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Life House is a tech enabled vertically integrated software management company in the hospitality Tech space — successfully operating over 50 hotels and restaurants using our operational expertise to build powerful software to make independent hotels more profitable and easy to operate.- Prepared monthly financial statements for 8 hotels and restaurants, completing all aspects of full cycle accounting including accounts payable and receivable, account reconciliations, compliance filings, monthly close procedures, and treasury. Collaborated with cross-functional teams to provide comprehensive support to on-site general managers and facilitated strategic decision-making processes for budgeting and forecasting.- Provided comprehensive training and ongoing mentorship to onboard junior accounting staff, ensuring adherence to accounting policies and procedures in preparing monthly financial reports. Fostered a collaborative team spirit to establish well-defined timelines, clear responsibilities, and adherence to SOPs.- Implemented internal controls and streamlined month-end close procedures, including automated invoice processing, approval workflows, and vendor management. As a result of these measures, accuracy and efficiency within accounts payable significantly improved, leading to advancements in financial operations.- Conducted comprehensive clean-up procedures for balance sheet reconciliation, analyzing accounts, investigating inconsistencies, and implementing corrective measures to ensure accurate financial reporting by identifying and rectifying discrepancies.

Positioned as primary liaison to streamline operations of multiple lines of business personal bankers, business bankers and front-line team within flagship branchEfficiently supervised office functions with proactive management of calendars for 3 managers and 9 staff members. Triaging client requests and internal deadlines while accounting for evolving staff workloads.Reviewed and responded to interbranch communications to ensure correspondence is routed to appropriate teams, facilitating timely communication between team members, customers, and vendors

Liaise with department heads and managers, to discuss policies and collect necessary samples to initiate and complete the full audit cycle Document, evaluate and test business processes and internal controls in order to communicate control strengths and weaknesses to the audit engagement manager, developing effective solutions.Analyzed controls, reviewed and identified risks, and tested business processes and internal controls to document control strengths and weaknessesDeveloping risk assessments and conducting process walkthroughs to improve internal controls and operating efficiency with audit engagement manager

Established working relationships with clients while requesting supporting documents to perform end of year audits including confirmations, inventory audits and tests of details and controls in accordance with KPMG methodologies. Diversified my professional skill-set through the use of KPMG’s eAudit software as well as Microsoft Excel, using functions and pivot tables, to ultimately create working papers for June year-end audits and quarterly reviews.

Created and presented slide decks regarding requested research from clients. Calculated financial ratios for a financial analysis and recommendations. Tabulated financial statements to Excel from reports and audit software applications.