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Coordinated, planned and reported on all financial activities, including; preparing the financial statements, month-end close processes and creating accounting processes and procedures.Supervised a staff of two employees, including; scheduling, assigning job tasks, and performance reviews, Was influential in the supervision and mentoring of company internship program; introducing accounting students to the accounting basics.Starting in March 2013 played a pivotal role in coordinating an accounting system conversion. Major duties related to conversion were: Learning FileMaker 12 (the base program of the new system), meeting with management and developers and assisting in making decisions regarding changes of accounting procedures, creating a new chart of accounts, transferring information from old system to new system.Completed manual payroll for up to 100 employees; including gross wages, before tax deductions, taxes, after tax deductions, and net wages during a two-week period that the payroll software system crashed; ensuring timely and accurately reported wages, and payroll tax payments, eliminating an interruption in employee payments.Worked with the City and County of Denver to update the Gates & Sons asset registry to verify that the reported information was sent timely and accurately to prevent additional personal property tax assessments that the company had received several times in the past. This project resulted in a refund of an additional assessment of approximately $6,000 and saving a minimum of $5,000 each year going forward.Implemented a new procedure for paying sales and use taxes that had previously not been paid monthly. This will result in an approximate savings of $20,000 every three years in penalties and fines from sales tax audits.Supervision duties including: accounts payable, accounts receivable and payroll functions to ensure accuracy.Coordinated year end audits and sales/use/property tax audits.

Broomfield, Colorado, Us

Processed daily share drafts including; downloading share draft file from clearing house, posting share drafts, working the exception report of items that didn’t post, posting share drafts returns and uploading share draft return file to the clearing house.Processed checks that were returned from the Federal Reserve for various reason (i.e. NSF, Closed Account, etc) and adjusted member’s accounts accordingly.Processed incoming wires by verifying the originator was not listed on the OFAC report and posting the funds to the proper member’s accounts.Processed outgoing wires by verifying that funds were available, ensuring the beneficiaries were not listed on the national OFAC listing and debiting the member’s accounts.Received garnishments and levies and child support request from local courts and the IRS, verified funds in member’s accounts and corresponded to the appropriate legal entity of funds held.

Richardson, Texas, Us

Senior Accountant/Sales Tax Administrator (2007 - 2009)Performed a detailed review and approval of 30-40 sales/use tax returns and check requests each month for accuracy prior to filing, including the states of California; Utah; also continuing the GL accountant duties.Trained between 20-25 GL accountants on sales/use tax returns as required by state tax law to ensure proper and timing filing by the GL accountant.Developed spreadsheets for calculations and signed up to pay each state's tax returns online to for the ease of filing and make the process more straightforward. GL Accountant (2006 - 2007)Managed three to four businesses full accounting functions including Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, month end close of the financials, journal entries and all account reconciliations.Provided accurate and timely Financial Information to company management for the purpose of consolidating all the separate entities of Service Experts into one monthly financial statement.Reconciled all balance sheet accounts and resolved outstanding items to maintain accounts accuracy.

Senior Accountant (2004 - 2006)Executed daily operations of AP, balancing Cash Clearing Account & 3 ATM locations.Compiled & sorted documents, such as invoices & checks, substantiating business transactions to ensure all AP was paid in a timely fashion.Reconciled bank statements & G/L accounts to make certain that discrepancies were found & corrected.Performed calculating, posting, and verifying duties to obtain financial data for use in maintaining accounting records.Served as a backup to the Item Processor Specialist in their absence.Item Processor Specialist (2004 - 2004)Compiled settlement data for processing and posting to member accounts by downloading EFT and draft files to the system then working the exception list of items that did not post, (i.e. wrong account number, insufficient funds, etc.)Maintained telephone contact with bank personnel and others to locate missing checks, correct errors, and reconciled differences in records.Promoted to senior accountant.Teller (2003 - 2004)Received and disbursed money, and kept records on money and negotiable instruments involved in financial transactions.Received checks and cash for deposits, verified amounts and examined check for proper endorsements Cashed checks after verification of signatures and customer balances.Entered customers' transactions into computer and issued computer-generated receipts. Balanced currency, coin and checks in cash drawer at end of shift, using calculator and compared totaled amounts with data displayed on computer screen.Explained, promoted, and sold products and services, such as traveler's checks, savings bonds, money orders and cashier's checks, issuing them when required.Removed and processed deposits from automated teller machines and night depository.Assisted Teller Supervisor with balancing the ATMs, cash vaults

Maintained records of tuition transactions for over 100 students for establishment, using calculator and computer to ensure proper recording of payments made by parents.Computed, typed and mailed monthly statements to parents for the purpose of detailing their child's account and requesting payment for many past due amounts.

Master'S Degree, Accounting

Bs, Accounting

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