• Reconciled balance sheet accounts and made necessary journal entries on a monthly basis.• Updated forecasting and report analysis for annual and monthly budget processes.• Produced 1099 forms for miscellaneous, interest, and all other income categories.

Maintained daily cash flow for 42 IHOP franchised locations and 5 bank accounts. Compiled information and formulated reports on sales, food costs and labor costs for review by the CFO and district managers. Reported financial information for each location to the IHOP corporate office through their secured website.• Learned the systems and processes pertaining to the job quickly in order to fill in for a maternity leave.• Created Excel templates to quickly and accurately fill in federal, state, and local sales, use and prepared food tax return forms.• Suggested process improvements that could be implemented in the future to help the accounting department run more efficiently.

Performed a variety of accounting duties including accounts payable, accounts receivable, job costing, AIA billing and general ledger to trial balance. Conducted month-end transactions, reconciled bank statements and credit card statements. Put together a month end accounting packet for the CPA firm to review.• Upgraded the accounting software from QuickBooks Simple Start to QuickBooks Premier in order to allow more users to simultaneously log onto the accounting system which increased productivity.• Cleaned up the chart of accounts in QuickBooks to be in line with others in the construction subcontractor industry.• Updated and implemented standard operating procedures for all accounting functions.

Managed the human resources, information technology, accounts payable, accounts receivable and payroll functions for eight small businesses located on the property. Performed all of the month end and year end closing functions for each business. Collaborated with outside business solution providers such as insurance agents, grant writers, IT contractors, bank representatives and CPA's to provide the optimal services for the businesses. • Moved the companies from a monthly to daily bank reconciliation in order to avoid overdraft fees.• Created a tile costing program that allowed the company to determine the number of tiles that could be cut from a terrazzo block and the price per block, square foot and individual tile.• Setup a nonprofit corporation that provided funding for students to attend terrazzo trade schools in order to obtain more terrazzo craftsman for the industry. The setup included preparing the Articles of Incorporation, bylaws and IRS Form 1023.

Reconciled multiple bank statements and general ledger accounts, including intercompany, in various currencies. Prepared and posted adjusting and closing journal entries on a monthly and yearly basis. Assisted in the accounts payable, accounts receivable and inventory costing departments as needed. • Created a universal chart of accounts for all five companies under the Bollag umbrella.• Assisted in getting all subsidiary companies onto the same accounting and inventory system.• Collected, entered and maintained the fixed asset data in Microsoft Great Plains accounting software.

Maintained a consignment inventory of automotive and industrial paint, related equipment and materials. Audited sales contracts to make sure the terms in the accounting system matched the terms on the customer’s contract. Billed vendors for co-op payments on a monthly basis.• Organized, merged and logged consignment files so that we could tell at a glance the amount and quantity of inventory a customer had on consignment.• Implemented a central ordering point for regional customers so that they could call just one number to place an order.• Researched the least expensive way to send paperwork and material to the corporate office on a weekly basis, significantly reducing the freight charges.

Responsible for all activities required to assist credit and collection representatives to ensure the collection of past due receivables. Organized collection workload according to degree and amount of delinquency and assigned accounts to representatives for collection. Prepared collection statistics reports for management.• Created perpetual charts and graphs so that collection progress could be shown over specified periods of time.• Participated in the first self-managed work team within the company.• Programmed and used Monarch Pro data mining software to pull specific numbers from large amounts of data.

Performed client write up services for 15 medical offices per month. These services included transaction data entry, bank reconciliations, adjusting and closing journal entries and preparing financial statements. Collaborated with the business consulting and legal departments on many projects. Communicated with medical offices managers about their accounting needs.• Worked with the write up programs software provider to find out how to download client’s information into the write up system as opposed to typing it in each month.• Researched optimal costs for medical procedures to maximize the profit for physicians.• Set-up the accounting systems in physician's offices in an efficient manner learned from the best practices of the other medical accounting offices.

Executed daily operations of the accounting process including accounts payable, accounts receivable and inventory control. Costed and maintained an inventory of outdoor clothing and equipment. Reconciled the bank statement monthly.• Implemented a purchase order system so that employees could see what was on order.• Researched and implemented a new retail and accounting software system.• Implemented excellent customer service as a way to stand out from the competition.