Erin Carpenter

• Assisted executive leadership in making data-driven decisions by providing timely financial insights and analysis.
• Worked with accounting director to manage quarterly and year end audit process with GT, gathering and submitting PBC's along with weekly status meetings.
• Ensured compliance with GAAP and other regulatory requirements through diligent review of financial records and documentation.
• Supported controller and accounting director with special projects and additional job duties.
• Worked to make sure monthly closes were on schedule, reviewed journal entries, assigned work to individuals as needed, and assisted with questions as needed.
• Responsible for weekly payroll batching, monthly payroll accrual for driver and non-driver, along with monthly payroll analysis to determine reasonableness.
• Fixed Assets experience, additions of assets, moving active assets to AHFS, providing NBV to legal and facilities teams, CIP clean up.
• Balance sheet reconciliations both simplistic and complex. Preparing and reviewing monthly reconciliation making sure to provide subledger to GL reconciliations.
• Various month end expense accruals, prepaid amortization, and system allocation processing. Including monthly insurance and corporate allocation processes in Essbase.

General Accounting Manager Academies, 10/2020 – 10/2023

• Improved overall financial reporting by streamlining control processes and reporting structures.
• Responsible for all month end activity including revenue recognition, expense analysis and recognition, accruals, BS reconciliation preparation, and bank reconciliations.
• Quarterly Sales Tax and Disability reporting to NY State and DOL insurance companies.
• Implemented several new internal controls to bring NTTS more in line with Swift compliance processes. Included but not limited to AP invoice review and approval, expense report processing and approval process, and cash handling in the AR department.
• Checked payroll, vendor payments, commissions and other accounting disbursements for accuracy and compliance.
• Provided the management team with timely and accurate financial statements including monthly review and analysis.
• Worked with management at NTTS to build, test, and train a new SFS that went live August 2022. This included scrubbing student data from previous system to pull into new student system, building out GL in new system, and testing and improving reporting in new system.

• Work on major system conversion from QB to Sage Intacct. This was comprised of converting old GL structure to new GL structure, deep analysis to make sure mapping of GL was accurate and tied to old system, total conversion of FA from Excel to new Intacct system, and setting up both transactional and system allocations.
• Own the completely manual prepaid process including recording and mapping out the life of the prepaid in Excel, booking the prepaid entry, and reconciling the accounts monthly.
• Own the fixed asset process including running the monthly depreciation, disposing of and selling assets, assigning asset to the correct locations and employees, and yearly inventory.
• Responsible for posting bye-weekly payroll JE, monthly payroll accrual, monthly PTO accrual, and employee FSA activities. Payroll entries include 401K forfeiture entries and reconciliation.
• Responsible for the Health BI team revenue entries, aging, collections, bank reconciliation, and CAP Software analysis and entries. Worked closely with HBI team in creating a plan for the 2020 calendar year for capex and CAP Software rules.
• Responsible for creating monthly financial packages. This process includes a financial analysis with comments provided to executive management team on actual vs. budget variances and distribution.
• Responsible for various interim and year end audit assistance including explaining corporate process and schedules. Including assisting in writing various accounting memos at year end.
• Responsible for monthly expense report review and approval, review of AMEX card reconciliation and accrual.

• Revenue Analytics, including monthly projections, month end accruals, and research of allocation errors daily.
• Monthly expense account accruals and reconciliations.
• Intercompany balance reconciliation done monthly to account for all intercompany transactions.
• Stock Compensation Expense reconciliation for both Equity and Liability stock options. Includes adjustments to beneficiary awards and retirement expense adjustments.
• Reconciling Employee Stock Purchase Program payroll deductions and quarterly stock purchases.
• Monthly P&L review and Financial Statement Analysis. Looking for any unexpected variances month over month and researching the driving cause, weather that be system malfunction or missed accrual opportunities.
• Quarterly and Year End analytical reviews and account rolls prior to financial press release and audit sign off.

• Company Overview: (Previously Corinthian Colleges Inc., Santa Ana, CA)
• Created a comprehensive revenue report taking the internal monthly revenue review process down from one week to one day at post month end.
• Month end revenue accrual journal entry uploads and reporting.
• Worked with the IT team in creating and testing an automated billing process for the linear student population to cut the manual billing process dramatically.
• Quarterly linear billing calendar completion and distribution to management team and campus.
• Worked closely with Divisional Managers and campus Presidents to make sure tuition is billed and revenue is earning at the appropriate daily run rate.
• Working with upper management creating processes to help streamline the reporting process from corporate offices to the school level. Including reporting KPI's.
• Month end account reconciliation for inactive/active AR split.
• Supported year end close process including the gathering of data for license renewals at year end.
• Assist with monthly internal audit and annual external audit gathering requested materials and providing explanation of internal processes.

Sr. Student Accounts Analyst, 04/2009 – 10/2011

• Worked closely with campus faculty to help resolve revenue issues along with tuition and fee billing issues.
• In depth, monthly revenue review for over 30 schools both pre and post month end.
• Worked closely with creating a SOX 67 tuition review process, creating a report comparing tuition billed to the Enrollment Agreements signed by students.
• Worked closely with the planning team on the implementation of the new Campus Vue Student System.
• Worked with campus and upper management with monthly cash flow and expectation reports, both for quarterly reporting and collection efforts.
• Worked with internal audit providing reporting for tuition postings processed at the school level and for profits processed at both the school and corporate level.
• Worked daily in the Altiris system processing and resolving ticket submissions submitted from schools, Internal Audit, Financial Services, and Student Services/Legal.

Staff Accountant, 05/2006 – 04/2009

• Reconcile Cash Receipts Journals for twenty schools.
• Keep in contact with the schools to help with any bookkeeping questions they may have.
• Monthly Journal entries and reconciliation of eight major accounts for each of my twenty schools.
• Reconcile Student Account issues.
• Processing tuition write up or down and ledger balance write offs.
• Reconcile Department of Education funds making sure Title 4 deposits are posted to student ledgers correctly within three days.