JENNIFER DANNELS
Covington,LA
Summary
Astute Accounting Manager offering to drive company development. Successfully utilize 20+ years of accounting and financial management expertise to effectively provide team leadership. Committed to fostering change management to support continuous improvement.
Overview
26
26
years of professional experience
Work History
Accounting Manager
Third Party Pet
06.2023 - Current
- Month end close and balance sheet reconciliations
- Reviewing of Financials for proper recognition and presentation, flux analysis compared to budget, forecast and prior year
- Supervise senior accountant
- AP oversight including approvals, ensuring expenses are properly classified, preparing AP aging reports, preparing recommended payment reports, subledger reconciliation
- AR oversight, preparing AR aging reports, collections, and subledger reconciliation
- Accruals oversight includes overseeing proper period recognition of expenses, ensuring accruals are properly segmented (general, legal, commissions, bonuses, PTO, etc.)
- Assist business with budget preparation.
Accounting Manager
Escalon Services/Full Stack Finance
07.2022 - 06.2023
- Month end close and daily transactions for multiple clients
- Reviewing of Financials for proper recognition and presentation, drafting of financials, preparing departmental views
- Supervise accounting team
- AP oversight including approvals (Vendors, Invoices, POs), ensuring expenses are properly classified (COA, Prepaids, Fixed Assets), preparing AP aging reports, preparing recommended payment reports, subledger reconciliation
- AR oversight including approvals (Customers, Invoices), preparing AR aging reports, collections, and subledger reconciliation
- Accruals oversight includes overseeing proper period recognition of expenses, ensuring accruals are properly segmented (general, legal, commissions, bonuses, PTO, etc.)
- Review of Sales Orders
- Reconciliation review.
Sr. Accounting Manager
Stack Sports
06.2019 - 07.2022
- Supervise staff of two Senior Accountants
- Month end close responsibilities of multiple divisions
- Record and reconcile cash accounts
- Work with Controller on monthly financial review and analysis
- AP invoice review for appropriate GL coding
- Record and reconcile payroll and related accounts
- Work with Billing and AP to resolve and coordinate postings for customers/vendors
- Provide monthly financial analysis of revenue and expense to Finance Team
- Prepare yearly reports, recs, support for annual audit testing.
Accounting Manager
MoneyGram
11.2015 - 05.2019
- Supervise staff of four- including journal entry and reconciliation review
- Quarterly signing bonus impairment review
- Work with staff on recording and reconciling payroll
- Monthly review and analysis of company prepaid assets
- Work with Controller and Assistant Controller on breakage revenue analysis.
Senior Staff Accountant
MoneyGram
07.2014 - 11.2015
- Ensure agent signing bonus amortized accurately per contract guidelines
- Accrue agent manual commissions and performance incentive
- Provide quarterly and monthly reporting to business to support agent activity
- Agent prefund reporting and analysis
- Internal, external, and statutory audit support.
Senior Accountant
Presidio
04.2013 - 07.2014
- Monthly reconciliations of assigned balance sheet accounts
- Prepare corresponding journal entries from reconciliation process
- Month end close responsibilities for West division of Presidio
- Monthly bonus and commission accrual calculations based on various comp plans
- Monthly inventory sub-ledger/general ledger reconciliation
- Revenue and margin analysis on monthly bookings/invoices.
Senior Accountant
Dell Services
06.2009 - 04.2013
- Responsible for all daily/monthly accounting and financial aspects of assigned healthcare accounts
- Balance sheet reconciliations
- Monthly Client billing
- Partner with operations team on annual budgets and quarterly forecasts including ad-hoc reporting
- Revenue recognition analysis for calendar billing vs
- Fiscal month
- Monthly accounting close which includes preparing and posting journal entries, analyzing financial statements, ledger activities, and written variance analysis QTD compared to plan, sequential, and year-over-year.
General Accounting Manager
Neiman Marcus Direct
07.2007 - 06.2009
- Month end close responsibilities for Neiman Marcus Direct division
- Monthly reserve schedules
- Review and reconcile gift card activity
- General ledger table maintenance
- Review of sub-ledger feed to Oracle to ensure proper posting
- Work with Creative Department on analysis of catalog and photography costs
- Prepare year-over-year analysis for catalog costs and credit card fees to help identify saving opportunities
- Review staff journal entries and monthly reconciliations
- Review and update SOX documentation
- Prepare and submit capital requests as needed.
General Accounting Manager
Sally Beauty Company/ Beauty Systems Group
05.2005 - 07.2007
- Work with Special Events and Education Department on tracking show expenses against budget
- Work with staff on resolving issues with field and internal staff
- Review all related AP invoices to verify account codings, especially all tradeshow activity
- Monthly allocation of expense from corresponding supporting admin and warehouse centers
- Review and update SOX documentation for sales and AR verification.
Senior Staff Accountant
Sally Beauty Company/ Beauty Systems Group
02.2003 - 05.2005
- Record tradeshow activity and reconcile related accounts
- Research for monthly financial review meeting
- Review staff journal entries and monthly reconciliations
- Review show related invoices for accurate coding
- Work with Special Events and Education Department on tracking show expenses
- Train and work with newly acquired divisions on month end procedures
- Monthly review of financial statements for shows and assigned divisions and research issues.
General Ledger Staff Accountant
Sally Beauty Company/ Beauty Systems Group
09.1999 - 02.2003
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- Monthly reconciliations of balance sheet accounts
- Prepare corresponding journal entries from reconciliation process
- Month end close responsibilities for multiple Beauty Systems Group divisions
- Verify sub-ledger feeds to Lawson on a weekly basis for sales and AR verification
- Reconcile Accounts Receivable aging report to the general ledger for assigned Beauty Systems Group divisions
- Record tradeshow activity and reconcile related accounts
- Research for monthly financial review meeting
- Monthly accruals for bank fees and freight
- Run, sort, and distribute monthly financial statements to field offices.
Compliance Field Auditor
Sally Beauty Company/ Beauty Systems Group
09.1998 - 09.1999
- Travel each week to a different store district
- Review individual store activity in the district to ensure compliance with company policies and procedures
- Meet with store managers and District Managers to review findings
- Write up of findings for corporate management distribution.
Education
Accounting
Louisiana State University And A&M College
Baton Rouge, LA05-1998
Skills
- General Ledger Management
- Month-end close
- Variance Analysis
- Account Reconciliation
- Process Improvement
- AP and AR management
- Payroll Management
- Audit Coordination
Timeline
Accounting Manager
Third Party Pet
06.2023 - Current
Accounting Manager
Escalon Services/Full Stack Finance
07.2022 - 06.2023
Sr. Accounting Manager
Stack Sports
06.2019 - 07.2022
Accounting Manager
MoneyGram
11.2015 - 05.2019
Senior Staff Accountant
MoneyGram
07.2014 - 11.2015
Senior Accountant
Presidio
04.2013 - 07.2014
Senior Accountant
Dell Services
06.2009 - 04.2013
General Accounting Manager
Neiman Marcus Direct
07.2007 - 06.2009
General Accounting Manager
Sally Beauty Company/ Beauty Systems Group
05.2005 - 07.2007
Senior Staff Accountant
Sally Beauty Company/ Beauty Systems Group
02.2003 - 05.2005
General Ledger Staff Accountant
Sally Beauty Company/ Beauty Systems Group
09.1999 - 02.2003
Compliance Field Auditor
Sally Beauty Company/ Beauty Systems Group
09.1998 - 09.1999
Accounting
Louisiana State University And A&M College