Lissa Grabowski Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

The CLA Consulting & Accounting Solutions Team (CAST) seamlessly manages key organizational challenges and deadlines. Whether you are an established organization or an emerging business, we can be a resource to help fill a gap, tackle critical projects, and navigate changing reporting regulations. Count on our experienced consultants to help you with.

• Responsibilities included:
• Supervised and informed the financial strategy of multi-faceted organization with multiple legal entities
• Established and maintained banking relationships
• Oversaw and ensured a GAAP compliant and successful audit
• Prepared and lead committee, board, and organizational level financial presentations
• Established and communicated organization wide financial policies

• Responsibilities included:
• Supervised all accounting functions of multi-faceted organization with multiple legal entities and staff of two accountants
• Responsible for all month end close activities including bank and balance sheet account reconciliations, accruals, amortizing prepaid expenses, maintaining debt schedule, and allocating expenses
• Produced rolling twelve month cash forecast and variance analysis semimonthly
• Lead and coordinated annual audit preparation, act as point of contact for questions and requests
• Managed $24 million consolidated balance sheet, entered acquisitions and sales of properties, maintained fixed asset schedules & depreciation, deferred revenue & pledge tracking

• Reconciling bank accounts
• Managing balance sheet activity
• Creating and distributing financial reports to department heads
• Processing standard and adjusting journal entries
• Balancing and closing books monthly
• Prepare year-end accruals and adjustments

Board member and treasurer of The Kingdom Band, a non-profit organization that raises money for local and national causes through benefit concerts. Responsibilities include paying and maintaining independent contractor records, recording all expenses and income, and reporting to the board President.

Cape Town, South Africa

• Maintaining general ledger
• Creating and processing journal entries
• Processing transactions with other international SIM offices
• Producing and distributing missionary support and financial statements
• Balancing and closing books monthly
• Updating financial statements and reporting to Director monthly

Cape Town, South Africa

• Processing, recording and receipting all donations
• Recording and tracking payments
• Maintaining and updating donor database
• Answering and following up donor and missionary inquiries and needs