Jie Feng
Atlanta,USA
Summary
Over eighteen years of corporate accounting experience in various industries in the US and more than 5 years audit experience overseas. Specialties: Financial statement preparation, U.S. GAAP, Reconciliations, Government survey filing, Global consolidation, Benefits Accounting, FAS 715, Foreign Currency Translations, Inter-Company, Fixed Assets and Technical Accounting Research.
Experienced accounting professional prepared for this role, known for strong analytical skills and precision in financial management. Proven ability to drive results through team collaboration and adaptability to changing needs. Expertise in financial reporting, budgeting, and compliance, with focus on accuracy and efficiency. Reliable, dependable, and committed to achieving organizational goals.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Accountant III (Consulting Role)
Westrock
Duluth, GA
03.2024 - 10.2024
- Book accounting entries to JD Edwards for month end. Entries are from the plants and include accruals, re-classes, allocations, and productions. Verify key information on the entry and make necessary corrections. Send for approval in JET.
- Accrue division monthly utilities (electricity, gas, water/sewer). Perform utility variance analysis for each Business Unit to determine if the calculated accrual is accurate for the BU using JDE, Expense Smart, Energy Cap and current month & Previous months’ accrual files. Provide explanation for all amounts over/under $10K. Adjust accruals, if necessary, after researching. Upload the entry to Blackline.
- Accrue for hourly unpaid wages and payroll tax in the current month. Make any necessary adjustments. Communicate with plants for any daily rate larger than 2K and provide the explanation to the management.
- Based on payment from last year and headcount from last qtr. Calculate the projected vacation/holiday pay per employee and annualize this over the coming year. Adjust only accrual with headcount movement. Perform vacation/holiday analysis to verify what has been accrued vs what has been paid out and matches what is currently in JDE.
- Keep track of lease payment to confirm monthly rent payments are processed for each division location. Communicate with AP for any rent or CAM changes and update lease payment update file. Contact the real estate team for any lease extension. Verify and reconcile lease payment in ledger system with landlord’s statements.
- Search for unrecorded liabilities (open PO) for each plant. Check for any potential expense over $5000 that was not recorded or accrued at quarter end. Sent the open items to the plants to determine if the items need to be accrued.
Senior Accountant (Consulting Role)
Drapac Capital Partners
Atlanta, GA
10.2023 - 11.2023
- Oversee AP process, communicating with vendors and the property managers while the company ramps up on the new AP system (Yardi)
- Assist with month-end close.
- Organize incoming invoices in email systems.
- Manage more than 50 invoices daily.
Senior Accountant (Consulting Role 06/2021-09/2021) (Permanent Role 10/2021-03/2023)
Modivcare
Atlanta, GA
06.2021 - 03.2023
- Heavily involve the monthly closing process and reconcile the balance sheet accounts and analyze P&L and Balance sheet trend flux.
Senior Accountant (Consulting Role)
Engle Martin & Associates Accounting Department
Atlanta, GA
07.2020 - 02.2022
- Heavily involved in month-end closing including accruing oracle, legal and temporary costs and production and non-production bonus and prepare all the insurance files (Dental, Vision, Health, Life insurance) and accrue monthly insurance expenses.
- Reconcile balance sheet accounts and research any reconciling items in the accounts.
- Communicate with vendors for banking information and set up ACH payment process in NetSuite.
- Update the company’s fix assets details in FA module and prepare the fix assets depreciation entries and send out fix assets depreciation schedule.
- Prepare and file all necessary tax documents for tax audit purposes.
GL Accountant (Consulting Role)
Elastic
Mountain View, CA
03.2021 - 05.2021
- Research the variance in account “un-deposited fund” to reconcile payments with deposits by clients.
- Identify the items included in open balance in “un-deposited fund” and prepare the entries to correct the transactions.
- Identify FX issues and upload the corrected entries and intercompany entries in Net-suite.
- Help consolidation team to reconcile inter-company clearing accounts.
- Contact AR team to resolve any AR related issues.
Senior Accountant (Consulting Role)
Trimont Real Estate Advisors
Atlanta, GA
01.2020 - 06.2020
- P&L and financial data Analysis.
- Monthly expense analysis, and responsible for monthly expense closing for corporation.
