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Supports the Finance Department by performing general Senior Staff Accounting functions. Responsible for assisting activities related to month-end close, quarter-end, and year-end close. Handles the day to day treasury management, including, positive pay, wires, and ACH’s. Supports Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable functions. Being overall support for the Finance Team.

• Prepare consolidated financial statements including underlying support schedules: trial balance, footnote schedules, cashflow detail, calculation of EBITDA, intercompany reconciliation, and AR Rollforward.• Prepare in-house management reports on a monthly basis: regional office statements for the U.S. and Mexico, producer AR summary, and product statements.• Reconciles certain balance sheet accounts on a monthly basis including: US and foreign bank accounts, working capital accounts, prepaid expenses, deposits, fixed assets, assets held for sale, accrued expenses, financing fees, intercompany accounts.• Prepares the schedule of operating leases and reconciles the expense to the general ledger on a monthly basis• Assists in the preparation of audit schedules as necessary, specifically for the annual financial statement audit as well as the annual bank audit.

• Prepare and execute wire transfers, ensuring accuracy, control and appropriate signature authorization.• Daily reconciliation and month end closing for all bank accounts.• Verify foreign exchange trades and ensure timely settlement of balances.• Perform daily cash flow forecasting; compare forecast back to bank actual cashflows.• Reconciles prior day cash activities to ensure accuracy and prepare/post daily cash transactions to general ledger.• Review general ledger activity, researching and correcting account discrepancies.• Perform month-end account analysis and reconciliation over general ledger accounts. Research and resolve any reconciling items on a monthly basis.

• Executed daily cash activities including running bank reports, sending wire payments while ensuring required proper documentation was in file for the parent company and three major subsidiaries.• Daily netting processing between parent company and two major subsidiaries based on inter-company cash accounts posted on the GL.• Transferred funds between subsidiaries and the parent company to ensure an adequate supply of funds and cash necessary to conduct daily operations and retention of required reserves.• Handled liquidity forecasting short-term and long-term fund requirements, arranging for financing or investing for two major subsidiaries and parent company.• Assisted managers, controllers, and presidents for three divisions reporting daily cash position.• Reported net cash position to upper management for two affiliates in Mexico.• Daily verification of file transmission issues involving positive pay, fraud filter, and debit limits with internal departments and banks.• Initiated, approvde, and released wire transfers, internal transfers, FX, etc.• Weekly allocation for reoccurring journal entries for five divisions.• Participated in monthly cash accounting close process.

• Administration of company’s benefits (401K, FSA, medical, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance). As well as health and wellness benefit programs.• Implementation of HR policies and procedures through out all departments in English and Spanish.• Ensure that proper procedures were in compliance with Federal/State/local regulations including EEOC, ADA, FMLA, COBRA, ERISA, & HIPPA.• Conduct all aspects of recruiting, including: managing requisition approval process, job postings, employment offers, relocation approvals, advertisement, pre-employment testing, new hire orientation, EEO applicant flow, recruitment files and data entry of applicant/new hire information. Prepare and analyze data to determine cost effectiveness.• Weekly verification for payroll records in Kronos to ensure accuracy before releasing to corporate office for payment processing.• Planned and organized comprehensive safety training throughout the year in order to be in compliance with OSHA.