Lori R. Email & Phone Number

San Diego, California, United States

• Consultant for several small business clients - using ZOHO Books, Quickbooks Online (QBO) and Quickbooks Desktop• Process payroll in QBO and create payroll journal entries in ZOHO; perform month end close processes, including bank and credit card reconciliations and other prepaid and accrual journal entries• Review activity of bookkeepers and advise to make corrections when needed• Create templates for bookkeepers/staff to use for booking monthly income journal entries from different property management reports for several properties

Carlsbad, Ca

Formerly NRG renewables• Managed the accounting portfolio of Solar renewable assets that included five operating utility scale PV solar plants with 342 megawatts (MW) of capacity and one under construction with 150 MW of capacity and ten affiliated holding companies with gross revenues of over $120M.• Participated in timely and accurate monthly close: processed month-end journal entries, created invoices for intercompany billing, reconciled general ledger accounts and 30 active bank accounts, prepared rollforwards for notes, debt and fixed assets and P&L analysis. Journal entries included complex equity settlements and any contributions/distributions from/to the parent company.• Maintained construction project details and upon completion, componentize the fixed assets while working closely with asset management and other functional groups to transition from construction to operations.• Worked with several internal groups to ensure proper support was sent to the insurance companies for the several claims that occurred and the proper accounting was in place. • Compiled and filed quarterly revenue results to Federal Electric Regulatory Commission (FERC) with assistance from the settlements group.• Prepared standalone financial statements for each project per loan agreements - unaudited quarterly and audited annual; worked with external auditors and internal accounting during the year-end audit process.• Adhered to the schedule per the loan agreements to ensure timely vendor payments, which included managing the invoices to be paid, some per contracts.• Supported the entire accounting team in reaching the goal of a five-day close process.• Administrator of the new balance sheet reconciliation system (Trintech), which included assigning all GL accounts with new balances to the appropriate accountant by the last day of close.• Assisted the corporate accounting with journal entries to record the purchase/sale of new projects and tax equity partners.

Carlsbad, Ca

• Managed the accounting portfolio of Solar assets that included five utility-scale PV solar plants with 342 MW of capacity and three thermal solar plants with 392 MW of capacity and nine affiliated holding companies with gross revenues of $238 million.• Participated in timely and accurate monthly close.• Maintained construction details and upon project completion componentized the fixed assets, collaborated with asset management and other functional groups to transition from construction to operations.• Compiled quarterly revenue results to Federal Regulatory Commission (FERC) with assistance from the settlements group.• Prepared standalone financial statements for each project per loan agreements - unaudited quarterly and audited annual; worked with external auditors and internal accounting during the year-end audit process.• Adhered to the monthly payment schedule per loan agreements: processed invoices, got approvals, prepared the payment listing with correct banking instructions for the loan compliance team.• Collaborated with internal groups to improve the new loan reporting and accounts payable processes.• Performed testing and trained co-workers on several new processes and new software systems.• Successfully supported an accounting system transition that enabled us to streamline processes.• Assisted Controller when Solar development began: developed tracking reports for several developments and capital projects, processed AP, set up sites in Maximo and trained users, financial statements in BPC, budget and forecasts.• Worked closely with the plant Business Managers to prepare the P&L variance analysis’ and budgets/forecasts.• Provided support for accounting personnel at all regional locations which included training on software (Maximo, JDE, GL Inquiry, BPC reporting), procedures, and developing reports for their use.• Performed Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) testing on company controls for different regions.• Developed desk procedures for new position.

Greenwood Village, Colorado

Fixed AssetsInventoryJournal entriesBalance sheet reconciliationsAudit schedules

Construction tracking and Fixed assets for the multiple city run utilities.Grant accounting for several federal and state grants for police officers.Assisted with the annual budget and financial statements.Balance sheet reconciliations, journal entries and other month end closing processes.