Lynette Kruger Email & Phone Number

Newark, Ca, Us

Redwood City, California, United States

• Managed full accounting cycle for various non-profit business clients, ranging in size from $400K to $81M in Net Assets. • Facilitated audit and 990 preparations for business clients, including preparation of all client schedules.• Preparation of monthly financial statement package for clients, including Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow, and other schedules as necessary.• Tracking of temporarily and permanently restricted assets and monthly reporting.• Monitoring of cash accounts and cash projection analysis as needed.• Endowment accounting for a $50M client, with 400 individual accounts. Monthly allocation of investment activity, quarterly reporting of individual balances.• Assisted with development of internal controls, and policies and procedures for business clients.• Meet with various levels of management including finance committees and board of directors for financial review. • Set-up of new clients in Blackbuad Financial Edge Accounting software.• Process bi-weekly and semi-monthly payrolls for business clients.• Grant tracking and billing for local, state, and federal grants.• Preparation of annual budgets.

• Promoted to Accounting Manager upon Controller's departure, assuming all responsibilities of controller position, and directly reporting to CFO.• Manage staff of 3, in all areas of accounting.• Manage monthly close process within established time limits. Review income, expense, and accruals for accuracy. Implemented new procedures to speed up close process, while still maintain the accuracy and integrity of data. • Preparation of monthly financial statements and preparation of monthly narrative for financial package distributed to board members. • Assisted with selection, design and implementation of new phone system both in corporate location and stores, along with the conversion of entire company to T-1 lines and voice/ip system.• Selected, Designed and Implemented new payroll system. Converting from Ceridian to ADP in April 2006.• Review Sales Tax Returns, and Annual business property tax returns for counties.• Point of contact for external auditors. Prepared audit schedules, reviewing all narrative, and providing variance explanations.

• Prepare all daily and weekly sales reports, including analysis to budget, and last year sales. Distribute reports to corporate management and store managers.• Audit daily sales paperwork for stores and corporate catering department. This includes logging store sales, catering sales, cash, and credit card receipts. Investigate and resolve any cash discrepancies. Report any issues to retail operations. Report problems with paperwork to store managers and retail operations, then work with store managers to resolve outstanding procedural issues. • Processed monthly posting of all sales transactions to general ledger. Reconciled and balanced posting to sales reports, to ensure all sales were properly posted. Developed procedures to ensure all sales posted correctly.• Managed relationship with credit card processors Paymentech & American Express, including set-up of new store accounts, verifying daily processing amounts, resolution of customer charge backs.• Monthly reconciliation of assigned balance sheet accounts. Resolve and report any unexplained variances. Reconciliation of all corporate bank accounts on a monthly basis• Member of selection team for gift card program. Assisted with development and implementation of program. .

• Managed all general ledger functions, including GL maintenance and month-end closing for the West Coast office. Prepared cost of sales analysis, revenue pacing reports, subscriptions budget to actual variance reports and reconciliation of all balance sheet accounts. Developed and implemented reports for managers to review for accruals. Implemented new procedures to ensure compliance with reduced close schedule required by A&E headquarters in New York• Managed and coordinated two accounting software integrations due to the merger with A&E Television. First, from Peachtree to Solomon IV, and then, from Solomon IV to A&E’s accounting system Computron, including planning, testing importing data into the new systems, developing new policies and procedure, and design and development of Financial Reports in FRX Report Writer.• Managed and implemented new A/P processing of invoices and coordinated with A&E Corporate offices to ensure compliance with all company policy and procedures. Coded invoices with proper G/L account number. Responded to vendor calls and disputes of invoices.• Developed and implemented fixed asset tracking registers both in Peachtree and Excel. Updated and reconciled monthly.• Point of contact for external auditors. Prepared audit schedules, pulling all requested documentation, reviewing all narrative, and providing variance explanations. • Managed and processed payroll for 100 employees on a bi-weekly basis. Develop and implemented polices and procedure to ensure the accuracy and timeliness of payroll. Maintained tracking of PTO through the payroll system and Excel to ensure accurate reports.• Preparation and submission of monthly/quarterly sales & use tax returns for multiple States. Preparation of annual business property tax returns for counties

•Responsible for supervision of five employees in Sales Audit and Revenue Accounting for 120 stores located throughout the US and UK.•Managed all banking relationships, setup new accounts, coordinated with banks and stores to optimize fees and other transactions. Supervised two employees in reconciliation of 75+ store bank accounts, including banks with multiple reporting locations. •Managed accuracy of daily sales, including verifying all stores sales were received by IT operations, researching any problems with polling and notifying appropriate personnel, verifying that all transactions processed, and worked with IT and store manager to resolve any problems, including possible re-entry of store transactions.•Participated in auditing of “High Shrink” stores during physical inventory, included observation of store employees, inventory service employees, auditing of counts, and compliance with inventory instructions.•Monthly posting of sales transaction to general ledger. Reconciled and balanced posting to monthly sales reports. Developed procedures to ensure all sales posted correctly.•Managed all cash flow operations, including daily monitoring of concentration accounts for proper funding levels. Monitoring of cleared checks daily to detect possible fraudulent checks. Prepared weekly and monthly cash flow projections for submission to corporate office in Maryland.•Represented Accounting on team for selection of new point of sales (POS) system. Assisted in developing new feature and testing of POS system. Developed and wrote new manual used for training and reference. 1 of 2 employees who trained entire store chain in use of new POS system.