Crystal Mcdaniel, Mba Email & Phone Number

Lexington, Ky, Us

Winchester, Ky

o Responsible for planning and scheduling maintenance activities for transmission/distribution substations and transmission lines.o Develops a running schedule of job plans/packages for all services centers to ensure maximum utilization of resources on the highest priority and valued work. o Prepares planned job packages for all maintenance work orders for both outage and non-outage projects, ensuring the inclusion of parts availability, personal protective equipment needs, potential job hazards, special tooling needs, service center resource needs, equipment isolation requirements, and permit needs, etc. o Monitors and tracks work order backlog of all service centers and ensures timely scheduling of high priority and high valued work. Makes resource recommendations as needed to ensure that backlog is optimized and under control. o Establishes and maintains equipment histories by ensuring proper documentation of equipment codes, failure codes, and trends. Analyzes history and failure trends to improve equipment performance and optimize maintenance costs. o Provides training to technicians on the use of the CMMS and its enhancements. o Works with internal and external experts to develop maintenance templates and the basis (strategies) for each component of the transmission system. Completes regular reviews and updates of these templates. o Monitors the maintenance inspection programs for all transmission facilities to ensure consistent and reliable operation. o Ensures the consistent and standardized operation of the system at all transmission facilities and with all field teams. o Develops process for tracking O&M costs including standards for types of work tracked in the CMMS and time entry that is standardized for all service centers. o Audits system integrity regularly to assess and resolve deficiencies. o Ensures work order and inspection history retention methods are adequately documented and archived.

Winchester, Ky

o Created, manipulated, and analyzed queries to summarize AP data for supply chain, HR and other departments to make critical decisions for budgeting purposes.o Managed the AP process from requisition to payment. This includes resolving invoice discrepancies and reviewing & matching invoices.o Created and analyzed monthly, quarterly and annual reports to ensure financial information has been recorded accurately. o Interpreted, analyzed and explained financial data to compile reports of variance.o Reviewed and audited employee expense reports to ensure proper inclusion of all receipts, approvals, and overall compliance with EKPC Travel Policies.o Provided monthly review of received-not-invoiced reports for correctness, completeness, and accuracy. o Performed procurement process start to finish. This included the review, audit, and correction of all VISA Reporting lines for all employees with corporate credit cards (approx. 300+ employees).Key Accomplishments-Performed an additional analysis on the receipt accruals year end adjusting entry to ensure all accruals were not booked in error. In Fiscal year 2014, identified $256,125 in entries that were accrued twice. -Increased efficiency in receiving billed invoices by analyzing data and recommended improvements in the purchase order contracts, and electronic invoice setup for 25% of all vendors. -Transformed the month-end calculation methodology and analysis process to provide a more accurate and detailed report of receipt accruals. This reduced review time of Accounts Payable accruals by 1 hour. -Implemented new travel policy review for mileage, resulting in greater efficiency and consistency in travel for employees submitting expense reports. This reduced mileage reimbursable to the company by 20%.-Awarded employee of the month for my positive attitude and excellent employee service in January 2015.

Lexington, Kentucky Area

o Prepared S-Corp, C-Corp (consolidated returns with more than 15 subsidiaries), Partnership, Not-for-Profit, Property, Estate, and Individual tax returns.o Prepared states tax returns including tax work papers to support states apportionment, modifications and credits.o Prepared monthly Balance Sheets, Income Statements, and detailed cost and inventory data and variance reports.o Calculated book to tax differences, including bad debt, deferred income, prepaid expenses, accrued expenses, accrued payroll, Sec 263A, & Tax-Book depreciation adjustments.o Verified if the company is gaining revenue or losing revenue based on computation of depreciation, cost of sales, operational expenses and other miscellaneous fees versus the accounts receivables generated in the sale of goods.o Ensured that clients complied with periodic tax payment, information reporting, and other taxing authority requirements, and forward reminders to clients for estimated tax payments.o Collected and compiled client financial data, entering information into QuickBooks and assigning appropriate journal accounts for accurate accounting of income, expenses and contributions.o Prepared entries associated with tax provisions, deferred taxes and liabilities.Key Accomplishments-Proposed solutions to enhance system efficiencies, employee productivity and reduce total cost, as well as prepare presentations to present to clients over efficiency enhancements found.-Verified if the company was gaining or losing revenue based on computation of depreciation, cost of sales, operational expenses and other miscellaneous fees versus the accounts receivables generated in the sale of goods. Then took those figures and made recommendations on appropriate action to increase revenue.-Decreased workload and implemented various internal control processes to produce TaxReturns on a timely basis by establishing a weekly calendar showing availability and open items for all staff.

Louisville, Kentucky Area

o Posted customer payments to Accounts Receivables, ensured payments were applied properly and correctly to specific customer invoices, made General Journal entries for adjustments when necessary.o Examined standard costs against actual payroll budgeted cost to identify process inefficiencies and improvement.o Prepared daily entries, created & keyed journal entries, and reconciled financial ledgers and records.o Ran delinquent reports of reconciliations pending modification and performed analysis to resolve discrepancies.o Coded insurance and upload issue files for insurance accounts and assisted with preparation of monthly reports.o Collected data to reconciled payroll bank accounts for G&A and Liquor accounts.o Performed financial reconciliations of internal cash accounts.o Performed daily balancing of cash, formatted cash reconciliation uploads and prepared monthly financial reports to management.Key Accomplishments-Built a query to retrieve pertinent information needed to analyze Accounts Receivable accounts. This query became supporting documentation for month end close journal entry for Accounts Receivable corrections.-Initiated strategic revenue planning and forecasting on a forecasting team for gross revenue, net revenue, and gross margin, while retrieving information from J.D. Edwards.

Louisville, Kentucky Area

o Reconciled international account reconciliations, and performed conversions from each country’s monetary unit to the U.S. dollar.o Performed daily balancing of general ledger, formatted cash reconciliation uploads, and prepared monthly, and annual financial and statistical reports to management .o Performed comprehensive variance analysis and determine root-cause for each significant variance.o Reviewed all accounts payable, purchase orders, cash receipts, business licenses, payroll utility billing, and other accounting records and transactions for accounts I was assigned.o Prepared and recorded payroll journal entries into the general ledger and prepared reports upon request, such as overtime and headcount reports.o Reconciled payroll and benefits related g/l accounts and resolved any discrepancies.o Daily interaction with several different financial groups, including senior management when researching questions concerning financial reports.

Masters Of Business Administration, Accounting And Business/Management, 3.85

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Accounting, 3.5

Honors Degree, 4.0