James Doucette
Goodwin Partners, LLP
Andover
1
Language
1
Certification
10
years of professional experience
Experienced Senior Accountant successful at cultivating effective working relationships at all levels with a proven track record of performing quality work while maintaining integrity of all financial data.
Work History
Senior Accountant
2 Years 5 Months- Assisted small businesses throughout New England with bookkeeping needs, managing full-cycle accounting processes and fostering positive vendor-client relationships through effective communication. Managed the full-cycle accounting process while fostering a positive working relationship between the client and their vendors through consistent communication.
- Process payables and receivables through various accounting platforms, such as Quickbooks Desktop, Quickbooks Online, and Appfolio for clients in a wide array of professions, ranging from schools, music stores, hotels, and more.
- Executed vendor payments using checks and electronic funds transfers to ensure timely transactions.
- Run complex budget vs. actual reports to illustrate a client's financial position in relation to what was originally budgeted.
- Prepared complex budget vs. actual reports, providing clients with insights into financial positions compared to initial budgets.
- Recorded detailed transactions through simple to complex journal entries, including payroll, ensuring accurate financial reporting.
- Cultivated client relations through regular correspondence with vendors about invoicing and payment.
- Conducted regular account reconciliations and performed maintenance to ensure accurate financial records.
Accountant
1 Year 5 Months- Managed monthly bookkeeping for various small businesses using Quickbooks Online across diverse industries.
- Reconciled client books with bank accounts, maintaining financial integrity and identifying discrepancies
- Prepared quarterly and yearly tax returns for individuals and small businesses, including LLCs, corporations, and non-profits, ensuring compliance with tax regulations
Accounts Payable Analyst III
1 Year- Processed a high volume of invoices timely and accurately.
- Executed daily check requests and weekly pay runs via check and ACH wire transfers to meet payment deadlines.
- Coordinated with vendors to resolve payment discrepancies and update banking details, ensuring efficient transaction management.
Accounts Payable Lead
1 Year 3 Months- Led the Accounts Payable team and supervised various tasks, including:
- Trained, monitored, and supervised AP team members, serving as main point of contact for inquiries and resolving internal and external vendor issues.
- Maintained client-vendor relationships through timely and accurate invoice processing and payments.
- Processing weekly check runs for the Care Delivery branch of DentaQuest's subsidiary clinics
- Build the daily payment reports to send to upper management, requesting approval to process wire, ACH, or check payments for that day
- Compiled daily payment reports for management review, detailing all transactions processed that day. to send to upper management, requesting approval to process wire, ACH, or check payments for that day
Accounts Payable Accountant
11 Months- Working for Nexamp, Inc was extremely rewarding as I felt I as though I was doing my part to help with the current climate crisis. My responsibilities included:
- Processing vendor invoices and reconciling vendor aging reports
- Processing payments out of the many different entities and recording those transactions under the appropriate trial balances that operate under the Nexamp, Inc. umbrella of companies
- Maintained vendor and customer relations through timely processing of vendor invoices and energy credit payments, troubleshooting and resolving customer issues as they arose.
- Processed payments across multiple entities and recorded transactions under appropriate trial balances for Nexamp, Inc. subsidiaries.
- Executed journal entries to transfer funds between subsidiaries.
- Performed weekly Open Invoice reports to determine invoices that are coming due and to help generate our weekly check run
- Created, updated, and maintained vendor records, including banking details and tax documents.
- Assisted with yearly 1099 processing
Accounts Payable Accountant
1 Year- Maintained strong vendor and client relations through exceptional customer service, addressing concerns promptly and professionally.
- Processed and reconciled vendor invoices to ensure accurate and timely payments.
- Submitting daily payment recommendations to management for our vendors all around the world.
- Maintain and update vendor files and banking information when necessary.
- Updated vendor files to ensure accurate and current information. and banking information when necessary.
- Sent payment confirmations to vendors to verify transactions. to our vendors so they were aware that a payment has been made
- Maintaining our foreign currency contract log. The company purchased specific amounts of each currency at a unique rate and each contract had to be maintained and tracked as the funds were used to ensure there was always an adequate balance in our accounts
- Reconciling our company Biz Now prepaid Visa cards that were used by our Tour Directors when leading a tour.
- Processing Tour Director expense reports and reconciling with their Biz Now financial activity to determine if the Tour Director was owed additional funds in addition to their respective salaries
Account Payable Accountant
1 Year 9 Months- Reviewed expense reports for compliance with company policies, ensuring accurate financial practices
- Processing payments via online portal, ACH, wire, and credit card. Many of our wire payments were in foreign currency and needed to be booked as such in our accounting system using the foreign currency conversion received per each payment
- Provided management with Open Invoice Report and payment selections, facilitating timely cash flow management
- Processed payments via online portal, ACH, wire, and credit card, accurately booking foreign currency transactions in accounting system
- Handled administrative tasks, including preparing labels for FedEx and DHL pickups.
Education
Accounting (Master's)
Skills
Accounts payable management
Accounts payable
GAAP compliance
Payroll processing
Journal entries
GAAP compliance
Certification
Driver's License
Languages
English
Links
http://www.linkedin.com/in/james-doucette-9b4b18122
Timeline
Senior Accountant
Goodwin Partners, LLP
03.2024 - CurrentRead More
Accountant
Gorton & Company, P.C.
08.2022 - 01.2024Read More
Accounts Payable Analyst III
IDEMIA
08.2021 - 08.2022Read More
Accounts Payable Lead
DentaQuest
05.2020 - 08.2021Read More
Accounts Payable Accountant
NEXAMP INC
06.2019 - 05.2020Read More
Accounts Payable Accountant
Odysseys Unlimited
06.2018 - 06.2019Read More
Account Payable Accountant
Clinton Health Access Initiative
10.2016 - 07.2018Read More
SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE UNIVERSITY
Accounting (Master's)
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