Manage corporate accounting functions, including month-end close, reconciliations, and financial reporting.
Manage thirty general ledger accounts and ensure all transactions are properly recorded and reconciled.
Establish and maintain intercompany relationships, ensuring accurate recording and elimination of intercompany balances.
Review and approve account reconciliations prepared by junior staff.
Coordinate the annual audit process with external auditors.
Assist in reviewing invoices submitted for payment, verifying accuracy and adherence to company policies.
Maintain compliance with all regulatory requirements and assist in the implementation of accounting policies and procedures.
Senior Financial Analyst, General Accounting
The Home Depot SSC
01.2022 - 04.2022
Reviewed and provided feedback on offshore associates’ close tasks such as journal entries, reconciliations, and amortization schedules.
Trained and lead General Accounting teams’ offshore associates.
Transitioned Gross Margin and General Accounting tasks to new hires and offshore team.
Prepared and completed of P&L basis point and Balance Sheet variance analysis.
Senior Accountant, US Gross Margin
The Home Depot SSC
01.2021 - 01.2022
Enhanced inventory accounting processes by leveraging Alteryx workflows, and improved efficiency resulting in time savings of 15 hours per month.
Lead and participated in SOX Control redesign allowing for time savings of 5 hours per day.
Automated manual journal entries, by leveraging Blackline, saving 5 hours during close.
Mentored staff accountants on career development, and held monthly meetings to discuss personal and career goals.
Conducted monthly goal meetings for Gross Margin team, and encouraged engagement from team members.
Responsible for training new contractors and new hires on systems and tasks.
Staff Accountant, US Gross Margin
The Home Depot SSC
01.2020 - 01.2021
Performed monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes such as forecasting, reporting, and reconciling of inventory related accounts.
Responsible for reviewing and completing daily markdown SOX Control for 2,300 stores (~$500M yearly impact on financials).
Communicated and resolved accounting discrepancies with management and other departments.
Collaborated with Finance Innovation team to create inventory dashboard for online store to monitor and drill down on monthly variances.
Effectively maintained remote business partner relationships, such as Merchandise Payables, Supply Chain finance, Sales Audit team, and Store operations (recipient of 1 Homer Award and 7 Brag Awards).
External Reporting Specialist
United Parcel Service
01.2019 - 12.2019
Updated monthly stock-compensation expense queries in Access database, and conducted monthly audits to ensure the database was calculating expense with accuracy.
Assisted in implementation of new software for stock-based compensation to increase efficiency.
Interpreted accounting data and developed various footnotes and supporting documents for Annual Reporting (10 - K and 10 - Q forms,) in compliance with SEC and GAAP reporting regulation.
Internal Audit Intern
United Parcel Service
06.2017 - 12.2018
Completed quarterly and annual quality reviews of completed internal audits.
Created, distributed and followed-up on weekly and monthly audit related exception reports.
Education
Bachelor of Business Administration - Accounting
Kennesaw State University
Kennesaw, Georgia
12.2018
Skills
Proficient in Microsoft Office (Excel, Powerpoint)
Proficient in running DB2/IBM queries
Proficient in JD Edwards and SAP
Familiar with Alteryx, Blackline, GBQ, Tableau, and Workiva