- Upload Concur invoices to the ledger system, trouble-shoot any issues on uploading files to ledger and bank website.
- File and upload all 1099 miscellaneous forms for the company to IRS website.
- Post any expenses related and adjust entries for month-end close.
- Help with international entities closing and posting any necessary entries.
- Prepare the wire information and process weekly concur invoices.
- Research any reconciling items for treasury clearing accounts and reconcile those accounts.
Billing Consultant
Intercontinental Hotels Group
Atlanta, GA
06.2019 - 12.2019
- Research out of balance for each hotel’s advance & invoice payments to ensure the data accuracy.
- Clear hundreds of NHOP & Refresh hotels’ revenue defer accounts to be recognized in P/L.
- Responsible for efficiently managing, organizing, and invoicing all applicable hotels’ invoices in a timely fashion.
- Verify the invoicing data against the amount in quote by category.
- Instruct accounting to post the entries to clear the Balance sheet amount to P/L.
- Contact the hotels for any problematic cash payment.
- Communicate with the vendors for any outstanding invoices or mischarge and billing questions.
Accounting Manager
Baily International of Atlanta
Duluth, GA
01.2019 - 03.2019
- Communicate with external auditors and answer their questions on company financials.
- Review whole-company financials on quick-books and accrue the expenses if necessary & allocate prepaid.
- Record month-end adjustment entries and close the book on time.
- Review transportation leasing truck invoices and ensure the invoices are paid on time.
- Reconcile 12 credit cards and communicate with the credit card companies to solve the discrepancy.
Consultant
RGP Group
Atlanta, GA
10.2018 - 12.2018
- Heavily involved in cash reconciliation; Research and analyzes variances.
- Clear reconciling items for Security deposit, rent accounts for Atlanta, Texas, Indianapolis markets.
- Propose and record bank transactions in ledger to be reconciled with bank activities.
- Interact with AR and treasury to solve the issues, such as the cash misapplied to different tenants or different markets or request cash transfer to clear the reconciling items.
Senior Consultant
IBM
Atlanta, GA
11.2017 - 09.2018
- Heavily involved in balance sheet reconciliation; Researches and Analyzes account fluctuations.
- Reviews, prepares, and inputs accrual, standard, recurring, re-classification, and other journal entries.
- Reviews and responds to all escalated department invoices inquiries and inputs and posts re-classification and other needed entries, especially related to expenses.
- Responds to internal and external audit requests.
- Analyzes complex data and reviews processes to enhance or improve performance.
- Analyze the prepaid and post monthly prepaid entries.
- Analyze monthly expense variance report.
- Communicate with AP to ensure correct coding for vouchers.
- Knowledge of databases and all types of reporting tools.
Senior Consultant
Liberty House Restaurant Group
Atlanta, GA
02.2017 - 04.2017
- Review annual financial statements and post year-end adjustments.
- Involve in analyzing up year-end financials and explaining the P&L variances.
- Develop balance sheet reconciliations files and updates/maintains accounting policies and procedures.
- Interprets financial transactions and events and provides sound meaning recommendations on business issues.
- Create accounting closing schedule and streamline the process. Provide training on all closing items.
- Analyze the prepaid and accrued liability accounts and trouble-shooting the GL system issues.
- Execute the multiple bank reconciliation and analyze the outstanding items.
Senior Consultant
West-rock
Norcross, GA
01.2016 - 09.2016
- Assist in the preparation and audit of the Quarter-end financial statements and footnote disclosures for Pension, Special Retirement, and other post-retirement plans.
- Support the annual budgeting process for retirement plans and related administration expenses.
- Prepare monthly reports and forecasts, communicating to management and to Finance.
- Coordinate with local and foreign business leaders to ensure proper presentation of GAAP financial statements and accounting records.
- Prepare monthly general ledger account reconciliations for various retirement and post-employment benefits.
- Review general ledger accounts monthly, identifying and explaining material variances to management and business partners.
- Prepare ad hoc management reports, financial analyses, and presentations upon request.
- Participate in the preparation and review of SOX controls and documentation process.
- Participate in year-end footnote disclosures.
Senior Consultant
Engle Martin & Associates
Atlanta, GA
05.2015 - 10.2015
- Reconcile clients’ loss fund accounts and identify various issues for claim payment and funding data flow.
