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Little Rock, Arkansas Area

● Supervise team of up to 14 in accounting department, including Reconciliation Specialists and staff & senior accountants; assign daily tasks, review completed work, and provide additional training & coaching when necessary.● Support 1.2K employees at 140 branch locations while managing financial projects for corporate operating center; address financial needs and concerns of each branch and assist with monthly book closing processes.● Collaborate with Chief Financial Officer, external auditors, and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC); assume responsibility for projects from senior management and FDIC/Examiners.● Review entries into General Ledger (GL) and perform frequent reconciliations for GL, bank, investor post-purchase, service released, transferred loans, and loan funds. Manage multimillion-dollar account reconciliations on monthly and annual basis.● Manage financial data, benchmarking, state filings, and FDIC projects and other ad hoc projects.● Develop monthly statistical packages for Board of Directors meetings.Select Achievements● Streamlined accounting processes by implementing automated procedures in Excel that eliminated need for manual manipulation of data from firm’s main operating system.● Onboarded new Servicing department and utilized automated procedures to translate up to 40K line items worth of data per month into correct format without need for manual input from department staff.● Increased efficiency of accounting department by discovering underutilized capabilities of Accounting for Mortgage Bankers (AMB) Accounting program and creating standard procedures.

Little Rock, Arkansas Area

Assist Controller in book keeping decisions, completion of financial statements, over processing of loan purchases by investor, post-purchase reconciliation and escrow analysis, streamlining accounting processes, bank reconciliations, and statistical analysis of financials.