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Missouri, United States

Columbia, Missouri, United States

Centreville, Virginia, United States

• Led coordination efforts with business and financial reporting teams as part of the cyclical budgeting and forecasting processes.• Implemented, administered, and managed updates for company's financial reporting system (Oracle PBCS) that is used for centralized financial reporting and budgeting.• Standardized reporting data updates for aggregation and currency conversion to enable quick turn-around for financial reporting updates as part of month-end close and forecasting processes.• Develop and manage integration between financial reporting system (Oracle PBCS) and accounting system (NetSuite) to enable data updates to be performed on-demand by users.• Updated and refined quarterly headcount process to project employee costs for future periods based on provided employee information and historical cost trends• Aligned and standardized CARFAX financial reporting classification and submission templates with parent company to reduce communication issues and improve transparency.

Centreville, Va

• Implemented and administrated financial systems covering accounting, travel expense, and cash application (NetSuite, Concur, FAS, BillTrust CashApp, Sage 100).• Coordinated with external departments to improve and maintain existing finance technical processes including technical integrations between finance and other departments.• Worked with Finance teams to evaluate potential financial and accounting process improvements and to develop frameworks for implementing process improvements.• Evaluated, developed, and maintained SOX controls for new and existing financial system processes (NetSuite, Concur) in coordination with internal and external auditors.• Managed and communicated finance system priorities and workflow to ensure high-priority items were completed while maintaining system functionality.

Tuscaloosa, Alabama

• Serve as primary instructor for two introductory accounting lab classes focused on helping students gain a practical understanding of basic accounting principles• Support Professor with administrative duties and in the preparation of class exams

Frisco, Tx

• Worked with the Financial Reporting Department of a publicly traded oil and gas company in the Dallas Metroplex• Worked with management in the preparation of company SEC filings, including quarterly statements and 10k statements

Columbia, Mo

• Developed and tested new methodologies for neural-net decoding process to recognize plain-text language and map text strings to CARFAX’s Vehicle History Database• Achieved 200% throughput improvements compared to existing full-time employees performing the same functions• Assisted the company in the transition to a fully automated data decoding and mapping system from the previous manual processes

Master’S Degree, Master Of Accountancy

Bachelor’S Degree, Bachelor'S Of Accountancy, Overall Gpa: 3.78

Activities and Societies: Beta Alpha Psi; Provost Scholar