ANDREW MONACO
Charleston,SC
Summary
Strategic Senior Accounting Operations Analyst blending financial expertise with advanced data analysis to drive operational excellence. Adept at leading cross-functional teams, streamlining accounting workflows, and securing accurate financial reporting.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Audit Operations Analyst
Pilot AP
Charleston, South Carolina
05.2025 - 06.2026
- Analyzed AP Vendor Agreements and Statements of Work (SOW), to identify and recover duplicate payments, pricing discrepancies, and unapplied credits.
- Reviewed stale-dated and uncashed checks to determine reissue or void status, ensuring compliance prior to state escheatment.
- Identified unreconciled and miscoded AP transactions within client ERP systems, providing recommendations to optimize and streamline month-end reconciliations.
- Awarded top-tier market share over key competitors by consistently delivering high-volume recoveries and identifying critical audit discrepancies.
- Performed data scrubbing and analysis on client master files to identify trends and establish strategic approaches prior to audit commencement.
- Utilized advanced Excel functions, including VLOOKUPs and pivot tables, to analyze large datasets and strategically target high-volume vendors for review.
- Cross-referenced complex vendor statements with large-scale AP datasets to detect anomalies, mitigate misstated expenses, and maintain strict GAAP compliance.
Senior Accounting Operations Analyst
Motley Rice LLC
Charleston, South Carolina
10.2022 - 05.2025
- Performed daily bank reconciliations to identify and resolve discrepancies, ensuring accuracy in month-end reporting.
- Analyzed and processed complex AP/AR adjustments, write-offs, and chargebacks, resolving miscoded transactions.
- Supported month-end closing by reviewing, approving, and coding all expenses into Concur ERP platform.
- Managed daily wire transfers and deposits across firm accounts, monitoring trust fund balances to guarantee available funding for disbursements.
- Reviewed employee expenditures and corporate card charges to ensure compliance with ongoing litigation-related expense policies and corporate guidelines.
- Performed ad hoc analyses requested by senior management team members.
- Coordinated the preparation and analysis of monthly financial statements.
Lead Auditor
Illumis Global
Charleston, South Carolina
05.2013 - 05.2022
- Recovered over $4 million in lost revenue from duplicate payments and pricing errors.
- Identified systemic discrepancies between vendor and client ERP systems, implementing strategies to mitigate revenue loss.
- Executed comprehensive account reconciliations for complex vendor accounts, resolving pricing discrepancies to ensure financial accuracy.
- Collaborated with IT leaders to develop proprietary audit software, enhancing reporting capabilities for more effective oversight.
- Trained new staff on auditing techniques and procedural best practices, improving team readiness and compliance.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Business Management
SUNY, Farmingdale
Farmingdale, NYSkills
- Accounts payable audit
- Financial analysis
- GAAP compliance
- Data analysis
- External auditing
- Ledger reconciliation
- Journal entry preparation
- Account reconciliation
- Process optimization
- SAP proficiency
- PeopleSoft knowledge
- Dynamics 365 expertise
- Root cause analysis
- Analytical problem-solving
- Supervisory leadership
- Attention to detail
Timeline
Senior Audit Operations Analyst
Pilot AP
05.2025 - 06.2026
Senior Accounting Operations Analyst
Motley Rice LLC
10.2022 - 05.2025
Lead Auditor
Illumis Global
05.2013 - 05.2022
Bachelor of Science - Business Management
SUNY, Farmingdale