Karnique Lashere Thorpe
Washington,USA
Summary
As an accountant with solid background in systems accounting, bringing valuable experience in financial systems integration and process improvement. Successfully contributed to enhancement of accounting systems, ensuring streamlined operations and regulatory compliance. Demonstrated expertise in financial analysis and systems optimization, fostering efficient collaboration and high-quality results.
Professional systems finance specialist with significant experience in managing and optimizing financial systems. Strong analytical skills, adept at identifying and resolving complex issues, and streamlining processes to enhance efficiency. Known for collaborating effectively with teams and adapting to changing needs. Expertise includes financial reporting, ERP systems, and compliance with regulatory standards.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
System Accountant
Federal Bureau of Prison
07.2022 - 09.2025
- As System Accountant it is my daily duties to analyze and evaluate the accounting, policy, and procedure of the Agency to determine compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements, and ensures staff are meeting the administrative needs of the Agency.
- Prepared responses to agency with specific memoranda that required detailed accounting information regarding financial travels, policy and procedure.
- Provide daily guidance on travel regulations to employees.
- Trained co-worker to use Financial Management Information System, how to view documents, and run reports in the Justice Department Enterprise Data Integrations system.
- Reviewed government accounting reports for balances on quarterly basis for financial obligations to ensure that obligations are not being under or overstated to ensure effectiveness supports the budgetary decision making.
- Resolved discrepancies and provided financial consultation to other program areas during the quarterly obligation reviews.
- Provide financial guidance to staff on resolving travel related issues on how to implement and modify obligated funds, along with resolving accounting issues.
- Prepare journal entries and monthly account reconciliations.
- Project manager for financial system support, integrating AR, funds control, and payroll subsidiary systems.
- Complete internal audits and reconciliations of government appropriation of funds for compliance with proposed regulations.
- Research financial systems requirements and operations to identify systems issues and deficiencies in accordance Bureau of Prisons policies and procedures.
- Perform Annual Travel Regulation research on various traveling issues and provide written recommendations and interpretations for applicability within the agency program statement.
- Reviews, analyzes, and develops strategies for the implementation, operation, maintenance and enhancement of manual and computerized financial systems; provides advice and recommends changes and system modifications to the workflow and functionality of the UFMS systems.
- Oversees user operational needs of the UFMS and E2 Travel Solutions systems; acts as first point of contact to respond to user system functionality or operational questions; trains users on financial system.
- Provides input and participates in the month and year-end closing automated functions as well as routine financial system operations.
- Extensively designs, develops, and implements major and key segments of accounting and financial systems and procedures as required by the Agency in accordance with GAO principles and standards.
- Maintains the Agency's financial management systems by continual analysis and evaluation to determine compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements, and ensure they meet the administrative needs of the Agency.
- Coordinate required modification with offices affected by providing instructions and technical assistance resulting from negotiations, compromises, and developing recommendations.
- Prepares written detail specifications for systems modifications as required. Assists field accountants with interpretations of system specifications and analyzes and evaluates output reports resulting from computer program modifications for compliance with detail specifications.
- Develops and revises operating manuals, directives, and agency policies to reflect systems modifications and new procedures and designs related accounting forms.
- Extensively reviews and comments on all Agency directives where there is an effect on the financial systems and general operation of the Agency.
- Participates and provides advice in meetings and discussions preparatory to implementing recommendations and changes to current and future Agency systems and programs.
- Develops and conducts financial training to Agency employees.
- Performs as the technical expert on problems involving operations and systems and provides operating accountants with solutions to their problems.
- Provides technical advice to Agency management and accountants when accounting problems relative to systems design and revision involve great difficulty and responsibility; are new and unusually novel, and there is necessity for reconciling diverse needs and viewpoints in arriving at a completed project or final product.
- Monitors and evaluates the financial status of all Agency appropriations and programs through extensive review and analysis of the financial system reports.
- Prepares complicated detailed internal and external reports which reflect the status of Agency programs allowing executive staff to plan and forecast future operations.
- Analyze new financial operations and systems to ensure financial controls and safeguards are written into 1 policy and in place before new practices and systems become operational; and continue to this analysis to ensure the financial controls in place are adequate.
- Series: 0510 - Grade: 13
- Hours per week: 40
Regional Accountant
Bureau of Prison Mid-Atlantic Region
12.2019 - 07.2022
- Ensure institutions have all entered timely
- Consolidate institution response and submit to Central office
- Prepare and submit MARO’s monthly proof check.
- Ensure institutions submit timely reports to MARO and CO. Review for errors and send consolidated report (Proof check Assessment Analysis Report) to CO
- Review ten open obligation monthly from each institution for accuracy and to track for training needs
- Distribute to institution and ensure corrections have been completed prior to sending consolidated response to CO
- Review and Monitor Regional office funded project before submitting AGM-FY-02 Cap and Non-Cap transfer spreadsheet to CO.
- Assist institutions in correcting Property issues such as differences between general ledger and SENTRY, review changes in property for possible prior period adjustments and route as necessary.
