Alice Garner Email & Phone Number

Summerfield, FL, US

Ocala, Florida, US

• Lead Accountant for a growing non-profit organization, providing meals, transportation, companionship, and personal services to Marion County seniors.
• Oversee the accounts payable and accounts receivable accounting assistants, ensuring that transactions are properly recorded, and checks are distributed.
• Receive and record all cash receipts including donations, grants, and fares. Reconcile general and discretionary bank accounts.
• Record and calculate monthly in-kind matches, prepaids, and investments. Prepare monthly invoices to the Department of Elder Affairs, record the associated revenues and receivables.
• Process all corrective transactions including voids, reversals, and journal entries.

• Mentored two entry-level staff auditors, ensuring their ability to work independently.
• Incorporated risk assessments into the audit process for the department and documented policies and procedures.
• Streamlined audit processes to be more efficient and effective including documenting and training of audit staff.
• Managed planning, conducting, supervising, reporting, and making recommendations in connection with audits of County operations.
• Examined and analyzed accounting records, operations, policies and procedures; determine the validity and propriety of financial records, effectiveness of controls, efficiency of operations, and compliance with laws.
• Prepared extensive working papers to support conclusions and recommendations; prepared reports summarizing findings and presented to management.

Ocala, Florida, US

• Chief Accountant for the firm’s largest client from data entry to financial close.
• Maintained Quickbooks records, including register entry, transaction coding, bank and credit card reconciliation, and financial statement preparation.
• Processed monthly payroll and tax deposits for six clients, including processing quarterly 940, 941, and RT-6 tax returns.
• Prepared financial statements, and federal and state tax returns for clients including corporations, partnerships, and individuals.
• Client industries include construction, manufacturing, fixed-base operators, airlines, electrical engineering, and jewelers.
• Ultra Tax, File Cabinet, CCH Prosystem Practice Management, Adobe Pro, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Outlook.

• Processed weekly payroll for job placement agency client, including timesheet entry for about 550 employees, adjustments, reimbursements, child support and insurance deductions, corrections, and advances.
• Prepared and delivered weekly customer invoices and monthly customer statements. Responded to customer inquiries, reconciled customer accounts, and prepared corrected invoices as needed.
• Maintained Quickbooks registers, including register entry, transaction coding, bank and credit card reconciliation, and financial reports for multiple clients.
• Prepared Forms 940, 941, RT-6, G-7, and 1099 for multiple clients.
• Quickbooks, TempWorks, ezW2, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Outlook.

Ocala, FL, US

• Directed and managed the internal audit department; supervised and mentored two staff auditors.
• Developed processes for audit planning and risk assessments, established audit protocol, and developed office policies and procedures.
• Implemented a computerized system for automated working papers.
• Managed planning, conducting, supervising, reporting, and making recommendations in connection with audits of City operations.
• Examined and analyzed accounting records, operations, policies and procedures; determined the validity and propriety of financial records, effectiveness of controls, efficiency of operations, and compliance with laws.
• Prepared extensive documentation to support conclusions and recommendations; prepared reports summarizing findings.

• Developed and managed a quality control process for internal audits and investigations, including educating and training four staff auditors on the requirements.
• Ensured departmental compliance to become acknowledged as an Inspector General office.
• Managed planning, conducting, reporting, and making recommendations in connection with audits of County operations.
• Examined and analyzed accounting records, operations, policies and procedures; determined the validity and propriety of financial records, effectiveness of controls, efficiency of operations, and compliance with laws.
• Prepared extensive working papers to support conclusions and recommendations; prepare reports summarizing findings and present to management.
• MUNIS, AutoAudit, Adobe Pro, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Outlook.

• Processed bookkeeping and payroll for small business clients including receipts and payments, bank and ledger reconciliations, payroll checks and tax returns, journal entries, and financial statements.
• Prepared individual, estate, trust, and business tax returns using professional practitioner software.
• Calculated and prepared forms and schedules for itemized deductions, interest and dividends, business expenses, capital gains and losses, rental properties, and various credits.
• Quickbooks, Proseries, EasyACCT, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel.

• Managed daily accounting operations of a professional employer organization with over 15,000 annual employees and 300 clients nationwide; PeopLease is a company that provides payroll and tax services, including.
• Supervised accounting staff of five responsible for accounts payable, accounts receivable, garnishments, analyses and reporting, and state and local tax returns.
• Integrated accounting functions with payroll, information technology, human resources, benefits, and worker’s compensation departments.
• Managed and processed direct deposits, positive pay reporting, federal tax deposits, state unemployment tax filings, 401k calculations, client loss ratio analysis, cash management, general ledger reconciliations.
• Great Plains, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Outlook.

• Ensured the accuracy and timing of civilian teacher payroll debts resulting from errors in time and attendance, personnel actions, and allowances.
• Analyzed employee pay records to determine whether a debt exists and reconciled errors involving the calculation of regular wages, annual and sick leave, taxes, foreign allowances, and benefits.
• Prepared audit records and indebtedness correspondence.
• Managed manual and system debt collections according to agreements and federal regulations including processing debt adjustments, refunds, cash receipts, and offsets every pay cycle.
• Defense Financial and Accounting Service, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel.

Washington, D.C., US

• Performed a variety of audit types including financial, operational, and regulatory.
• Assisted in planning, conducting, reporting, and making recommendations in connection with audits of agency operations.
• Reviewed the recordation of general ledger accounts such as accounts receivable, accounts payable, and expenses.
• Prepared extensive working papers to support conclusions and recommendations.
• Participated in a peer review of the Department of Justice, Office of Inspector General.
• Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Lotus Notes, TeamMate, in-house accounting and auditing programs.

US

• Managed the processing of accounts payable, bank reconciliations, staff and customer commissions, depreciation, and file maintenance; provided customer service.
• Great Plains, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, in-house commissions programs.

Washington, DC, US

• Not-for-profit employer.
• Processed accounts payable, accounts receivable, bank reconciliations, and travel expense reports.
• Managed fixed assets, inventories, and file maintenance; provided customer service.
• WordPerfect, Lotus 1-2-3, in-house accounting programs.

Master'S Degree, Accounting And Financial Management

Bachelor'S Degree, Accounting