Leanne Blake Email & Phone Number

Peabody, Massachusetts, United States

The Census Taker Positions provides the perfect opportunity to earn some extra income while helping your community. The results of the 2020 Census will help determine each state’s representation in Congress, as well as how certain funds are spent for schools, hospitals, roads, and more. This is your chance to play a part in history and help ensure that everyone in your community is counted while earning part time pay! Key Accomplishments: • Help people complete their census• commit to completing training.• Be available to work flexible hours in the community that you live in

Middletown Md Peabody Ma

Experience in a financial analysis role, in depth experience with the entire Microsoft Office Suite, Key Accomplishments: Worked for Netstar-one and served as contracted Finance Manager for U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) • Created DOL’s first consolidated contract line item verification and Expected Billing accounting solution. • Worked with the counterpart Director in IT and prepared the back up for their Sources and Uses of Funding and Run Rate Report.• Streamlined DOL two-week closing to three-day closing by designing a custom automated process in MS Excel. • Designed this MS Excel spreadsheet for DOL to be easy to change in the futuredeveloped a diagnostic section that tells them the out of balance amount and where to go to fix their issues until the key stake holder reports were fully correct.• This even allowed them to report back billing so they could get Verizon the vendor to give them corrections to their AP Telecom Bill• Performed SALT State tax analysis and federal tax analysis for DOL• Streamlined their AP bills since Verizon billed forward and GSA IPACED funds (i.e. used impress or cash to pay for service) Use Business process improvements.RWD highlights:• Worked for RWD as a corporate contracted trainer for a federal agency focused on Cost Accounting and B2R (federal budget to reports) Oracle 11i. • Worked to develop best practice procedures via training for these applications so they could maintain data integrity in their new ERP system. • Applied in- depth cost to GL in their fund accounting environment• For B2R general ledger reporting and federal fund accounting, documented fund accounting, the budgetary transactions, appropriation, apportionment, allotments, • Used integration to deliver overview for training in order to bridge gap between GL, Cost and fund accounting for this federal department.

Greater Boston Area

.Experience in a financial analysis role, in depth experience with the entire Microsoft Office Suite, including intermediate to advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills. In depth experience summarizing results and producing management reports. Strong oral and written communication skills, including excellent presentation skills. Outstanding attention to detail and adherence to project deadlines. Ability to work effectively, both independently and as a member of a team. Ability to handle multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment. In depth with a variety of contracting types (e.g., time and materials, fixed price) and billing scenarios. Client service environment; consulting experience. Experience with MS Access and MS Project Applications Key Accomplishments:• Trained the industry sector clinical trials in facilitating productive communication between internal and external resources• Aggressively learned the material of a complex, 240-page course in one week, then successfully taught the course.• Create and conduct effective training for a UK based company in learning and utilizing business enhancing programs, including MS Project 2010, Intermediate MS Project 2010, Advanced MS, and how to import and export data to MS excel using Pivot tables. • Determine company-specific needs and tailor learning sessions to include use of the matrix reports for tracking cost and initiating and coordinating plans with various stakeholders

Lynn Ma

Schedule appointments, meetings with Tax preparers Ability to work with highly confidential information Ability to exercise independent judgment with an enthusiastic, self-motivated, problem-solving approach Utilize accounting, budgeting forecasting and system installation expertise Key Accomplishments: • Process cash, credit card on point of sale (POS) cash register Block Pay • Includes scanning check processing checks processing credit cards and gift cards and debit card and cash payments • Ability to work effectively with internal and external stakeholders and achieve results using a collaborative style

Arlington Va

34 consultants on the USAID global project implementing Momentum including General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Purchasing and support for foreign-currency and fund accounting. . Utilize accounting, budgeting forecasting and system installation expertise Developed a highly successful budget variance system using MS Project that consolidated actual reporting with revised budgets formerly in three separate systems. This system took a 6-week reconciliation process to one week and invoices (around $500k) monthly, delivered promptly for payment by the COTR, which use to take 2 months.• gathered requirements then designed this with only one day of updating a month, seamless, accurate, and timely this system provided exceptional return (ROI) for AMS. Actual hours were entered and reconciled and the AMS team leads where able to review, correct budgeted hours for their teams, with ease, until they were under the $8 mill Revised Budget, with one day of data entry time. Designed this plan to include reports not only for AMS, but also for Prime WBS consolidation, and COTR invoice payment support, for prompt invoice payment to AMS, another high ROI. • High impact plan was also exceptional for modifications to the contract or just ad hoc quotes for additional services.• In support of this $8 million dollar Federal Contract, provided training to the AMS accounting department regarding accounting procedures to speed up the generation of the bill from AR including reconciling hours throughout the month to catch errors early on and to ensure that accounting and reporting were within the contract. ) Use Business process improvements.Experience in a financial analysis role, in depth experience with the entire Microsoft Office Suite, including intermediate to advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills. In depth experience summarizing results and producing management reports. Strong oral and written communication skills, including excellent presentation skills

