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Greater Atlanta Area

* Provide timely ad hoc reports, presentations and analysis for revenue commissioner office, otherdivision directors, colleges, universities and other state agency inquires.* Conduct fiscal impact note analysis of new legislation and determined how it will affect the department’s budget and ability to collect and enforce tax collections.* Facilitate weekly team meetings within the legal team to prioritize work and keep project timelinesvisible.* Draft tax rate change bulletins and provide analysis behind the calculation to present to thepublic.* Prepare legal promulgation for new law changes that involve communication with Legislativecouncil and Secretary of State’s office.* Coordinate current projects and work initiatives and idea implementation across various DORdivisions.

Greater Atlanta Area

* Project lead for DOR CAFR write-off process, testing, reconciling and reporting findings.* Updated DOR customer service lobby through consolidation of IT servers to provide more uniformed customer service to all taxpayers.* Championed a new tax credit enhancement to help staff process and manage tax credits on anongoing basis.* Updated and implemented set letters standards for the Department to use with all correspondences to taxpayers.* Streamlined external communication protocol for information requests fromtaxpayers, researchorganizations and other outside entities seeking statistical data.

Greater Atlanta Area

* Reduced the number of work items that staff was unable to process by implementing enhancements identifying requirements, finding new resources, and soliciting assistance from Wells Fargo Bank.* Analyzed, documented and purged existing reports and data cubes available within Solution ITS for the use of various divisions within Georgia Department of Revenue (DOR).

Greater Atlanta Area

* Introduced and implemented a systematic refund issuance flow to help control cash flow and assist the state in maintaining a AAA bond rating.* Created and conducted ratio rating and analysis for measuring the “well-being” of commercial banks who conduct business with the State of Georgia.* Partnered with Georgia Department of Revenue in an RFP to re-bid their banking services. Saved state of Georgia an estimated $950K over the course of 3 years.* Monitored internal daily movement of cash and balancing assets, while assisting with month end bank reconciliations.* Revised departmental policies (bank fee program, banking collateral requirements and state agency RFP requirements) and communicated them to commercial banks and other state agencies.

Greater Atlanta Area

* Implemented the change for counties’ sales tax distribution date, which allowed electronic means of sales tax collection to be returned to the counties in a more efficient fashion.* Responsible for Preparation of Governor’s monthly tax collection report. Total annual tax revenues of $17.5B.* Reconciled revenue processing and reported on individual tax refunds issued daily.* Finance department business representative for new tax system project. Interacted with other divisions’ representatives within DOR to install and program an integrated tax collection system.* Developed and analyzed reports to provide revenue projection analysis, making ad hoc reports, conducting presentations for revenue commissioner and state economists on a regular basis.* Provided analysis to other state agency offices (state senate and house budget offices, Department of Audits along with Office of Planning and Budget) as requested* Assigned fiscal impact notes of new legislation and determined the effect on the departments’ budget and ability to collect and enforce tax collections.* Knowledge and use of Peoplesoft software to generate revenue queries and make fixed asset journal entries.* Testing functionality of Check 21 installation software.* Managed and mentored Senior Financial Analysts within the finance office.

Greater Atlanta Area

* Worked with internal audit team to reconcile various bank accounts to conform to SOX requirements.* Assisted with tax migration project that was comprised of five different organizations.* Fulfilled contractual obligations set forth by purchasing entity that preserved company’s fair market value.

Kennesaw, Georgia

* Prepared ad hoc daily revenue reports for CFO and other executive officers.* Constructed monthly commission compensation plan for division sales staff using Microsoft Access.* Designed a bonus plan approved by the division president for store managers that used Microsoft Excel macros to calculate the quarterly bonus.* Responsible for developing quarterly reports to CFO analyzing company pre-tax profit, revenue and gross margin.* Reconciled payroll tax rate discrepancies with ADP for various state, city and county locations throughout the country.* Integrated company employees to an electronic method of payment. This saved the company over $300,000 annually by reducing Federal Express mailing fees.* Knowledge and use of Lawson software to make accounting journal entries.* Project manager for Imagenow software program that was used to image and store all invoices and other documents on a local server for the 70 employees who were dependent on it for daily tasks.

Atlanta, Georgia

* Reviewed franchisees’ balance sheets, income statements, bank statements, sales & payroll taxes. Calculated loan ratio requirements to monitor the use of 75 million that was funded by SunTrust bank.* Redeveloped audit task sequences for the Payroll, Cash Management and Accounts Payable departments used during inter company audits of corporate headquarters.* Audit team lead for company manufacturing facilities while successfully implementing a computerized bar coding system and Made2Manage inventory software system that governed over 5 million in assets.* Updated the factory’s inventory that determined the critical path and most efficient and profitable types of inventory that had a positive benefit of over $250,000 during the first year after adjustments were made.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Business Administration And Management, General

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Finance, General