Summary of Qualifications

• Skillful and dedicated professional with extensive experience in the coordination, planning and support of daily operational while meeting financial business goals and objectives
• Demonstrated capacity to provide comprehensive support for executive-level staff including scheduling meetings, coordinating travel, and effectively managing all essential tasks.
• Proven track record of accurately completing research, reporting, information management, marketing, and business-development efforts within budget requirements.
• Adept at developing and maintaining detailed administrative and procedural processes that reduce redundancy, improve accuracy and efficiency, and achieve organizational objectives.
• Highly focused and results-oriented in supporting complex, deadline-driven operations able to identify goals and priorities and resolve issues in initial stages.
• Proficient in: Peoplesoft, Salesforce, Sharepoint, Google Docs, Lawson, Jamis, Infinium, Symitar, SAP, MS Office Suite, MS Office Calendar, MS Project, Oracle, Lotus Notus, Deltek Costpoint, and QuickBooks

Professional Experience

Project Accountant/Manager

Confidential

• Provide support as required to Associate Director of Third Party Military Billing
• Project Manager of Special Community Outreach assignment with Senior Vice President and Associate Director of Military Partnerships and Strategic Alliances
• Manage cross functional project team
• Create project statement of work and charter
• Manage project budget constraints
• Formulate and track project budget
• Prepare Project meeting minutes
• Present project updates to upper management
• Build relationships with community leaders to fulfill project objectives
• Track errors trending analysis
• Generate project work breakdown structure
• Schedule project meetings with upper management
• Perform complex clerical activities essential to Third Party accounting such as: ensuring proper posting of tuition monies for military, private, and University System of Maryland agencies, billing, invoicing, collections of all related third party accounts receivables, refunding payments as necessary and filing tuition assistance forms and invoices
• Administer and maintain assigned third party payer accounts to verify accuracy of transactions and uniform application of policies, procedures, and acceptable standards.
• Review and process financial documents such as invoices, vouchers, receipts, and reports, while ensuring accuracy
• Provide research and overview of various procedures and programs for billing, receipt, and collection
• Employ professional customer service skills via telephone, emails and ticketing system to students, agencies, and internal staff responding to all internal and external inquiries, and troubleshoot issues accurately and appropriately
• Process and reconcile third party transactions, while ensuring that processes are in accordance with UMUC, State and Federal policies
• Receive, analyze, adjust, and prepare various internal/external financial ledgers, schedules, exhibits and summaries along with assigned databases utilized for financial reporting
• Ensure that transactions are in accordance with applicable authority, policies, procedures, and are recorded consistent with acceptable accounting standards
• Maintain manual and automated recordkeeping systems by tracking, verifying and updating records, files and reports
• Monitor, and correct data in automated systems
• Generate financial and audit reports

Project Accountant

Confidential

• Maintains accuracy of entries to cash accounts in general ledger
• Posts Accounts payable's invoices, check requests, refunds and vendor payments in Infinium
• Perform daily reconciliation of Accounts Payable utilizing SAP
• Ensures accuracy of journal entries entered to update general ledger in Jamis
• Supports reporting of state's sales and use tax
• Ensures government financial reporting is in accordance with SOX and GAAP
• Answers queries regarding accounting procedures or payment applications
• Verifies accuracy of accounting documents or records
• Updates and maintains account receivable journals, ledgers and other records detailing financial business transactions
• Enters government financial reporting data into Excel and defined computer programs
• Issues Purchase Requisitions for departmental orders
• Compiles data and prepares a variety of daily, weekly and monthly reports
• Resolves financial records with internal company employees and management, or external vendors or customers
• Reconciles bank and financial statements/reports
• Construct pivot tables
• Serves as point of contact for internal and external auditors
• Recommends actions to resolve discrepancies
• Investigates questionable data
• Communicates effectively with Finance team to apply cash to help manage company cash flow
• Performs a variety of general accounting support tasks

Senior Collections Project Specialist

Confidential

• Facilitates the post repossession process on auto loans through the liquidation of collateral
• Administer and maintain records of subpoenas, IRS levies, tax liens, child support payments and garnishments
• Follows up for timely return of all time sensitive material to courts, attorneys, and local, state and federal authorities.
• Prepares and sends checks to various entities on garnishments, liens, child support payments and levies
• File insurance claims
• Receive and process car loan payoffs and insurance claims
• Communicate and follow up effectively with car auction, title department and insurance agency regarding member's delinquent car loan accounts on a timely basis
• Establish and maintain effective and cooperative working relationships with vendors and title department
• Weekly reporting to Assistant Collections Manager

Finance Project Associate

Confidential

• Serve as project administrative support for Finance department
• Process billing and payments
• Perform account reconciliations
• Manage Petty cash and checkbook
• Post journal entries in General Ledger
• Prepare daily and weekly payment logs
• Set up vendor accounts
• Manage client relationships
• Track multiple client account expenditures against projected amount

Project Coordinator

Confidential

• Lead Project status meetings
• Manage questionnaire assistance center
• Communicate with individuals to answer questions, disseminate or explain information and address complaints
• Collect and input data on persons entering questionnaire assistance center
• Classify information according to guidelines
• Maintain records of information gathered
• Perform quality control tasks
• Conduct personal interviews and record responses
• Draft public information Census documents
• Compile census statistics
• Create and give presentation to supervisor

Project Manager/ Project Accountant

Confidential

• Assist Vice President in daily business operations management
• Manage multiple projects from formulation to closure
• Spearhead project performance to ensure project milestones and deliverables are met
• Establish benchmarks
• Perform trending analysis
• Design, coordinate and maintain vital competitive analysis process to facilitate the implementation of an aggressive company marketing strategy
• Track sub-contractor performance
• Manage vendor relationships
• Compile possible project contingencies
• Build and maintain client relationships
• Conduct project's ethics and compliance reviews
• Implement SOX controls
• Review Standards of Operations manual for projects
• Compile and analyze data from monthly reports to prepare Vice President's report to President
• Prepare Executive's meeting agendas and carefully monitor all action items
• Supervised the central executive team to ensure proper and timely completion of various projects
• Spearhead weekly/monthly project status meetings
• Oversee operations budget
• Create yearly budget reports
• Produce reports on actual versus projected budget use
• Perform cost accounting tasks
• Coordinate calendars, travel and expense reports
• Draft letters and memorandum
• Develop PowerPoint presentations for new Marketing proposal to all Executives
• Manage accounts payable, receivables, and payroll
• Prepare bi-weekly and monthly time, expense, and travel reports
• Prepare expense reports and credit card/bank reconciliations
• Perform competitive analysis
• Maintain accuracy of bank accounts on a daily basis
• Manage extensive customer and vendor accounts to grow sales and reduce costs
• Conduct in-depth business-development research and compiled results for review by all Executives
• Purchase hardware and software
• Prepare purchase requisitions
• Manage inventory
• Project future sales
• Maintains building systems by contracting for maintenance services and supervising repairs