- Research reconciling items and investigate and co-operate with the adjusters to clear those items.
- Involve in automation of claim reconciliation and process improvement.
- Communicate with clients to solve the claim funding variances and reconcile 13 trust accounts for multiple contract years.
- Reduce reconciling amounts dramatically for all trust accounts.
Senior Consultant
Crawford & Company
Atlanta, GA
07.2013 - 03.2015
- Prepare preliminary P&L results.
- Prepare income statement, balance sheet, and download cash flow data.
- Prepare monthly Exchange rate files and send them to the countries; Load F/X rates into G/L.
- Ensure IFS has pulled the correct exchange rates and they are available to view for all countries; Prepare Caribbean/Cayman/Bahamas revenue (invoices & follow up); Research and follow-up expenses.
- Prepare Caribbean results and reconcile all balance sheet accounts and upload them to G/L.
- Load UK interface file; reconcile A/R stat, B/S, and summary of P/L. Resolve various consolidated closing issues.
- Analysis/Post monthly files-22 countries to GL system; Send inquiries to countries and resolve differences.
- Prepare Minority interest calculation/entries; Agree equity/net income and resolve differences.
- Prepare cash flow statement and balance download for cash profits.
- Finalize monthly Crawford & Company international financial statements, send inquiries to countries, and resolve any variances.
- Coordinate with IFSSUP to resolve issues with IFS.
- Prepare and file government reports: BE 577, BE10, BE11, and BE 120.
- Perform the branch or account requests for European countries.
- Request new users ID IFS/Cognos European countries.
Accountant _Consulting role
Assurant
Atlanta, GA
02.2012 - 06.2013
- Reconciled intercompany accounts, including accounting for foreign exchange differences, including tracking and arranging settlement of intercompany balances.
- Responsible for performing the balance sheet analysis from quarter to quarter in the Vehicle Service Contracts Department and researching and explaining any fluctuations.
- Supported the monthly, quarterly financial close process.
- Prepared monthly and quarterly journal entries and account reconciliations.
- Trained offshore employees on an as needed basis.
- Verified client’s files from mainframe/approve the file for vehicle service clients.
- Responsible for making reimbursement wire on monthly basis.
- Sent payment, reimbursement, & remittance summaries files to clients.
- Downloaded EW (mainframe) reports and prepared settlement files; emailed them to customers.
- Prepared verification file for mainframe and smart-stream interface. Ensured data loaded properly.
- Responsible for bringing sales balance forward in mainframe for vehicle service clients.
- Analyzed and updated AR summary for specific clients.
- Communicated with Account Manager to solve any discrepancies regarding client files.
- Assisted in external audits; prepared work paper documentation, as needed.
- Provided technical accounting assistance to other departments.
- Assisted in the integration of any new businesses acquired, if applicable.
Accountant – Corporate Consolidations
Infor Global Solutions
Alpharetta, GA
12.2009 - 07.2011
- Consolidated and analyzed global Balance Sheet accounts and analyzed the variances for approximately 200 entities.
- Prepared all necessary entries including cash FX and reconciled all balance sheet accounts including cash accounts.
- Responsible for intercompany multi-currency revaluation. Proved intercompany account balance with the transactions and calculation of FX based on month-end currency rate, as well as the P&L side of FX gain and loss.
- Researched intercompany out of balance and reconciled global intercompany accounts.
- Maintained and distributed global close calendar.
- Involved in yearly audit and prepared audit requests.
- Filed government surveys and provided them with annual and quarterly financial data.
Accountant – North America Shared Services
Infor Global Solutions
Alpharetta, GA
12.2006 - 11.2009
- Extensive involvement in monthly closings and intercompany clean-up projects.
- Reconciled North America intercompany accounts on global basis, booked revaluation entries, analyzed foreign currency gain & loss, and posted all necessary intercompany entries on monthly basis.
- Reconciled hardware detail log to general ledger and accrued hardware costs.
- Assisted in deferred revenue schedules.
- Performed all necessary journal entries (payroll, benefits, accrued expenses, and depreciation).
- Analyzed Oracle financial statements for Process Business Unit and prepared income tax entries from P&L.
Accountant - Treasury
Infor Global Solutions
Alpharetta, GA
12.2005 - 11.2006
- Prepared & distributed global daily cash report to executive management.
