My primary function at the City is the day-to-day finance duties such as budget preparation; monthly payroll; monthly, quarterly and yearly taxes; accounts payable and accounts receivable; budget adjustments and journal entries. Other duties include producing meeting minutes, HR onboarding, insurance/benefits management and production of monthly reports and meeting packets for the city council. In addition to assisting with IT support, I also manage the city website and make adjustments as needed or as requested by department heads.

Managed company customer accounts to insure prompt payment. Prepared monthly staff reports and personally reviewed with the company owner. Personally contacted customers about past-due amounts and collected on outstanding accounts. Prepared daily check deposits for delivery to the bank. Posted check and credit card payments to customer accounts on a daily basis. Entered daily deposits into proprietary software. Organized and maintained a filing system for all forms of payments, including check, credit card and electronic types.Responsible for reconciling the company bank statement on a monthly basis. This included ensuring that all payments from other company branches were posted properly. Participated with annual company-wide fiscal audit. Worked with other accounting staff to implement recommendations and corrections provided from auditors.

Completed accounts payable tasks such as weekly creation and coding of invoices, paying foster parents bi-weekly and entering journal entries on a weekly and monthly basis.Other duties included entering daily cash deposits, monthly account and bank statement reconciliation, vendor file maintenance, weekly check processing, tracking and entering adoption revenue, and preparing new independent contractor agreements.

Responsible for adding and reviewing financial coding on paperwork to determine correct accounts to be credited or debited.Assisted the various program managers in preparing budgets for fiscal and calendar years.Created payment and receipt batches for different programs within DHS using invoices and other payment orders.