TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Windows 7
• JD Edwards
• MRI
• SAP
• Quickbooks
• Peachtree
• IBS
• Oracle
• Domain
• Microsoft office
• V - lookups
• Pivot tables
• Yardi
• Financial Edge
• CPA study

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - New Brunswick, NJ

Staff Accountant

Responsibilities:

• Performed A/P and A/R utilizing Financial Edge.
• Updated Property schedules utilizing Excel.
• Provided supporting documentation requested during audit.
• Participated in weekly meeting regarding acquisitions.
• Performed month end close process.
• Settled inter-company transactions.

Confidential - Short Hills, NJ

Staff Accountant

Responsibilities:

• Financial reporting.
• Performed month end close process.
• Prepared journal entries.
• Enforced GAAP accounting principles and company policies.
• Assisted with annual budgeting and forecasting.
• Performed bank reconciliation’s and daily cash reporting.
• Maintained general ledger accounts, providing monthly account analysis, and reconciling balance sheet accounts.

Confidential - New York, NY

Lease Accountant

Responsibilities:

• Performed monthly rent reconciliations, including landlord invoice billing and statement review, coding, reconciliation to lease agreements, and processing related checks.
• Managed monthly sales and percentage rent calculations and reporting; monitored tenant allowances and reconciling with legal's schedule.
• Prepared journal entries and all necessary accruals; preparing support for financial and landlord audits.
• Prepared and submitted sales reporting for all locations.
• Completed a percentage rent payment project identifying areas of overpaid percentage rent resulting in over 20k refund as well as 150k refund for overpaid storage fees.

Confidential - Montvale, NJ

Real Estate Accountant

Responsibilities:

• Interpret real estate legal documents (leases, amendments to leases and various other legal documents) to ensure billing in accordance with the lease terms.
• Communicated with landlords on inquiries related to cam items, rent, insurance and miscellaneous other invoices.
• Oversaw/ reported sales information in accordance with lease terms for percent rent locations including sale- lease back locations.
• Acted as a liaison with lease auditors, internal and external auditors, credit and collection agencies and landlords.
• Reconciled cam, tax and other escalation billings for tenants, also performed variance analysis to explain actual results from budgeted.
• Monthly accrual entry for percent rent expense, cam expenses and additional items.
• Performed account payable for percent rent locations as well as for miscellaneous invoices utilizing Oracle.
• Tracked and coded miscellaneous invoices.
• Increased revenue 181K over two year period by identifying areas of missed billing of pro-rated rents and confirmed collection.
• Reduced cam costs over 654K over two year period.

Confidential - Paramus, NJ

Lease Accountant

Responsibilities:

• Prepared year end billing reconciliation for cam, real estate taxes, insurance and other reimbursable expenses.
• Maintained CPI tenant database to ensure accurate and timely updates of increases within IBS system.
• Performed variance analysis with property management to ensure accuracy of cam expenses at the property level.
• Maintained occupancy report detail on monthly basis to ensure accurate and timely execution of cam, tax, insurance escalations for appropriate business entity.
• Reviewed lease abstracts, identified cam exclusions and set up cam escalations.
• Implemented and maintained controls for data accuracy, produced monthly rent reports, and maintained monthly financial reports for reporting, budgeting and forecasting purposes.
• Accurately abstracted lease documents, performed data entry and set alerts for critical dates, Lease administration and information management.
• Monitored critical dates associated with tenant improvement allowance reimbursement, initiated the collection of required documents for reimbursement requests, and prepared invoices accordingly.
• Maintained Certificates of Insurance as required or mandated by each lease agreement.

Confidential - New York, NY

Accounts Receivable Manager

Responsibilities:

• Performed commercial tenants billing and collection process.
• Posted cash receipts to general ledger utilizing IBS.
• Prepared cam, tax, and other reconciliation billings for all applicable leases.
• Handled all utility billings as well as miscellaneous billings to tenants.
• Maintained rent roll reports containing information for all leased and vacant suites to ascertain occupancy rates.
• Ongoing review of accounts receivable open items to proceed with collections.
• Approved improvement allowances based on completeness of required documentation.
• Maintained physical and electronic files to ensure information is current and organized.
• Assisted in utility consumption project which resulted in increased utility recovery from tenants.

Confidential - Edison, NJ

Staff Accountant

Responsibilities:

• Prepared financial statements for subsidiary companies.
• Applied cash receipts utilizing SAP.
• Handled expense reports and reimbursements.
• Performed month end close for subsidiary companies.
• Performed bank reconciliations on a daily basis.
• Settled inter-company balances.

Confidential - New York, NY

Property Accountant

Responsibilities:

• Prepared month-end closing accrual journal entries.
• Prepared straight-line rent and tax expense accrual journal entries.
• Analyzed and explained significant budget variances.
• Prepared cam and real estate tax reconciliations.
• Reviewed and analyzed tenant leases.
• Prepared account analyses of accounts receivable.
• Assisted management with special projects.
• Posted cash to general ledger utilizing JD Edwards.
• Handled all tenant communication regarding billing and payments.
• Processed journal entries to transfer cash to appropriate business unit entity.