Jami Miller
Saint Louis,Missouri
Summary
Degreed Accounting Professional with solid experience working for a large company / corporation and a track record of performance and contribution in fast-paced environments. Accounting, Finance & Audit experience includes working with individuals within all levels of the corporate hierarchy, debt service, investments, and accounts receivable. Strengths include but not limited to adept at handling challenging situations, excellent interpersonal skills, outstanding organization and prioritization abilities. A fair minded, optimistic, hardworking and extremely reliable team member. CORE ACCOUNTING COMPETENCIES Practical work experience combined with academic and company training in following areas: A/P & A/R Closing Schedules Fund Allocations Journal Entries Customer Service Wire Transfers Auditing & Compliance Record Keeping General Ledger Cash Management Bank Reconciliations Account Reconciliations
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Accountant
Better Family Life INC
Saint Louis, Missouri
01.2019 - Current
- Create monthly receivable invoicing for federal, local and state agencies that are major funding sources to this particular agency
- Record various donations, invoices and other receivable information into general ledger
- Prepare accounts for industry audits and supported audit process.
- Reconcile various bank accounts and statements for agency
- Transfer this monetary information into general ledger
- Verify and approve all expenses and payroll for various social service programs and departments within agency
- Answer any inquiries regarding various program budgets
- Provide both daily and monthly budgetary updates to various office managers, directors and vice presidents within agency
- Assist with annual year-end Financial Audit & various program proposals for Agency
- Reviewed budgets and communicated discrepancies to senior management.
- Prepare monthly journal entries and reconciliations.
- Review documents and accounts for discrepancies and resolved variances.
- Reconcile accounts and created documents for monthly closure procedures.
- Completed year-end closing processes with controllers and external auditors
Staff Accountant
Accountemps / Robert Half, Missouri
Saint Louis, Missouri
05.2018 - 12.2018
- Entry level position that performed daily and monthly accounting duties
- Communicated, calculated, and resolved differences with outside lenders for loan transactions
- Reconciled and analyzed various balance sheet and income/expense accounts; prepared journal entries
- Calculated and verified NBV, Residual Book Value, Sales Commissions, Sales Margin, Monthly
- Rent, Gross Receivable, PV of Sales Threshold and Residual Value amounts for new equipment leases and lease payoff schedules
- Managed accounts payable including processing and distributing payments
- Contacted customers to immediately find resolutions for escalated issues
- Projected future costs and revenues by closely analyzing ongoing costs, business operations and incoming revenue in balance sheets
Accountant
Metropolitan Saint Louis Sewer District
Saint Louis, Missouri
11.2015 - 04.2018
- Ensured and maintained ethical accounting practices
- Accounting experience involved heavy participation in month, quarter and year end cycles
- While creating enhance quality customer relations, provided support to various departments within this company regarding various budgetary items
- Balanced Accounts Receivable totaling close to 110 million
- Reconciled Bond (Debt Service) Portfolio totaling close to 1.4 billion
- Handled various Investment Portfolios totaling close to 1 billion
- Maintained spreadsheets supporting these portfolios
- Produced various spreadsheets for month, quarter and year end
- Recorded various journal entries for correction and month end purposes
- For auditing purposes, analyzed financial accounts on monthly, quarterly and yearly basis
- Processed wire transfers for healthcare, escrow deposits and property buy-outs totaling up to two million
- Supported monthly reporting analysis to achieve validation of internal reports and to reconcile production operations and general ledger
- Handled day-to-day accounting processes to drive financial accuracy
Accounts Receivable Account Associate
Metropolitan Saint Louis Sewer District
Saint Louis, Missouri
08.2004 - 11.2015
- Assisted Metropolitan Saint Louis Sewer District with securing outstanding debt owed by their ratepayers while simultaneously generating revenue
- Assisted IS Division with implementing first phase of accounting for receivables regarding service address pay-off amounts
- Provided necessary information to various title companies to ensure proper transfer of ownership
- Performed user acceptance testing on new billing software for Accounts Receivable Division
- Activated new billing accounts for intended ratepayer
- Researched all billing errors and performed account billing corrections
- Accessed information from local water agencies on-line systems regarding billing errors and corrections
- Retrieved, processed, imported and allocated up to twenty-two million dollars in various electronic payments to different ratepayer's accounts
- Resolved missing or misapplied payments
- Liaison for eight different third party collection vendors
- Compiled various supporting documentation involving collections efforts for assigned collection agencies and law firms at average of six hundred accounts per month
- Coached and trained third party vendors regarding MSD's policies and procedures
- Created spreadsheets using Microsoft Excel for daily, weekly and monthly reporting
- Offered friendly and efficient service to customers, handled challenging situations with ease
- Actively listened to customers, handled concerns quickly and escalated major issues to supervisor
- Developed and maintained courteous and effective working relationships
- Conducted research, gathered information from multiple sources and presented results
- Completed paperwork, recognizing discrepancies and promptly addressing for resolution
- Proved successful working within tight deadlines and fast-paced atmosphere
Education
Bachelor of Science - Accounting
Webster University
Saint Louis Missouri05.2015
Skills
- SOFTWARE SKILLS
- ORACLE / PRECEPTS / ACCELA / ECIS / ECIS / Sage IntAcct / QuickBooks / ADP Payroll / MS Excel
- (including VLOOKUP and Sums If) / MS Office / Google / Google DOCS
- Audit Preparation
- Processing Checks and Invoices
- Journal Entry Preparation
- Account and Ledger Reconciliations
- Accounts Payable and Receivable
- Account and Ledger Reconciliations
- Accounts Payable and Receivable
Timeline
Senior Accountant
Better Family Life INC
01.2019 - Current
Staff Accountant
Accountemps / Robert Half, Missouri
05.2018 - 12.2018
Accountant
Metropolitan Saint Louis Sewer District
11.2015 - 04.2018
Accounts Receivable Account Associate
Metropolitan Saint Louis Sewer District
08.2004 - 11.2015
Bachelor of Science - Accounting
Webster University