Kerry Collett Email & Phone Number

Smyrna, Ga, Us

Atlanta Metropolitan Area

Prepare the consolidation of 50 entities of the Blank Family of Businesses financial statements, including commentary and supplemental analysis. Reconcile intercompany balances and investment in subsidiary accounts. Prepare financial statements for family trusts and various real estate holdings. Process bill payments for all accounts payable for the Family Office and the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation. This includes processing EFT payments and printing live checks, and uploading all payment information to the bank’s fraud protection systems. Prepare and submit required workpapers for tax return preparation for all entities I am responsible for, as well as other areas as needed.

Atlanta, Ga

Own full cycle general ledger maintenance in Sage, including all accruals and adjusting entries, AccountsReceivable and Accounts Payable; Assist Controller with preparing budgets and quarterly financial reporting to Board of Directors; Calculate quarterly billing amounts for clients using contracted rates, including percentage of asset bases; Reconcile all bank and brokerage accounts; Calculate quarterly senior consultant salary draws based on profitability formulas; Record and reconcile payroll; Process and record all daily cash receipts and vendor payables, including monthly dividends and allemployee reimbursement for travelling consultants according to company guidelines; Prepare audit workpapers and assist external auditors during the annual audit and tax return preparation.

Marietta, Ga

Prepare income tax returns and assist with audits for various industries including law firms, manufacturing, real estate and service providers that include multi-state filing and international ownership disclosures. Business return preparation includes reconciliation and adjustments of client's accounts and calculating book to tax differences. Create standard processes and templates to maintain client information on accounts in order to save time and sustain consistency and efficiency throughout the firm.

Kennesaw, Ga

Performed month end close accounting processes for inventory and accrued liabilities. Also maintained forecast, budgeting and actual results reporting across 26 cost centers.

Alpharetta, Ga

Managed access cost liability and asset reserve accounts for international data access costs for United States and Canada operations. Worked with complex models in Excel and Access to create a subledger by circuit, account for payments, calculate variances, and facilitate balance sheet reconciliation. Investigated and reported on causes of payment versus accrual variances. Calculated unrealized and realized gains and losses on foreign exchange transactions. Helped streamline and improve processes following MCI's emergence from bankruptcy.

Atlanta, Ga

Lead auditor for multi-state, multi-entity consolidating companies, which involved creating engagement budgets, financial statement preparation, extensive GAAP research and supervising field work and staff training of up to 3 staff persons on engagements with up to 4 weeks duration. Performed compilation and review engagements, which included financial statement preparation, general ledger analysis, and tax return preparation. Industries of experience include manufacturing and distribution, professional services, real estate, and a financial institution with $55,000,000 in assets. • Developed financial statement templates for client engagements, as well as GAAP based compliance engagement programs used Firm wide. Developed a statistical sampling routine for consolidating and auditing the inventory of a large multi-location retail client.

Greenwich, Ct

Assisted with world-wide cash management, corporate reporting and treasury accounting for a diversified global shipping and subsea engineering company with international sales in excess of one billion dollars. Maintained corporate treasury general ledger, including daily cash flow transactions and adjustments for foreign exchange, prepared cash flow schedules and assisted with reconciliation of international cash and intercompany accounts.