Joan Carter

Payroll Administrator:

• Process payroll for 16 Clients and 170 employees
• Onboard and set-up new payroll clients in multiple states
• Produce monthly payroll calendar
• Add and maintain employee information and deductions
• Input hours into Accounting CS, myPay, Sage Accounting and Avionte
• Investigate and correct internal and external discrepancies
• Generate, review and provide payroll reports and paychecks to clients
• Submit payroll tax deposits
• Submit retirement contributions
• Prepare general journal entries
• Reconcile general ledger payroll accounts
• Prepare payroll tax returns
• Enter supplemental pay, third party sick pay and S-Corp medical pay

Staff Accountant:

• Maintain the accounts of and business relationships with several accounting clients
• Record business transactions in QuickBooks and in McLeod software applications
• Create and maintain Excel spreadsheets
• Complete bank, credit card and loan reconciliations
• Prepare monthly and yearly closing journal entries, work papers and financial statements
• Manage accounts payable including scanning and editing bills, printing checks and reconciling vendor statements
• Track and record fixed assets, prepaid expenses, accruals and deferrals
• Prepare and complete worker's compensation audits
• Prepare and file sales tax returns

• Handled day-to-day accounting processes to drive financial accuracy
• Reconciled accounts and reviewed expense data, net worth, and assets
• Documented cash, credit, fixed assets, accrued expenses, and line of credit transactions
• Used Excel to prepare documents, reports, and presentations
• Prepared working papers, reports and supporting documentation for audit findings
• Reviewed and packaged federal, state and local tax returns for both individual and business clients
• Processed payroll for 10 clients; submitted electronic deposits and employee pay adjustments
• Made estimated tax payments

• Created and maintained detailed, organized and timely records of transactions
• Prepared 1120S, 1040, 1040-ES, NYS-45, 940 and 941 tax returns
• Managed Accounts Payable
• Issued payroll checks
• Deposited revenues
• Reconciled account information and reported figures in general ledger by comparing to bank account statement each month
• Forecasted and monitored the budget

• Communicated with all managers, systems engineers, and controllers to reduce costs
• Prepared the Cost of Goods Sold section of the Income Statement
• Prepared and presented Excel spreadsheets, amortization schedules and charts and graphs
• Wrote closing journal entries
• Analyzed and researched three specialized inventory accounts daily
• Monitored variances of overhead
• Tracked costs of individual systems jobs and issued and closed work orders
• Wrote the first cost accounting job training manual for the company
• Filed sales tax returns for twenty-five states
• Took sales tax auditor meetings and resolved discrepancies to reduce liability
• Implemented and utilized a new fixed asset computer application
• Processed capital improvement requests for approval
• Prepared depreciation and disposal journal entries
• Supervised payroll processing