Bonnie Le Ewert
San Jose,California
Summary
Highly skilled and self-motivated Senior Accountant with background in managing financial procedures and coordinating accounting operations. Strengths include conducting detailed financial analysis, enhancing internal controls, and ensuring regulatory compliance. Have led teams to improve financial efficiency and accuracy in previous roles.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Accountant
Zanker Resource Recovery, LLC
07.2022 - 12.2023
- Performing monthly and quarterly close functions including preparing and reviewing journals entries, reconciliation of balance sheet accounts, accrued liability, and financial statements analysis for 3 entities in accordance with US GAAP
- Analyze financial data, trends, and performance to provide actional insight
- Responsible for Revenue posting and yearly rate review for assigned accounts
- Perform intercompany elimination entries, reconciliation between entities and resolve any discrepancies at month end close
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure accurate and timely financial reporting
- Assisted with yearly external audits, SOX compliance, provide PCB listing and analysis as needed.
Senior Accountant (Consulting)
DeWinter Group
01.2022 - 06.2022
- Financial statements preparation, account reconciliations, and general ledger maintenance
- Analyzed departmental expenses to ensure accuracy and completeness of the recorded expenses
- Process prepaid related accounts expense recognition
- Support related areas of financial auditing and SOX internal control auditing
- Coordinate accounting matters with other departments, locations, and divisions.
Payroll Manager
Vivus Inc.
03.2019 - 09.2020
- Oversee the complete payroll process ensuring accurate payroll payments and reporting
- Provide reporting to Human Resources on various payroll related matters
- Perform rigorous audits of payroll data, including wages, tax withholdings, deductions, and garnishments
- Ensure accurate compensation operations inclusive of bonuses, commissions, equity transactions and benefits, etc
- Prepared months end close payroll journals and reconciled payroll related accounts
- Interface with external auditors for 401K, and worker’s compensation compliance
- Reconciliation of balance sheet accounts banking entries, prepaid insurance, debt, prepaid interest, and liabilities accounts
- Researched, prepared, and filed quarterly sales and use tax and yearly property tax (571L).
Senior Accountant
IEM
10.2016 - 02.2019
- Prepared monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements, weekly cashflow projections, and reconciled balance sheet accounts
- Managed and coordinated the monthly close process for inter-company eliminations entries, accruals, prepaid, balance sheet reconciliations, and general ledger to ensure all transactions are recorded and completed
- Reviewed and analyzed financial statements for anomaly, trends, and accuracies, and provided explanations to management
- Prepared and assisted in the annual financial audit schedule, ensured all requirements deliverables are met.
Accounting Supervisor
Abaxis, Inc.
07.2009 - 10.2016
- Managed all aspects of Accounts Payable department, Fixed Assets, CIP, Project Costing and T&E Travel to validate accuracy of information for recording on time and meet deadline for quarter-end and year-end close
- Supervised, reviewed, and approved transactions, weekly checks disbursement, domestic and international wires, corporate credit card purchases and reconciliations
- Managed company fixed assets function including capital expenditures, prepared PP&E roll-forwards, and year-end physical inventory to ensure the accuracy of disposals, additions, and impairment of assets
- Managed CIP process reviewed and approved capital expenditures for purchases of capital assets
- Streamlined process improvements, identified systems and process gaps, provided training on new procedures, and participate in ERP implementation and upgrades
- Maintained and ensure compliance of SOX by documenting processes and monitor control gaps.
Senior Accountant
Network Physics
12.2005 - 12.2008
- Managed day-to-day activities including General Ledger, A/P, Fixed Assets, and ADP Payroll process
- Managed fixed assets, additions, disposal, and prepared roll-forward schedule
- Collaborated with department managers for yearly budget of capital expenditures
- Managed day-to-day banking transactions, cash management, prepared wire transfer for domestic and international, and bank reconciliations
- Processed payroll bi-weekly for both the company and its subsidiaries in Canada including voluntary deductions, such as garnishments, 401(k), HSA.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Accounting
Golden Gate University
Institute of Finance & Management (IOFM)
Skills
- Self-motivated
- Work well independently
- Strong time management
- Attention to detail
- Ability to effectively interact verbally
- Ability to effectively interact in writing
- ERP systems
- Epicor
- Great Plains
- QAD
- NetSuite
- INFOR
- QuickBooks
- ADP WFN
- Excel skills
- Pivot tables
- V-lookups
- Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
- Financial statement review
- General ledger updates
- GAAP proficiency
- Payroll Oversight
- General ledger accounting
- Financial Reporting
- Payroll Processing
- Journal entry posting
- Internal Controls
- Audit Support
- Variance Analysis
- Cash Flow Management
- Bank Reconciliation
Timeline
Senior Accountant
Zanker Resource Recovery, LLC
07.2022 - 12.2023
Senior Accountant (Consulting)
DeWinter Group
01.2022 - 06.2022
Payroll Manager
Vivus Inc.
03.2019 - 09.2020
Senior Accountant
IEM
10.2016 - 02.2019
Accounting Supervisor
Abaxis, Inc.
07.2009 - 10.2016
Senior Accountant
Network Physics
12.2005 - 12.2008
Bachelor of Science - Accounting
Golden Gate University
Institute of Finance & Management (IOFM)
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