Julio Vera Negrete
Senior Accountant
Miami,FL
Summary
A passionate and hardworking person who loves challenges and sets high goals in both personal and professional life, striving to accomplish them with efficiency, honesty, and integrity.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Accountant
Saga Education
Boston, MA
05.2022 - Current
- Ensure compliance with Federal Grants, Awards, Contracts, FASB rules, and Saga’s policies
- Developed and implemented new accounting procedures by analyzing current procedures and recommending changes, leading to an increase in efficiency in the monthly closing process (from 13 days to 10 business days)
- Responsible for supporting and managing the financial daily operations
- Provide support and manage general accounting and financial processes of the organization
- Prepare monthly management reports and accompanying schedules, worksheets, or narratives
- Provide follow-up and documentation of significant variances
- Documentation and monitoring of internal controls
- Contribute to department and organization special projects
- Prepare general ledger entries by maintaining records and files
- Reconcile all key accounts, communicating and resolving discrepancies promptly
- Record payroll and benefits for +250 staff and fellow members, managing spreadsheet data with +1500 lines per company code
- Review credit card holders’ expense reports to ensure correct coding, description, and validity of expenses with organization policies
- Support in audit planning and gathering documentation.
Staff Accountant
ProTranslating
Miami, FL
12.2021 - 05.2022
- Analyze business operations, trends, costs, and revenues, to project future income
- Assist in preparing monthly management reports and accompanying schedules, worksheets, and narratives, including “Budget vs
- Actual” variance reports
- Assist in the preparation of income statements & supporting schedules
- Facilitate and complete assigned monthly closing procedures
- Analyze revenues, cost of sales, and expenses to ensure they are recorded appropriately and accrued monthly
- Assist in providing follow-up and documentation of significant variances
- Assist in the preparation of annual budgets
- Assist with financial and tax audits
- Assist with testing and receive final approval for system reports required for management, & financial reporting
- Assist in documentation and monitoring of internal controls
- Contribute to department and organization special projects.
Accounting Supervisor
Liveon Group
Hallandale, FL
05.2021 - 12.2021
- Supervisor at a Small sized Accounting & Tax services firm
- Oversee processes for Clients to establish their businesses in the US
- Lead a team of two people to maintain clients’ accounting books
- Ensure quality control and client satisfaction
- Produce reports like balance sheets, income statements, and other personalized financial reports
- Check for accuracy in figures, postings, and reports
- Reconcile or identify and report any differences in the records
- Assist team in preparing and transmitting Corporate and Partnership Tax Returns
- Provide consulting on Management, Accounting, and taxation issues clients may have.
Staff Accountant
ELO Enterprises
Boca Raton, FL
01.2020 - 04.2021
- Manage Bookkeeping of +80 companies
- Prepared and transmitted +80 Corporate and Partnership Tax Returns annually
- Use bookkeeping software, spreadsheets, and databases
- Prepare general ledger entries by maintaining records and files
- Produce reports, such as balance sheets, income statements, and totals by account
- Reconcile and report any differences in the records
- Improve processes and pipelines for better customer service
- Client Relationship management.
Staff Accountant
Hard Rock Support Services
Hollywood, FL
11.2019 - 01.2020
- Perform payroll accounting, make payroll entries and maintain payroll files for the company employees
- Assist in payroll calculations, changes, deductions, and withholdings
- Assistance to Manager with maintenance of General Ledger system and reports
- Journal entries to General Ledger
- Prepare detailed account analysis
- Process time-sheets, W-4 changes, PTO, and leave of absences for employees
- Analyze payroll issues and provide appropriate action plans
- Generate periodic payroll reports to Managers for review.
Assistant to Athletic Director
Florida National University
Hialeah, FL
07.2018 - 11.2019
- Responsible to provide Managerial and administrative support to Athletic Directors and Sports Information Director in all areas of intercollegiate athletics
- Manage business relationships and processes, working with internal and external constituencies
- Budget management and administration
- Analysis of issues; evaluating systems and procedures
- Management and promotion of events; coordination of facilities; interaction with the media; development of schedules; reserving travel and securing hotels
- Hiring, training, scheduling, evaluation and supervision of Athletic Department Staff
- Recruit student-athletes; strategic planning; consulting with on and off-campus colleagues
- Assistance in the implementation of new sports.
Accounting Assistant
Bites by Lola Catering Services
Hallandale, FL
08.2017 - 07.2018
- Assistance with an evaluation of accounting and internal control systems
- Perform company budget and forecasts for the upcoming season
- Analyze the company’s financial reports
- Perform account receivable, and accounts payable and maintained ledgers.
