• Responsible for the preparation, deposit and filing of Client Payroll Taxes as required by Federal, State and Local tax authorities, and as authorized by management.• Responsible for Monthly reconciliations of client’s month, quarter and year to date wages and taxes• Point of contact for all internal and external inquiries (ie. Outstanding State and Local registrations, analysis of aging as it relates to outstanding notice resolution, etc.) related to assigned clients.

• Monitors internal accounts payable process for inefficiencies in the workflow to streamline processes and increase productivity.• Reconcile accounts payable sub-ledger to general ledger.• Responsible for daily and accurate payments to all vendors thru Wire, ACH or Check methods.• Perform monthly analysis on operating results and review the integrity of the data • Review all weekly check runs• Processing of the year end 1099s• Conduct internal audits of accounts payable transactions to ensure accuracy and protect the company cash flow.• Resolve vendor complaints and negotiate win/win solutions in hopes of building stronger partnering relationships.

• Reconcile, analyze, and research activity for multiple types of accounts, including: air traffic liability, tax, travel certificate and refund liabilities, prepaid commission accounts, and cash/credit accounts receivables.• Compile, consolidate, and categorize data from multiple data systems and manual support files to support general ledger activity from multiple departments.• Calculate and record associated foreign exchange gains and losses to ensure proper financial statement presentation of balance sheet accounts.• Prepare monthly reports and forecasts for: passenger revenue adjustments for Gross to Net Yield; air traffic liability activity, breakage, and account balance; travel certificate breakage; foreign currency gain/loss for receivable and liability accounts.• Maintain on-time, high quality account results to meet regulatory compliance requirements for Sarbanes-Oxley.• Includes presentation of accounts quarterly to the VP-Controller and presentation of requested accounts and variance explanations to internal/external auditors and management.• Monitor account data from multiple systems and departments to provide detailed discussion of financial results, evaluate account activity, and anticipate future financial impacts.• Recommend significant accounting adjustments and explain accounting methods related to the accounting work.• Includes recommendations and supporting documentation for periodic write offs for unrecoverable receivables.• Investigate, research, and discuss operational and system processing and the resulting financial impacts• Participate in collaborative meetings with various work groups to resolve accounting and financial recording issues• Prepare monthly journal entries and other monthly close-related documentation including forecasting

• Responsible for the reconciliation and analysis for 100 total payroll and payroll tax accounts for multiple states and 500 localities and monthly closing tasks to record payroll related expenses and deductions to appropriate balance sheet accounts to ensure accuracy, as well as proper tax liability.• Conducts investigations of accounting discrepancies impacting the general ledger and recommends appropriate corrective action in accordance with company policy and GAAP.• Analyzes root cause of issues behind account and bank reconciliation (both domestic and International) differences and initiates applicable corrective action to resolve problems at the source.• Assist with the development and recommendations of new procedures and automation requirements to enhance the overall business process and improve internal controls.• Instrumental with the consolidation of account reconciliations for all of United completed by the Shared Services group. • Assist with the methods of selection, organization and arrangement of data for effective presentation to management of all divisions.• Reviews financial information to ensure compliance with any internal and external audit-identified controls. Supports and ensures compliance with Sarbanes Oxley, Bankruptcy and BTO related requests.• Duties at times include supervisory oversight, review and direction for other staff members as assigned.

• Oversaw the reconciliation of various payroll reports for multiple states, and 500 localities to ensure accuracy, as well as proper tax liability.• Oversaw the analysis of payroll accounting events throughout United including the reconciliation of payroll accounts and monthly closing to record payroll related expenses and deductions.• Directs the development and recommendations of new procedures and automation requirements to enhance payroll’s reporting.• Develops methods of selection, organization and arrangement of data for effective presentation to management of all divisions.• Assist in ensuring compliance with any internal and external audit-identified controls. Supports and ensures compliance with Sarbanes Oxley, Bankruptcy and BTO related requests.• Coordinates compliance of domestic as well as international payroll tax withholding.

Supervise processing in both weekly and biweekly payrolls for 10000+ employees. Implemented weekly controls to ensure timely and accurate processing of employee paychecks. • Overhauled spreadsheet operations, leading to increased staff productivity resulting in a reduction of overtime, in addition to providing more timely and pertinent data to upper management. • Responsible for analysis and reconciliation of payroll disbursement ledgers and accounts.• Reduction in company costs by utilizing the Payroll Data base to create reports rather than relying on a third party, resulting in a cost savings of $20,000.• Designed and implemented process improvements to the daily tax reporting saving the company in annual penalties.

• Supervised twenty employees. Produced month-end payroll reports, quarterly reports and year-end Field Services reports including W-2s and W-2Cs. Managed production and distribution of 25,000 payroll checks weekly, which includes multi-state taxation (25 states).• Oversaw the reconciliation of various payroll reports for 5 EIN’s, 25 states, and 500 localities to ensure accuracy, as well as proper tax liability.• Performed quarterly and annual performance reviews. • Mentored employees, coaching them to develop their interpersonal skills and correcting any performance deficiencies where needed.• Assisted in developing training programs and writing procedural documentation to strengthen the skills within the department.• Supervised the department’s daily activities to ensure that all service level agreements are consistently met.• Reviewed the reconciliation of ten bank accounts and seven general ledger expense accounts and approve journal entries where needed.