· Provide a fully researched, analyzed, presented, and discussed recap of the following areas: contract labor, professional fees, legal, and non-recurring. This process is critical as it affects bonuses and finalized reporting is provided to top management. Trend analysis is performed to evaluate and research any discrepancies and communicate necessary changes across departments.· Lead and organize manual allocations for the company’s P&L.· Essential participant in the year-end audit process to ensure requests were completed accurately and efficiently.· Maintain franchise fee amortization of 500+ stores and review/update with new terms and agreements.· Reconcile sales weekly from Microsoft SQL Server to the integration in Workday.· Adhere to new debt covenants, reconcile interest payments, apply transfers, and stay current on rate changes for long term debt.· Excel based process improvements made to align and apply percentage rent accrual per various contracts.· Report various analyzes of damage claims for top management to better determine areas for improvement. · Ensure marketing accruals reach the required level of compliance across all stores.· Record and reconcile benefit accruals for medical, dental and vision, and life and disability.· Maintain expensing for royalties and national advertising fund across all stores.· Report and reconcile waste oil actuals/accruals from Safety-Kleen and quarterly CalRecycle incentive filings.· Document the processes and procedures for various journal entries and reconciliations per Workday.· Apply macros for process improvement and efficiency for various entries.· Manage the Workday Help Center by assigning cases across departments and answering cases regarding the P&L and other financial concerns.· Prepare and report annual/quarterly censuses which include annual business survey, annual capital expenditures, quarterly/annual services report, business and professional report, and economic census survey.

· Key participant in process improvement in projects such as the facilitation of further complete and accurate freight details.· Trained and reviewed junior accountants’ reconciliations, documented procedures, and cross trained with entire team and across departments.· Rollforward fixed asset additions, disposals, trades, proceeds from sales, and IC transfers. Reconcile and maintain a capital spend analysis and reporting schedule for several plants.· Preform several analyses with domestic and foreign freight detail to ensure accurate allocation of charges. Deliver a freight forecast highlighting the capitalization and release of allocated freight charges. · Reconcile, research discrepancies, and accrue revenue on SAP Shipped Not Billed reporting. Identify the sources of discrepancies with the analysis of purchase orders and sales orders. · Ensure more efficient bank reconciliations through the establishment of strong communication with AP, AR, and Treasury. Research and resolve any discrepancies regarding wires, ACHs, checks, or deposits.· Maintain accruals and reconciliation of sales-based disbursements such as rebates, commissions, and incentives. · Ensure P-Card coding is entered timely, and coding is valid and accurate. · Rollforward and reconciliation of MIP and Pension accounts. · Perform and/or support ad hoc requests and special projects as assigned. Ability to extract, organize, analyze, and report data in a manner that is useful and relevant for making business decisions with the use of various IT systems (SAP) is critical.· Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment. Must be able to deliver high caliber output for assigned tasks within established timelines.· Maintain a working knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles and monitor compliance with these principles and company procedures.

· Assume full responsibility of intercompany accounting by creating entries, AR/AP letters, true ups, and reconciliations for removing from the financial books any transactions that occurred between the company's entities.· Perform an advanced level of efficiency with reporting for all commodity gains/losses of forward contracts and updating buys/sells of several future contracts.· Expect a higher yield of responsibilities, proven ability to handle expert level accounting, and ability to train others on the acquired knowledge.

· Reconciliation of Payroll Cash using EFTs, bank statements, payroll adjustments, write-offs, escheatment, NACHA, DDs, and Expert Pay.· Execute an analysis of trends and create accruals using those trends for all leases in Lease Accounting.· Conduct reporting for all commodity gains/losses of forward contracts and updating buys/sells of future contracts.· Perform detailed account reconciliation and analysis for various Balance Sheet Accounts.· Support month-end processes, ensuring accurate and timely reporting of financial results.· Ensure compliance with parent company accounting and reporting standards.· Assume responsibility for other tasks and projects as assigned to group.

I have held multiple positions with increased levels of responsibility. I started out as a cashier and fairly quickly became a front-end monitor. Since I am a quick learner, they continued to train me on various other positions in the store. I have been a night crew tag associate, floral associate, gas attendant, customer service and HBC associate. Due to my integrity and my education, a dual major in accounting and finance, I was promoted to the position of bookkeeper.As a Bookkeeper and Customer Service Representative:• Reconcile all cash drawers for cash, stamps, WIC checks and personal checks• Lottery and ATM machine maintenance filling tickets and cash, generating reports and reconciling activity to books• Generate reports for Coin Star, Check Free, Western Union, money orders, customer refunds, and other pay outs and reconcile them to the receipts at customer service• Generate store loans to replenish cash and create the bank deposits• Issue write-ups for cashier errors and conduct cashier audits• Develop close relationships with customers, maintain a positive and professional environmentAs a Pharmacy Technician:• Perform pharmaceutical data entry, HIPAA certified

This job required that I act as the photographer, graphic designer, sales associate, and cashier. I performed every position to complete the entire sales process along-side the customer. I achieved several sales awards during my tenure. These awards were not only for the number of sales but also for the degree of up-sale that I achieved.