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FINANCIAL AND ACCOUNTING SYSTEM CONSULTANT
Professional Summary

Detail-oriented Accounting professional possessing over 13 years of diverse experience in billing, collections, cash application, revenue recognition, project accounting setup, timesheets, payroll, accounting/payroll system migrations/implementations, month-end journal entries, accounting close, financial reporting and account reconciliations.

Technical Skills

MS Office, Microsoft Dynamics Navision, Costpoint 7.1.1/TE10, ADP, Fidelity and Paylocity

Work History
Financial and Accounting System Consultant03/2020 to Current
Company Name – City,State
  • Processed/submitted payroll for a multi-state company with over 300 employees successfully within tight deadlines.
  • Provided payroll reports/documentation to promote transparency between departments, obtain proper approvals/backup for auditing purposes, and ensure there was clearly outlined separation of duties to prevent fraud.
  • Calculated salaries, retroactive wages, bonuses, severance, vacation payouts, garnishments, benefit adjustments and input all hours logged to various pay types.
  • Streamlined payroll process by building upload templates/reports in both systems to reduce processing time, manual input and errors.
  • Added and updated all employee/subcontractor cards in Costpoint and Active Directory (all new hire setup, terminations, salary adjustments, status changes, organizational, labor group as well as supervisor/backup approvers mapping updates, etc.).
  • Processed/posted all employee/subcontractor timesheets and corrections in Costpoint (including bonus, severance and PTO payout timesheets.
  • Setup indirect and direct projects and completed all employee workforce mapping.
  • Computed/posted all leave accruals, adjustments and payouts in both Costpoint and Paylocity.
  • Enhanced current corporate processes (onboarding/offboarding, project workforce mapping and project setup requests, etc.) and audit control/tracking by developing/implementing ticketing system to ensure all parties are provided necessary/required information to perform job functions/tasks with ease.
  • Updated, configured and improved accounting system setup (including all control screens, employee classes, pay types, leave codes, leave types, account/organizational links, project account groups, timesheet defaults, timesheet classes, project setups, user groups, resource groups, creating jobs to automate updating tables, setup daily floor checks, TS status, etc.) to improve system output and maximize operational effectiveness/efficiency.
  • Created/developed Cognos reports that pull the most up-to-date information from tables in Costpoint and TE (Time & Expense) enabling end users (Accounting, HR, Operations and Senior Leadership) the ability to monitor, review, analyze financial information/data and make informed business decision in a timely manner as well as reduce data entry/posting errors, identify necessary corrections prior to closing the books/issuing financials.
Project Accounting09/2019 to 03/2020
Company Name – City,State
  • Worked on/with a team of Project Accounting Subject Matter Experts that setup all indirect and direct projects (CPFF, T&M and FFP) ensuring contractual compliance, quality control and streamlining the project setup process across all contracts.
  • Led/participated in Project Setup Kick-off meetings with Contacts, Project Mangers, Financial Analysts and Billing in order to to determine the best project setup based on contractual requirements as well as reporting needs and provided recommendations based on system knowledge/expertise.
  • Reviewed Contracts, Modifications and Contract Briefs submitted to Project Setup by Financial Analysts in order to ensure the information was input accurately prior to processing.
  • Setup projects based on the submitted/approved Contract Brief including ceiling values, funding values, period of performance, billing formulas, revenue formulas, project labor categories, rates, define rate sequence, employee and vendor project labor workforce for all contracts.
Accounting Manager01/2009 to 12/2018
Company Name – City,State
  • Led and managed a team of Accounting professionals including performance management, coaching and training.
  • Responsible for facilitating the month-end close and meeting aggressive deadlines to ensure Senior Management and investors receive Financial Reports in a timely manner to make important/educated business decisions.
  • Worked directly with internal and external auditors during Year-End Financial, Worker's Compensation, General Liability and 401K audits.
  • Implemented a new accounting system that successfully went live in January 2018. Dovel migrated from Microsoft Dynamics Navision (2009) to Costpoint 7.1.1/TE10. The implementation team was extremely engaged and involved in all phases of this implementation including the design, functional testing, go live and staff/employee training. • Migrated payroll systems from Fidelity to ADP flawlessly in January 2017.
  • Improved the month-end closing process by creating a month-end closing plan and holding team members accountable for target/completion dates, which reduced closing the books to 10 days or less.
  • Improved cash flow by streamlining our collection process, thereby, reducing our DSO to less than 30 days.
  • Reduced closing out timesheets to three business days by sending out creative timesheet reminders, conducting floor checks and reporting delinquent offenders to Senior Management and HR to ensure we were abiding by DCAA timekeeping regulations.
Awards

• 2009 Employee of the Quarter
• 2012 Star Award
• 2013 Excellence Award
• 2015 Excellence Award
• 2016 Star Award
• 2016 Excellence Award

Education
Bachelor of Science: Coursework Completed (118.00 Credits)George Mason University- City, State
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School Attended

  • George Mason University

Job Titles Held:

  • Financial and Accounting System Consultant
  • Project Accounting
  • Accounting Manager

Degrees

  • Bachelor of Science : Coursework Completed (118.00 Credits)

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