Cara Johnson Email & Phone Number

United States

• Supervising the Financial Systems Admin team specifically exercising the necessary authority to assure policies and procedures are followed and time frames are met• Complete monthly reconciliation of balance sheet accounts• Oversee annual workplace giving campaign pledge data entry process• Manage daily credit card processing• Manage month end charity distribution process• Provide structured opportunities for the Financial Systems Administrative team to develop their own expertise and capability for quality work• Make on‐going recommendations to improve process efficiencies• Serve as a power user for the financial management technology including Dynamic CRM and Sage Intacct• Work closely with IT Department to resolve technical issues within the financial management systems.• Understand, communicate, and enforce financial management systems procedures and policies• Prepare Year End Reconciliations of Balance Sheet accounts in preparation for audit• Assist in Audit training and completion of Audit

College Park

College Park, Md

 Assists in planning and coordinating administrative activities of a program, such asassisting in the formulation and preparation of the organization’s budgets, grantproposals, and project proposals/account agreements. Assists Director of Treasury in cash management operations by analyzing, maintaining and reviewing various financial records, transaction, and reports. Acts as the liaison between Foundation real-estate properties, property management, and foundation management and reviews real-estate accounting transactions before being submitted to management.  Prepares activity, financial, and annual reports or analyses. Coordinating incoming requests for disbursements with departmental business managers and theFoundation's disbursement manager, as well as conducts analysis on disbursements in the absence of the disbursement manager. Coordinating travel and purchasing card logs for UR division accounts to ensure compliance withall purchasing and travel policies. Assisting in business process management and basic financial and budgetary reporting. Coordinating Foundation's compliance with state charitable registration regulations. Manages operating budget for the Office of Foundation Financial Management. Assists in the management of assigned program or supervision of an operational unit. Assists in the planning and implementation of new or revised programs, procedures,practices andorganization. Collects, compiles, and organizes data pertinent to various ongoing financialstudies. Analyzes, summarizes, and communicates this information toappropriate officials.

 Solely responsible for the management of 30,000+ client files among three business units withabsolute confidentiality. Company’s Sales Manager for 5 employees with the sole responsibilities of maintaining/improvingsales numbers with an increase in sale by 8% annually, maintaining inventory, maintaininginventory turn around and cost control, training new employees, assigning workload, monitoringworkflow, and managing customer and vendor relations. Company’s Procurement Sales Manager with the sole responsibilities for processing procurementdocuments (i.e. bid documentation) for the DOD, Federal, State, Local procurements. Company’s Purchasing Manager with the sole responsibilities of acquiring top leveldistributorships and maintaining our distribution levels, purchasing for store inventories, andrequesting price quotes for opportunities to increase profits. Company’s Marketing Manager with the sole responsibilities to create and issue weekly emailcampaigns, designing and maintaining the company’s website, and maintaining company’s socialnetworking sites. Valued as Key Employee by assisting other management and staff with department issues,administrative functions, and customer service by improving office productivity by 75%,streamlined processes, motivated staff, prepared and outlined responsibilities for departments(including roles and responsibilities for employees), and brainstormed and developed newstrategies for increasing sale and decreasing errors.

Graduate Certificate, Accounting

Bachelor'S Degree, History