Joseph Marra, Mba Email & Phone Number

Sarasota, Florida Area

• Worked directly with Logistics Director, & Associates (Drivers), along with volunteers to manage $1.6MM worth of wedding gown inventory valued at nearly $3.4MM & layaway program worth over $300k in warehouse /.
• Processed all incoming wedding gown donations (along with any accompanying monetary donations), including donor form processing, pricing, tagging, & inputting into inventory software system
• Conducted annual/routine audits for warehouse & truck/tour inventory; matched & resolved any disconnects between software system report lists & physical counts
• Managed all processing of wedding gowns purchased on layaway including shipping, receiving & bride correspondence
• Processed all mailings/shipping for Show Managers & National Event Coordinators (NEC’s) including all wedding gown sale event/show collateral
• Was Responsible for all website and media postings for all charity wedding gown show/sale markets which consisted of over 100 cities nationwide with an avg. revenue of approx. $25K/per show.

6279 Lake Osprey Drive; Sarasota, Florida 34240

Responsible for all website and media postings for all of Brides Against Breast Cancer (BABC)'s national nonprofit charity subsidiaries' wedding gown show/sale markets which consist of 200 cities nationwide with an avg. revenue of approx. $25K/per show.

Lakewood Ranch, Florida Area

• Work directly with Development Department under direct supervision of Development Associate along with other key Development and Administrative staff to implement new social media marketing initiatives.
• Assist with website, database updates, information on community calendars and other online sites to promote services.
• Help with events on and off site including event promotion, set up, and volunteer management.
• Scan and add selected images and image descriptions of new slides to electronic image database.
• Support for social media initiatives including Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter etc., and work with vendors on marketing collateral.

• Applied accounting concepts and functions in daily cash management of several merchant accounts in 6-person department of a comprehensive telecommunications services company with over 200 employees and annual revenue.
• Balanced and reconciled daily cash of 11 separate company bank accounts with over 70 individual merchant ID’s.
• Matched daily credit card processor statements to corresponding account bank statements, including deposit, discount percentage, non-qualified surcharge, and charge-back amounts to balance back to company spreadsheets.

• Applied principles of accounting to perform account reconciliations, analyzed financial information, performed month-end close, and prepared financial reports in 5-person financial reporting department of a leading.
• Reconciled, analyzed, and prepared journal entries to general ledger accounts including accounts payable, 401K, garnishments, workers compensation, and health liabilities on corporate and benefit plan ledgers that.
• Performed monthly maintenance of mapping rules from Oracle to PeopleSoft chart of accounts.
• Maintained and updated journal entry accountability month-end control checklist as well as prior-period adjustment worksheet.

• Assisted in accounting department of a PIN-based general-use credit card network and exchange service payment company accepted at more than 650,000 merchant locations and 85 percent of all ATMs throughout the U.S. It.
• Updated 2007 and 2008 base financial statements and footnotes for external audit staff.
• Prepared monthly bounty fee merchant invoice statements, accrued intercompany servicing fees, payment statistic journal entries, Florida Bank and Trust (FB&T) transfer entries to direct merchants, and daily credit.
• Reconciled intercompany/balance sheet accounts, completed convertible note summaries, and daily journal entries for funds transfer from cardholder payment account to collections funding account.
• Coded employee insurance Invoices and prepared cost/benefit accounts payable analysis.

Under the direct report of the Director of Consolidations and External Reporting, I helped lead the accounting transition of the corporate headquarters from Toronto, Canada to Durham, North Carolina including the October annual fiscal year-end consolidation of 11 separate production facilities with over 3 million square feet of capacity. My duties &.

Performed quarterly reporting consolidation and analysis of all accounting activities during monthly/quarterly close for 3 divisions of GE Enterprise Solutions businesses with the full transition of 3 GE Enterprise Solutions businesses with revenues totaling over $1 billion to report their financial data from a consolidated basis within a period of 18.

Led a one-person department responsible for 13 shopping center properties with more than 15 million square feet of total retail space valued at $2.3 billion w/the preparation of all monthly financial statements for and the mentoring, development, and education of several Marketing Directors at these properties.Performed bank statement reconciliations for.

Audited financial statement and tax engagements for a CPA firm servicing clients in the Upstate NY region.Prepared annual financial statements as well as corporate, individual, partnership, and fiduciary tax returns.Gained working knowledge of pronouncements of FASB (Financial Accounting Standards Board), AICPA (American Institute of Certified Public.

Coordinated monthly client statements & collection calls with account executivesPrepared budget reconciliations & invoices for production costsProcessed all production Accounts Receivable invoices

Mba, Business Administration

Bachlor Of Science (Bs), Accounting

Associate In Applied Science (Aas), Accounting

Activities and Societies: AMA (American Marketing Association) College Golf Team