Abbie Long Email & Phone Number

Greater Seattle Area

• Maintain fixed asset system for accounting, processing, and reporting of the assets from purchase to disposal• Analyze asset requests and CAPEX Purchase Orders to ensure proper classification as a capital asset• Track, compile, and record fixed asset project costs• Generate monthly depreciation postings and account reports to management• Carry out periodic reviews on intangible assets’ impairment• Perform fixed asset related analyses as requested by management• Reconcile daily cash receipt transactions from payment processors to bank ensuring that defined processes for capturing customer payments are optimally functioning• Reconcile daily payment transactions and manage exchange of payment files with the banks• Prepare journal entries to accurately record cash transactions• Prepare inter-company journal entries within a multi-currency environment• Review contract terms, conditions, and accounting source documents to ensure debt transactions are appropriately reflected in monthly financial statements• Maintain and reconcile cash and related general ledger accounts, including all foreign exchange gains and losses• Monitor existing investment balances and create recommendations for optimal investment balances• Documented Treasury internal control processes and procedures for Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) compliance and Internal Audit requirements• Support the preparation of financial statements by researching, analyzing, and interpreting the data prepared and reconciled during the monthly financial review meetings with management• Streamlined processes improving efficiency and productivity within a growing Accounting department• Gather required documentation for financial audits to support external and internal auditors

Lynnwood, Wa

• Responsible for oversight and review of the accounts payable department including supervising, training, and developing small staff and ensuring timely and accurate payments• Manage the Private Label function, including reconciliation of customs, duties, freight, product/project costing, and financial planning• Analyze and reconcile various technical balance sheet and income statement accounts including accruals, prepaids, purchase clearing accounts and liabilities, and research any variances• Review and analyze various general ledger accounts performed by the accounts payable team such as other assets, purchase card liability account, and general accruals to ensure accuracy• Prepare and post month-end and adjusting journal entries, both manual and automated, to ensure appropriate supporting documentation is included• Analyze financial transactions within cost centers to ensure they are correctly recorded in the general ledger and evaluate budget to actual results• Work cross-functionally to engage with other departments ensuring cost center entries are accurate and create understanding of the accounting process• Gather required documentation for financial audits to support external and internal auditors• Ensure timely period close in the processing of accounts payable and monitoring the monthly and quarter end accrual processes with different departments• Implemented an improved method for processing 1099 tax forms for rental and non-employee income• Took initiative and wrote the Accounting procedures of the Customs Compliance Manual in accordance with US Customs

Seattle, Wa

• Prepared, analyzed, distributed, and explained any variances on monthly firm and 28 office financial statements• Reconciled firm balance sheet and income statement accounts• Prepared and posted month-end and adjusting journal entries for the firm and 28 office groups• Calculated the reserve for three office groups and performed analysis of firm’s reserve for the CFO• Calculated monthly revenue adjustments for eight office groups• Analyzed monthly firm statistical hour reports for the firm and 28 office groups• Implemented a regional standardization of the revenue adjustment process• Reviewed employee expense reports according to policy and posted adjusting entries• Conducted and lead software training for all new hires, approximately 30 per year• Created monthly schedule of firm internal accounting procedures and deadlines• Entered daily cash receipts for three office groups• Created and distributed monthly office aging reports

Bellevue, Wa

• Audited payroll reports to ensure integrity of process and data• Created pivot table reports for budget-to-actual comparisons• Reported compensation collection for accurate international and US tax calculations• Calculated and tracked US taxes on foreign and domestic income for client’s expatriates through ADP• Created cost estimates and calculated foreign and domestic taxes per client expatriate policy as requested• Collected quarterly compensation collection data and reported results• Sent payroll instructions to local client subsidiaries worldwide• Ran home and host tax reports for local tax calculations• Reconciled account on a monthly basis to ensure all payments/credits were accounted for correctly• Accurately entered and reviewed invoices into company created software system for payment• Reviewed employee reimbursements according to client’s expatriate policies• Processed Accounts Receivables and made deposits• Communicated with vendors regarding payment details and created rapport• Interacted with Finance professionals• Entered banking information and paid foreign and domestic payments on behalf of client• Investigated returned wire payments

Bellevue, Wa