ACCOUNTING SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT• FISCAL MANAGEMENT• FINANCIAL REPORTING •
ORGANIAZTIONZATIONAL CULTURE AND VISION• PROACTIVE BUSINESS LEADERSHIP
START-UPS and TURNAROUNDS• BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Strategic business partner and catalyst for innovative initiatives that address today’s business challenges of attaining revenue goals, controlling expenses, satisfying customers, and attracting/retaining talent while achieving business and profitability objectives. Capable of transitioning underperforming organizations into highly effective ones as well as leading organizations through accelerated growth or rapid change.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________
KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS
_____________________________________________________________________________________________
• Chief financial officer with 15 years of corporate accounting and management experience.
• Hands-on manager with expertise in accounting systems development, fiscal management and financial
reporting.
• Proven record of developing and implementing financial and operational controls that improve P&L
scenario and competitively. position firm.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________
KNOWLEDGE AND EXPEERTISE
_____________________________________________________________________________________________
• Financial and strategic planning • Budget development and management
• P&L management • Merger and acquisition negotiations
• Auditing and compliance • Cash-flow management and modeling
• Business valuations
_____________________________________________________________________________________________
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
_____________________________________________________________________________________________
Customer Service Representative, Check ‘n Go, St. Petersburg, FL April 2007 - Present
• Achieved excellence in customer growth by developing new marketing strategies.
• Increased company’s profitability by daily reminder calls; collection calls; and customer negotiations..
• Ensured excellent customer relations by listening to customers, and by embracing Check ‘n Go’s vision to exceed
expectations.
• Successfully continued company’s daily operations solo during absence of a manager.
Deborah Rivera
___________________________ ______________
Page 2
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Lead Teacher for At Risk Students, Pinellas County Schools Administration.
Largo, Florida August, 1988 to January 2005
• In collaboration with State of Florida Representative brought into law instruction of African American History
into the classroom as an elective. course of study.
• Wrote successful grant proposals in order to enhance and improve the student reading program
• Negotiated with speakers and artist (singers, writers, parliamentary figures, representatives of minority groups)
and made detailed arrangements,
• Served on Student Advisory Committee.
• Received numerous awards for outstanding performance including the 2005 Outstanding Teachers Supervisors Award.
Chief Financial Officer, Johnnie Ruth Clarke Health Center, Inc. St. Petersburg, Florida
1984-1987
• Developed the Center’s grant funded accounting system witch grew from $230,000 to
$655,000.
• Responsible for the hiring and direct supervision of the Center’s clerical staff; completed performance
•evaluations and assisted in developing their annual work goals.
• Successful in task completion and took the initiative to solve programmatic issues.
• Successfully assisted with the development of the Agency’s Annual Budget and Filed all Appropriate Tax
and Financial Reports for the Agency.
Staff Accountant/ Cost Analyst, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
1978-1981
• Successfully performed accounting assignments to include pension accounting, insurance accounting,
bank reconciliations, and various accounting analysis.
• Expedited numerous accounting reports as assigned, including the expedition of secretarial assignments when
necessary to meet goals, including taking shorthand
• Successfully interacted with Center’s 5,000 employees.
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EDUCATION
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Bachelor Of Arts Degree
Clark Atlanta University
Major: Business Administration – Minor: Economics
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