Emilee Copeland

• Enter and process all cash related transactions for Marsico Capital, as well as the Marsico family personal payables.
• Collected and arranged financial information and entered details into Dynamics GP financial management system.
• Executed financial reporting, managing prepaid accounts, schedules, reconciliations, event settlements and month-end accruals.
• Assisted Controller with year-end financial audits.
• Calculated our clients 'Assets Under Management' cash flows weekly and reported to their financial institutions, all following SEC regulations.
• Billed clients quarterly for our management fee compensation.
• Setup new vendors in household accounts and prepare 1099 yearly filing
• Created journal entry schedules to improve efficiency, support and documentation of accounting processes at end-of-month closing.

Companies and Industries

• Bighorn Construction & Reclamation, LLC – Construction: Clean Energy/Oil & Gas
• Bighorn Investments & Properties, LLC – Asset & Property Management
• Enhanced Midstream, LLC – Petrochemical & Refining Services
• Bridgelink Investments, LLC –Investment Management Company
• Bridgelink Engineering, LLC – Turnkey Engineering, Procurement & Construction Services
• Bridgelink Commodities, LLC – Early Stage Renewable Energy Facilities Development
• Bridgelink Cave Springs, LLC – Solar Energy Generation Project
• Oak Creek Consulting, LLC – Renewable Energy Construction Services
• Intermountain Electric Service – Electrical Engineering & Substation Construction

Tasks Performed

• Established asset management systems and transferred all assets and liabilities for separate company set up by sale focusing on Asset and Property management.
• Special Projects management lead
• Performed forensic accounting to ready companies for impending audit requests.
• Calculating and processing Sales & Use Tax payments for 5 separate states.
• Coordinated and finalized quarterly and annual financial reporting packages.
• Monitored accounting, payroll and financial reporting activities.

• Provided financial management accounting services directly to Controller, CFO & Owner, on weekly & monthly basis.
• Created detailed financial models and applied analytical tools to facilitate variance analysis.
• Aligned all financial activity with GAAP regulations and standards.
• Investigated and resolved discrepancies in monthly bank accounts.
• Collaborated extensively with auditors during preliminary and year-end audit processes.
• Assessed accounting accuracy, performing daily cash functions, including A/P and A/R tracking, budgeting, payroll transactions, wage allocation, salary expenses, online donations and bank, credit card and petty cash reconciliations.
• Calculated daily draw from Ares Financial to cover our previous days payables. Requested $10+million on weekly basis.

Using GAAP Accrual Accounting, I was responsible for:

• Enter & process all accounts payable and accounts receivable.
• Performed revenue reporting biweekly and monthly.
• Calculate payment of all 1099 employees (Sales team and Technicians).
• Review revenue during month end close process for any unearned revenue.
• Utilize QuickBooks to account for all transactions and revenue.
• Reconcile all bank statements during month end close.
• Assist Controller with revenue portion of annual budget.
• Identify and resolve outstanding balances on monthly basis.

• Performed day-to-day financial transactions, including verifying, classifying, computing, posting and recording accounts payable data and reconciled daily totals to confirm proper accounting, for all 17 store locations and over 100 vendors.
• Worked closely with delinquent account holders to collect and reconcile accounts through approved channels.
• Improved billing and month-end reporting processes.

Achievements:

• Promoted twice in first 15 months of employment, from Basic Service Rep to Team Lead, to Manager
• Against target of 3% of product cost, reduced warranty service costs consistently below 0.5% for four consecutive quarters

Responsibilities:

• Managed Team of 5 individuals to dispatch service calls for Private Label Brands.
• Team handled 30-50 Service calls per day with over 95% positive rating back from customers
• Perform all A/P for brand, along with monthly reconciliation
• Handle and resolve all customer complaints about defective equipment
• Built and refined teams processes to address customer issues, as well as taught continuing education to direct team and other FSW departments, about new product line, common issues and spec changes
• Created system in Excel where I would track progress of my service team, track failure rates of product to ensure our service rates stayed low
• Assist Procurement department with inventory on when to reorder from factory
• Assist Marketing department with upcoming product line and sales
• Ensure Quality Control of over 120 different models of commercial kitchen equipment & work with factory on product improvements. When necessary, make the decision on when to discontinue products because of high failure rates
• Worked directly with Chinese factory on continuing to improve products specs; both public specs and technical specs
• Utilized Salesforce for service & sales data. Analyze data for trends & report to upper management on a bi-weekly, monthly & quarterly basis