Tutor
Florida Memorial University
Miami Gardens, FL
01.2016 - 12.2016
- Business Department Student’s Tutor specialized in the following areas: Accounting, Corporate Finance, Statistics, Mathematics, Quantitative Methods, and Bloomberg Essentials
- Assist and guide Business School students in Business related questions and concepts
- Assist and support the Associate Finance Professor with course content and finance activities
- School of Business Bloomberg Terminals management and usage guidance for students.
Latam Manager
Sportsdata AG
St Gallen, Switzerland
01.2014 - 08.2014
- Regional Manager of South America’s Data Journalists Network for Sports events coverage
- Information and Data Analyst of all Professional Soccer Leagues in Paraguay
- Recruit, train and monitor new applicants for the region.
Data Journalist
Sportsdata AG
Asuncion, Paraguay
11.2010 - 01.2014
- Live sports data collector (data journalist) consisting in provide real time data from sports events held in Paraguay and other nearby countries like Argentina, Brazil, Chile, etc
- Directly from venue
- Coverage of Professional sports events held in South America
- Fixture and results data analysis and provider for all the soccer professional leagues in Paraguay.
Accounting Assistant
Sinergia Services
Asuncion, Paraguay
01.2009 - 12.2011
- Direct managerial and administrative assistance to the CEO of the Accounting firm
- Create Excel sheets with the purchases and expenses of each client monthly
- Responsible for maintaining records of invoices, payments, and transactions of clients
- General ledger maintenance and adjustments
- Scan, file, and log accounting documents.
Education
MBA -
Florida National University
Securities Industry Essentials FIU Certification Review -
Bloomberg Market Concepts Certificate -
Bachelor of Science in Finance -
Florida Memorial University
SEK Paraguay International High-School -
Skills
- MS Office: Outlook, Excel, Word, PPoint
- Spanish, English, Portuguese
- Bloomberg System
- QuickBooks Software
- Sage Intacct Software
- Drake Tax Software
- Billcom Platform
- Internal Controls
- GAAP proficiency
- Tax Preparation
- Variance Analysis
- Expense Tracking
- Audit Support
- Payroll Processing
References
- Tania Ureta, Controller, ProTranslating, (305) 450-1401, tureta@protranslating.com
- Marcia Salvador, Supervisor, ELO Enterprises, (954) 415-4516, marcia@1waytaxservices.com
- Sergio Menezes, CEO, PRO Footvolley Tour LLC, (305) 213-3275, profootvolleytourstore@gmail.com
- Ruy Castelo Branco, Sports Information Director, Florida National University, (786) 329-2115, rdasilva@fnu.edu
- Dr. Cheulho Lee, Associate Professor of Finance, Florida Memorial University, (786) 385-2907, clee777@hotmail.com
Volunteer Experience
PRO Footvolley Tour LLC, Miami, FL, 02/2015, 10/2023, Conduct short-term and long-term planning and management for events., Develop and recommend the budget, marketing plans, and objectives, and manage within those approved plans., Recommend effective marketing plans for generating event revenues., Train and supervise event staff, as well as the planning and execution of the functions., Coach and counsel staff to reflect company service standards and procedures., Ensure we meet requirements for the event to be broadcasted on massive digital channels., Actively participated in many events organized to be broadcasted on National and International TV to promote., Training and coaching for recruiting new athletes for the development of the sport.
Languages
English
Native/ Bilingual
Spanish
Native/ Bilingual
Portuguese
Full Professional
Timeline
Senior Accountant
Saga Education
05.2022 - Current
Staff Accountant
ProTranslating
12.2021 - 05.2022
Accounting Supervisor
Liveon Group
05.2021 - 12.2021
Staff Accountant
ELO Enterprises
01.2020 - 04.2021
Staff Accountant
Hard Rock Support Services
11.2019 - 01.2020
Assistant to Athletic Director
Florida National University
07.2018 - 11.2019
Accounting Assistant
Bites by Lola Catering Services
08.2017 - 07.2018
Tutor
Florida Memorial University
01.2016 - 12.2016
Latam Manager
Sportsdata AG
01.2014 - 08.2014
Data Journalist
Sportsdata AG
11.2010 - 01.2014
Accounting Assistant
Sinergia Services
01.2009 - 12.2011
MBA -
Florida National University
Securities Industry Essentials FIU Certification Review -
Bloomberg Market Concepts Certificate -
Bachelor of Science in Finance -
Florida Memorial University
SEK Paraguay International High-School -
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