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Washington, Dc, Us

Upper Marlboro, Maryland, Us

Washington, Dc, Us

Responsibilities:•Supervise A/R processes and heavily assist in all payroll, G/L, and audit processes using Dynamics SL•Identify vulnerabilities and improvement opportunities in all financial processes and controls•Perform complex analysis to assist all departments with compliance and provide management with data•Manage highly technical/sensitive issues and tasks as requested from the CEO, CFO, and ControllerResults:•Reduced major compliance issues with clients by 95% in the first 2 months•Aquired proficiency with new programming language (Python) to comply with security practices in 2 weeks•Used Python, Excel, and other automation tools to streamline and automate dozens of financial processes, saving 92 labor hours each month•Identified numerous system errors, allowing the company to recognize more than $200k in additional profit

Sterling, Va, Us

Responsibilities: • Managed all domestic accounts receivable, accounts payables, and payroll systems• Performed monthly close procedures• Improved company processes and systems to prepare for ERP integration, involving Salesforce• Handled highly sensitive and confidential information related to finances and operationsResults:Results and specific details of this position are confidential under multiple agreements

Responsibilities:• Design and implement new metrics to assist management decisions• Redesign legacy systems to utilize modern technology and increase productivity• Manage A/P processes, reconciliations, and compliance with government regulations• Supervise end-to-end A/P process and perform regular reconciliations• Prioritize and execute ad hoc projects and requests• Institute best practices in the financial technology sphereResults:• Improved and automated a reporting process to provide complete useful and easy-to-read information, while upholding data security• Engaged stakeholders to create a cloud based automated system to generate tablet-compatible reports that resulted in a 82% time saving• Reengineered a payroll process to automatically perform reconciliation on over 200 data points and be 85-97.5% faster• Performed statistical analysis utilizing data from multiple sources to improve job costing based on state or country of origin

This is my personal business where I have assisted a wide range of different industries with their financial systems.

Austin, Texas, Us

Responsibilities:• Execute weekly payroll for hundreds of contractors including complex commission structures• Design, streamline, and automate new processes and systems for a rapidly growing company• Manage, hire, and train accounting staff to scale with company growth and operate new systems• Consult with executives on best practices relating to accounting and information systems• Manage full cycle of accounts payable and assist funding department with accounts receivableResults:• Scaled accounting and info systems to accommodate growth from $5mil annual revenue to $100mil+• Automated payroll and reporting systems by learning a new programming language (GAS)• Developed series of virtual tools to assist multiple departments to streamline their processes• Instituted controls to drastically improve reporting and data collection standards• Implemented and held accountability standards for massive credit card system

[Company was formed from previous employer]Responsibilities:• Design accounting systems, processes, charts of accounts, and integration plans for clients• Appoint and hire accounting staff to fulfill business needs and execute the new accounting strategy• Analyze business processes across departments to define and allocate revenue, expenses, assets, and liabilities• Train staff, managers, and stakeholders in accounting systems and procedures• Institute best practices to ensure compliance with IRS and state level regulations• Negotiate new contracts with factoring companies, banks, and equipment vendors• Develop integration solutions of current and new applications to improve efficiency and accuracy• Ensure processes and reporting align with stakeholder goals and business strategyResults:• Reduced clients’ dependencies on external accounting services by up to 50%• Increased reporting accuracy from 80% to more than 99% for several clients• Managed the transition of an accounting department in a merger with only 6 hours of downtime• Trained 10 client employees without accounting education to take on full accounting roles

Orlando, Florida, Us

Responsibilities:• Lead the accounting department, all accounting processes, staff, and procedures• Institute a new accounting system and all related processes, systems, and procedures• Train and assign duties for a team of eight employees• Audit and correct previous accounting transactions to comply with best practicesResults:• Established a new system of controls that reduced account payable corrections by 80%• Planned the restructuring of the accounting department as the business changed industry• Analyzed acquisition prospects and consulted executives on the decisions• Reduced department costs by 40% without a long-term loss in output

As the controller and accountant for a small construction company I was responsible for the entire financial and accounting side of the business, as well as large aspects of operations, HR, and IT. I implemented systems that I designed from scratch, as well as consulted to the CEO in regards to accounting, information systems, taxes, and legal matters. On regular occasions I saved the company money by correcting operations inefficiencies, as well as leading the effort to prevent credit chargebacks as large as $10,000. Using Quickbooks Online and other applications I was able to adapt previous procedures to make more efficient payroll, A/R, A/P, information, inventory, and reporting systems.

Columbus, Ohio, Us

Essentially a problem solver. With many problems that come to the IT department, I'm sent first to take a crack at it, especially if the problem is related to classrooms, study rooms, or offices. This is to reduce the workload on the trained IT staff. Also I take care of various menial and delivery/installation tasks. I received no formal training for this job. The majority of solutions I use, I created.

Auckland, New Zealand, Nz

My typical day would start by having an accounts receivable report on the desk of the CFO by 9 every morning. After that there were a number of various accounting tasks I was given from tax forms, reconciliation, general ledger entries and analysis of journals. After a week or so I was trusted to fill out multiple tax forms and write out the corresponding check without any supervision. I gained experience with New Zealand's Kiwi Saver program and Money Works accounting software.Since I was the only native English speaking intern I was given additional tasks involving customers and the training manuals. My desk was in the show room and while my primary duty was accounting department tasks, if a sales person wasn't available I would welcome customers and offer refreshments until they were available. My largest individual project was a full update of the training manuals. There were dozens of archived emails with notes on what should be edited in and out of the manuals. Most of them had very technical jargon that I had to adapt to and decipher. Once a day I would have a 10 minute meeting with the CEO where I had the opportunity to ask questions about the emails and what to put in the manual.As a side project I helped install Linux OSs in assisted living devices.