Wanda Rae Adams Email & Phone Number

Jackson, Mississippi, United States

Jackson, Mississippi, United States

Provide liaison services between business and corporate clients to ensure accounting functions are properly interpreted and met. Ensure the integrity of accounting information. Prepare and process journal entries, reconcile various reconciliations and support month-end closings. Identified and researched errors while reconciling various accounts. -Assist the Finance, Accounting team and other stakeholders as a dedicated team member, readily aiding others for the collective benefit of the team.-Reconcile bank reconciliations, prepaid reconciliations, IA&R reconciliations, and AP & AR reconciliations. -Develop procedural manuals for current roles, supporting roles, and various reconciliations.-Participated in internal and external audits, providing documentation and explanations as needed.-Assess processes to identify gaps in accounting processes and opportunities for improvement, implementing best practices to streamline with no negative impact on daily functions.-Support month-end closing, quarterly and year end closing processes, prepare accrual and allocation journal entries, and review/approve journal entries.-Collaborate with department heads to develop accurate forecasts and monitor performance against targets.Perform ad-hoc requests for management.

Jackson, Mississippi, United States

Ensured the integrity of accounting information by managing all financial record keeping and reporting, interfacing with 354 retail stores as required. Prepared and recorded journal entries, reconciled balance sheet account information, expense entries, and prepared and entered accrual journal entries. Resolved impediments to problematic manual and automated bank reconciliations. Generated financial statements and served as liaison to internal and external auditors charged with ensuring compliance with regulatory policies and procedures.-Provided accounting support to a team of 2-4 Staff Accountants in completing quarterly and annual reports, reviewed and approved monthly reconciliations and journal entries in accordance with GAAP. -Supported month-end closing, reconciled balance sheets, and general ledgers, and prepared journal entries. -Developed procedural manuals for the current role, supporting roles, bank reconciliations, and general ledger functions.-Assess processes to identify gaps in accounting processes and opportunities for improvement, implementing best practices to streamline with no negative impact on daily functions.-Successfully assisted in the sale of 142 stores to Bon-Ton in 2006. Trained Bon-Ton staff on bank reconciliation, exported the stores from our general ledger, and accounting software over a year while maintaining our remaining stores and accounting systems. -Completed month-end performance evaluations of 2-4 Staff Accountants by providing effective communication and support to grow in their current positions.

Jackson, Mississippi, United States

Collaborate with the general accounting special projects team to streamline the bank reconciliation process to reduce errors in month-end closing. Served as a point of contact to research and resolve errors with cash bank deposits and missing cash deposits for the department stores and courier services.Collaborated with general accounting management on the implementation of accounting software Chesapeake T-Recs to streamline the reconciliation process to reduce errors in month-end closing.Set up the general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivables, and bank reconciliations for new stores. Supported month-end closing, reconciled balance sheets, general ledgers, and prepared journal entries. Consolidated account reconciliation monitoring applications into a singular utility, including integration of the querying process.

Jackson, Mississippi, United States

Processed month-end bank reconciliations, prepared journal entries, and researched and reclassified journal entries that were posted incorrectly.Supported month-end closing, reconciled balance sheets, general ledgers, and prepared journal entries. Identified and corrected errors and inconsistencies in accounting records, documents, and reports.Promoted to Staff Accountant after 8 months of being with the company.