SUMMARY:

• Excellent ability to prepare financial reports and analyze financial data and documents according to GAAP.
• Strong record of researching and interpreting findings to assist management identify solutions to key problems.
• Strong Excel (Pivot - tables, V-lookup), Access, PowerPoint and modeling to complete routine and ad-hoc tasks.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Senior Financial Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for preparing periodic Financial reports for Confidential North America companies, including B/S, P&L and related schedules.
• Responsible for submitting accurate and timely Financial Statements to the Global consolidation reporting team.
• Responsible for running and transferring the Cost Matrix report into the Global Management Warehouse system.
• Provide high-level analysis of the Trial Balance during close to monitor and alert management of any unusual/ unexpected activity.
• Perform quarterly Cost Matrix (CM) analysis of restricted accounts to ensure valid cost centers have been used for posting.
• Maintain Trial Balance mapping to Financial Statements for key North America companies.
• Provide a prompt and complete analysis services and research to internal customers.
• Build monthly pivot reports (analyses) for business partners and upper management to show trend and outliers.
• Support Transactional team with posting and JE review during month end close.
• Support Integrated Supply Chain with assessment cycles to allocated indirect and conversion costs to products.
• Developed Excel model to organize, format and summarize data reducing report generation turnaround time from 2 days to minutes.
• Resolved ad-hoc accounting and reporting questions in a timely manner with a high level of customer satisfaction.
• Created GMW mapping resulting in a more accurate interpretation and examination of trends/variances for business partners.
• Took initiative to learn/execute the monthly assessment cycles, which allowed management to keep a close eye on a key task.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Accountant (Contractor)

Responsibilities:

• Assisted Senior Accounting Manager with month end close for the Confidential .
• Prepared and reviewed various journal entries and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Monitored detailed transactions daily for unusual spend, researched, analyzed and resolved any discrepancies.
• Performed trend analysis on assigned accounts to identify accruals needed.
• Performed advanced Excel techniques including Pivot tables and V-look to expand reporting and data analysis resulting in increased productivity, financial insight and effective decision support.
• Assisted FP&A with research and analysis related to year over year, month over month and actual versus forecast variances.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Sr. Financial Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Provided accounting and financial management support for the Confidential III Capital Improvement and Construction program.
• Assisted the Operations and Fixed Asset teams by responding quickly and accurately to audit and open record requests.
• Prepared and reviewed balance sheet reconciliations, account analysis and program financial statements and reports.
• Performed variance analysis actual versus budget and forecast.
• Performed mini-audit of G702 Contractor Application for Payment, G703 Continuation Sheet and Schedule of Values and other supporting documents for completeness, accuracy, and compliance with contract.
• Monitored Purchase orders to ensure sufficient funding to cover uncompleted contracts and change orders.
• Prepared Working Capital report monthly to ensure sufficient cash to cover vendor payments due within 90 days.
• Created mapping related to the Lawson Project Accounting system conversion project and the Confidential IV program.
• Collaborated with Capital Improvement Director on the design and implementation of the cash projection model.
• Used advanced Excel to perform statistical calculations, data manipulation and create highly effective ad hoc reports.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Sr. Accountant

Responsibilities:

• Served as a team lead for the month end close process, including preparation of reconciliations and posting of journal entries.
• Monitored close calendar to ensure team members completed responsibilities as scheduled.
• Generated system processes to record fixed assets activities.
• Prepared Cash Balancing report daily for upper management to report the company’s cash position.
• Assisted Assistant Controller with audit preparation, research, analysis, and documentation binders.
• Updated Cash Flow statement for the Finance team using advanced accounting knowledge, including interpretation of balance sheet and income statement year-over-year variances.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Sr. Accountant

Responsibilities:

• Assisted with month end close process, including gathering data from various departments and Confidential accounting system, performing detailed analysis, making corrections, and running financial reports.
• Prepared various journal entries and 50 state payroll reconciliations. Performed monthly P&L and Balance Sheet analyses and communicated results to management.
• Prepared monthly Medical Trust financial statement, Key Operating Statistics report and assigned quarterly board pages.
• Collaborated with the Tax and Benefits departments to research and resolve any reconciliation discrepancies.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Sr. Accountant

Responsibilities:

• Assisted Accounting Manager prepare various journal entries, reconciliations, and schedules.
• Collaborated with Senior Systems Analyst and Senior Property Accountant to ensure a smooth project accounting month-end close.
• Monitored and corrected fixed assets and Inventory journal imports & transactions in Oracle 11i project accounting module.
• Tracked and reported issues and problems to management to assist with the process improvement effort.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Payroll Accountant

Responsibilities:

• Provided payroll administration support for company with 1100 employees, including importing employee time records, calculating pay, verifying pay register accuracy and distributing paychecks. Recorded all transactions related to 11 bi-weekly payrolls.
• Reviewed earning and deduction set-ups to ensure proper coding for Oracle projects and general ledger modules.
• Reviewed and cleared payroll exception reports.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Financial Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Key member of the Financial Analysis and Planning team.
• Managed the accrual of expenses for the entire Strategy and Marketing organization from monitoring purchase requisitions to preparing journal entries.
• Researched and analyzed variances to budget for assigned departments and presented management with explanations using PowerPoint slides. A
• ssisted with annual budgeting process and forecast modifications.
• Assisted management with responses to internal and external audit requests.