Burke Bess, Cpa Email & Phone Number

Salt Lake City, UT, US

Salt Lake County, Utah, United States

Responsible for the leadership of the financial and fundraising data operations of the organization. This includes oversight for the organization's $50 million income statement and $130 million balance sheet; donation processing of $230 million; and fundraising data reconciliation, analysis, reporting, and customer insights of over $450 million in member.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

• Oversee day to day activities of the Accounting Department for the accurate and timely dissemination of financial information and reports.
• Oversee General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and Payroll functions.
• Establish and maintain controls to ensure the integrity of all systems, processes, and financial reporting.
• Oversee the annual operating budget process, provide accurate and timely budget reports and training.
• Implemented a new purchasing card system, significantly reducing expense reports and accuracy
• Led the Organization in transitioning from semi-automated Excel-based financial reporting to real-time financial dashboards and reports using a business analytics tool called Power BI.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

• Performed shared financial services for educational units worldwide, including financial analysis, regional audits, and financial training.
• Train worldwide management regarding financial processes, controls, and policies
• Document financial processes, assess risk and recommend new controls to mitigate risk
• Write and propose policy and procedure updates and clarifications
• Coordinate with other departments to solve system weaknesses and problems
• Develop special-purpose reports using excel to retrieve financial information from databases, calculate and correlate data, and analyze information to identify issues, patterns, and to summarize data sets

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Conducted Financial Statement Audits (US GAAP) for clients in a variety of industries, specializing in not-for-profit organizations with a variety of missions and annual revenues and fundraising ranging from $100K to over $300M Provided consulting services to companies including fraud detection, due diligence, revenue recognition analysis, and an accounts.

Macc (Masters Of Accountancy), Accounting, 3.9 Gpa

Activities and Societies: Graduate Assistant to School of Business Dean, BETA GAMA SIGMA Vice President, PBL Vice President PAC Council.

B.S., Accounting, 3.98 Gpa

Activities and Societies: Member of Beta Gamma Sigma, Presidential Ambassador

Associates Degree, General Education

Activities and Societies: Presidential Ambassador