Bernice Osei

• Responsible for the reconciliation of existing and ongoing projects, including budget to actual.
• Assist in the allocation and preparation of monthly expense/variance reporting.
• Complete daily accounting, as well as monthly, quarterly, and year-end financial reporting, in accordance with GAAP.
• Maintained detailed records of account transactions, including invoices, payments, and journal entries.
• Perform account and bank reconciliations for three legal entities.
• Work with Treasury for billing and cash. management/forecasting, and accounts payable.
• Perform month-end close procedures, including journal entries, account reconciliations, and variance analysis.
• Active CPA candidate.

• Prepare financial statements using the general ledger system and specific financial statement preparation software.
• Assist with responses to government and/or regulatory agencies requests and questions.
• Provide information to external audits.
• Participate in the evaluation of anticipated transactions and assists with implementing needed changes to the financial statements and related disclosures, including the impact on risk-based capital.
• Assess data and information to check entries and calculations for accuracy.
• Update financial analysis packages given to senior management for comparison between GAAP, BCBSA, and statutory accounting analysis.
• CPA candidate.

• Provided financial support for field operations by presenting accurate financial statements and management reports on a timely basis (six locations).
• Calculated and issued financial and operating metrics for field operation managers.
• Prepared forecasts, balance sheet reviews, and contributed to the budgeting process.
• Completed capital expenditure analysis.
• Supported month-end and year-end close process.
• Traveled to field locations to conduct field audits.

• Developed reports or created dashboards, providing financial-related information to make informed business decisions.
• Owned the Intercompany process for GE Renewable business - North America.
• Subject matter expert on all intercompany related issues for the Renewable business.
• Collected, tracked and evaluated current business and market trend data.
• Delegated team members, assigned counter-party billing unit codes among members, and tracked team progress using smartsheet.
• Improved processes and procedures to achieve key performance metrics.

• Collaborated across business units worldwide to reconcile intercompany AP/AR variances.
• Performed analysis of intercompany A/R and coordinated with invoice creators/trading partners to clear aged invoice balances.
• Prepared journal entries to correct accounting errors, reclassified expenses to proper cost centers/projects.
• Owned the Intercompany process for GE Renewable business - North America.

• Executed all monthly/quarterly accounting functions (month-end close tasks, journal entries, accruals, and providing ad hoc analysis).
• Participated in projects to redesign/improve processes and procedures.
• Completed over 15 process improvement projects for Salem Business.
• Key stake holder for Salem business migration into IP SAP.
• Primary global operations finance support for executing/validating core Finance processes in test environment.
• Tied-out/consolidated financial statements for 15 - 20 different business units.

• Posted daily/monthly journal entries to general ledger (Sage 100).
• Performed daily/monthly reconciliation of all company bank accounts (6 US banks and 4 international banks Mexico/Canada).
• Supported controller with month-end balance sheet reviews/analysis during month end close.
• Updated financial data in databases to ensure information will be accurate and immediately available when needed.
• Created vendor contracts/vendor accounts.
• Reconciled 60+ balance sheet accounts monthly.