Astute, versatile, tenacious, and seasoned professional armed with an impressive record of more than 30 yeas of experience and skills in the areas of Accounts Payable and Receivable, Payroll, Auditing, Cost Accounting, Tax Reporting, and Advantage and ADP Payroll Processing. Demonstrate proven track record in investigating and reporting accurate accounting information, researching variances, and developing innovative processes to optimize operational efficiency, reduce costs, and improve corporate profitability. I've worked for private and publically-held companies and have reported to a variety of management levels internally and externally. I have been recognized by employers for my outstanding performance and can furnish references upon request.One of the habits you learn as an accountant is to be organized and detail-oriented. Sarbanes-Oxley has also taught me to have support for all my work and to have proper authorizations. My main scope has always been to investigate and report information and to research any variances. If something didn’t fall into place correctly, it was my mission to find the error and to present solutions to make it accurate. I have worked with a variety of accounting software packages such as Great Plains, Timberline and Oracle and my computer science background has helped me to adapt and successfully use them to get the analytical information needed for projects and reports. In three of my jobs, I was involved in a project to transition the data from one accounting system to another.Specialties: My computer knowledge includes: Great Plains, Oracle, Timberline, Solomon, Munis, Macola, QuickBooks, Powerpoint, Excel and Word.. I know several languages: English, Italian and Spanish. I successfully passed an exam to become a Certified Accounts Payable Professional (CAPP) which recognizes my compliance to accounts payable standards.