Deborah L Wise
Waynesboro,PA
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Assistant to the Financial Officer
Penn State Mont Alto
Mont Alto, PA
05.2009 - 02.2018
- Reviewed travel expenses submitted by staff to ensure they were in compliance with College policy
- Prepared budget entries
- Reviewed and reconciled accounts
- Developed and updated spreadsheets and databases to track, analyze and report on performance
- Performed audits of the various departments to make sure they were in compliance with College policies
- Collected payments from students, answered calls from students and parents to reconcile any problems
Staff Accountant
Barrows Sollenberger Group
Chambersburg, PA
10.2008 - 05.2009
- Collected and arranged financial information and entered details into the practice's financial management system.
- Executed financial reporting, schedules, reconciliations, month-end accruals.
- Assisted the CPA's with year-end financial audits.
- Created journal entry schedules to improve efficiency, support and documentation of accounting processes.
- Prepared income tax returns
- Worked with clients to resolve problems
- Prepared bank statements
Unit Clerk
Waynesboro Hospital
Waynesboro, PA
09.2007 - 07.2008
- Prepared admissions charts and scanned records.
- Answered unit calls and took messages for healthcare staff to maximize team productivity.
- Answered multi-line telephone system, provided information and directed calls.
- Documented updates to patient information in medical charts while maintaining HIPAA compliance protecting confidentiality of records.
- Interacted with customers by phone, email or in-person to provide information.
- Prepared admission packets for incoming patients
- Entered doctors orders, reviewed the patient charts to make sure that the physician had signed all verbal orders
Office Manager
Dick, Stein, Shemel & Wine
Waynesboro, United States
02.2002 - 09.2003
- Maintained the financial records for the law practice.
- Prepared payroll for office staff
- Worked with estate clients assisting them with the closing of the decedent's estate (approximately 85% of my job)
- Hiring new staff
Accounting Manager
Hagerstown Community College
Hagerstown, MD
08.1989 - 02.2002
- Managed banking reconciliations and monthly balance sheet statements.
- Managed journal entries, collection efforts, reconciliations and payroll processing.
- Tracked business revenue and expenditures and reconciled accounts to maintain high accuracy.
- Prepared budget transfers for accounts that were overdrawn
- Prepared monthly financial statements for the Board of Directors
- Supervised 4 accounting clerks
- To control past due accounts I implemented a system where the student payments were collected by a third party which decreased the amount of past due accounts.
- Organized budget documentation and tracked expenses to maintain tight business controls.
- Implemented budget and expense controls and financial policies by analyzing income and expenditures.
Accounts Receivable Supervisor
Washington County Hospital (now Meritus Medical)
Hagerstown, MD
07.1989 - 08.1989
- Supervised 2 clerks who reviewed accounts receivable entries
- Prepared monthly bank statements
- Prepared monthly journal entries
- Managed the Hospital investments, working with various investment companies to obtain the maximum return on the Hospital's investments
- Reconciled the Due to/Due from account between the Hospital and Antietam Humane Services
- Prepared monthly financial statements, as well as financial ratios for the Board of Directors
Education
Bachelor of Science - Accounting
Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania
Shippensburg, PA05.1987
Certification
CPA - May 1994, left my license expire December 31, 2021
Timeline
Assistant to the Financial Officer
Penn State Mont Alto
05.2009 - 02.2018
Staff Accountant
Barrows Sollenberger Group
10.2008 - 05.2009
Unit Clerk
Waynesboro Hospital
09.2007 - 07.2008
Office Manager
Dick, Stein, Shemel & Wine
02.2002 - 09.2003
Accounting Manager
Hagerstown Community College
08.1989 - 02.2002
Accounts Receivable Supervisor
Washington County Hospital (now Meritus Medical)
07.1989 - 08.1989
Bachelor of Science - Accounting
Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania
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