b'Senior Staff Accountant Resume\n\nFirstName LastName\nStreet Address\nCity, ST ZipCode, Country\nPhone #\nEmail Address\nPROFILE\nSenior Staff Accountant\n\xc2\xb7 With 10 years of accounting experience in manufacturing, commercial property management, and medical industries.\n\xc2\xb7 General ledger expert with an emphasis on month-end account reconciliations, journal entries, and month-end expense\nanalysis.\n\xc2\xb7 Completed 5.5 years in a supervisory role involved in interviewing, hiring, training, staff development, annual performance\nevaluations, and motivation.\n\xc2\xb7 Proven track record recognizing and implementing improvements in workflow, increasing efficiencies and productivity,\nincreasing accuracy of information, and creating synergy within team management environments.\n\xc2\xb7 Computer skills include Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Publisher), SAP (Finance/Fixed Assets),\nSkyline, and MRI.\nEXPERIENCE\nStaff Accountant\n\n1999 to Present\n\nATOFINA CHEMICALS, INC. \xe2\x80\x93 Crosby, Texas\nMaintain full charge general ledger responsibility for an organic peroxide manufacturer with $15 million in expenses. This\nincludes accounts payable, fixed assets, payroll, special construction projects, month-end closings, fixed cost budgeting, and\nbudget analysis. Supervise 2 employees involved in accounts payable and payroll. Interact internally with engineering, local\ndepartmental managers, and corporate operations accounting, payroll, tax, and legal departments. Communicate externally\nwith sales tax auditors and outside audit firms. Oversee annual audit for site.\n\xc2\xb7 Oversaw an 8-year audit\xe2\x80\x94involved pulling data, reviewing sales tax payments, building spreadsheets, and providing auditor\nwith information in a timely manner.\n\xc2\xb7 Identified $1 million in obsolete/retired assets during a $38 million fixed asset cleanup currently in progress.\n\xc2\xb7 Setup from 50 to 60 capital projects since 1999\xe2\x80\x94tracked and analyzed payments, verified accuracy, closed capital projects,\nand posted to fixed assets.\n\xc2\xb7 Coordinated 3 major projects over $5 million each related to incidents and insurance claims\xe2\x80\x94maintained separate sets of\nbooks, including claim reconciliation, and insured all engineers followed regulations on rebuild.\n\xc2\xb7 Implemented numerous time efficiency projects to offset a decrease in closing time from 7 down to 2 days, a 70% reduction.\n\xc2\xb7 Created approximately 80 spreadsheets used by management for expense analysis that reduced project time by at least 6\nhours each week.\n\xc2\xb7 Developed and implemented an automated fixed cost budget spreadsheet used to track budgets year to year, reducing project\ntime by at least 75%.\n\xc2\xb7 Improved efficiencies by 57% to 64% by creating a month-end report spreadsheet which reduced project time down from 2\nweeks to 5 or 6 days.\n\xc2\xb7 Achieved a 40% to 50% decrease in project time by creating automated balance sheet reconciliation spreadsheets.\n\xc2\xb7 Created purchase order-tracking spreadsheets adopted by corporate and used division-wide.\n\xc2\xb7 Assigned additional responsibility for cost accounting and researching/correcting errors at month-end due to significant time\nsaved through improved efficiencies.\nProject Accountant\n\n1998 to 1999\n\nTRANSWESTERN COMMERCIAL SERVICES \xe2\x80\x93 Houston, Texas\nManaged month-end closings, financial statement preparations, yearly budgeting, cash management, and all cost\nreconciliation and journal entries for 7 properties in Houston and New Orleans. Served as 1099 reporting specialist for 120\nsmall entities.\n\n\x0c\xc2\xb7 Saved approximately $30,000 annually by taking on three additional properties, with responsibility for seven after just\nmonths into position.\n1997 to 1998\n\nFinancial Analyst II/Accounts Payable Supervisor\nKELSEY SEYBOLD CLINIC \xe2\x80\x93 Houston, Texas\n\nSupervised 6 accounts payable clerks and 1 file clerk. Reviewed accounts payable coding and checked production of between\n900 to 1,200 invoices weekly. Resolved vendors\xe2\x80\x99 payment issues. Supervised conversion from mainframe system to SAP.\n\xc2\xb7 Developed and implemented check writing and payment procedures to accommodate new SAP system.\n\xc2\xb7 Managed a 7-year balance sheet reconciliation project, supervising 4 temporary employees.\n1997\n\nAccountant\nDYNACARE HOME HEALTH SERVICES \xe2\x80\x93 Lafayette, Louisiana\n\nTracked cash receipts and disbursements. Managed budgets. Developed and implemented standard operating procedures for\nall accounting functions. Prepared Medicare/Medicaid billing and cost reports. Interacted with intermediary concerning\nreimbursements and regulations.\n1996 to 1997\n\nProperty Accountant\nPROPERTY ONE INC. \xe2\x80\x93 Lafayette, Louisiana\n\n1995 to 1996\n\nInsurance Auditor\nEQUIFAX COMMERCIAL SPECIALISTS \xe2\x80\x93 Lafayette, Louisiana\nEDUCATION\nBachelor of Science in Business Administration \xe2\x80\x93 Accounting (Minor in Business Administration)\nUNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE \xe2\x80\x93 Lafayette, Louisiana\n\n1993'