Sr. Accountant Resume

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS:

Advanced MS Office, ADP, IMPACT, SQL, SAP General Ledger, Merit General Ledger, Business Objects, Essbase, QuickBooks, Microsoft GP Dynamics
Excellent organizational skills, able to prioritize and manage several competing responsibilities while ensuring timely completion of assigned tasks
Strong analytical skills and problem solving capabilities

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. Accountant

Responsibilities:

Interact and Liaison with Program Directors to develop budget, providing monthly analysis actual vs. budget
Monitor Non - Federal agency contribution against the budget
Review and reconcile Accounts Receivable ensuring the collection of outstanding balances
Request and ensure Federal Funds are received on a timely manner from PMS
Prepare monthly and quarterly FFR reports of expenditure as required by the various funding agencies
Develop internal control procedures and monitor compliance with various funding agency guidelines
Record general ledger entries for monthly, quarterly and annual close

Confidential

Sr. Accountant, Finance Department

Responsibilities:

Performed monthly closing of the books & records, including overseeing the G/L preparation, review of account reconciliations, preparing and maintaining balance sheet and P &L schedules
Oversaw monthly accruals including reviewing vendors contract terms, and costs agreements while ensuring payment are made accordingly
Directed and reviewed staff work flow, ensuring that transactions are processed accurately and in a timely manner
Performed review of financial activity, including monthly analysis and commentary of budget vs. actual results
Reviewed monthly investment statements, and prepare related journal entries, ensuring brokerage statements reconcile to internal accounting records
Prepared and monitored roll-forwards of investment summaries, detailing net income, interest, dividends, realized and unrealized gains
Monitored and reported daily movement of cash flow activities to Senior Management
Prepared work paper schedules for annual year-end audit

Confidential

Finance Control Analyst

Responsibilities:

Processed monthly journal entries and account reconciliations in a timely and accurate manner
Ensured adjustments are processed and discrepancies are resolved within a certain time frame
Assisted in the analytical review of the balance sheet, profit and loss, ensuring adequate understanding of material movement
Produced and communicated financial results to various departments
Documented and maintain process and procedure notes, supporting working papers including systems and data flow diagrams
Engagement with the Accounting Operation Team based in Glasgow/India on a regular basis

Confidential

Financial Analyst

Responsibilities:

Prepared, reviewed and posted month-end journal entries for Product Control and Operations related to B/S and P&L, ensuring completion within demanding month-end deadlines
Performed monthly review and analysis of firm accounts, following up with legal entity controllers to enable substantiation and certification of balances in G/L, as required by SOX
Prepared and monitored daily reconciliations between Sub-Ledger system and General Ledger to ensure financial control
Improved efficiency and reduced processing time by 75%, by assisting IT to automate a reconciliation process between a Sub-Ledger and a G/L system
Monitored suspense accounts so that entries were consistently reported to the appropriate line of business, avoiding misstatements of results and ensuring integrity of financial data
Accountable for implementation and final testing of new global system and products, resulting from international expansion of Prime Brokerage business
Identified issues arising in systems flows and collaborated with international operations teams to resolve them, enabling clients to trade successfully
Test quarterly FOCUS reports submitted by Broker Dealer Clearing clients for compliance with NASD requirements and JPM’s stricter guidelines
Contributed to migration of Heritage Confidential Stearns Sub-Ledger system to a Consolidated G/L system on JPMorgan Platform for a successful merger

Confidential

Accounting Analyst

Responsibilities:

Analyzed the fluctuations in P&L accounts, producing reports that assisted management in making informed decisions
Prepared detailed schedules which accurately indicated individual client profitability
Reviewed, investigated and resolved expenses charged to Division from multiple lines of business
Performed all accounting functions to record monthly P&L for shared net profit agreement related to Global Clearing Services/Futures joint venture

Confidential

Accounting Analyst

Responsibilities:

Prepared monthly Profit & Loss analysis report for senior management
Assisted managers in the development of departmental budgets and re-forecasting
Managed day-to-day G/L activities, including journal entries, balance sheet and inter-company reconciliations
Deciphered and investigated unusual fluctuations in account balances and made appropriate adjustments