Senior Accountant
Silverton Mortgage
Total years of experience :23 years, 8 Months
Manage daily cash position of the company, approve payments, process wire transfers and ensure that accounts receivable are current.
•Oversee accounting operations for corporate and branch offices.
•Manage the company’s outsourced accounting functions including accounts payable, reconciliations and financial statement preparation. Ensure accuracy in payment processing and timely reconciliation completion.
•Issue financial statements for company and branch offices. Calculate variances and issue financial and operating metrics. Provide additional financial analysis as needed.
•Manage all business license renewals and manage state, local and federal government reporting and tax filing requirements.
Reviewed and assisted in the daily and month-end accounting activities, including bank account and balance sheet reconciliations.
•Ensures that reconciling items are identified and cleared on a timely basis.
•Prepared and enter journal entries related to monthly variance review.
•Analyzed and researched financial information pertaining to financial statements.
•Provided assistance to the GL Manager and GL team on special projects.
•Ability to adhere and meet all month- end close timeline schedules.
•Maintained weekly inventory exceptions reports for 5 locations.
Personally sought out by former Controller and VP of Finance for World Leadership Group. Serve as right-hand in providing accounting and tax services to multiple small businesses.
•Managed all accounting functions for two clients, one of which has ten companies.
•Process bank transactions, account and inter-company reconciliations, month-end entries and financial statement preparation.
•Prepared monthly, quarterly and annual consolidated financial statements.
•Calculated and pay commission payroll for multi-level company client. Process involves direct contact with client’s agents and vendors.
•Assisted with client’s annual workers comp audits and document gathering for alternate needs.
•Processed and file client year-end 1099 and W-2 statements.
Responsible for monthly treasury and cash management reporting for $120 million Line of Credit.
•Prepared and analyzed monthly balance sheet, inter-company and income statements for a company grossing $500 million annually. Prepared monthly financial package for senior management which included actual to budget as well as key metrics used to operate the business.
•Managed transition for customers moving from check payment to EFT payment.
•Reviewed and verified the accuracy of vendor ACH payments made by Accounts Payable Clerk.
•Worked with auditors to provide necessary financial information and analysis required for audits and prepared audit lead schedules.
Managed all accounts and activities for four companies, including a high-volume mortgage company grossing $67 million in revenues in 2006 and $33 million in revenues in 2007.
•Managed, reconciled and analyzed all general ledger accounts including $15 million warehouse line of credit and trust bank accounts held in thirty states.
•Recorded weekly agent payroll and analyzed revenues, commissions and other corresponding expenses to ensure accurate sub-department coding.
•Managed all aspects of annual independent audit for the mortgage company, including the preparation of schedules, records and reports. Worked directly with independent auditors and received unqualified opinions with no exceptions.
•Created short-term and long-term cash forecasts for management review.
•Managed and reconciled merchant account that collected funds for four companies and resolved charge-back items. Account averaged 10, 000 transactions per month.
•Worked directly with Controller to complete month-end close process, including review and creation of financial statements. Also assisted in annual operating budget preparation for the mortgage company.
•Prepared and submitted monthly and quarterly state tax returns.
•Prepared and verified daily deposits.
•Diligently assisted Chief Compliance Officer with approximately twenty state audits annually.
•Reviewed invoices for proper coding. Processed invoices and payments as back-up. Consistently assisted co-workers with projects and worked as back-up for other company’s as needed.
•Streamlined & improved process of balancing credit card transactions and reduce man-hours by 2 days.
Oversaw activities in Northeast and Midwest regions of company markets, which generated $70 Million in corporate revenue.
•Managed and reconciled all aspects of general ledger accounts for twelve markets.
•Prepared budget variance reports and explained discrepancies.
•Reviewed financial reports with regional managers on a monthly basis. Answered questions, discussed data and clarified any discrepancies.
•Evaluated and set up amortization schedules for prepaid accounts, analyzed revenue and expense trends to prepare accruals.
•Assisted Controller with month end close process.
•Assisted in the consolidation of all accounting functions for the U.S. Market in order to centralize data in the Atlanta corporate office.