Accounting Manager

ROCKING “R” INTERNATIONAL INC. Lincolnton, GA ****7 (08/09 to 04/10)

Accounting Department CPA Manager

Responsible for the financial reporting of this multifaceted-organization, with $17M annual revenue, in the satellite TV and Internet installation industry. Responsible as Controller for the daily management of accounting functions, staff of seven, and leadership of the accounting department ensuring timely and accurate financial information and services.

• Directed the accounting team to ensure accuracy of accounting records through balance sheet account reconciliation, correction and control of misstatements, and strict month-end closing.

• Introduced continuous review and improvement of the general ledger according to GAAP and regulations, offering open explanations of changes to users, ensuring uniformity, validity, completeness of information avoiding redundancy of activities.

• Incorporated new procedures of internal control in sales department, purchasing, field delivery operations. These procedures referred to point of sales, purchase orders and expense reimbursements. These resulted in an increase in cash flow by gating cash outflow about 10%.

• Developed new analytical procedures in order to confirm cash flow trends and costs.

• Reduced employee downtime concentrating on employee performance results, ethical behavior, and discipline. Towards this end set up the duties, responsibilities, and goals of each accounting team member, allowing them to take a more versatile roll leading to eliminate bottleneck in accounting functions.

• Integrated electronic digitized records for business research and reconciliation to the accounting system and complement software.

• Led to recover retail charge backs of over two-year old to present, and implemented a systematic model for reconciliation and immediate claim of charge backs. Recovers mounted 30% of charge backs, and shorten to 3 weeks charge backs turned around.

WESTMINSTER SERVICES INC. Orlando, FL 32801 (05/01 to 04/04)

Accountant

• Prepared monthly complete financial statements for assigned retirement communities, and performed financial analysis.

• Analyzed and balanced all assigned accounts monthly consistent with GAAP.

• Evaluated alternative accounting treatments and determined necessary journal entries to record or correct transactions.

• Prepared and recorded the appropriate accounting journal entries.

• Performed other necessary tasks for the timely reconciliation and balancing of assigned accounts.

• Prepared and submitted monthly sales tax return.

• Coordinated month-end close and system maintenance activities.

• Performed accounts payable vendor invoice/voucher review.

• Reviewed month-end billing, collection, and payroll journal entries for assigned communities.

• Assisted with annual audit and responsible for audit schedules of assigned accounts.

• Maintained permanent accounting records.

• Reviewed fixed assets coding for all communities, researched doubtful charges, and prepared monthly schedules of fixed assets.

• Reconciled and maintained assigned corporate level balance sheet accounts. Performed corporate accounting, and expense allocation to affiliates.

• Prepared reports on labor statistics, reconciled 941 payroll taxes schedules.

• Responsible for preparing and maintaining written procedures within area of responsibility.

CENTRAL FLORIDA INVESTMENTS INC. Orlando, FL 32819 (01/00 to 05/01)

Staff Accountant

• Produced consolidated operating budgets for timeshare resorts, participated in budget process and open discussions of cost drivers of zero-based budgets with general manager and department managers, and reviewed monthly budget and actual deviations.

• Prepared, and analyzed monthly financial statements for managerial reports.

• Performed account reconciliations and journal entries according to GAAP.

• Demonstrated leadership within the accounting department by helping the resorts to journalize and sort the monthly activity, gained credibility from resorts.

EDUCATION AND CREDENTIALS:

-Licensed CPA in Florida on Nov. 2008.

-Licensed CPA in Georgia.

-Masters in Business Administration with concentration in Accounting (2004 – 2007) from Florida Metropolitan University. – Orlando, Florida

-Graduated Summa Cum Laude with honors.

-BS in accounting.

-Additional education includes: Data Base Management, SQL 1, and SQL advanced, Human Resources Management in the Healthcare Industry.

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