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Westbury, New York, United States

• Improving the accounting department process by overhauling the entire accounting system and establishing GAAP procedures thereby being able to use financial statements for reporting due to correct accounting entries.
• Creating and posting journal entries, monthly and yearly closures for account’s including accrual’s, adjusting entries for year end, and booking accounts receivables and accounts payable.
• Managing a team of three employees with the day-to-day, monthly and year-end processes, including financial statement creation, bank reconciliations, and interim reports.
• Reducing costs by up to $150,000 annually, a 12% decrease from previous years, through PEO system implementation, insurance premium reduction, contract re-negotiation, and trimming of unnecessary expenses.
• Improving revenue capture through increased accounts receivable collections and ensuring the correct allocation of the firm’s portion of revenue to post 175% revenue increase over year-end 2022 compared to prior year.
• Managing human resource functions including payroll, PFL filings, unemployment claims, 401k distribution and audits.

Wantagh, New York

• Consulted for 501(c)(3)'s, this incorporated all aspects of the running of a variety of different clients with different needs. Some of these included county outreach programs, church's, youth programs, and community.
• Responsible for creating, monitoring, and maintaining yearly forecasting and budgeting for 501(3)(c).
• Filed 501(c)(3) tax information (Form 990) with IRS as well as 1099's for consulting clients.
• Worked as a component auditor with KPMG, EY, and Grant Thornton on the auditing of multiple New York government institutions.
• While being engaged as an auditor I was responsible for audit planning, substantive testing, interviewing management, and testing and observing internal controls.

Westbury

• Deposited checks from insurance companies and verified the deposit against the in-house CRM system.
• Responsible for the allocation of firm revenue from client funds and the eventual prepping and disbursing of client funds.
• Reconciling client accounts to assert that correct money is owed and that correct amount has been paid.
• Invoicing and receiving money from clients for workers compensation work.
• Reconciling bank accounts and credit cards as well as being in charge of accounts payable.

Deer Park, New York, United States

• Responsible for preparing orders for customers to meet their specific requirements
• Tasked with flowing inventory from the repacking department into the preparation department in an efficient manner.
• Keeping inventory systems accurate by electronically moving stock to their respective departments.
• Worked with Internal Control audit team in assessing internal controls were being followed.
• Certified to work in ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and AS 9100 work environments and audits.

Bay Shore, New York, United States

• Processed returns and online orders.
• Responsible for mitigating misappropriation of assets done through the returning of stolen items.
• Recognized for my service with two awards in outstanding service.

Bay Shore, New York, United States

• Managed and maintained a backroom staff…
• Trained on most power lifts and power equipment including HiLo’s, power jack’s, and cherry pickers.
• Received vendors and updated inventory systems to reflect incoming inventory.
• Responsible for space management and consolidation of inventory.

Bachelor’S Degree, Accounting, 3.99

Graduated with a Bachelors of Science in Accounting with Summa Cum Laude as well as head of my degree.

Associate Of Arts And Sciences (Aas), Accounting, 3.46

·Related coursework: Intermediate Accounting, Managerial Finance, Corporate Finance, and most Business and business computing classes.