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*Review schools' fiscal operations to ensure community gets best return on investments. Increase School management understanding of District processes and procedures. Advise on more effective performance methods.*Conduct performance audits and risk assessments on business centers with a focus on improving processes and cost reduction via application of technology available to them. My passion is not "gotcha" auditing, but largely consultative auditing.*Have conducted forensic… Show more *Review schools' fiscal operations to ensure community gets best return on investments. Increase School management understanding of District processes and procedures. Advise on more effective performance methods.*Conduct performance audits and risk assessments on business centers with a focus on improving processes and cost reduction via application of technology available to them. My passion is not "gotcha" auditing, but largely consultative auditing.*Have conducted forensic and special audits, documenting acts leading to convictions of theft in office and restitution in excess of $175,000.*Reduced operating costs in Adult Education via Excel spreadsheet for monitoring cost recovery breakeven points and course offerings, resulting in a profitable cost center.*Created Excel school spreadsheets to record, monitor, and report cash transactions for student fundraising activities timely and accurately. Reduced student cash activity irregularities by 80%. Show less

School audits on fiscal operations; Developed student cash operations guidelines and performed forensic audits on school cash operations.Instruction on student attendance reconcilement and reporting to State Department of Education for principals and school secretaries.Performed analytics on Student census, Transportation, and Grant expenditure for management assurance of federal and state reporting.

*Developed risk assessments for 5 Accounting Dept business centers.*Developed business continuity plans and disaster recovery procedures for the Accounting Department. Coordinated accounting applications disaster recovery testing for the District.*Developed and compiled Accounting Department Operating Procedures Manual.*Trained operating departments on accounting application balancing procedures and performed troubleshooting of accounting application and inter-office… Show more *Developed risk assessments for 5 Accounting Dept business centers.*Developed business continuity plans and disaster recovery procedures for the Accounting Department. Coordinated accounting applications disaster recovery testing for the District.*Developed and compiled Accounting Department Operating Procedures Manual.*Trained operating departments on accounting application balancing procedures and performed troubleshooting of accounting application and inter-office outages. Show less

Performed testing of centralized automated accounting applications development site in the Reserve system.Performed throughput and capacity analyses of accounting application modules run on IBM mainframe computers.Coordinated system integration testing troubleshooting.

Write-up work for SMB clients, including Quarterly payroll reporting to federal and multi-state tax authorities. Audit work for local governmental entities.