Senior Accountant
CANDIDATE NAME
WORK EXPERIENCE
Senior Accountant
Location: Bridgewater, NJ 2023 – 2024
- Prepared accruals for IT department for Pro fees, computer software, outside temp, and software as a service.
- Created prepaid recurring entries in SAP4 Hana for posting.
- Gathered Zycus accruals and PO invoices at month-end for general ledger details.
- Generated prepaid schedule for amortization for short-term and long-term contracts.
- Compared actuals, budget, and forecast with variance explanations on a monthly basis.
- Downloaded actuals from Hyperion to comparative files for the month.
- Responsible for the month-end closing process for IT Department by cost center and profit center.
- Utilized SAP 4 Hana general ledger reports and trial balances to reconcile all expenses and balance sheet accounts.
- Involved in the budget process as well as new conversions to FP&A System.
- Provided managers with risk and opportunities spend for IT Department.
- Responsible for billbacks and accommodation from Japan.
- Recorded tax provision on off-quarter months.
- Reconciled balance sheet accounts in SAP 4 Hana.
- Assisted in Workfront for project management tool for task by each department head.
Senior Accountant
Location: Florham Park, NJ 2022 – 2023
- Performed monthly bank reconciliations for operating and payroll accounts.
- Prepared and posted all monthly journal entries, including payroll, prepaid, fixed assets depreciation, and accruals.
- Reconciled accounts payable and accounts receivable in NetSuite.
- Generated Walmart container list for pickup and delivery to process monthly accruals for dray and fuel cost.
- Provided upper management with the Top 20 Customer Revenue Report.
- Responsible for the general ledger month-end closing for four warehouse & distribution buildings.
- Generated ADP prepaid manual adjustments journal entries in SAP.
- Utilized Smartsheet for uploading revenue and expense accruals for all buildings.
- Analyzed profit & loss, balance sheet, and trial balance on NetSuite.
- Assisted in the transition of moving accounting functions over to Mexico.
Senior Accountant
Location: Basking Ridge, NJ 2021 – 2022
- Monitored and applied daily cash activity in Auto bank using FEBA, netting A/R and A/P intercompany with Japan.
- Verified ADP files from payroll have been interfaced with SAP bi-weekly and payroll accruals posted at month-end.
- Created intercompany invoices to support Global Director on billing to the parent company.
- Amortized and created prepaid accruals through the prepaid engine in SAP.
- Reconciled BOA bank statements to the ledger and cleared cash through the FEBA process in SAP.
- Performed post-close balance sheet analysis to ensure general ledger ties in SAP.
- Generated ADP prepaid manual adjustments journal entries in SAP.
- Utilized SAP transaction code functions to perform daily tasks in SAP.
- Maintained third-party Conventions Meetings billing to establish open convention expenses.
- Responsible for accruals for R&D, vacation, annual incentive plan, 401K, retirement, and T&E.
Senior Accountant
Location: New Jersey, NJ 2020 – 2021
- Responsible for month-end closing for 19 supermarket store locations for upper management.
- Provided weekly gross margin flash report for each store by grocery, dairy, meat & produce to managers.
- Prepared monthly entries and accruals for laundry, armored cars, delivery, Instacart, and postage.
- Reconciled the credit card transactions to the cash register by the store for all catering.
- Uploaded payroll tax payments from ADP to Lawson.
- Maintained balance sheet analysis for all assets and liabilities.
- Generated and reconciled all wire payments for each vendor for all store locations.
- Provided balance sheet and profit & loss statements to upper management.
- Developed pivot tables and VLOOKUPs in Excel.
Senior Accountant/Supervisor
Location: New Jersey, NJ 2018 – 2020
- Responsible for month-end close for 45 PCP Primary Care Partners financial statements to CFO.
- Supervised staff on accounting policy & procedures.
- Prepared monthly & quarterly journal entries based on accrual account analysis to NetSuite.
- Maintained balance sheet analysis and monthly variances.
- Reconciled 85 bank reconciliations to the ledger.
- Generated biweekly payroll cash transfers from TD Bank to all care centers.
- Recorded daily transfers from third-party receivables.
- Implemented a required cash file for accounts payable to pay invoices in a timely manner.
- Developed automation processes utilizing pivot tables & VLOOKUPs to bill management fee invoices to each care center.
- Coordinated year-end audit with staff.
Assistant Financial Controller
Location: New Jersey, NJ 2016 – 2017
- Responsible for consolidating DICI gathering measure sheets from OPS-America for each plant manager to provide quarterly graphs to show cost savings quarterly to the Director.
- Generated monthly EBIT files to consolidate site performances for all plants in OPS Americas.
- Prepared monthly management reports and graphs for Animal Nutrition Health and Personal Care for North America.
Senior Corporate Accountant
Location: New York, NY 2015 – 2016
- Responsible for system implementation from SAP to new G/L system; NetSuite (Cloud-based system).
- Responsible for external reporting generating 10K and 10Q, providing internal and external auditors with ad hoc reports.
- Reviewed and reconciled intercompany accounts for all entities.
Senior Accountant
Location: Somerset, NJ 2012 – 2014
- Assisted with upgrading the new general ledger system from PeopleSoft to SAP.
- Recorded monthly corporate intercompany payables and receivables for business legacy entities.
- Responsible for recording monthly prepaid expense entries and fixed assets.
Accounting Manager/Financial Analyst
Location: Livingston, NJ 2008 – 2012
- Managed a team strategically with multiple projects on a timely basis for detailed analysis to SAP to G/L.
- Involved with and implemented a process to upload journal entries to PeopleSoft that reduced overtime by 60%.
- Responsible for the final closing entries for 6 long-term healthcare nursing homes, including interpreting the closing statement, determining the net assets on the day of sale, and calculating the gain on the sale of assets.
- Coordinated all aspects of financial reporting to administrators and department heads.
- Prepared monthly financial reporting packages for 10 long-term healthcare nursing homes in New Jersey.
SOFTWARE SKILLS
- SAP, NetSuite (Cloud Based), Oracle, PeopleSoft, Peachtree, Great Plains, QuickBooks, AS400, Condor, Lawson, Hyperion Financial Management, Essbase, PeopleSoft, Excel, Access, SAP4 Hana, SmartView, Yardi, Sun System, Epicor, JD Edwards & Zycus.
EDUCATION
- B.S. in Accounting from a university in Jamaica, New York.