Herdon Va

Cost highlights include worked on site at the United States Coast Guard, NPFC (National Pollution Funds Center) contract and the General Secretariat (GS) (OAS) Organization of American states contract. Worked both projects to completion. Managed a team of 3 at NPFC and managed 54+ at OAS including accountants DBAs and programmers. NPFC cost highlights - implemented Oracle ERP Project accounting and project billing for the cost of chemical oil spill cleanup. NPFC was put in place as a result of Exxon Valdez oil spill. They are chartered to cleanup chemical oil spills, using the EPA Superfund then billing up to four responsible parties in oracle Accounts receivable to recoup to cost of the oil spill cleanup. They would then replenish the EPA superfund using Journal entries developed with the CFO during JAD session to determine journal entries needed for their solution. Helped them cleanse data and map their old cost accounting P&L since this was based on a NON-accounting project accounting custom system that someone created for them. Helped them to documented a cross walk from their old P&L balances to the new P&L so their audit would be clean using GAAP. In production helped them maintain data integrity. At the GS/OAS guided their Secretariat and Directors to cleanse data reconcile to legacy then maintain data integrity in their new complex Oracle ERP system. Developed and used a top down approach from the balance sheet for their conversion migration strategy. In production help them maintain data integrity. MS PowerPoint was used for presentation MS Project was used for planning. ) Experience in a financial analysis role, in depth experience with the entire Microsoft Office Suite, including intermediate to advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills. In depth experience summarizing results and producing management reports. Strong oral and written communication skills, including excellent presentation skills Supported contracts, legal and sales teams

Herdon Va

Accounting highlights, spent 3.5 years on site at the United States Department of Treasury - US MINT contract. As a cost accountant developed and used a top down approach from the balance sheet, to setup the Mints complex cost to GL in their fund accounting environment. Then in production for two years, guided their shop floor managers to use their reports to drive results, and their cost accountants to reconcile and close like a fortune 200 company. Previously for 4 years at USA Today ran closings using these same skills including international operations. The US Mint applications included MRP II within federal manufacturing, General Ledger, CAS Accounts Payable, Purchasing, Inventory, BOM, Shop Floor, cost accounting and fund accounting. ) Use Business process improvements.At the US MINT documented AR, GL, federal business planning process, and monthly/ quarterly/ year-end closing requirements. For the federal business planning process, documented Appropriation, Apportionment, Allotments, through the rescission of funding and the continuing resolution. Used fortune 200 closings and GAAP to successfully complete a 15-page Business Process Document for Federal Reporting documenting SF 133 reports the 224 cash reconciliation the quarterly and year-end 2180 reports. Documented the future use of the GOALS system for reporting to Treasury. Detailed the flow of commitments, obligations, expenditures and disbursements using MS Visio. Used this to configure their first complex COGS (cost of goods sold) then simplified their solution. In production worked with the big six auditors for months so they could audit the setup, which we passed. Created a year-end closing guide for the US Mint to roll over balances in the Balance Sheet and reset the (FS) frozen standard cost numbers. Ran their closings and guided their cost accountants at their desk and helped them documented procedures especially regarding inventory balances and parts without account numbers.

Arlington Va

Fortune 200 company successfully guided a staff of six financial analysts responsible for performing the month-end and year-end closing procedures including consolidation of information from all accounting departments, posting final accrual entries, inter-company reconciliation’s and execution of month-end and year-end jobs for financial reporting. Reported monthly financial statements to include Balance Sheets and Income Statements, statistical reports, capital expenditures reports, and revised budgets. • Throughout career, utilize this in-depth accounting, closing and reporting experience to successfully guide CFO's, Controllers and Directors, in large ERP projects very early on. Emphasis on fulfilling auditor regulatory compliance requirements, and ensuring data integrity at data conversion time and also every month by training the accounting departments to reconcile before they close. Implemented a fully automated monthly revised budget system (i.e. forecast) that won best new design at Gannett. Used Unified System 38 network to send and receive 27 metro market revised estimates on a monthly basis. • Developed a complete accounting and reporting package for the international division of USA Today.• Developed methods for accounting for foreign currency in compliance with FASB52 and GAAP• Designed an automated system for converting 35 global currencies to Swiss Francs then to US dollars and consolidating into the headquarters general ledger.• Also developed numerous automated reporting systems using spreadsheets and mainframe to PC downloading methodology automated through the use of macros.Developed and maintained the Masterpiece General Ledger hierarchical structure and financial reports on an IBM4381.• created a monthly Newsprint and Printing inventory report and took their 2-day process to a push of a button• created P&L by metro market not available previously used by Gannett corporate managers for their quarterly meetings.