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Experience
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Leading Professional Services Firm dedicated to finance and accounting outsourcing,
Houston, Texas – 8/2006 to 11/2007
TRUST - EARNINGS ALLOCATION GROUP
- Verify that trust reconciliations (Excel) performed by personnel in India are correct.
- Research reconciling items over 1 month old and recommend an action to clear them.
- Matching items in Checkfree, a reconciliation program
Global Management Consulting, Technology Services, Houston, Texas – 10/2004 to 2/2006
PROCEDURAL WRITER (1/05-2/06) / FIXED ASSET ANALYST (10/04-1/05)
- Prepared detailed documentation of various accounting and reporting procedures, via PC Recon and SAP, for major oil company client of accounting firm, on contract basis. Developed control and escalation reports as required, and distributed to appropriate client personnel for correction of data.
- Performed maintenance and updating of data master records, and enhanced, streamlined and documented reporting processes for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.
- Managed fixed asset accounting via SAP R/3 release 4.6C, in support of oil company retail operations. Reviewed project posting of assets, established assets in SAP, and generated related reporting, Researched detailed project accounting to validate charges, and corrected project numbers as required.
Specialty Chemicals Company, Houston, Texas – 6/2002 to 4/2004
SENIOR ACCOUNTANT
- Managed diverse accounting procedures at home office of worldwide chemical manufacturing company formerly owned by Shell.
- Established and maintained SAP R/3-4.6C tables for master data related to financial institutions and more than 600 cost centers. Ran cost center (CCA) and profit center (PCA) assessments, verified complete clearance, and executed changes as required.
- Responsible for month-end closing procedures, to include auto-clearing for payable and receivable accounts and reversal of previous accruals. Maintained and executed monthly recurring entries, and posted closing entries to general ledger.
- Performed complex reconciliation of payroll reporting, and uploaded to SAP. Assisted with fixed assets as required. Opened and closed financial and controlling periods, and generated routine and ad hoc reporting.
- Independently created Excel worksheet for journal entries, which increased accuracy and simplified posting to general ledger accounts.
Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, Houston, Texas – 4/2000 to 6/2002
FI CONTROLLING LEAD
- Supervised and directed staff of four in monthly maintenance and closing of finance and controlling modules in SAP 3.h, for diversified firm formerly owned by Shell. Additionally supervised and approved status-of-accounts reports as well as bank reconciliation and payroll journal entries.
- Prior to lead role, maintained and closed controlling module of SAP, which included creating cost centers and running CCA and COPA assessment cycles. Reconciled several aspects of FI to CO, and executed correcting entries.
- Created and maintained several linking Excel worksheets to verify payroll entries and to execute manual entries to SAP.
Fresh America Corp., Inc., Houston, Texas – 9/1991 to 4/2000
FINANCIAL REPORTING MANAGER (1/94-4/00)
- Reconciled and analyzed several general ledger accounts and executed adjusting entries as required, for seller of wholesale produce serving nationwide locations of membership retail chain.
- Managed prepaid commercial insurance schedule, and executed monthly entries to expense accounts. Maintained fixed assets on legacy FAS system. Created and ran payroll and workers’ compensation reports in dBase IV, based on data downloaded from outside provider, and executed compensation entries.
- Participated in acquiring information for SEC 10K and 10Q reporting. Compiled consolidated financial statements toward preparation of state and federal tax returns.
- Acquired SAP and dBase IV data, integrated to Excel files, and generated ad hoc reporting as requested.
- Conducted procedural training in SAP operations for new accounting staff.
- Simplified entry of data from diverse ledgers in multiple formats by creating Excel worksheets to summarize data in single format.
- Instrumental in configuration and implementation of SAP FI and CO modules, and assisted with conversion of general ledger data to SAP.
MANAGER OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS (12/92-1/94)
- Selected to function as system administrator for Novel 3.11 network prior to implementation of enterprise system. Wrote programs in dBase IV, and generated reporting in Lotus 1-2-3.
- Conducted operational training for 100 employees, and assisted in resolving technical problems.
- Prepared recommendations on purchasing hardware and software, and facilitated installation.
- Key participant in customizing SBT VisionPoint accounting software, upon upgrade from Certiflex.
ACCOUNTING MANAGER (9/91-12/92)
- Supervised staff of four in managing general ledger, accounts payable/receivable and inventory accounting.
- Wrote programs in dBase IV that streamlined and increased accuracy of data entry and report generation in un-integrated perpetual inventory system used at three distribution centers and 90 store locations.
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