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Oversee, develop, maintain, and update accounting policies and procedures, including corporate policiesand internal controls.Ensure compliance with appropriate Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, regulatory requirements and audit requirements.Establish and maintain strong fiscal management, cross-team communications, and workflows.Ensure compliance with Department of Health, HUD, national and local financial requirements.Oversee investments and implement investment policies.Manage cash, investments, insurance, budgeting, and financial reporting and drive financial strategies.

Rochester, New York Area

• Collaborate with the Controller to maintain a high functioning accounting team and lead the development of an effective, consistent, system of standardized processes to deliver timely and accurate financial reporting. • Responsible for oversight of the general accounting performed by a team of accountants and accounting managers to support the organizational goals.• Manage the Chart of Accounts Structure for our current business alignment, and partner with others as we realign to a new ERP system.• Act as the key contact with the Society’s external auditor to assistant in planning for the annual audit.

Rochester, New York Area

• Work with the key department leads for Research, Advocacy and Services departments to improve the Society's financial status by collecting and analyzing results, preparing budgets and updated forecasts, monitoring variances, identifying trends; recommending actions to management.• Manage the society wide chart of accounts and propose identified reclasses, ensuring accurate data. monitoring account use, adding/deleting codes as necessary and proactively initiating recommendations for policy change.• Assist accounting team in setting up accounting policy and procedure. • Support the Grants and Foundations team to provide necessary financial data, including preparation of actual and budget reporting.

Rochester, Ny And New York, Ny

The Vice President of Finance is instrumental in the strategic financial planning for the New York City-Southern NY and Upstate NY Chapters and provides leadership in the development and implementation of all Chapter financial policies. The position guides and directs the overall financial and human resource environment, including accounting operations and business affairs of the Chapter with an emphasis on seeking out opportunities to continuously improve efficiencies and operations. Principal activities include overseeing human resource management, ensuring efficient and accurate data entry processes, providing required external financial reporting, developing timely and meaningful internal financial and management information, and effectively planning for the financial and business operational needs for both Chapters.

Rochester, New York Area

Guided and directed the overall financial, accounting operations, and business affairs of the Upstate NY Chapter with an emphasis on seeking out opportunities to continuously improve efficiencies and operations. Principal activities included providing required external financial reporting, developing timely and meaningful internal financial and management information, and effectively planning for the financial and business operational needs of the Chapter.

Rochester, Ny

Preformed financial statement and CFR audits of non-profit organizations-including scheduling, planning, fieldwork, and wrap up procedures for every audit, supervised lower level staff during each audit, scheduled, supervised and reviewed the preparation of non-profit tax returns, administration functions-including reviewing staff performance, billing clients for work performed, reviewing audits for areas needing improvements for this regional CPA firm.

Lumberton, Nc

Prepared Individual, S-Corp, Corp and Partnership income tax returns, preformed day to day bookkeeping procedures, including related payroll reports, sales tax, W-2 and 1099 forms, completed audits, compilations and reviews of hospitals, schools, towns and private businesses.

Lumberton, Nc

Prosessed cash receipts, payables, monthly financial statements and budgets for a gift shop, a DME shop, local Hospice, hospital foundation, health club and other non-hospital entities run by the hospital management.

Victor, Ny

Prepared payroll, assisted with month end entries, created and updated a cost accounting analysis for the forster Corporation, a small awning manufacturer.

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