Stefanie Sappington Email & Phone Number

Fayette, Mo

Fayette, Missouri

Goalkeeper coach for the women's program.

Columbia, Missouri Area

Personal training company focusing on helping clients achieve their personal best. Services offered include personal training, boot camp classes, and speed, agility & conditioning training.

Responsible for accurately maintaining all financial aspects of business, preparing financial reports, benefit administration, and human resource functions. Day to day responsibilities include accounts payable and receivable, bank reconciliation, billing, and project budgeting. Responsible for being knowledgeable for an average of 30 projects at any given time, tracking and billing for all of these clients. Makes recommendations to sole owner on cash expenses and backlog. Revenue has increased by 150% simply by tracking all projects. Decreased unnecessary monthly expenses in order to reduce overhead.

Head coach for youth girls soccer team in Columbia, MO.

Independently managed the preparation of financial projections and monthly financial statements, benefit administration, human resource management and planning, as well as all legal work. Financial duties included processing accounts payable and receivable, monthly bank reconciliations, monthly invoicing, maintaining 12-month rolling forecast, monthly cash flow reporting, monthly analysis of cost variances, and fixed asset tracking. Made recommendation to President on cash outlays based on revenue projections and cash position. Reduced cash expenditures in the amount of $76,800 by eliminating unnecessary vendors, renegotiating existing contracts and preparing legal documents to support a third round of investor funding. Liaison between company and third party accounting firm, insurance brokers and other vendors. Actively participated in the strategic direction of the company by participating in weekly calls analyzing the various factors impacting the monetization of the main product. Accountable for the accuracy of employees’ timesheets, the preparation of semimonthly payroll, maintenance of personnel policies, and supervising the daily activities of the Office Assistant.

Solely responsible for timely and accurate financial planning and reporting, benefit administration, and human resource planning. Primary resource for project resource planning, professional services fee calculation, and project budgeting. Financial duties include accounts payable and receivable, bank reconciliation, monthly billing, annual budget preparation and monthly monitoring of budget to actual, monthly project profitability analysis, financial ratio analysis, weekly cash flow reporting and quarterly profit sharing calculation. Integral part of strategic planning team and project management initiative team. Re-evaluated reporting protocol and revised to fit current industry standards. Possess ability to be aware of issues and details with projects and project progress for an average of 45 projects at one time. Makes recommendations to owners on cash outlays based on backlog, workload, and cash position. Analyzed and implemented cost savings for company by reducing monthly costs for multi-purpose copier. Researched 401k plan administrators to be able to offer more investment options and financial planning to employees as well as improved service of account. Reduced dental insurance premiums by 30% and life insurance premiums by 50% in 2008. Effectively reduced company overhead from 187% to 145% from April of 2005 until December of 2009 by implementing cost control procedures. Marketing responsibilities include deciding frequency and medium of advertisements and overseeing deadlines are met. Also responsible for the accuracy of employees’ timesheets, the monthly submission and review of payroll, researching and determining the feasibility of new software, personnel policies, equipment purchases and supervising the daily activities of the office assistant.

Developed extensive spreadsheet to project cash position for next twelve months. This 30 page report projects upcoming cash needs for lines of credit, shows upcoming sources and uses of cash, and projects monthly expenses including a calculation of monthly interest expense. The spreadsheet is utilized by the President/CEO of the company to make business decisions. Solely responsible for determining how cash needs would be met. Liaison to various banks to establish lines of credit needed to fund equity payments to partnerships and to make necessary monthly construction draws. Responsible for the maintenance of more than 50 bank accounts and numerous certificates of deposit. Utilized my ability to take initiative when I analyzed various bank accounts to determine income of nearly $1,000,000 that was due to the company from various partnerships. Led several training sessions in order to assist coworkers with understanding the different facets of the industry and company. Supervised accounting clerk by reviewing vouchers for accounts payable and reviewing daily deposits. Delegated projects to accounting clerk as necessary.

Lead accountant in department for financial statement preparation, tax return preparation, tax return review and audit review. Responsible for reviewing 107 lower-tier tax returns to ensure proper accounting for low-income housing tax credits. This entailed sending out year-end letters to confirm capital accounts, tracking the status of the returns and communicating with CPA’s regarding the returns. Also responsible for maintaining monthly financials for 28 upper-tier entities, preparing tax packages for these entities, and handling the audit of the entities. Other responsibilities included ensuring necessary documents were accurate and in-house in a timely manner in order to request equity payments from our upper-tier investors so that we could in turn make equity payments into the lower-tier of our various partnerships. Utilized attention to detail skills when preparing projections for potential investments and when updating projections for investors. Responsible for the training of other accountants and asset managers and for supervising the student interns and part-time employees in the department to ensure financial reporting deadlines were met and accounts payable were processed.

Utilized my organizational, teamwork and attention to detail skills while assisting the department with daily operations. Responsibilities included processing payroll for over 180 employees, preparing semi-monthly 401k calculation, updating fixed asset schedule, monthly reconciliation of general ledger, monthly bank reconciliation, handling all benefit questions, and preparing and entering monthly journal entries. Demonstrated initiative by taking the lead in finding a third party to administer flexible spending accounts and the self-funded dental insurance plan.

Bs, Accountancy

Activities and Societies: Full athletic scholarship - Women's Soccer

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