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San Antonio, Tx, Us

Speaking Accountant and Software Developer to manage projects to improve processes (IT and human) to get essential data processed, reported, and analyzed to improve business outcomes.

San Antonio, Texas, Us

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Houston, Texas, Us

Updated fixed asset policy, identifying improvements that would result in taking more purchases and expenses in the period of purchase. This resulted in shifting tax savings of thousands per year by 4 or more years.Located a superior employer benefits plan providing additional services and greater range of benefits to employees at lower cost to their employees. My employer received an annual $10,000 cost reduction, $20,000 in additional services, and $30,000 in savings to employees, which was expected to improve employee satisfaction and retention.Setup benefits reconciliation process for a small company (~15 employees). Results included an employee receiving benefits without salary deductions and several others that had not had changes in their deductions reflected in payroll. This resulted in annual savings to the company about $6,000.Led efforts to change over to a new payroll provider, including winning acceptance from line management, having technical negotiations regarding the particular needs of our payroll, monitoring progress, and closing out the project (including determining improved capabilities and cost savings). This resulted in shortening the period between when the workweek completed and when employees were paid, improved the level of support received, and allowed for a general ledger extract from the new provider to record the payroll transaction in the accounting system, resulting in savings of up to 4 work hours and $700 per month.Worked with others in Executive Management to roll out a new corporate card program that provided employees greater ease in managing their expenses, Managers the ability to approve transactions before funds were disbursed, and the bonus of improving the company’s credit rating. This allowed cards to be issued to more employees while reducing the burden of manual employee expense reports, which required about 1 work hour every other week, or ~$130 per month.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Analyzed and improved closing procedures, focusing on shifting work to prior to the close and ruthlessly removing tasks not critical to closing the books. Results included at least 2-day reduction in close. This freed up approximately $3k-$5k per month in overhead costs for other projects.

Houston, Texas, Us

Assisted about 30 clients with implementing & integrating payroll solutions, including planning, human processes, establishing systems interfaces and communications, winning acceptance from line management, monitoring progress, and closing out the project. Each client paid an installation fee plus additional per month or per use fees for these services, resulting in an estimated $80k in revenue in the first year.Assisted clients with adapting HR policies to better align with industry best practice and applicable government regulations. This resulted in reduced development costs for our company and reduced administrative costs for the clients of approximately 5 work hours per payroll, or $300 per month.

Houston, Texas, Us

Prepared financial statements for audit including supporting tables and documentation for two consecutive years as a consultant when the original contract was a single year. This resulted in at least 10 weeks of additional billable time for my employer and saved the client tens of thousands in reduced audit fees.Prepared account reconciliations for accounts not reconciled in over 3 years in a few hours each through using matching and lookups to limit the number of transactions requiring individual attention and handling. This saved the client over 40 work hours (~$1500), as their employees were handling these transactions on an individual basis.Led fixed asset register clean-up project. Implemented reconciliation process to identify and track book to tax differences, resulting in additional depreciation expense and a 3% reduction of taxable income.Located a better benefits plan for my employer that provided greater services to the employer and greater range of benefit options to employees with less cost to their employees (effectively a raise to the employees at no additional cost to the employer). Management decided to pass benefit savings on to employees. Employees saved approximately $18,000 as a result. This improved employee satisfaction and is believed to have decreased employee turnover.Created models for business/company valuation, job costing, pricing, and inventory valuation versus book value. These models resulted in improved financial close times and decreased costs, more accurate inventory valuation, better pricing determination, better profitability understanding of jobs. This helped the firm get additional business from existing customers, totaling ~$500k over 2 years.

Houston, Texas, Us

Involved in multiple projects simultaneously and was able to apply lessons learned from one client to another through upgrading tools, identifying common themes, and industry knowledge. Perform analysis on client reports and interviews to identify trends. Provide results and commentary and collaborate on presentation materials for client meetings.

Boise, Idaho, Us

Research official guidance for investment accounting, work with software development to implement and test functionality consistent with that guidance, and train client services on how to help clients use the functionality and explain it to clients.

Boise, Idaho, Us

Acted as liaison between the Client Operations and Development departments which required thorough understanding of enterprise treasury accounting and investment reporting system, which included system and database architecture, securities modeling, and accounting principles. Proactively locate data errors, omissions, and irregularities as well as working in tandem with Development on system improvements and architecture enhancements Also worked with data sources to validate data and investigate suspect entries, often locating errors the data vendor had missed.

Boise, Idaho, Us

Responsible for the preparing monthly financial statements, inter-company allocations of expenses, reconciling investment and revolving credit accounts, general journal entries, accounts payable, accounts receivable inquiries, and payroll summary entries. Worked with counterparties and custodians to ensure proper settlement of investment transactions. Also responsible for working with auditors through annual financial statement audits and quarterly operations audits. Transitioned the firm from semi-annual cash-basis financial statements to monthly accrual-basis financial statements, including departmental profit and loss analysis Worked closely with the CFO and the CEO in providing accounting information for management and board meeting

Performed daily reconciliation of fund accounts, instructed wire transfers, worked with custodians and counterparties to ensure trades settled in a timely fashion, and prepared annual financial statements with audit support.

Boise, Idaho, Us

Administer Clearcase Multi-site updates between 23 locations on HPUX and Novell Linux. Kept hundreds of VOBs in sync to facilitate development of firmware and software.

Houston, Texas, Us

Administer Clearcase Multi-site updates between 23 locations on HPUX and Novell Linux. Kept hundreds of VOBs in sync to facilitate development of firmware and software.

Houston, Texas, Us

Technical and Customer Support for HP personnel involved in testing LaserJet printers. Maintained and enhanced Oracle and Access databases that served as backed for testing application. Also linked Excel to databases through ODBC to enable manipulation of data in spreadsheet format.

Ms, Accountancy

Bba, Networking And Telecommunications

Computer Science / Engineering