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Columbia, South Carolina, United States

* Perform daily, weekly, monthly tasks maintaining accurate financial records* Daily and Weekly Tasks: Bank transaction coding, accounts payable by entering vendors, bills,and issuing payments; billing/accounts receivable by applying payments to invoices and issuingrefunds to customers* Monthly Tasks: Closing the books with reconciliations, maintaining prepaid and accruedexpenses, bonus accruals, journal entries, earned and deferred revenue, reviewing financialstatements, and providing cash flow to the finance manager* Assist with annual tax documentation for tax accountants* First in-house accounting, transitioned accounting from 3rd-party accounting to perform alltasks within the company.

Columbia, South Carolina, United States

* Review financial statements and analyze expenses on a vendor detail level* Develop detailed spreadsheets to analyze expenses by vendors and by class* Provide budget versus actuals for a high-level overview of profit and loss and a detailedanalysis by the vendor.* Provide budget versus actuals spreadsheets per company department analyzing by month andidentifying any variances with the plan

Columbia, South Carolina, United States

* Oversee senior CAS employees as the primary resource to assist with time management,utilization of company resources, client budget hours, transition clients, self-sufficiency, andexpose them to more complex client accounting systems.* Troubleshoot client accounting issues regarding senior CAS’s accounts* Review the direct report’s client accounts including the balance sheet, profit and loss, accountsreceivable, accounts payable, reconciliations, month-end closings* Onboard new clients: Work with the client and CFO to create processes according to theircontract and continue to work on the client until fully onboarded and then transitioned toappropriate resource* Review client needs to help find opportunities for efficiencies and/or work with the SalesDepartment to increase contract amounts.

Columbia, South Carolina, United States

* Primary contact for a few clients as a senior CAS (in addition to management duties)* Provide bookkeeping duties for new entrepreneurs and small companies. Oversee a team whoworks on the accounts* Duties performed include categorizing transactions into the correct account, attachingsupporting documentations, payroll functions, issuing payments to vendors, reconciliations, andcommunicating with the clients* Create efficiencies and improve processes with the growing companies* Review the accounts after month-end close to ensure all tasks are complete and accurate.

Summerville, South Carolina, United States

* Oversee the different accounting departments: purchasing, invoicing, warranty, and humanresources. Monitor and ensure the accounting department is running smoothly. Able to answerresearch questions from co-workers. Ability to assist each accounting position with their duties ifneeded assistance* Accounts Payable: Receive, code, and record invoices. Issue payments to vendors.* Accounts Receivable: Enter customer payments.* Payroll: Review employee timecards, issue employee checks, reconcile employee deductions,enter payroll journal entries,year-end 1099s, and W-2s.* Reconciliations: Vendor & Customer accounts, company bank, and credit card accounts.* Intercompany balancing, invoicing, and payments.* Communicate, assist, and gather information for external accountants for the year-end tax* Manage the retirement account for the company, communicate with the employees, payroll,and external representatives, and conduct year-end reconciliations and adjustments* Manage workers' compensation: weekly calculations, payments, and year-end reconciliations

North Charleston, South Carolina, United States

* Bookkeeper: Manage books for a vehicle restoration business using job costing.* Accounts Payable: Receive, code, and record expenses, checks, and bills allocating each itemto its job; Report vendor balances each week* Reconciliations: Vendor accounts, company bank, and credit card accounts* Payroll: Oversee employee hours, create paychecks, allocate hours to specific jobs, file payrolltaxes, generate 1099’s and W-2s* Accounts Receivable: Verify, track, and enter customer payments* Communications: Customer, Vendor, and Employee* Reporting: Prepare appropriate reports requested by management* Office Manager: Labeling and shipping returns, maintaining office materials, filing documents

Charleston, South Carolina, United States

* Accounts Payable: Manage 9 entities consolidated into one accounting department, enterinvoices, pay bills, vendor reconciliations, answer any questions concerning vendors or vendorpayments, and manage vendor communications and relationships.* Cash Forecast: assist with preparing the weekly forecast, identify which payments are apriority and the amounts associated with each vendor* Prepared Weekly Reports: Ensured intercompany transactions balance with one another,reconciled individual company purchasing logs with QuickBooks, prepared a profit and lossreport for each individual entity* Additional tasks: perform daily bank and credit card reconciliations. Maintain each entitymaintains adequate inventory, purchasing records, and maintenance of invoices.

Master Of Accountancy, Accounting, 3.60

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Business With Accounting Conentration, 3.833

Activities and Societies: Awards: Order of Purple Seal, Dean’s List (3 semesters), Certificate of Leadership – Commitment