Chief Accountant
VECTRUS
Total years of experience :17 years, 3 Months
●Prepare timely and accurate monthly financial statements under deadline pressure to ensure accounting efficiency.
●Collaborate closely with project managers to devise the budget, facilitate the billing process, and perform cost assessments for projects.
●Compare and analyze plans and forecasts with actual results to determine financial status.
●Maintain project-related records, including contracts and change orders, to enhance project accounting efficiency.
●Provide information to management, assembling and summarizing data, preparing reports, and presenting findings, analyses, and recommendations, to aid in decision-making activities.
●Review account totals related to project assets and expenses, and report to management regarding remaining funding available for projects.
●Investigate project variances and submit variance reports to management to ensure project completion in budget.
●Confer with receivables staff regarding unpaid contract billings, and approve the write-off of any project-related billings that cannot be billed to or collected from customers.
●Create all project-related billings to customers with strict attention to detail.
●Play a key role in coordinating proposal development with more experienced pricing analysts to process contract bids, utilizing internal pricing analysis tools.
●Close out project accounts upon project completion, create and submit government reports related to projects, and compile information for internal and external auditors, as required.
●Promoted to coordinate with finance manager in preparation of monthly financial reports, profit and loss statement, and balance sheet.
●Prepared and controlled the monthly accounting closing schedule, providing account analysis and reconciliations.
●Assembled information required for internal management reports and outside reporting in a timely manner.
●Reviewed accounts receivable and accounts payable vouchers with strict attention to detail.
●Supervised payroll process and reviewed payroll register to provide accurate and timely processing.
●Compiled information and diligently prepared schedules required by internal and independent auditors.
●Reviewed trial balance, and confirmed intercompany balances with all companies.
●Received and verified invoices and requisitions for goods and services utilizing extensive accounting skills.
●Diligently verified transactions complied with financial policies and procedures.
●Prepared batches of invoices for data entry, entered data on invoices for payment, and processed backup reports.
●Managed the weekly cheque run, recording all cheques, preparing vendor cheques for mailing, listing all vendor cheques in the log book, and preparing manual cheques as and when required.
●Meticulously maintained listing of accounts payable, general ledger, and updated vendor files and file numbers.
●Printed and distributed monthly financial reports with strict attention to detail to aid in decision-making activities.
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