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New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Metairie

• Oversees all financial transactions, including billing, finance, account and reporting for multi-subsidiaries/associated companies • Prepare final Voyage calculations• Ensure that bank reconciliations are completed• Ensure that AP are entered in Quickbooks and paid in time manner• Ensure that AR are entered in Quickbooks and collected promptly• Prepare and communicate weekly, monthly and quarterly financial statements• Prepare materials and present, as necessary, financial information to the leadership team.• Post Journal Entries• Prepare monthly statistics using Powerpoint• Maintain a system of controls over accounting transactions• Collaborate on developing the operating budget• Comply with local, state, and federal government reporting requirements and tax filings.• Process payroll in a timely manner• Assist in preparing or updating employment records related to hiring, transferring, promoting, and terminating.• Verifies I-9 documentation and assists in compliance audits as needed• Assists employees with initial enrollment, renewals, and changes in health plan benefits

Greater New Orleans Area

• Process billings for clients and Perform Job Cost Accounting• Generate and distribute proformas (pre-bills), monthly and upon request• Reconcile daily cash and perform monthly bank reconciliations• Post Payables/Receivables into BusinesWorks Accounting System• Print checks to pay invoices and prepare wire transfers on a weekly basis• Prepare final Voyage calculations• Generate monthly financial statements• Post Journal Entries• Prepare monthly statistics using Powerpoint• Process credit applications for future customers

Belle Chasse, La

• Prepare, review and process journal entries as required to accurately reflect financial activities for a given period. • Research and apply accounting policies and principles to properly record, report, and maintain financial data. • Prepare financial statements for management• Assist in month end closing responsibilities• Review/prepare monthly reports• Prepare weekly billing• Accounts Payable• Maintain fixed asset records and depreciation• Monthly bank account reconciliations• Payroll

Belle Chasse, La

• Prepare, analyze and submit monthly, quarterly and annual financial reports to management• Manage the month end closing process and ensure all balance sheet accounts are reconciled Monthly in a timely manner• Reconcile bank accounts• Prepare monthly Journal Entries• Approve and ensure proper coding of Payables• Reconcile bank statements for all companies (Payroll & Operating)• Preparation of quarterly and annual payroll tax returns and forms ( 940’s, 941’s, -2’s,W-3’s and 1099’s)• Review and discuss collection process on any Accounts Receivables over 90 days.• Record income tax entries provided by outside CPA

1601 Bellechasse Hwy, Gretna La 70056

• Reconcile monthly Diesel/fuel inventory• Prepare monthly journal entries• A/P Accruals• Compile and calculate average cost of diesel sold and average ending inventory based on GL and Inventory activity• Update the customer master file with contact information• Enter invoices into customer invoicing web sites• Submit invoices by electronic data interchange

• Organize and assist Project Managers in closing job files and start the process billing cycle• Organize and assemble customer/client invoices for review of project managers for approval prior to submitting invoices• Verify all supporting documentation is provided with corresponding bids, invoices and or third party contracts included in jobs folders used for billing• Receive, sort and enter information into Viewpoint accounting system on a timely basis.• Generate and estimated versus actual report using Crystal Reports XI for a detailed comparison of costs that added to a job that already has been invoiced for proper historical costing• Review, analyze and determine whether job project is within budget by comparing differences between bids, cost estimates, actual costs and or invoiced amounts.• Perform E-Billing and Electronic Invoicing.• Prepare month end close procedures such as accounts receivable subsidiary reports, listing of open jobs in progress, closed jobs not billed to customer, estimated revenue for closed jobs and other necessary documentation for closing month end• Compile and enter monthly accruals into Viewpoint Accounting System

Greater New Orleans Area

• Process coordinator for the Finance Operations Helpdesk Customer Service, which involved providing support to internal and external customers, research and analyze problems on a daily basis.• Created a database in Access to track all problems and solutions.• Processed wires for vendors and Legal Entities in PeopleSoft 8.0• Generated reports in PeopleSoft 8.0.• Used Customer Information System daily for all companies to provide the customer with billing information.• Converted all systems -- Bankruptcy, Surety, and Credit and Collection -- into ACCESS to save both man-hours and paper.• Assisted Manager and team members with all functions of Credit & Collection including bankruptcies, collections, credit monitoring and sureties.

Associate Of Science In Accounting

Associate Of Business Studies, Business Administration

Associate Of Science, Accounting; Business Administration/Accounting Associate; Computer Information Systems Associate

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