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Racine, Wisconsin, United States

Remote

Responsible for working with stakeholders, both internal and external, providing SEC compliant XBRL files. Review and interpretation of prepared financial statements and aligned them with XBRL (GAAP and IFRS) industry guidelines. Project manager and service liaison between customer, sales, and multiple production platforms. Provide advisory and consultant services to clients to provide direction in meeting their project needs and goals to achieve and meet all regulatory requirements of the client. Developed overall plans to coordinate the production of client documents, electronic SEC filings and print production to achieve the objectives of the service agreement in compliance of customer expectations, company policy, and profit and quality requirements.• Managed workflow, communications, and timelines for assigned clients on multiple, concurrent projects. • Worked for the Development Team for new software creation project.• System beta testing, software improvement requests, bug ticket creation/testing, user story creation/testing, training documentation creation.

Remote

Responsible for working with stakeholders, both internal and external, providing SEC compliant XBRL files. Review and interpretation of prepared financial statements and aligned them with XBRL (GAAP and IFRS) industry guidelines.• Managed workflow, communications, and timelines for assigned clients on multiple, concurrent projects.• Assisted the team with heavy peak filing season.

Remote

Previously RR DonnelleyResponsible for working with stakeholders, both internal and external, providing SEC compliant XBRL files. Review and interpretation of prepared financial statements and aligned them with XBRL (GAAP and IFRS) industry guidelines.• Managed workflow, communications, and timelines for assigned clients on multiple, concurrent projects. • Provided consultation on technology, process, and industry guidance for improvement of consistency and quality. • Created training documentation of structured tagging and audit procedures adhering to compliance requirements, derived from industry guidance, including changing ASC’s, FASB and SEC recommendations. • Responsible for system beta testing, improvement requests, and training documentation creation, providing an improved user experience.• Supported the compliance team in the creation of the Data Point Checklist in association with obtaining SOC2/AT101 Type II Certification for the purpose of documenting procedures.

Naperville, Il

Office Max Inc. (Contract)Responsible for SEC mandated XBRL file audit and assisted the compliance team with projects relating to internal controls documentation.• Created and maintained system access reports and Logical Access (ITGC) policies development with adherence to standards, processes and controls designed to manage access based on business need. • Monitored and maintained SAS70 documentation and schedules.• Reviewed and researched XBRL filing package to ensure GAAP concepts aligned with business.

As part of the pre-opening team, my initial role was Staff Accountant / Income Audit. Out of business need, I took on the Pay Master position after training my replacement.• Processed payroll (ADP) for an organization of 125 plus employees.• Assisted in the creation of operational controls as part of the pre-opening team.• Created and maintained productivity reports including dailies and forecasting related to room rate, profit center revenues and costs.• Audited, reconciled and maintained documentation for revenue, adjustments, occupancy tax, sales tax, and assessment fees for related profit centers.• Maintained and reconciled assigned accounts in the general ledger, balance sheet, and statement of income.• Reconciled bank and credit card transactions.• Responsible for inventory reconciliations including year-end hard count for assigned departments.• Prepared month-end/year-end closing schedules and assisted in yearly outside audits.• Super user responsible for training staff on POS/PMS Systems (Visual One PMS and Accounting, Agilisys, and Golf Pro).

Palm Springs, Ca

As part of the pre-opening team, I assisted the controller in pre-opening phase and opening the hotel prior to the arrival of the assistant controller• Assisted in the creation of operational controls as part of the pre-opening team.• Created and maintained productivity reports including dailies and forecasting related to room rate, profit center revenues and costs.• Audited, reconciled and maintained documentation for revenue, adjustments, occupancy tax, sales tax, and assessment fees for related profit centers.• Maintained and reconciled assigned accounts in the general ledger, balance sheet, and statement of income.• Reconciled bank and credit card transactions.• Responsible for inventory reconciliations including year-end hard count for assigned departments.• Acted as back-up for accounts payable.• Prepared month-end/year-end closing schedules and assisted in yearly outside audits.• Super user responsible for training staff on POS/PMS Systems (Data Plus Accounting Software, Agilisys, Retail Pro, and Springer Miller Systems)