Placed with Twin Disc, Racine, WI on the General Ledger Accounting Team. • Generated and posted daily cash General Ledger Entries utilizing JD Edwards EnterpriseOne.• Shepherded Asset Acquistion Request Process from intial request through Executive Officer approval for multiple entities.• Maintained Construction In Progress (CIP) monthly recon, including addition of Asset Project invoicing, confirming project completion and in-service status for caspitalization.• Generated Fixed Asset (FA) Acquistion forms and system input of Fixed Asset information utilizing JD Edwadrs EnterpriseOne software.• Reconciled CIP and FA accounts utilizing Blackine software for multiple enttiies.• Updated monthly FA Rollforward schedule, including monthly variance commentary; and Capital Spend Analysis schedule with current month spend, confirming project status and schedule disbursement to management team.

Placed with Northwestern Mutual on the Mutual Fund Accounting Team during fund accounting conversion to offsite vendor. • Performed daily pre-price and post-price reconciliation of multiple mutual funds and corresponding conversion pre-price and post-price parallel report testing.• Posted General Ledger entries, manual dividend, sale and purchase trade transactions on the State Street PAS (Portfolio Accounting System).• Reconciled multiple month-end compliance, custody, GL fund reconciliations, and support duties.

Prepared and reviewed financial statements, revenues, expenses and tax rates for diversified financial services provider. • Reviewed and prepared Special Assets Management Unit (SAMU) reports for year-end budgets and updated SAMU portion of monthly reports for risk management team. • Reviewed monthly income statement expenses, providing management team with comparisons to previous periods, budget/forecast and explanations of significant variances, allowing management to be proactive with upper-management.• Prepared monthly financial reports, reconciled complex fixed asset accounts, generated ad-hoc reports, and provided reports to management regarding significant expenditure fluctuation.• Evaluated and reported monthly expense analysis to SAMU management team, as well as support to SAMU and Impaireds Portfolio lead officers for expense and balance sheet reviews. • Assessed and organized Other Real Estate Owned (OREO) balance sheet and income statement expense annual budgets, quarterly forecasts and provided back-up support to OREO finance team including concurrence of book values, expense review, invoice approval and general ledger entry and approval.• Evaluated and prepared month-end general ledger expense accruals, including general ledger entry creation, approval and postings. • Reconciled CRE Real Estate Tax Accrual general ledger account reconciliations, created and posted monthly to ledgers and provided support to CRE lead finance officer.

Placed with Northwestern Mutual on the Corporate Reporting Team through system conversion to PeopleSoft 9.1. • Supported corporate reporting and accounting operation departments during conversion to PeopleSoft 9.1 including report testing, reviewing, variance investigations and adhoc report creations.• Dissected pre-conversion balance sheet, income statement and cash flow financial reports, affirmed to post-conversion financial reports giving corporate reporting team confidence pre-conversion and post conversion reports tied.• Report building, testing, review and variance resolution for PeopleSoft Cognos and nVision.• Provided expertise on external audit cash vouching project, annual NAIC and credit agency reports.

Started as a Financial Analyst and was promoted to Financial Analyst, Officer, then Senior Financial Analyst, Officer and finally to Financial Manager for a diversified financial services provider.• Oversaw daily operations of regional (70+ branches) multi-division balance sheets, income statements and expenses for appropriateness. • Created budgeting/forecasting models with scenario variable inputs (e.g. interest rates), which provided immediate updates to annual budgeting and quarterly forecasting templates saving significant manpower hours.• Led regional accounting team; prepared, reviewed and cross-trained regional staff on annual budget and quarterly forecasts by business line and branch locations.• Generated automated analysis schedules and budgeting models for quarterly and annual budget forecasting and preparing information in various formats for corporate review.• Provided oversight and guidance for staff on appropriateness, correctness, including general ledger posting, fixed assets capitalization and financial report generation. • Prepared monthly, quarterly and annual general ledger accruals including real estate taxes, personal property taxes, prepaid expenses, appropriate expense amortization, income recognition, inter-company charges and cross-trained staff on all processes and procedures. • Prepared automated variance analysis schedules to review regional non-interest income and expenses as well as cross-trained staff on all procedures. • Maintained employee compliance with job duties, time management, expense reimbursement, company policies and general ledger account reconciliations. • Championed regional staff response with internal audit engagements.