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Chelsea Sutton

Middleton,ID

Summary

Detail-oriented accounting professional with expertise in payroll processing, financial reconciliations, and compliance management. Skilled in QuickBooks and experienced in overseeing employee benefits and payroll taxes. Seeking an accounting position to apply extensive skills in optimizing financial operations and ensuring regulatory adherence.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience

Work History

Bookeeper/HR

Canyon County Construction and Repair, LLC
Parma, ID
05.2023 - Current
  • Oversaw time sheets and attendance: Managed employee work hours and attendance records.
  • Job costing: Assigned and tracked costs for specific projects to monitor profitability.
  • Compliance with subcontractor insurance and W-9s: Ensured subcontractors provided required insurance certificates and tax forms.
  • Processing payroll: Calculated and distributed employee wages, deductions, and benefits.
  • Daily financial transactions: Recorded bank transactions, checks, and customer payments.
  • Monthly account reconciliation: Verified and balanced financial records to ensure accuracy.
  • Receipt management: Scanned and recorded receipts in QuickBooks Online for accurate financial tracking.
  • Journal entries: Recorded financial transactions in the general ledger for accurate reporting.
  • Employee advances: Managed deductions from paychecks for employee advances.
  • Accrued sick leave: Tracked and managed employees' accrued sick leave balances.
  • Petty cash reconciliation: Balanced and maintained petty cash funds.
  • Employee benefits administration: Managed employee benefits and ensured compliance with company policies.

Accounting Clerk

Precision Communications, Inc
Boise, ID
10.2013 - 03.2015
  • Experienced in comprehensive office management and financial administration, reporting directly to the Controller
  • Handled diverse responsibilities including answering/transferring calls, setting up contracts and service orders, converting quotes, processing invoices/commissions, managing accounts payable, and ensuring tax compliance
  • Maintained up-to-date accounts receivable records and coordinated monthly billing activities.
  • Processed sales tax returns in accordance with state regulations.
  • Resolved customer inquiries regarding bills and payments.
  • Assisted with the preparation of month-end close activities including journal entries, reconciliations, accruals.
  • Assisted with external audits conducted by accounting firms.
  • Supported sales operations, managed job costing, processed lending applications, and verified timesheets
  • Conducted year-end inventory counts and participated in weekly municipal meetings.
  • Processed invoices, payments, and statements in a timely manner.

Office Manager/Bookkeeper

Sutton’s Iris Garden and Sutton Family Trust
Porterville, CA
03.2010 - 09.2013
  • Managed two companies at one time, managed workers, took order’s and payment over phone and in person, helped customers pick up their orders, managed and processed: payroll, payroll taxes, sales tax forms, petty cash, workers compensation, bill pay, mail, paperwork for UPS Worldship to pick up, bank reconciliation, deposits, invoiced and billed customers in QuickBooks and Active Accounting and Fishbowl Inventory, filled, processed phytosanitary certificates for foreign shipments, and issued gift certificates
  • Created templates to make paperwork more clear and easy to process
  • Took charge of event planning and organization
  • Processed tasks in intense and stressful situations.
  • Resolved customer inquiries in a timely manner while maintaining positive relationships with clients.
  • Developed and implemented office policies and procedures.
  • Monitored inventory levels and placed orders when needed.
  • Tracked invoices and payments to ensure accuracy of accounts receivable and payable information.

Bookkeeper

Natural Springs Pool Service, Inc
Visalia, CA
01.2010 - 01.2011
  • Processed mail, answered phones, invoiced and mailed reports to customers, filed, processed payments and deposits in QuickBooks.

Secretary/Bookkeeper

Allied Energy Services
Visalia, CA
01.2004 - 01.2010
  • Processed mail, answered phones, scheduled appointments, input data into Microsoft Access and Excel, invoiced and mailed reports to customers, filed paperwork, processed e-deposit, processed industry-specific paperwork in Acrobat, processed bill pay, processed payroll, payroll taxes, and processed bank reconciliation in QuickBooks.

Education

Accounting and Business Management

College of The Sequoias
Visalia, CA
08-2009

High School Diploma -

Golden West High School
Visalia, CA
05-2009

Skills

  • Typing - 69 WPM
  • Payroll Processing
  • State & Federal Tax Processing
  • Process State payroll forms
  • Process year-end forms: W-2, 1099, W-3, 943, and 940
  • Create Templates
  • Multi Line Telephones
  • Professional Filing
  • 10 key
  • Microsoft Office Programs
  • QuickBooks Desktop and Quickbooks Online
  • E-Deposit Banking
  • Acrobat and Adobe
  • Active Accounting
  • Fishbowl Inventory
  • TigerPaw
  • UPS Worldship
  • Time Trax
  • My Postage Rate Saver
  • Google Drive
  • Gusto

References

  • Evan Messerschmidt, (208) 614-9622, Employer
  • Heidi Woodhead, (208) 860-2458, Former Employer
  • Michael Sutton, (559) 359-6957, Former Employer

Timeline

Bookeeper/HR

Canyon County Construction and Repair, LLC
05.2023 - Current

Accounting Clerk

Precision Communications, Inc
10.2013 - 03.2015

Office Manager/Bookkeeper

Sutton’s Iris Garden and Sutton Family Trust
03.2010 - 09.2013

Bookkeeper

Natural Springs Pool Service, Inc
01.2010 - 01.2011

Secretary/Bookkeeper

Allied Energy Services
01.2004 - 01.2010

Accounting and Business Management

College of The Sequoias

High School Diploma -

Golden West High School
Chelsea Sutton