SUMMARY:

• To obtain a challenging position in accounting and finance that will utilize my skills and experience and provide opportunity for growth.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Software: Word/ WordPerfect, Lotus & Excel, Lotus Notes 4.6, and Outlook 2007.

System: Bank Applications, Accounting system - CAPPS, GEMS, CFMS, GFMS RMS, CRS,IPAC, CL-II, Cable Express, e-Med2 and Rep. Web, Data Warehouse, SMART

Personal & Professional: analytical, problem solving, time management and detail oriented.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Washington, DC

Budget Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Team-leader for Confidential, provide full range of budget oversight execution and control through managing all overseas World Wide Medical Evacuation/SOS Travels. Retrieve documents via SMART, establish obligation accounts, plan, organize, review, analyze and summarize various budgetary and fiscal data, compute Per Diem and Airfare, process and provide Fund Cite to each designated Post by prioritizing fund request to ensure funds are received promptly and efficiently within 48 hours period.
• Perform wide variety of administrative and analytical duties related to functions of federal budget work in support of the budget formulation, justification and presentation process.
• Follow appropriate laws and regulations to establish obligation funds accordance with the Foreign Affairs Manual (FAM), Federal Travel Regulation (FTR) and Foreign Affairs Handbooks (FAH).
• Ensure funds are available at all time and obligations do not exceed appropriated funds and expenditures do not exceed obligations and that funds are properly allocated and being spent in timely and effective manner.
• Review budget estimates to ensure they are complete, accurate, and equitable and that the justifications provided are cogent and discuss matter with superiors including the Budget Officer.
• Process all transactions into (GFMS) Global Finical Management System; maintain all activities and records to provide documentation for budget formulation and financial planning.
• Update medical Funding by adjusting, reconciling accounts and amending previous Funding in accordance with the program activities, while keeping records and maintaining all accounts by creating file folders and spreadsheet.
• Monitor spending by performing Final accounting reports and reconcile accounts prior years to present. And send Final Accounting request for each obligations and follow up with post to maintain all spending activities.
• Generate reports for all activities in order to maintain historical records showing all levels of action on each supplemental estimate or budget justification, and program accomplishments.
• Prepare special and recurring financial reports and data as required by program managers.
• Respond to all incoming inquiries from Post, by researching and analyzing the problem in a timely fashion in order to promptly serve patients and clients.
• Correspond with foreign services officers and family to schedule appointments, notify them of what necessary document may be needed and what procedures to follow in order to service them effectively in preparing Travel Orders and Travel Advances when they arrive in Washington DC.
• Communicate with overseas post and Bureau mangers by phone, telegram and via e-mail to resolve account issues, provide advice, assist and make recommendation to rectify the program activities.
• Provide back-up support to other budget analyst in the execution of assigned budget areas; provide training, guidance to personnel.
• Provide recommendations and new ideas for improving the program’s operations.
• Participated as a team-leader for Financial Management by assisting and getting involved working together to achieve goals in transition to SMART cabling system. And involve in other special projects.
• Serve as a - Accountant

Report & Reconciliation

Responsibilities:

• Have been responsible to document, evaluate and reconcile DOS (Department of State) cash balance report with Treasury. Identify the appropriation fund level the Treasury cash balance and the CFMS (Central Financial Management System) cash balance reflected in the trial balance and compare it to Agencies transactions records, receipt and disbursement activity, subsequently reconcile all accounts to balance FBWT (Fund Balance with Treasury).
• Prepared documents to support The SF 224 Domestic Operations of Cash Transactions; provide Treasury with information on Agency deposits and net disbursements, in order to balance Statement of Difference by reconciling, Receipts, Revolving Fund Repayments and Appropriation Fund Receipt Accounts of Investment, Redemption, Disbursements, Earning, Collection, Discounts, and Cancelled Accounts.
• Generated RADARE and GOAL II Reports compare document with CFMS and send out Outstanding and Inconsistencies Reports to designated Agencies within DOS, to reconcile their SGL and balance records for both prior year and current year appropriations.
• Have been Responsible for identifying errors or discrepancy in the processing of Treasury Reject Reports - Adjust Miscellaneous Cancellation Checks/EFT, Reclamation Cancellation and Confirmation Payment Documents.
• Have performed evaluation, audit, and research and reconcile all accounts from previews years and current year on a regular basis, by identifying problems, recommending solutions and monitoring progress in order to balance accounts with Treasury.
• Have been responsible for revising the SF 224 Report, before the Final Report goes out.
• Trained staff; provided advice and assistance to bureau management.

Budget Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Have been responsible for all overseas Medical Funding and collections - Retrieve all documents via cable express, establish obligation accounts, analyze document, compute Per Diem & Airfare, draft and send cables to Post for Hospitalizations, Physical Examinations and World Wide Medical Evacuations/ SOS.
• Processed all transactions into CFMS; maintain all activities and records to provide documentation for budget formulation and financial planning.
• Updated medical Funding, provide advance pay and amends previous Funding in the accordance with the program activities.
• Created file folders, keep records on spreadsheet and maintain all Funding accounts.
• Generated /RMS/ Data Warehouse reports and prepare detailed documents for all Spending and collections.
• Communicated with Post for informational resources via cable express, e-mail and letters.
• Reconciled accounts throughout the year by tracking spending and reimbursements while reinforcing collections on Post in order to maintain the balance with FBWT (Fund Balance with Treasury).
• Provided instruction to FMP/AR to establish Accounts Receivable, to update records on reimbursement adjustments and to close out accounts.
• Managed over 1500 Funding accounts and over 2000 Accounts Receivable per Fiscal year by reconciling all accounts and continues to balance open accounts for all previews years going back 4 to 5 years.
• Processed Final Accounting for Accounts Receivable collections, analyze, research, modify, audit, track spending and update and rectify accounts and records.
• Created spreadsheet to maintain cash flow and disbursements for all Accounts Receivable.
• Provided recommendations and new ideas for improving the program’s operations.
• Trained new supervisor, administer staff Technician and cover work responsibility in the absent of staff members.

Confidential, Arlington, VA

Financial Management Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Managed payroll for over 600 Civil and Foreign Service DOS Federal employees. Resolve many payroll issues; perform customer services duties by telephone, e-mail, fax, mail and personal visits.
• Processed Foreign Allowances - Danger Pay, Post Differential, Foreign Offices Premium Pay, and Cost of Leaving Allowance, Language Incentive Bonus, Advance of Pay and Awards.
• Processed T&A Reports, New Hires Reports and Error of Calculations Reports so that employees were paid timely.
• Processed Supplemental Payment manually by computing, taxes, Health Benefit, TSP, Bond, overtime,
• Other paid time, sick time, and vacation time, for employees who were not paid through the system, for new hires and for employee who transferred from other Agencies.
• Performed Retroactive Adjustments by processing Life Insurance, Retirement Changes, Regular Salary
• Adjustments and FEGLI Adjustments base on the Personnel Actions received.
• Performed audits, research, and reconciliation and involved in special projects.
• Prepared W-2’s and processed all types of payroll adjustments.
• Distributed Earning and Leave Statements for Department of State and BBG.
• Implemented procedural changes that improved the timeliness and efficiency of operations.