Sara Sheppard Email and Phone Number

• Created billing summary sheets based upon review and interpretation of federal contract billing terms and conditions. • Communicated with project controllers, managers, partners, and federal contract experts to build consensus on billing requirements, points of contact, billing delivery expectations, and to resolve billing discrepancies and to obtain proper review and approval of billings.• Developed and maintained tracking process for key federal contract requirements as they related to billing, expenses, and time keeping for contracts across a variety of departments throughout the federal government.• Maintained cumulative reconciliations to ensure no over or under billings to the government.• Audited employee expenses to ensure compliance with both internal Deloitte policies and procedures and adherence to specific government expense allowances to ensure expenses were tracked and billed accordingly.• Prepared federal billings with strict adherence to a wide variety of contract specific requirements.• Incorporated a variety of contract changes related to billing such as bill rates, change in funding, terms and conditions into ongoing billing requirements.• Submitted billings electronically into a variety of federal billing systems.

• Assisted in development of audit programs and questionnaires designed to address business risks, policy compliance, and financial results.• Reviewed in depth policies and procedures as they related to functions to be audited to ensure strong understanding of the audit subject.• Assisted in performance of audits relating to practice office operations and shared service national functions.• Identified potential process weaknesses through audit fieldwork and process documentation and analysis.• Communicated with all levels of staff (admin through partners and directors) within practice offices and national office functions by way of interviews/meetings, emails, conference calls and formal audit reporting. • Analyzed financial data such as billed, unbilled, discount rates, etc. through the use of SAP and DPS to determine accuracy and reasonableness before conducting fieldwork.• Conducted audit testing that ranged from analyzing system downloads to reviewing paper documents and files onsite.• Analyzed and interpreted audit test results with audit team to develop audit recommendations for management review or to determine if further testing should be developed to gain additional knowledge and findings based upon the scope of the audit.

• Determined appropriate accounting treatment for interfirm transactions between DTT and the US Deloitte entities.• Analyzed US firm expenses/costs and calculated proper amounts to bill based upon agreements between DTT and US entities.• Reconciled a variety of general ledger accounts for management review and period-end closing.• Became a subject matter expert, due to being a sole DTT accountant within Deloitte Services LP, on transactions between DTT and the US entities. • Communicated with a variety of departments (payroll, IT, global meeting controllers, international and expat accounting) to ensure all possible charges to DTT were being submitted for reimbursement in a timely matter.• Posted payments from DTT to the proper US entities.

• In this position, I was brought in as an AP manager to start up a shared service center in Nashville. I was charged with the task of going to multiple plant locations to document AP processes used in each location. From that documentation and observation period, my team developed best practices and began the task of centralizing the AP process at the shared service center in Nashville. This process included writing detailed process flows and training documentation as well as staffing and training an entire accounts payable team of about 40 people at the new facility.• In addition to the start up of the shared service center, I was also the lead accounts payable manager tasked with Y2K readiness and transition to PeopleSoft Accounting.