Hamza Latif
West Babylon
Summary
A highly motivated financial/accounting professional with demonstrated experience in providing exceptional service to key clients to significantly increase productivity while ensuring accuracy and providing appropriate documentation and reporting. Motivated student with exceptional academic qualifications, including a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting and Business Management and Finance combined with solid hands-on experience in the industry. Excellent communicator and presenter who works well with individuals at all levels of a corporation. Superior technical and multitasking skills with the ability to integrate technology to increase accuracy and efficiency of accounting practices
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Staff Accountant (Contract)
DailyPay
10.2024 - 03.2025
- Perform month-end close activities including preparing journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, amortizing prepaid schedules and flux analysis
- Review all company credit card and transactions and employee reimbursements to make sure they are aligned with the Company Policy through Ramp
- Review, verify and process invoices from vendors for payment, ensuring accuracy in posting them to the correct account and department
- Analyze financial data to identify trends and variances between actual results, budgets and forecasts
- Assist with the internal and external yearly audit by gathering and providing necessary documentation and support for journal entries, policies and procedures requested by auditors
- Assist with many ad hoc projects assigned by team members and suggest process improvements to automate month end close tasks
Staff Accountant
Madhive
06.2023 - 09.2024
- Manage the accounts payable process, onboarded new vendors, ensure invoices are coded to the correct account, facilitated timely payments through Bill.com and resolved all vendor inquiries
- Perform various month end close procedures including journal entries and balance sheet reconciliations
- Maintain the fixed assets register, capitalization of various assets and recorded depreciation journal entries during month end close
- Ensure prepaid expenses schedules are amortized to the correct P&L accounts and reconciliations are performed
- Prepare various accruals for P&L accounts and ensure the journal entries are accompanied by proper support
- Review company corporate card transactions through Ramp and ensure they are synced properly to the GL
- Assist with the monthly Flux Analysis for all Balance Sheet and P&L accounts and provided explanations for all variances
- Assist with the yearly audit and provided support and schedules to external auditors in a timely manner
- Worked with FP&A to prepare budgets and forecasts as well as aligning actuals and forecasts on a monthly basis
- Developed and implemented accounting procedures and policies regarding accounts payable process and company corporate credit cards
- Automate various accounting tasks such as prepaid schedules and various complex accrual journal entries for month end close
Senior Accountant
Jetblue Airways Corp
01.2020 - 01.2022
- Perform critical accounting functions during the month end close including accruals for all airport expenses for over 35 JetBlue destinations, re-classing various invoices to prepaid accounts and ensuring Balance Sheet accounts are properly reconciled
- Accrued for all credits that were due to JetBlue from CARES ACT during close and trued up all accruals when actuals were available
- Worked with FP&A on a monthly basis to ensure the forecasts for P&L accounts are aligned with all of the actuals including various COVID expenses as well as COVID credits JetBlue received from Congress and Airports
- Prepare various Balance Sheet reconciliations including prepaid accounts, AP Accrued and several bank reconciliations
- Ensure prepaid account reconciliations are properly amortized every month to the correct P&L accounts and cost centers and bank reconciliations are properly reconciled along with preparing adjusting entries and writing off balances with approval from Accounting Director
- Prepare monthly reports of P&L accounts that had any large variances from actual vs forecast and brought them up to FP&A meetings so forecasts can be properly adjusted
- Assist with gathering support and documentation for audit selections from internal auditors, EY & KPMG
- Developed a few macros to make some of the month end close processes more smooth and efficient
- Responsible for running all reports for month end close from SAP and configuring them to make them more presentable and user friendly
Staff Accountant
Barnes & Noble
01.2018 - 12.2019
- Facilitate and manage the month-end close process and prepare financial statements including P&L, Balance Sheet and Statement of Cash Flows
- Manage the monthly expense report process, ensuring submissions are timely, expenses are properly classified and accounts are properly reconciled
- Assist and support AP/AR with reconciliations and billing along with reviewing supporting documentation
- Prepare schedules for various balance sheet accounts on a monthly basis
- Assist with providing support to internal and external auditors to ensure compliance
- Assist with analyzing financial statements on a monthly basis and report on variances versus plan and prior forecast for various company accounts
- Prepare monthly account analysis, reconciliations and various accounting schedules as part of the month-end close process
- Perform financial analysis on various P&L and balance sheet accounts and report any variances to upper management
- Perform monthly bank reconciliations and present corresponding adjusting journal entries to Accounting Supervisor and Accounting Manager for review and approval.
- Assist with monthly close including financial analysis on actual vs budget
- Prepare monthly reconciliations of various income statement and balance sheet accounts
Education
MBA - Business Administration
Brooklyn College
Brooklyn, NY06-2019
Bachelor of Science - Accounting And Finance
Brooklyn College
Brooklyn, NY06-2015
Skills
Microsoft Office(Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
Netsuite
Quickbooks Pro
Oracle
SAP
JD Edwards
Languages
English
Native or Bilingual
Urdu
Native or Bilingual
Punjabi
Native or Bilingual
Hindi
Full Professional
Spanish
Limited Working
Timeline
Staff Accountant (Contract)
DailyPay
10.2024 - 03.2025
Staff Accountant
Madhive
06.2023 - 09.2024
Senior Accountant
Jetblue Airways Corp
01.2020 - 01.2022
Staff Accountant
Barnes & Noble
01.2018 - 12.2019
MBA - Business Administration
Brooklyn College
Bachelor of Science - Accounting And Finance
Brooklyn College
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