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Short Hills, Nj, Us

• Financial systems administrator and operational support for twenty seven billion dollar multi-service bank.• Responsible for system upgrades; creating and managing testing, documentation, relevant PowerPoint presentations, and subsequent user training. Includes Prologue Financials upgrade at minimum once annually.• Oversee maintenance within accounting systems and completing final checks for accuracy and completeness.• Management of user access rights and provisioning for accounting system software. In accordance with SOX Controls, complete final reviews of updates performed relating to user permissions.• Support on integration between core system and accounting systems, daily scheduled imports, exports, relevant upgrade testing on file and data transmission.• Responsible for updates to accounting systems and reporting relating to acquisitions, branch consolidations and closures, and integration with new applications across the bank.• Lead on roll out of new accounts payable workflow process in Nautilus, training all end users across all departments of the bank, bridging actual expenses with the budget. Work with IT to build contract management tools and associated reporting.• Assist Financial & Regulatory Reporting team on preparing the monthly Board Pack and Annual report for board of directors and shareholders.• Work with Financial Planning and Analysis team on monthly P&L budget versus actual analysis, dashboard preparation and variance explanations for executive management.• Report and analysis of financial data per internal and external requests as needed; also fulfilling SOX requests.• Budget preparation and detailed analysis to provide recommendations to budget holders.• Monthly general ledger deposit reconciliation by branch and plan comparing Signature Core data with Prologue GL data.

Short Hills, Nj, Us

Piscataway, Nj, Us

Prepare, review and analyze monthly financial statements. Maintain multiple balance sheet accounts, which includes financial management of over fifty million dollars in physical inventory. Internal auditing of procedures, as well as conducting physical inventory audits. Taking the lead on special projects per management requests that includes process improvements in commission reporting and accrual procedures. Assistance with accounts payable functions, as well as cash receivables. Responsible for commission calculations and reporting. Monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting of financial data per internal and external requests. Maintenance of the company's general ledger, including posting and preparing timely journal entries.

Mountainside, New Jersey, Us

General ledger and cash maintenance. Bank reconciliations. Management of records for new hospital project and associated bonds. Accounts payable functions. Assistance with outside auditors during yearly audit. Vast reporting and analysis using MS Excel.

Process multi-state payrolls for over 1,000 employees weekly. Assistance with major payroll conversion. Analysis of past tax returns towards resolution of debt.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Accounting

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