Ariana Barba
Accountant
North Hills,CA
Summary
Dedicated professional with history of meeting company goals utilizing consistent and organized practices. Skilled in working under pressure and adapting to new situations and challenges to best enhance the organizational brand.Enthusiastic and eager to contribute to team success through hard work, attention to detail and excellent organizational skills.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Language
Work History
Accounting and Rentals Associate
Soraya Nazarian Center, Performing Arts
Northridge, CA
03.2022 - Current
- Coordinates with the Soraya rentals team to generate rental estimates, administering rental contracts from initial draft to implementation and payments, works with rental clients to obtain proper insurance documents, and preparing final settlements for approval
- Manage multimillion-dollar budget with multiple funds and accounts and enter costs into tracking system, and develop regular reports for the Soraya profit and loss
- Coordinates deposits (cash, checks, credit cards) for the processing of ticket revenues (presenting and rentals), rental deposits, and donations through YSNC ticketing system
- Enters absences/time and labor for all hourly employees including the events ushers, and usher leads.
Assistant
Tacos Way Corporation
Northridge, CA
05.2019 - Current
- Analyze cash flows and prepare expense reports
- Increased productivity by creating a payroll system for the corporation to facilitate employee budget control
- Perform monthly bank reconciliation, record cash and credit receipts in the G/L
- Assist with budget planning; special projects
- Resolve inquiries from lead managers, employees and vendors
- Maintain confidential records, reports, and files in an organized manner
- Recorded and tracked operational expenses to identify and eliminate wasteful spending.
- Communicated with management to explain issues and formulate solutions.
Administrative Support Coordinator II
Graduate, David Nazarian College of Business and Economics
Northridge, CA
07.2017 - 03.2022
- Managed and oversaw the MBA and Graduate Programs budget, including monitoring, tracking and authorizing expenditures
- Managed various allocations and expenditures of multiple funds which include General Fund, Trust Accounts, Foundations Accounts, and Extended Learning Revenue
- Created, monitored, and tracked chargebacks, encumbrances, online requisitions and procurement card expenses and determined appropriate funding sources
- Responsible for creating and processing all special pay authorizations for graduate faculty teaching the graduating culminating experience
- Projected and reconciled student assistant payroll
- Conducted audits of the Tseng MOU net revenue share and large cohort incentive, profit sharing, cost recovery and program oversight form GCBA cohorts
- Coordinated special events developed by the Graduate Programs office and college such as MBA and GCBA orientations, MBA open house, networking mixers, doctoral weekend workshops, speaker series and graduation events/commencement ceremonies
- Created and monitored travel expenses for the Director of the MBA and Graduate Programs, office staff and the graduate faculty
- Hired, trained and managed student assistants and related paper work
- Collaborated in timely processing of billing and accounts receivables and worked closely with others to accomplish timely invoicing and accounts receivables.
Traffic Coordinator
Entravision Communications
Los Angeles, CA
01.2014 - 07.2017
- Answered and screened telephone calls and arranged conference calls
- Created commercial logs for the local radio stations using Wide Orbit Software
- Assisted and process sales department orders on Wide Orbit software
- Liaison between production and sales department to insure all copy materials are received
- Reconciled logs on a daily basis to ensure all spots aired as scheduled
- Created work schedules and project management plans organization-wide to maintain efficiency and timeliness.
Financial Analyst
mun2/NBCUniversal
Universal City, CA
02.2013 - 01.2014
- Ensured proper coding and processing for all invoices
- Reconciled General ledger accounts and research to ensure accuracy
- Consolidated and analyzed financial data (budgets; income statement forecasts)
- Amortized monthly network programming
- Prepared reports and projections based on past financial data and performance
- Reviewed open invoice reports and follow up with a schedule of payments or adjustments
- Reconciled and closed out petty cash vouchers up to $10k mun2
- Collected data and developed detailed spreadsheets to identify trends and create revenue, profitability and expense forecasts.
Marketing Coordinator
NBCUniversal
Universal City, CA
04.2012 - 02.2013
- Provided administrative support to VP, and Directors of Affiliate Consumer Marketing
- Administered multimillion-dollar marketing budget for the network budget spending
- Generated, itemized, reconciled, and managed travel expense reports for VP and Directors through Concur
- Arranged complex travel arrangements for talent and executives as needed
- Created and sent traffic run reports to Bravo, Oxygen, SYFY, Telemundo, E!, USA
- Acted as off-air department liaison in development of creative materials for marketing promotions
- Point Person for all vendors and managed premium selection and inventory for both consumer and corporate needs
- Managed a group of 10 brand ambassadors at consumer events to ensure proper marketing messaging
Administrative Assistant
Department, CSUN
Northridge, CA
07.2011 - 03.2012
- Monitored expenditures and reconciled monthly Foundation Financial reports
- Reconciled and managed monthly expenditure reports (75k Budget)
- Prepared deposit transmittal checks and responsible for processing and depositing concert revenues
- Developed tracking reports for scholarship awards
- Managed department room schedule for 700 students and 82 professors mun
Intern
NBCUniversal
Universal City, CA
01.2011 - 05.2011
- Allocated expenses and submitted reports to accounts payable department
- Prepared and process corporate and p-card expense reports and reconciliations in accordance with Company policy guidelines
- Reconciled weekly grids for mun2 programming
- Reconciled weekly charts and sound scans sales report for internal use
Education
Bachelor of Science - Finance
California State University
Skills
Microsoft Word, Microsoft Outlook Calendar, Excel, PowerPoint, Concur and Gmailundefined
Timeline
Accounting and Rentals Associate
Soraya Nazarian Center, Performing Arts
03.2022 - Current
Assistant
Tacos Way Corporation
05.2019 - Current
Administrative Support Coordinator II
Graduate, David Nazarian College of Business and Economics
07.2017 - 03.2022
Traffic Coordinator
Entravision Communications
01.2014 - 07.2017
Financial Analyst
mun2/NBCUniversal
02.2013 - 01.2014
Marketing Coordinator
NBCUniversal
04.2012 - 02.2013
Administrative Assistant
Department, CSUN
07.2011 - 03.2012
Intern
NBCUniversal
01.2011 - 05.2011
Bachelor of Science - Finance
California State University
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