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Washington, Dc, Us

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

• Providing non-profit clients with quality service and recommendations to improve its financial infrastructure through improved processes and control measures. Areas of focus include: Cash Management, Investments, audit readiness, External Compliance and/or tax reporting preparation, Financial Systems, Month-end close process improvement, Account Reconciliations, Revenue recognition and Fixed Assets management.

Washington, Dc, Us

• Investment Analysis: Manage $175M of investments for the APA and its Foundation. Included in this amount are two deferred compensation plans and a Charitable Remainder Trust. • Financial Systems: Strengthen the integrity of the APA financial infrastructure with the keen oversight of merchant gateways and their connections to various databases and management tools. Functioned as department liaison for APA’s org-wide implementation of Salesforce to house the information for its 30K members. Served on the implementation/transition team for the accounting system to Sage Intacct and the PAC Builder platform for APA’s PAC donations. • Financial Operations: Perform bank, general ledger, intercompany reconciliations and other month-end closing duties. APA point of contact for all banking relationships, overseeing all cash management operations. Conduct bank transfers for the various APA entities.

Washington, Dc, Us

•Financial Operations: Managed day-to-day financial operations, including cash management, financial statement preparation, bank management, and 401k management, payroll processing, and financial officer of key events. •Financial Reporting: Managed the filing of 1099s, 401k reporting, Form 5500 and 941 reconciliations. Expanded revenue recognition strategy through chart of accounts to record revenues by entity-type. •Board Reporting: Developed monthly receivable analysis reports and other reports analyzing the Institute’s multi-year agreements for the Board of Directors and senior management. •Investment Analysis: Revamped the 401K fund portfolio which increased participation by 45%. Oversaw endowment management for CHCI. •Project Management: Served as primary Financial Officer for the Latino Inaugural 2012: a series of events produced by a coalition of Latino organizations•Forecasting & Budget Management: Analyzed and forecasted annual expenses and oversaw calendar-year budget preparation, collaborating across departments to understand and align with budget expectations. •Financial Systems: Oversaw all cash in-flow operations with the use of Great Plains accounting system and FRx/MR financial reporting tools, including all invoicing, donation and sponsorship recognition, contributions and other online transactions. •General Ledger: Managed bank reconciliations, adjustments to journal entries, bank wire transfers, payroll allocations, fixed assets and other reconciliations to develop monthly financial statements.•Internal Controls: Analyze policies, identified weaknesses and implement new procedures to streamline operations. •Team Leadership: Oversaw effective performance of a financial specialist to include payables, cell phone management, payroll, travel voucher disbursement and staff credit card reconciliations.

Washington, Dc, Us

•Financial Operations: Oversaw cash inflow operations for the association with the use of iMIS and Great Plains systems. This includes all invoicing operations and posting receipts and RCS transactions. •Financial Systems: Collaborated with the IT department to create an online, automated credit card processing system.•Collections: Managed the collections of Legislative contributions to increase its collectivity by 25%.•General Ledger: Perform general ledger duties such as account-level reconciliations, journal entries, fixed assets and accounts receivable to advance the department’s production of monthly financial statements.•Financial Reporting: Analyzed and developed monthly statistical reports outlining the association’s performance in certain strategic areas and comparing the data to that of previous years

Baltimore, Maryland, Us

•Financial Reporting: Prepare financial statements and responsible for various accounting duties with the use of ACCPAC, Great Plains and FRx accounting software. •General Ledger: Collaborated with accounting colleagues to complete month end closing for parent and multiple subsidiary companies including bank and account-level reconciliations, accounts receivable, payroll, 401k, intercompany and insurance journal entries general ledger accounting for a $400M company.

New York, Ny, Us

•Financial Operations: Implemented an effective cash-inflow receivable system to a $40 million a year operation, managed collections to improve liquidity by 36%, and prepared reports for senior management •Internal Controls: Collaborated with the billing department and internal account teams as well as clients to streamline the billing process and minimize the number the invoice rejections and revisions.

Germantown, Md, Us

Arlington, Virginia, Us

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