Accountant
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Provided leadership in the coordination of efforts that ensure smooth, timely, and accurate financial information and profitable performance. Managed all domestic and international finance and accounting. Oversee all financial statements, budgeting, cash accounting, account analysis, and monthly global consolidating management reporting and analysis. Serve as a key advisor to execute leadership and supervise a team of 7.

• Oversaw AR/AP, general ledger maintenance, accruals, monthly financial accounts, financial reporting budgeting, account reconciliation, cash flow projection, and deferred revenue.
• Advises management on resource allocation, tax policies, fiscal budget forecasts, and legal expenses.
• Trained, supervised, and delegated tasks to team members, ensuring they understood all policies and procedures for the accounting department.
• Supervised the preparation of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements and facilitate quarterly presentations to the board, including audit and budget presentations.
• Identified, developed, and executed analysis of business initiatives product launches, new service offerings including discounts; work closely with sales and marketing to establish pricing strategies.
• Streamlined billing and accounting processes across the finance and accounting department.

Decreased company overpayments by 20% via audit processes and process improvement initiatives. Developed and implemented streamlined review and authentication procedure to support accounting department.

• Analyzed monthly and yearly expense reports to highlight errors and patterns of inconsistencies.
• Conducted in-depth audits to examine expenses against company budgets.
• Developed multi-step process for reviewing and validating vendor and client invoices.
• Presented solution to leadership for approval and distribution across accounts payable department.

Promoted within 5 months of hire to the highly responsible role of overseeing accounts receivable for three business units across the USA. Managed invoicing, billing, collections, cash/credit transactions for world-class beverage companies’ while delivering excellent customer service.

• Administered collections of overdue accounts, generate aging collection reports, protect, and recover assets by proactively following up on unpaid invoices.
• Performed monthly Accounts Receivable, purchase orders, expense reports, invoicing, billbacks, credit memos, and payment transactions for three branches.
• Implemented new internal controls to improve billing and reporting processes while maintaining company policies.
• Processed $ 10 M worth of invoices and reconciled 200 invoices per week, accurately tracked information utilizing SAP and Microsoft Dynamics AX, and coded invoices to General Ledger.
• Streamlined Standard Operating Procedures(SOP’s) for effective workflow and production. Ensure all accounting processes and procedures comply with company policies, GAAP standards, and federal regulations.

Multifaceted role requiring relations expertise to maintain multiple functional working relationships with stakeholders and team mates.

• Effectively managed tax statements, journal entries and account payable and receivable.
• Delivered comprehensive financial analysis, reports and forecasts to facilitate growth.
• Worked closely with executives to evaluate business operations, identify risks and develop solutions.
• Collaborated with other departments to streamline workflows.

Performed monthly Earned Value Metric tasks including cost risk analysis and assessment, visibility reports, Work Breakdown Structure development, budgeting, and forecasting. Prepared operating monthly Business Unit Review financial charts to board utilizing, MPM, SAP, COGNOS, MS Excel/PowerPoint.

• Collaborated with Business Operations and Control Account Managers (CAM) to prepare program budgets, Estimate To Complete/ Estimate At Completion (ETC/ EAC), and variance analysis.
• Utilized Microframe Project Manager (MPM) and Cognos database for incentive and general compensation, budgeting, financial reporting (AOP), monthly forecasts, and variance analysis for sales and cash flow.
• Participated in forecast review team meetings with Program Management Office before monthly incentive and sales, profit margin to establish accuracy and precision.
• Supervised team for reviewing forecast tools effectively and accurately; ensured accurate prior ITD/IYD information driving contract/ EAC/ Costs/ Sales/ Margin program.
• Managed the reconciliation of operating unit AOP/Forecast in new COGNOS tool, including identification of reconciling items, communicating, and coordinating with team members action items, reviewed status, reconciliation requirements, and guided team members in reconciling programs and understanding functionality of COGNOS.

Provided professional tax management and advisory services to a wide range of individuals and organizations such as charities, small businesses, trusts, and non-profit organizations. Ensured all the organizations comply with audits and adhere to government regulations, grant requirements, Federal acquisitions Regulations, per Generally Accepted Government Auditing Standards(GAGAS), and GAAS.

• Computed tax and prepared financial statements including balance sheets, profit & loss statements, cash flows, federal statement of income and expenses, financial system development, statement of expenditures of federal awards (SEFA), and Massachusetts Uniform Financial Statement (UFR).
• Analyzed statements for determining tax liability and processed federal and state tax returns as per state law and regulations; verified the accuracy and ensure compliance with state and federal laws.
• Filed returns with IRS using Ultra Tax; diligently and accurately maintained tax fillings within designated project timelines.

Centralized tax guidance process for companies, partnerships, and individual investors; conducted interviews and answered tax consultation inquiries, prepared complex income tax returns, and file adjustments to state returns for review. Secure confidential tax difference records, tax return papers, and investigates material discrepancies between tax returns and end-of-period tax accounting records. Composed and audited business property declarations, business license tax, property tax, gross receipts, excise tax, and state business license registrations.

• Analyzed statements for determining tax liability and process federal and state tax returns as per state laws and regulations; verify for accuracy and ensure compliance with state and federal laws.
• Compiled federal/state tax extensions, state income, and corporate franchise tax returns, and federal forms 1040, 1041, 1065, and 1120.

Detail-intensive position requiring precision and sharp analytical skills in the execution of duties.

• Facilitated cross-functional collaborations to execute comprehensive financial audits and investigate accounting issues within the organization.
• Researched and developed corrective initiatives to resolve complex accounting problems and promote efficiency within the department.
• Delivered detailed financial reports and forecasts that drive the development of strategic business initiatives which facilitate defined corporate goals.
• Executed HR functions to oversee the recruitment, onboarding and training of new hires to promote team efficiency and enforce compliance to regulatory standards.

Guided accounts payable department of 6 including 4 offshore team members, to complete targeted AR/AP tasks such as general ledger maintenance, accruals, rate analysis, monthly financial accounts, invoices, account reconciliation, P&L statements, and financial reports. Manage freight accrual planning with a budget of $1M monthly. Streamlined Account Payable process by reducing accruals; migrated construction and industrial division’s freight data into the White Cap corporate database.

• Improved invoice volume by 20% by building and motivating a high-performing invoice processing team; trained an additional offshore team to monitor communication for non-EDI invoices and payment inquiries.
• Reconciled $300k in freight audit for the FY-2019 by streamlining freight auditing processes and partnering with key EDI accounts; implemented a key parcel audit program to reduce shipping costs.
• Spearheaded processes for effective workflow by establishing Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) invoice processing which processes 1,000 EDI invoices per week; facilitated training and outsourced the process to the offshore team.
• Overhauled freight GL code and facilitated software integration by collaborating with Accounting and Finance departments while complying with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and company policies.
• Oversaw $55M in audit accounts; manage 200K annual payable transactions and 250K 3^rd party freight career accounts; initiated 5-day Service Level Agreement (SLA) for FedEx Freight (FXNE & FXNL).
• Supported technology improvements as SME to reduce freight cost by $3M; optimized transportation network by transferring Mercury Gate TMS data to Oracle Transportation Management (OTM) software.