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Houston, Tx, Us

Houston, Tx, Us

Stockholm, Se

San Francisco, California, Us

As a Gensler Project Accountant, I was responsible for financial account management and analysis for the firm's projects and business practices.• Highly organized and passionate about ensuring the fiscal health of assigned projects throughout the entire project life cycle, from project due diligence through client invoicing and collections.• Worked closely with internal clients -- Project Managers and Studio Directors-- to ensure accurate and consistent billing and financial reporting at the project and studio levels.• Proactively developed new ideas and solutions to improve financial management.• Reviewed project work plans, budgets, and staffing plans for fee alignment.• Maintained organized project contract files, understand contract terms as they relate to fee management.• Assisted Project Managers in performing project start-up due diligence and following best practices throughout project life cycles.• Provided accurate invoices to clients per contract terms, coordinate consultant invoices and payments per contract terms.• Regularly reviewed project labor and expense charges with project managers for accuracy and appropriateness.• Budgeted spending and analyzed projects to provide actionable insight to project and office leadership.• Monitored studio accounts receivable and assist project managers with collection efforts.• Monitored, analyzed, and reported on variety of metrics at the studio level to ensure healthy business practices; studio leader for matters related to finance.• Provided training to new hires and project managers regarding financial maintenance of projects.

Built entire accounting infrastructure for early-stage start-up in the management consulting industry. Managed all aspects of billing and AP.• Performed monthly subcontractor invoice payment disbursements, ensuring proper accounting allocations while further increasing standards for appropriate cash disbursements to ensure timely job and project completion with respect to accounts payables.• Developed, implemented, and directed processes for managing financial aspects of high-level government projects. • Minimized cost overruns through exceptional expense anticipations.• Created various cost and labor reports for project managers, formatting them to make the data intelligible.• Developed job cost reports in coordination with subcontractors' invoices and project engineers for accurate billing, presented for monthly reporting to project director.• Assisted project director with financial budget preparations for all upcoming projects and jobs.• Managed project requisitions for multiple subcontractor worth over $5 million per month, assuring timely payments on all invoices.• Collaborated in internal team meetings to discuss progress on active projects as they mature to accurately issue bi-weekly payments.• Researched account transactions to identify and resolve discrepancies.

- Maintain records of all income through invoices and sales receipts.- Manage and record all credit card charges for debit and credit cards. - Assist to reconcile all loan accounts for bank accounts. - Prepare reports for payroll and process on a monthly basis. - Provide checks and payments to suppliers as per requirement. - Perform all bookkeeping functions such as entering invoices and accounts. - Monitor ongoing cash flow for organizations. - Develop key financial data to facilitate performance. - Monitor all office vendor contracts and check issues. - Prepare invoices and evaluate payments to maintain accuracy. - Assist in reconciliations of bank statements on monthly basis. - Develop budgets and prepare financial reports for forecasts. - Administer various bookkeeping procedures for organizations. - Prepare tax returns and filings in coordination with CPA. - Organize various corporation documents and files. - Maintain general ledger and provide journal entries.

Brea, California, Us

Billing Review- Reviewed monthly billing from draft to final stage for over 200 projects.- Prepared billing coversheet for each project that summarizes contract amount, billed-to- date and fee balance.- Reviewed and approved billing schedules from consultants.- Reviewed weekly hours and made necessary corrections so that labor cost is billed against proper projects.Cost Projection- Reviewed and analyzed total labor cost.- Created profit reports.Project Setup- Calculated baseline fee for initial budget to be tracked. - Reviewed, evaluated and revised budget plans as needed.- Coordinated and managed project setups by working with project managers and sales. - Procured legal documents necessary for project setup.Client Relations- Worked as a liaison between the client, project team and accounting department in budget related issues. - Responded to client’s budget and expense related requests by reconciling accounts and creating reports. - Attended project management meetings and followed up on outstanding issues/requests.Project Planning & Management- Assisted project managers in project management so that the projects were run efficiently within budget.- Provided project analysis, performance analysis and customized profit performance reports.- Tracked project budgets by reviewing and approving expenses.- Updated project schedules and made sure that projects were on target by managing hourly and financial updates.

El Segundo, California, Us

Data Collection- Constructed data accumulation systems for Oracle.- Created and reviewed the controls needed for data accumulation and reporting systems.Inventory- Coordinated physical inventory counts and cycle counts.- Investigated cycle counting variances and resolved issues.- Updated standard costs in the bill of materials.- Reviewed standard and actual costs for inaccuracies.- Validated the cost of goods sold as part of the month-end close.- Accumulated and applied overhead costs as required by generally accepted accounting principles.- Worked with operations to locate and dispose of obsolete inventory.Analysis- Conduct ongoing process constraint analyses. - Reported on breakeven points.- Reported on margins by product and brand. - Reported on periodic variances and their causes, focusing in particular on spending variances.Project Planning & Management- Assisted marketing managers in product development and sales promotions.- Provided project analysis, performance analysis and customized profit performance reports.- Updated traffic schedules and made sure that projects were on target by managing financial updates.

St. Louis, Missouri, Us

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Information Technology - Accounting Information Systems

Real Estate Development

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Business Administration And Management, General

Certificate Of Completion, Logistics, Materials, And Supply Chain Management