T. Christopher Lewis
Vertex, Inc.
Chesapeake,VA
13
years of professional experience
Detail-oriented Accounting Professional with extensive experience in financial management and reporting. Delivered accurate financial record-keeping and auditing through strong analytical skills and proficiency in various accounting software. Committed to supporting business needs by leveraging problem-solving techniques and effective collaboration.
Work History
Accountant III
2 Years 11 Months- • Oversee end‑to‑end bank reconciliation processes, direct ad hoc banking activities, authorize
inter‑account transfers, and ensure the accuracy of complex adjusting journal entries.
• Lead intercompany reconciliation efforts and govern the preparation of standard and
non-standard monthly journal entries to support timely, accurate consolidated financial
reporting.
• Provide oversight of accrued liability reconciliations, performing analytical reviews to validate
completeness, proper cutoff, and alignment with operational activity.
• Direct revenue reconciliation and allocation processes, ensuring adherence to revenue
recognition policies (ASC 606) and cross-functional alignment.
• Manage payroll-related journal entries and reconciliations with a focus on compliance,
accuracy, and internal control integrity.
• Oversee reconciliation of current and long-term liability accounts, ensuring consistency with
supporting schedules, agreements, and financial reporting requirements.
• Maintain governance over prepaid amortization schedules, ensuring accurate expense
recognition and policy compliance.
• Supervise fixed asset accounting, including depreciation methodologies, asset lifecycle
management, and alignment with capital expenditure policies.
• Manage long-term debt amortization schedules, ensuring precise allocation of interest and
principal in accordance with debt agreements.
• Conduct high-level income statement and balance sheet flux analyses, providing insights that
inform management decision-making and highlight emerging trends.
• Champion process optimization by identifying inefficiencies, implementing automation
opportunities, and strengthening internal control frameworks.
• Serve as a key liaison during year-end financial statement audits, preparing audit-ready
documentation and coordinating responses to external auditor inquiries. - Developed and implemented efficient accounting workflows to streamline operations and reduce processing time.
- Led monthly financial close processes to ensure accurate reporting and compliance with accounting standards.
Senior Cost Accountant
1 Year 3 Months- Lead the month-end cost accounting close, ensuring accurate recognition of COGS, inventory valuation, and manufacturing variances.
- Oversee standard cost development, annual cost roll processes, and ongoing cost model maintenance to support strategic pricing and margin analysis.
- Conduct detailed analysis of material, labor, and overhead variances; partner with Operations and Supply Chain leadership to identify cost drivers and implement corrective actions.
- Manage inventory accounting across multiple locations, including cycle count oversight, reconciliation of inventory discrepancies, and review of obsolete/slow-moving inventory reserves.
- Prepare and review complex journal entries related to inventory, manufacturing variances, overhead absorption, and cost allocations.
- Perform gross margin analysis and provide insights into product-level profitability, cost trends, and operational efficiency.
- Enhanced cost accounting systems for alignment with GAAP and internal control requirements.
- Collaborate with FP&A to support budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning through cost modeling and scenario analysis.
- Develop and maintain cost-related schedules, including standard cost updates, burden rate calculations, and production cost roll-forwards.
- Support capital expenditure analysis, fixed asset tracking, and depreciation review as it relates to manufacturing operations.
- Streamlined cost workflows and implemented automation opportunities to improve data accuracy.
- Liaised during internal and external audits, providing cost-related documentation and ensuring compliance.
Senior Revenue Accountant
1 Year 3 Months- Lead the month-end revenue close process, ensuring accurate and timely recognition in accordance with ASC 606 and internal policy.
- Oversee complex revenue reconciliations, including deferred revenue, unbilled receivables, contract assets/liabilities, and multi-element arrangements.
- Review and approve revenue-related journal entries, allocations, and adjustments, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and proper cutoff.
- Analyze revenue trends, variances, and key performance drivers; deliver insights that support executive decision-making and forecasting.
- Partner with Sales, FP&A, Billing, and Legal to evaluate contract terms, identify revenue implications, and ensure compliance with accounting standards.
- Managed preparation and maintenance of revenue schedules, ensuring accurate amortization of contract costs and effective tracking of revenue waterfalls and performance obligations.
- Support pricing and deal-desk activities by assessing revenue impacts of non-standard terms, discounts, and bundled offerings.
- Strengthened internal controls over revenue processes, enhancing documentation, optimizing workflows, and implementing system improvements.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to streamline billing and invoicing processes, improving overall efficiency of revenue-related operations.
- Serve as a subject-matter expert on revenue recognition, providing guidance to internal stakeholders and contributing to policy development.
- Lead audit support for revenue-related areas, preparing audit-ready documentation and coordinating responses to external audits.
Accountant
2 Years 2 Months- Reconciling month end balance sheet accounts.
- Account reconciliations and recurring journal entry maintenance and processing.
- Process intercompany entries and maintain intercompany account reconciliations.
- Coordinated with Finance Director on marketing account management and reconciliation; processed accrual adjustments based on forecasts.
- Coordinate with campus Presidents and Controller for Escrow account management and reconciliation, process monthly incurred expenses.
- Analyzed month-over-month fluctuations in revenue and expense accounts, provided commentary to management, and formulated strategies to address variances.
- Developed processes and formulated strategies to minimize monthly closing window and streamline existing tasks.
- Performed projects and tasks, analyzing existing data to identify redundancies and improve current processes.
General Ledger Staff Accountant
5 Years 2 Months- Executed monthly intercompany journal entries and reconciled accounts to ensure accurate financial reporting.
- Process SAP entries for monthly expense allocations.
- Perform monthly bank reconciliations for Trust and Operating cash accounts.
- Record Weekly Concur AP entries in Sagitta and other transactional uploads.
- Managed fixed asset maintenance and reconciliation processes..
- Completed DB deferred revenue reconciliations and investigated variances to maintain financial integrity.
- Approve EFT/WIRE and late funding requests.
- Complete monthly, quarterly, and annual Sales & Use Tax Filings.
- Prepared and posted other journal entries and month-end account reconciliations.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Business Administration, Accounting Concentration
Skills
Financial reporting
General ledger management
Accounts payable and receivable
Bank reconciliation
Bookkeeping
Account reconciliation
Cash flow analysis
ERP systems proficiency
Fixed asset management
Full-cycle accounting
Revenue recognition
Cloud accounting
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