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Glen Allen, Va, Us

•Developed stand-alone documentation for about 20 balance sheet accounts and led training for the remainder of the accounting team to recreate identical documentation for entities that they oversee.•Developed several templates in Excel engineered to automate previously manual processes that allow for seamless transactional uploading in the corresponding accounting system.•Led monthly close analysis for 10 entities, providing guidance and analysis to FP&A team related to budget v actual and month over month variances.•Led training and onboarding for three recent new senior accountants joining the team, focusing on NetSuite navigation, journal entries, reconciliations, and preparing proper backup documentation.•Led cleanup of historical intercompany balances bringing an aggregate balance of roughly $10M down to a immaterial amount, and currently manage the intercompany process for the entire company. •Managed payroll recordation in the accounting system for the entire company, and developed a workbook that manipulates data dumps from payroll system to journal entries uploadable in the accounting system.•Managed Truist credit card recordation in the accounting system for the entire company, and complete monthly credit card reconciliations to ensure accuracy and proper classification.•Assisted corporate controller in tying out fiscal year end (09/30/23) balances to trial balances provided by auditors for the entire company, and posting final adjustments.•Performed on a monthly basis multiple accounting functions in NetSuite including, but not limited to, journal entries, vendor bills, billing customers, payment application, and bank reconciliations.

Richmond, Virginia Area

•Led monthly preparation of settlement to multiple major partners (General Motors, Bass Pro & Cabela’s, Neiman Marcus Group, Saks, Sony, and more) in the Card Partnerships portfolio.•Developed best practices for estimation of monthly close accruals.•Performed reconciliations of capitalized assets, accrued liabilities, and other balance sheet items related to partners to ensure all variances are explained and resolved in a timely manner.•Assisted in preparation of monthly financial statements and provided month over month, quarter over quarter, and actuals vs outlook variance analysis in P&L and balance sheets.•Maintained amortization schedules to properly record amortization of various capitalized assets.•Responsible for close monitoring of, and compliance with, contractual terms.•Performed account analytics to explain material variances in a tight close deadline.•Led calls to present proposed settlement details, along with explanations of trend variances and analysis, to Finance and Business teams.•Led several monthly team calls focusing on pressing calendar items and look-forward items.•Received award for successful transition of Card Partnerships portfolios to Richmond-based office.•Received award for assisting teams responsible for statistical ledger upkeep in activities that were outside the scope of my specific job title.•Received award for providing time sensitive information in compliance with audit requests.•Presented an overview of AIR (Accrued Interest Revenue) to dozens of Finance and Business associates for better understanding in that monthly calculation key to many card functions.•Prepared and provided quarterly invoices to finance teams related to our Mastercard partnership. •Participated in multiple process improvement projects that led to more efficient means of procuring and analyzing data necessary in partner monthly settlements.•Worked closely with management to ensure a smooth transition following sales of high value assets.

Richmond, Virginia Area

● Monthly preparation of financial statements for 19 hotels.● Simplified AP and journal entry processes by creating several dozen templates in Excel to ensure fast, accurate, and simple data entry for input into MS Dynamics SL.● Completed bank recs for all properties going back six months and have kept up to date since.● Collaborated with CEO to create and edit various templates for P&L’s and other related reports in Excel for submission to operations team.● Worked directly with principal to create quarterly and annual reports for submission to lenders.● Assisted in 2017 and 2018 audits to research variances and made entries to balance accounts.● Assisted in creation of 2018 annual budgets for all properties.● Recorded monthly revenue items for all properties.● Recorded bank fees/charges and post cash over/short from bank recons.● Reviewed loan statements to record mortgage, interest, reserves, insurance/tax payments out of escrow.● Recorded all payroll, and reviewed to post labor reclasses as requested by Regional Managers.● Reviewed all utilities, calculated and posted accruals through last day of closing month.● Reviewed prepaid accounts and posted entries to expense out as necessary.● Reviewed and accrued all expenses not received in time by AP.● Assisted AP in reconciling due to/from accounts between operating companies.● Responsible for reviewing, editing, and releasing AP batches.● Responsible for reconciling bank statements and balance sheet accounts for all operating properties.● Monthly tax filings for state and county sales, and occupancy.● Annual filing of personal and real property taxes.

Midlothian

● Lead accountant overlooking the finances of 4 companies.● Responsible for managing 7 bank accounts and 4 credit cards.● Overlook AP of four companies to ensure all vendors are paid timely and accurately.● Overlook AR to ensure that all jobs are invoiced correctly and payments made on time.● Reconcile bank and credit card statements to ensure all transactions are properly recorded in Quickbooks.● Ensure proper recordation of items/services as expenses and ones under Gost of Goods Sold to track inventory.

Richmond, Virginia Area

● Responsible for tests using SQL queries to reconcile insurance premiums information.● Ensure balances of premiums and commissions between Accounts Receivable and Warehouse systems.

Glen Allen, Va

● Prepared financial statements for a portfolio of over 100 commercial and residential properties.● Managed key client relationships with property group Square One. Performed bank reconciliations, payroll, and oversight of General Ledger.● Created tools in Excel to help clients better understand their financial statements.● Headed the funds-to-owner process for all Thalhimer properties.● Simplified corporate accounting processes by building a macro to consolidate and analyze realtor data.

● Prepared invoices for high profile clients in a portfolio of over 200 projects; designed a system of prioritization for billing tasks and shared this with other project leads.● Reviewed construction, government, and consulting contracts to set up billing in Oracle.● Collaborated with teams to ensure accurate billing.

Post Baccalaureate Certificate, Accounting

Bachelor'S Degree, Financial Planning And Services