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Staff Accountant, or Accounting Clerk Resume
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| Desired Industry: Accounting/Bookkeeping |
SpiderID: 17286 |
| Desired Job Location: Boston, Massachusetts |
Date Posted: 11/25/2007 |
| Type of Position: Full-Time Permanent |
Availability Date: Immediately |
| Desired Wage: $40,000 |
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U.S. Work Authorization: Yes |
| Job Level: Experienced with over 2 years experience |
Willing to Travel: Yes, Less Than 25% |
| Highest Degree Attained: Bachelors |
Willing to Relocate: No Preference |
Objective:
To obtain a position where I can work between 40-50 hours a week and utilize my accounting skills as well as acquire new skills to advance my career and grow professionally within the company. I’m a highly creative, recognized as a result oriented and solution focused individual. Areas of strength include:
Experience:
Liquid Fire Advertising (Boston), Boston, MA OCT. /2007 - NOV. /2007
Staff Accountant, Accounting Clerk
• Processing of employee expense reports for employee reimbursement
• Billing clients from employee expense reports
• Bank deposits
• Matching and batching all invoices
• Full charge processing of invoices
• Researching and resolving unidentified payments
• Assisting with monthly audit by pulling invoices and checks and researching documentation as needed
• Entering general ledger and journal entries manually: includes organizing information, preparing documents and entering manual entries and updating the book of original entries
• Responsible for posting payments to outstanding accounts
• Balancing and verifying correct payment applications from clients
• Executed account and check reconciliation off of accounting software and spreadsheet reports
State Street Bank, North Quincy, MA JAN. /2006 - JUL. /2007 Accounts Receivable Clerk, Broker Specialist (Fund Accounting)
• Summarized receivables by maintaining invoice accounts
• Coordinating monthly transfers to accounts receivables and verifying totals
• Updated receivables by totaling unpaid invoices
• Secured revenue by verifying and posting receipts; resolving discrepancies
• Maintain customer account records, prepare invoices, and audit billing records and charges
• Verified validity of account discrepancies by obtaining and investigating information from sales, trade promotions, customer service departments, and from customers
• Documented and issued bills for products sold and services rendered to clients
• Resolved invalid and unauthorized deductions by following pending deductions procedures
• Resolved valid and authorized deductions by entering adjusting entries
• Monitor the cash accounts for each fund to ensure payments are processed as instructed by our third parties
• Serves as the main point of contact between our third party service provider and our audit and tax firms
Southern Rock Family Accounting, Atlanta, GA JAN. /2003 - DEC. /2005
Staff Accountant, Accounting Clerk
• Computerized data entry; posted entries following the GAAP and tax accounting rules on the general journal, ledger, subsidiary ledger, accounts receivable ledger, accounts payable ledger, purchase journal
• Reconciles Credit Card Charging Activity, posts Sales Invoices and records cash to reflect activity from our experience programs
• Help prepared financial statements
• Post bi-weekly payroll journal entries provided by Payroll Manager
• Reconcile and agree inter-company accounts on a daily basis
• Help reconcile general ledger control accounts
• Help prepare in external and internal audits on as needed basis to provide supporting documentation, knowledge about underlying processes
• Assists Accounting manager and Controller with other ad hoc accounting projects
• Assist in the preparation for annual financial reviews and audits by external auditors
• Process changes to master vendor records in SAP Business One, Quick Books and Peachtree accounting software (i.e., created and change vendors as needed)
• Assisted in analyzing and reconciling complex cash and balance sheet accounts
• Work with confidential/sensitive information, such as salaries, performance reviews, customer problems, contract costs and revenue related information
• Maintain and monitor department budget to compare actual expenses against budget and prepare variance reports
• Entering general ledger and journal entries manually: includes organizing information, preparing documents and entering manual entries and updating the book of original entries
• Research and applying incoming wire transfers to the correct accounts
• Maintaining various spreadsheets supporting cash entries
o Accounts Receivable (Full Cycle)
• Processed all billing, receivables, and collection activity including sales tax tracking and reporting
• Responsible for Recording Cash Receipts and preparing deposits
• Responsible for posting payments to outstanding accounts
• Balancing and verifying correct payment applications from clients
• Perform monthly bank account reconciliations for all Cash Accounts for Accounting Manager to review
• Monitor Cash Account; post daily activity and report weekly along with accounts receivable, and accounts payable to Accounting Manager, Controller and CFO.
• Prepare monthly Balance Sheet account reconciliations with supporting documentation for Accounting Manager, Controller and CFO to review
• Prepare Invoices and detailed reconciliations for clients and record revenue for various programs
• Establish customer credit lines and set up credit accounts with vendors
• Making the office bank deposits
• *Accomplishment* Reduced A/R aging from an average of 88 days to 62 days in less than 7 months
o Accounts Payable (Full Cycle)
• Managed petty cash and office supplies expense accounts
• Executed account and check reconciliation off of accounting software and spreadsheet reports
• Processed employee expense reports
• Assisted with payroll processing and analysis
• Researching and resolving unidentified payments
• Full charge processing of purchase orders and sales orders
• Full charge processing of invoices; processed 250 invoices monthly
• Matching and batching all invoices
• Reference coding of invoices
• Executing weekly check runs, and daily manual check runs
• Processing stop payment request, void checks and management of positive pay issues
Education:
Brockton High School; Brockton, MA Diploma
Bunkerhill Community College; Charleston, MA Associates of Arts Degree in Accountancy
U-Mass Boston; Dorchester, MA BA: Accountancy and Business Administration Graduation date May 2008
GPA: 3.9
Skills:
• Lotus Notes 1-2-3
• Lotus Notes
• Microsoft Access
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Office Document Imaging
• Microsoft Outlook
• Microsoft PowerPoint
• Microsoft Project
• Microsoft Publisher
• Microsoft Windows
• Microsoft Word
• Yardi Software
o Blackbaud Accounting
o Creative Manager
o Ledger Right
o Peachtree Accounting
o Quick Books
o Quicken
o SAP Business One
o Solomon
• Hands-on individual who pays attention to details
• Detail oriented
• Ability to manage multiple priorities within deadlines
• Above average organizational skills
• Self-starter with good verbal and written communication skills
• Dedicated and hard working
• Ability to adapt to different personalities and management styles
• Outstanding team player with strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to follow instructions well and make sound decisions independently
• Ability to work in a fast-paced atmosphere
• Proven ability to work unison with staff, volunteers, and board of directors
Additional Information:
MILITARY
INFANTRY, ARTILERY AND WEAPONS SPECIALIST
US ARMY; FORT STEWART, GA 1997-2001
Highest Pay Grade: SERGEANT (E-5)
Honorable Discharge
US ARMY RESERVE; BOSTON, MA 2001-2006
Highest Pay Grade: STAFF SERGEANT (E-6)
Honorable Discharge
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