• Responsible for monthly financial close within the scheduled time frames, ensuring the compliance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) and other regulatory requirements. • Assisted with annual budget preparation and development of budgeting for Benefits.• Performed month-end close, including preparing and recording journal entries, analyzing accounts for accuracy and completeness and reconciling balance sheet and income statement accounts related to all Benefits.• Work with external auditors and provide necessary supporting schedules for reviews, audits, and SOX controls• Provide financial analysis and written reports monthly and quarterly to management or other departments as required. • Assisted in the development and maintenance of best practice process flows and policy and procedure documents to continuously improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the team and the Human Resources department.• Performed analytical review of the monthly financial data for Benefits to determine reasonableness for GL account balances, accuracy, completeness, and conformance to the approved budget.• Work closely with Human Resources to ensure all benefits are paid timely and accurately as well as proactively look for improvements by understanding the benefit payment trends.

• Performed month-end close, complex monthly accounting journal entries, and monthly account reconciliations for balance sheet and income statement accounts.• Oversees and/or processes the monthly close cycle• Creates, updates, reviews, investigates, and distributes schedules and financial reports pertaining to various phases of accounting functions• Coordinates the preparation, analysis, and verification of complex accounting reports to support responses to data requests in connection with regulatory filings and audits• Ensures that all transactions are properly supported and are in accordance with GAAP, FERC, SOX, and other regulatory requirements• May provide guidance, direction and training to other employees engaged in similar activities as well as other internal customers• Documents accounting procedures, processes, and internal controls. Reviews for effectiveness and recommends revisions as necessary• Assists in the development and implementation of various computerized accounting related systems, both in-house and packaged, to enhance the value of financial information provided to management. May develop and deliver training for various computerized accounting related systems. Provide user support to accounting systems• Provides internal and external customer support when needed

• Analyzed financial implications of selected pricing methodologies as well as monitor changes to the pricing structure of merchant’s generating up to $5 Million in net revenue.• Provided 175+ Relationship Managers and Account Executives with recommendations to improve their merchant’s transaction processing efficiency.• Perform analysis and ad hoc reporting for the entire sales department including the annual sales budget.• Partnered with training staff to develop and facilitate the delivery of new hire sales training.

• Calculated and analyzed field profit incentives• Performed quarterly audits to ensure databases were operating within the current incentive initiatives• Provide high level customer service to the managers and team members about their incentive pay outs

• Analyzed and prepared financial reports including trend analysis and budget vs. actual analysis for Corporate, Field Support Managers and Department Directors • Analyzed and researched discrepancies in departmental financial statements for Field Support Managers and Department Directors• Researched nonconforming transactions and fluctuations to determine appropriate accounting remedies for expenses and balance sheet assignments