-Supervise a highly motivated accounting team covering general accounting, A/P, and A/R.-Coordinate monthly close including the reviewing of journal entries, bank reconciliations, and financial analysis. -Consolidate, examine, and analyze multi-entity accounting records, financial statements, and other financial reports to assess accuracy, completeness, and conformance with GAAP and internal reporting standards.-Prepare financial and regulatory schedules required by bank covenants.-Oversee and coordinate annual financial statement audit.

Inducted as a lifetime member of Beta GammaSigma, The International Business HonorSociety. BGS recognizes and honors top performing students (Top 20% of graduate students) from around the world in business schools accredited by The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools ofBusiness (AACSB).

Assistant Controller 08/17/2020 - 10/06/2023Accounting Manager 1/01/2019 - 08/16/2020-Present consolidated monthly financial statements to leadership team providing entity level analysis of COGS, OpEx, Occupancy, and SLEBITDA. -Develop and continuously refine month-end close schedule. -Successfully implement Restaurant365, the organization's accounting and primary operations software. -Assist in M&A transaction flow with a focus on due diligence and integration execution. -Coordinate annual financial audit. -Directly support SVP, Finance with bank covenant reporting, cash flow management, annual budgeting process, and all treasury and bank activities.

Senior Accountant - 12/02/2016 - 12/31/2018Restaurant Accountant - 07/06/15 - 12/01/2016- Provide direct accounting support to 7 individual restaurant management teams regarding AP, inventory, daily sales, petty cash and entity level P&L statements.- Monthly preparation and review of entity level financial statements, sales tax reports, period end entries and bank reconciliations.- Served as the accounting project coordinator during the construction of 15 entities. Responsibilities include; acquiring permits, budget tracking, expense analysis, inventory, creating fixed asset listings as well as the administrative training of management.

- Complete daily/monthly lender reconciliation in order to ensure proper accounting for all loan balances and fees due to/from financial lenders.- Prepare, research and resolve variances uncovered in monthly general ledger to sub-ledger reconciliation.- Monitor store activity to ensure proper accounting as well as respond to all store level questions concerning store income statements.

- Reconcile an average of 9 million dollars worth of monthly deposits to payment postings processed within the revenue cycle management accounts.- Work closely with the Cash Processing/Cash Posting team to ensure accurate and timely posting of payments.- Prepare monthly/quarterly journal entries totaling an average of four million dollars.

Senior Accountant - 05/03/14 - 06/12/14Staff Accountant - 05/10/13 - 05/02/14Accounting Intern - 03/08/12 - 05/09/13- Provide direct accounting support to over thirty individual branch locations. Responsibilities included coding expense reports, accounting for fixed assets and approval of all customer balance adjustments, including bad debt write offs.- Complete bank reconciliations along with various month end account schedules related to assets, prepaid expenses and current/long term liabilities.- Perform audit of 8 - 10 individual branch locations annually.

- Process complex transactions with an approval limit of one hundred thousand dollars. - Maintain a quarterly balancing accuracy of 10-15% above company average. - Ensure compliance with operational policy and federal regulation.

Senior Teller - 09/15/09 - 09/10/10Teller - 07/12/07 - 09/14/09- Run a drawer with a cash limit of fifty thousand dollars.- Build loyalty and trust among customers while maintaining support for the banking center team.- Satisfy customer service inquiries while consistently surpassing sales expectations.