CORPORATE ACCOUNTING MANAGERInterstate Hotels & Resorts, Irving, TX 01/2018-PresentManaged and oversee the accounting operations including month and year-end process, accounts payable/receivable, cash receipts, general ledger, payroll, budgeting, fixed assets, and debt activity. • Establish and enforce proper accounting methods, policies, and principles.• Ensure timely and accurate reporting of all financial statements for 12 centralized hotels.• Prepare and record journal entries for assigned hotels to meet the closing deadline and deliver accurate hotel financials for assigned hotels.• Review balance sheet reconciliations and major accounts totaling over 1200 accounts, which are inventory, taxes, accruals, prepayments, and intercompany accounts using Blackline.• Review month-end packages from hotels and ensure compliance with SSAE-18 requirements and annual audits.• Review and approve monthly bank reconciliations prepared by the functional accounting team.• Liaise with internal auditors for operational audits and SOX compliance reporting.• Communicate effectively both orally and in writing while working collaboratively with various groups including supervisors, operations, corporate, and owners.

Provided strategic day-to-day management of financial transactions, verifying, computing and recording accounts receivables and accounts payable.• Ensured accounts receivable (AR) aging are accurate. • Ensure all AR payments received were properly applied.• Facilitated and managed the entire Accounts Payable (AP) invoice process for all vendors totaling $3 million dollars annually.• Developed and maintained timely and accurate financial statements and reports that are in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) appropriate for the Board of Directors.• Managed general ledger month-end close process and corporate reporting function.• Managed grant accounting activities; monitor, prepared and submitted reports of all financial activities to various grant donors and sponsorship programs; total annual funding of $5 hundred thousand; tracked incoming funds and prepared monthly spreadsheets of Income verses outgoing expenses.• Conducted special internal audits, performed financial analysis and cost studies as required and provided recommendations.• Developed financial policies and procedures to strengthen internal controls over the accounting function; implemented changes as need to discover and prevent fraud.• Collaborated with external auditors to ensure successful audit results and compliance with regulatory authority.• Trained departmental managers on their financial reporting responsibilities.• Worked closely with Information Technology staff to ensure that computer and software systems provide accurate information and adequate internal controls.• Maintained and administered accounting systems, security and internal controls to accomplish the proper recording and reporting of all operations, transactions, assets and liabilities of the YMCA supporting fund accounting.Please see resume (max word count)