- Responsible for daily review of over 10 different cash account balances; deposited misc. cash, coded, and posted entries.
- Handled monthly account reconciliation for payroll, lockbox, and operating bank accounts of 6 business units.
- Responsible for domestic and international wire transfers. Communicated with banking officer regarding banking transactions, investment activities and check copy requests.
Education
Master of Science - Management Information Systems
Georgia College & State University
Milledgeville, GA12.1999
BBA - Accounting
Georgia College & State University
Milledgevilla05.1997
Skills
- Accounting Applications: Oracle 11i, People-soft GL 84, JD Edwards, Peachtree Accounting, Smart-stream, Gace, BPCS, Millennium, Glim, EBSAR, QuickBooks, Compeat, Quicken, Blackline, Yardi systems, Microsoft Dynamic GP, NetSuite, Epicor, Sage, Workday
- Financial reporting Applications: Hyperion, Cognos Financial, Essbase, IFM, PM10, IFS, Concur
- Computer Software: Microsoft Suites (excel, word, access), Oracle Designer/2000, Oracle Developer/2000, Personal Oracle 70, Oracle Desktop Integrator, Oracle Discoverer, Microsoft Visual Basic 60, dbase IV, Unix, Golden, EW Mainframe, Texport
- Account reconciliation
- Accounting and bookkeeping
- Bank reconciliation
- Financial statements
- Data analysis
- Financial reporting
- General ledger entries
- Account reconciliation processes
- General ledger management
- General ledger accounting
- Financial analysis
- MS office suite
- Finance
- Audit support
- Quickbooks
- Variance analysis
- ERP systems proficiency
- GAAP accounting
- Fixed asset management
- Full-cycle accounting
- QuickBooks expert
- Project accounting
- Analytical research
- Microsoft Excel
- GAAP
- Generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP)
- Year-end close
- Financial statement preparation
Accomplishments
- Handled and resolved the largest Number of reporting discrepancies in 1 year.
- Achieved [Result] by completing [Task] with accuracy and efficiency.
- Collaborated with team of [Number] in the development of [Project name].
- Supervised team of [Number] staff members.
Certification
GA Life & Health, GA Certified Notary Public.
Language
Bilingual: English and Mandarin Chinese.
Interests
- Dancing
- Backpacking and Hiking
- Yoga
- Sharing travel tips, recommendations, and insights with fellow enthusiasts
- Exploring famous landmarks, historical sites, and cultural attractions in a new destination
- Camping
- Watching Movies and TV Shows
- Reading
- Train Travel
- Growing herbs, vegetables, or fruits in home gardens
Timeline
Accountant III (Consulting Role)
Westrock
03.2024 - 10.2024
Senior Accountant (Consulting Role)
Drapac Capital Partners
10.2023 - 11.2023
Senior Accountant (Consulting Role 06/2021-09/2021) (Permanent Role 10/2021-03/2023)
Modivcare
06.2021 - 03.2023
GL Accountant (Consulting Role)
Elastic
03.2021 - 05.2021
Senior Accountant (Consulting Role)
Engle Martin & Associates Accounting Department
07.2020 - 02.2022
Senior Accountant (Consulting Role)
Trimont Real Estate Advisors
01.2020 - 06.2020
Billing Consultant
Intercontinental Hotels Group
06.2019 - 12.2019
Accounting Manager
Baily International of Atlanta
01.2019 - 03.2019
Consultant
RGP Group
10.2018 - 12.2018
Senior Consultant
IBM
11.2017 - 09.2018
Senior Consultant
Liberty House Restaurant Group
02.2017 - 04.2017
Senior Consultant
West-rock
01.2016 - 09.2016
Senior Consultant
Engle Martin & Associates
05.2015 - 10.2015
Senior Consultant
Crawford & Company
07.2013 - 03.2015
Accountant _Consulting role
Assurant
02.2012 - 06.2013
Accountant – Corporate Consolidations
Infor Global Solutions
12.2009 - 07.2011
Accountant – North America Shared Services
Infor Global Solutions
12.2006 - 11.2009
Accountant - Treasury
Infor Global Solutions
12.2005 - 11.2006
Master of Science - Management Information Systems
Georgia College & State University
BBA - Accounting
Georgia College & State University