Senior Accountant with over 20 years’ experience. Areas of expertise include streamlining payroll & reporting. Meticulous Business Manager, excellent at juggling multiple tasks and working under pressure. Broad industry experience including Non-Profit, Grant Reporting & Fund/Cost Accounting, Payroll/Human Resources, Fixed Assets Reporting, Inventory, POS & Job/Cost Accounting and Cash Flow Capital Campaign and Loan Financing Reporting and Quarterly Full Agency & Department Program Budgets Projections & Analysis.
SKILLS
Budgeting and finance Staff development
Self-motivated Client assessment and analysis
Strong verbal communication Data management
Extremely organized Conflict resolution
Process implementation Project management
Risk management processes and analysis Team liaison
WORK HISTORY
February 2019- Present
Independent Contractor/Consultant Bookkeeping & Accounting Work | Client list includes various small business owners; architects, construction contractors, art-illustrators, landscapers, financial investment brokers, real estate brokers, recruiters, non-profit health organizations, seamstress & clothing designers..
Full-charge bookkeeping and accounting services performing month-end close, financial reporting, budgeting, payroll, in-house and outsourced, health benefits administration, auditing consulting and preparation and tax preparation as well as filing Federal and State tax forms.
December 2015- April 2017
Bookkeeper | Shub Financial Services | Oakland, CA
Full-charge bookkeeping for CPA firms, managing over 6-7 accounts at one time, with hard deadlines. Provided full financial statement documents on a daily, weekly and monthly basis per clients’ requests. Was able to streamline processes to increase workload by 10% by setting up daily cash monitoring systems for non-profits with tight revenue. Maintained grant reporting in order to be in compliance with OMB government quarterly reports for non-profit organizations. This agency assisting of color diagnosed with HIV funded by federal grants at 80% of a 5M budget. funded solely by health organization federally.with a 5M annual budget.
August 2007- June 2015
Controller | Print Studio & Art Gallery | Berkeley, CA
Full-charge bookkeeping for Non-profit Arts organization in one person office for $1.1M annual budget.
Produced Financial Statements with, Job costing, Budget analysis and cash flows for monthly Board/Staff Meetings.
Cash Management, Bank Reconciliation and Accounts Payable (1099's, check disbursements, vendor relations).
Payroll & Benefits administration for 10 employees, bi-weekly, with monthly, quarterly, annual IRS and State Board filings (DE-6, 941's, 1099's, W-2's, 990's, Sales & Use Tax), implemented new systems resulting in annual savings of $50k by converting to salaried employees from hourly employees to a PTO system, discontinuing the comp system abuse by employees accruing unlimited and unrestricted days off with Oversaw and prepared all necessary schedules & reports for annual 3rd party Audit with compliance to GAAP/FASB standards for the 990 filing, and Gov/County Grant Budget/Financial Reporting to show transparency and compliance with Guidestar & other websites focusing on the analytics and cost effectiveness of programs versus administration costs.
May 2002 - August 2007
Consultant/Bookkeeper/Accountant | Various Small Businesses | San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Past Clients Include: The Volunteer Center of San Francisco, Women Organized to Respond to Life-Threatening Diseases (WORLD) of Oakland, Creative Magic Gardens Nursery of Berkeley, Pacific Firm Recruiters of Berkeley, James Pennington-Kent, Contractor of El Cerrito, Larry Westdal Design of Orinda, CAS Systems of Oakland.
Full-charge bookkeeping positions for both profit and non-profit clients, handling the monthly cycles.
Reconstructed accounting records from clients' checks and cash receipts.
Collected and reported monthly expense variances and explanations.
Drafted the complete annual audit reports including all footnote disclosures.
June 2000 - May 2002
Senior Accountant | Reflect.com, Procter & Gamble | San Francisco, CA
Managed and developed systems for relocation schedules and compliance with W-2 reporting and Flexible spending account tax compliance systems.
Managed Inventory Receipts and month-end reconciliation, Purchasing and interface with Operations in COGS.
Responsible for AP and Payroll for 100+ employees for an online cosmetic start-up W-2 reporting and flexible spending account tax compliance systems.
Assisted with various GL account reconciliation's and annual fiscal year end audits with both Procter & Gamble and Deloitte & Touche.
December 1991 - June 2000
Business Manager | Berkeley Repertory Theatre | Berkeley, CA
Managed cash receipts of over $4M annually and credit card sales of $3M annually, both in Foundations, donations and Box Office Ticket Revenue.
Responsible for all AP processes with bi-weekly check runs with high volume including 1099 reporting on MAS90 software.
Responsible for AR deposits and Box Office ticket sales journaling and reconciling with the Box Office Manager.
Streamlined payroll preparation by implementing new systems for direct deposit, automated vacation/sick accruals, cafeteria and pension plans for high turnover staff, rotating between 50-100+ employees depending on season programs.
Maintained over 10 bank account reconciliations, daily cash balances and month end journaling processes.
Facilitated successful internal and external audits through sound and thorough documentation.
Reconciled discrepancies between accounts receivable general ledger account and accounts receivable trial balance account Reducing abuse of credit card expenditures and shopping cash advances to comply with audit requirements for coding and receipts.
Reconciled discrepancies between accounts receivable general ledger account and accounts receivable trial balance account.
February 1990 - December 1991
Administrative Assistant | National Multiple Sclerosis Society | Oakland, CA
Managed Northern California's donor and client database of over 20,000 records with Administrative support to Peer Counselors & Executive Director.
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Arts in Business & Economics, with emphasis in Managerial Accounting Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA
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