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• Ensure complete and accurate financial reporting and compliance with GAAP
• Provide comprehensive financial updates to senior management by evaluating,analyzing, and reporting appropriate data points
• Guide financial decisions by applying company policies and procedures to currenteconomic landscape
• Develop, implement, and maintain financial controls and guidelines
• Achieve budgeting goals with proper scheduling, analysis, and corrective action
• Help develop and support short and long-term operational strategies

• Coordinate and lead the annual audit process, liaise with external auditors and the audit committee of the board of directors; assess any changes necessary.
• Oversee and lead annual budgeting and planning process in conjunction with the President; administer and review all financial plans and budgets; monitor progress and changes and keep senior leadership team abreast of.
• Manage organizational cash flow and forecasting.
• Continually update and implement all necessary business policies and accounting practices to ensure regulatory compliance and adherence to industry best practices.
• Oversee administrative functions as well as facilities to ensure efficient and consistent operations as the organization scales.
• Responsible for HR functions including employee records, benefit accounts, and disciplinary actions in consultation with our president.

• Lead the Institute from a one star rating on Charity Navigator, the leading non-profit watch dog of fiscal prudence, to a four star rating for the past two years.
• Lead the conversion to US GAAP compliant cost accounting after 30 years of modified cash basis accounting.
• Bursar in charge of student accounts for the Mises graduate school.
• Analyze and present financial reports in an accurate and timely manner; clearly communicate monthly and annual financial statements; collate financial reporting materials for all donor segments, and oversee all.
• Carry out start to finish the monthly, quarterly, and annual accounting close process.
• Manage the payroll process for 25 employees in 5 states including the filing of local, state, and federal returns..

• Prepare accounting related entries to numerous registers, journals and logs
• Follow our company’s established accounting processes
• Support accounts payable activities to ensure accuracy and timeliness of invoice creation and entry
• Perform monthly bank settlements
• Regularly maintain detailed reconciliations of all balance sheet accounts
• Provide detailed analyses and explanations of all transactions

• Balance and maintain accurate ledgers
• Coordinate bank deposits and report financial results on a regular basis to management
• Monitor office expenses and tally and enter cash receipts
• Pay vendor invoices and track bank account balances

• Lead the company to a profitable quarter in Q1 2019 for the first time in three years through aggressive cost cutting and new revenue streams.
• Project manager for the rebuild of LewRockwell.com, a daily news site with more than 1 million monthly page views and over 40,000 pieces of unique content. The project completed in 2017 on time and significantly under.
• Current responsibilities include overseeing the technical aspects and display advertising of LewRockwell.com as well as financial accounting for Rockwell Communications.

• Market research for the viability of a quick service, small footprint restaurant concept for deployment to secondary collegiate markets.
• Served as coordinator for the CFO with numerous vendors and contractors in developing uniform location and building requirements.
• In conjunction with the CFO developed sales forecast, breakeven analysis, and location budgets using a combination of existing location financials and target market demographics.

• Conducted business to business advertising sales.
• Maintained accounts through the entire sales cycle from initial contact to follow up after publication.
• Completed my internship as the #2 ranked representative by gross sales volume nationally for the 2011-2012 academic year.

Bachelor Of Science In Business Administration (Bsba), Accounting And Finance

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