Colton Hale

• Established and operate a bookkeeping firm, leveraging over 7 years of expertise in Quickbooks Online Products.
• Expertly cater to the bookkeeping needs of small businesses and individual clients.
• Key achievements include streamlining financial record maintenance, enhancing payroll processing efficiency, adeptly managing accounts payable and receivable, skillfully aiding in year-end closings for tax purposes, and consistently delivering timely, accurate financial reports.

• Senior Associate Bookkeeper at a leading financial software company, focusing on providing high-quality bookkeeping services remotely.
• Responsibilities include meticulous financial record-keeping, efficient transaction processing, and delivering tailored financial solutions to a diverse client base, contributing to enhanced financial accuracy and client satisfaction.

• Provided comprehensive bookkeeping services remotely for a dynamic firm.
• Key roles included managing financial documentation, executing accurate book entries, payroll processing, and developing financial reports that aided strategic decision-making.
• Demonstrated exceptional ability in ensuring financial compliance and operational efficiency.

• Managed financial operations and bookkeeping tasks for a leading solar energy company on a part-time basis.
• Oversaw financial record-keeping, budget management, payroll processing, and account reconciliation.
• Played a pivotal role in financial strategy formulation, contributing significantly to the company's fiscal health and growth.

• Managed team of 2 Finance Coordinators, 1 State Registration Coordinator, and 2 Finance Interns.
• Worked closely with management teams (Including CEO, CFO, CIO, and VP's) to plan, develop, coordinate and execute technical strategies aligned to company's vision, mission and purpose.
• Played key role in on-going network design, reevaluation and optimization to keep pace with company growth.
• Analyzed network security and current infrastructure to assess areas in need of improvement and develop solutions.
• Oversaw development and implementation of improvements to support and cloud-based network operations.
• Coordinated many automation projects, including defining scope, managing milestones and maintaining strong relationships with all stakeholders.
• Reviewed and assessed architecture design, implementation, testing and deployment needs to identify project requirements and costs.

• Managed team of 2 Finance Coordinators by monitoring and evaluating through completion of annual performance reviews, recommend advancement or address productivity concerns.
• Researched and drove integration of Quickbooks Online to increase efficiency of accounting systems and replace outdated Quickbooks Desktop system.
• Created documents to display financial reports and data using Quickbooks Online.
• Partnered with CEO, CIO, CFO, and various VP's to develop robust financial business plan with detailed benchmarks and action plans.
• Consulted with representatives of regulatory agencies to complete accurate filings and uphold strict compliance.
• Trained new and existing staff members in various financial procedures to prepare for job requirements.
• Created organizational structures to improve accounting and finance functions.
• Executed core financial processes, including vendor setup and payment, operational expenses, administration of bank accounts and account reconciliations.

• Assisted CFO in keeping accurate records as well as managing accounts payables, accounts receivables, credit cards, contract renewals, etc.
• Developed strong understanding of advanced excel equations to automate countless spreadsheets and improve efficiencies.
• Lead Finance department in deployment of new Sharepoint, OneDrive, Planner, Power Automate and other cutting age Microsoft Office applications.
• Used automation and technological experience to help automate many business processes across various different departments through management of multiple projects.
• Worked directly with two developers based in India as Product Owner and Q/A to develop and deploy proprietary web application that replaced multiple different legacy project management and CRM systems creating over 200 new tickets in first two years of development.

Deans List Spring 2014 through Fall 2017 / GLIAC All- Academic Team in 2014 and 2015 / National Football Foundation Hampshire Honors Society