Responsible for ensuring the accurate and real-time flow of accounting, purchasing, and production data at both the divisional and department levels. Specific areas of emphasis are financial reporting, analysis, material purchasing, and automation of production data (from machine cycles to inventory management).Key Responsibilities:- Work in the rental, lawn care service, mulch, subdivision development, and retail stores with sales ranging from $100k - $28 million- Quickly and accurately reconcile general ledger accounts at month-end- Participating in and actively seeking to improve more automation of accounting processes- Initiating and helping with developing methods for paperless organization of documents- Analyze cash flow and provide funding for 25 deposit accounts across Ells various companies- Manage debt and lines of credit as well as provide monthly debt service reports to management- Prepare Ells Foundation quarterly charity reports across all entities- Help assist with management of the 401(k) plan and compliance requirements- Help assist with tax and consulting firm requests across all Ells entities

Tax, payroll, accounting, and consulting services.Coordinate and prepare tax and payroll returns for individual clients as well as corporate clients. Communicate and coordinate with clients on a yearly basis. Assist and advise clients regarding the tax implications of future transactions.Key Responsibilities:- Prepare tax returns for individual tax clients- Prepare payroll tax returns for clients- Prepare corporate tax returns for clients- Consult and advise clients on upcoming tax situations- An authorized IRS e-file provider- Outsourced accounting services

Responsible for ensuring the accurate and real-time flow of accounting, purchasing, and production data at both the divisional and department levels. Specific areas of emphasis are financial reporting, analysis, material purchasing, and automation of production data (from machine cycles to inventory management).Key Responsibilities:- Quickly and accurately reconcile general ledger accounts at month-end- Prepare and analyze reports that include the cash flow, executive team dashboards, divisional and departmental profit and losses, costing, corporate financial statements, KPIs, etc.- Actively work with the plant purchasing manager to build a strong commodity-purchasing program- Work to assist department managers and plant management in obtaining efficient allocation of resources- Help support the automation of inventory tracking and scheduling- Participate and actively seek to improve more automation of accounting processes- Analyze and interpret job cost reports- Assist the engineering team with router management and advanced product quality planning procedures- Gather information for the sales team that helps with quotes to customers- Initiate and help with developing methods for paperless organization of documents

Key Responsibilities:- Supervise all accounting and finance functions for $4,200,000 (annual revenue) non-profit corporation- Develop and prepare the monthly financial statements, forecasting and budgeting, and management reports- Manage general accounting functions including payroll, AR/AP, tax returns, and account reconciliations- Administrate all financial management systems, evaluating and integrating new applications- Helped spearhead company-wide transition from old church management software to new cloud-based and mobile friendly management system- Direct and oversee payroll for over 60 employees- Received unqualified opinions on each annual audit performed by independent CPAs- Assemble and coordinate with department heads on the budget- Administrate company benefits, including Section 125 and 401(k) plans, for over 60 employees.- Work closely with international consulting firm, Marsh, to provide employees with an exceptional benefits plan- Initiated and led the change for the employee benefit enrollment process from paper to an online human capital management (HCM) platform- Participate in numerous professional development opportunities

Participated and worked on many audits for privately held entities and governmental clients. Participated and engaged in multiple industry sectors including not-for-profit, car rental, and governmental (Association of Pet Dog Trainers, GSP and ILM Transportation, Atlas Food Systems and Services, City of Greenville, Greenville County School District, and Berkley County).Key Responsibilities:- Conducted audits on companies with revenues ranging from 1 million to 330 million dollars- Participated in engagement planning and executed audits in accordance with the planned strategy- Conducted evaluations of systems, process and internal controls, and documented the analysis- Performed walkthroughs on key transaction cycles and compared actual procedures performed to policy and procedure manuals- Conducted inventory observations- Performed cut-off testing and price testing on inventory as well as valuation work on allowance accounts- Reviewed client prepared adjustment entries for appropriateness- Prepared legal letters- Performed, reviewed, and documented findings and conclusions of analytics and trend analysis- Performed and documented findings and conclusions of statistical tests on client account balances- Extracted data out of client accounting systems and manipulated data in excel for audit purposes- Obtained support for transactions, accounts, and disclosures for audit work papers- Reconciled supporting documentation to general ledger transactions and account balances- Performed single audits to ensure compliance with the Single Audit Act and OMB Circular A-133 for various programs- Reviewed financial statements and related footnote disclosures to ensure compliance with GAAP, including Management Discussion and Analysis

Participated and worked on many audits for privately held entities and not-for-profit clients. Participated and engaged in multiple industry sectors including manufacturing, construction, wholesale and not-for-profit (Waldrop Heating and Air, Morgan Corp., ISO Poly Films, General Wholesale Distributors, Salvation Army of Charleston, and United Way of Greenville).Key Responsibilities:- Conducted audits on companies with revenues ranging from 10 million to 150 million dollars- Participated in engagement planning and executed audit steps and strategies in accordance with Dixon Hughes Audit Methodology to achieve quality assurance through the conduct of an efficient and effective audit- Conducted inventory observations- Performed cut off testing and price testing on inventory as well as valuation work on allowance accounts- Prepared legal letters- Obtained support for transactions, accounts, and disclosures for audit work papers- Reconciled supporting documentation to general ledger transactions and account balances