- Monitor institution projects for closure. As institutions request project closure, ensure project is complete, send AAA request to Facilities, approve closure request once contra-allotment has been completed and send to CO (FMIS Support) for final closure
- Maintain signed copies of institution SF 211s and keep tracking log of approved institution cashiers and imprest fund balances.
- Prepare Regional responses for Reviewer-in-charge for institutions undergoing Program Review and Operational Reviews.
- Monitor outstanding accounts receivables at the institutions to ensure timeliness in debt collection efforts. Review accounts receivables past 90 days and refer to central office for possible treasury Offset when appropriate.
- Assist institutions in recognizing completed ESPC projects. Monitor existing ESPC contracts to ensure annual assessment are made accurately.
- Assist with financial management staff with creating IDs for various FMIS and treasury applications, such as OFICE, IPAC, GWA, UFMS.
- Work with institution staff by providing staff assists and training for financial management functions on an as needed basis.
- Distribute CO samples at end of 2nd, 3rd, and 4th quarter. Review documentation submitted by institution to ensure accuracy and completion prior to being reviewed by CO staff and auditors.
- Transfer costs of regional funded B&F projects to institutions. Maintain project files for Regional Office B&F projects.
- Receive list of outstanding IPACs from institutions on a quarterly basis and consolidate MARO response to CO
- Receive all institutions Employees’ Club reports, monitor for accuracy. Ensure all institutions are completing requirements for Employees’ Club (IRS filings, annual audits, Warden Certification, etc). Prepare and send Regional Director Certification to Central Office once all institutions items have been received.
- Conduct Over $20K Review quarterly on all MARO Obligations. Received 3rd and 4th quarter reviews from institutions and forward to Central office once all institution items have been received.
- Track quarterly cash verification from institutions and review for completion and accuracy.
- Conduct a Regional Unannounced Cash Verification at each institution. Done in conjunction with other Regional Financial Management training for staff
- Ensure all institutions prepare the Annual Expense Recognition timely as per instructions on AGM.
- Consolidate the institutions annual obligation certification and send regional response to Central Office.
- Review institutions account receivable certification for accuracy, consolidate into a regional response for Central Office.
- Consolidate each institutions annual Wardens Certification and prepare regional response to Assistant Director of Administration.
- Consolidate each institution UFMS financial certifications statement to develop new templates to track accounting data and send to Central Office.
- Distribute Bad TIN file from Central Office and monitor institutions for corrective action.
- Monitor each institution annual Prompt Pay review. Consolidate each institution’s review into a regional response.
- Participated as a task force member for the start-up of UFMS Proof Check accounting system by creating the layout and guidelines on how accounting entries would be entered into the accounting chapters.
- Recommend transaction type added to the UFMS team system after monitoring IPACs entries were not certified correctly in the UFMS system for IPACs.
- Applied knowledge, theories, and techniques to ensure payments are certified correctly as a regional approving officer for Mid-Atlantic Region.
- Series: 0510 - Grade: 12
- Hours per week: 40
Accountant
U.S. Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Prisons
04.2016 - 12.2019
- FCI Fort Dix Northeast Finance Center Business Department oversee three institutions, which includes FCI Fort Dix, MCC New York, and MDC Brooklyn. Managing the finance and funding of the cost center managers and inmate population, which is approximately 6,000 inmates’ that includes all 3 institutions and working with 15 staff as the only Accountant under the guidance of the Business Administrator, Regional Accountant and the Budget and Accounting Officer. This includes the responsibility of planning, developing, monitoring, and participating in the management of the institution’s major operating programs, i.e., planning and development, medical services, construction, correctional programs, food service, etc.; by supplying timely and accurate financial statements, fund status reports reflecting budget combined with accounting data, cost reports, and special ratios where appropriate through utilization of the FMIS and FMS programs, to identify and implement solutions to the financial disputes.
- Acted as Budget & Accounting Officer I apply and determine accurate financial information with staff.
- Provide cost center managers with strategy business advice to scan receiving repost to accountant to process payments in a timely matter.
- Instructed financial training for inmates that are being released from the institution.
- Ensure fund control and all obligations matches purchase order to make sure cost center does not need more funds or go over funding.
- Adjusted cost center obligated funds that needs to be de-obligated to maintain budget cost for the facial year.
- Drafted Purchase order and Request of purchase forms for cost center managers in order to pay goods and services in a timely matter.
- Identified errors in FTD and Philadelphia on operational review external audits(2016-2018).
- Achieved a Superior in 1/27/2017 Financial Management Department Program Review.
- Perform and assist management in procedural application of manual and automated inventory control and accounting systems.
- Supply timely and accurate financial statements, fund status reports reflecting budget combined with accounting data, cost reports and special ratios through utilization of the FMIS.
- Reviewed and generated monthly proof checks report that supplies budget combined with accounting data and cost reports.
- Initiated and planned meeting to discuss progress, describe findings, and alert supervisors to any problems.
- Facilitated and collaborated collecting receiving report timely to ensure the correct award amount was paid towards obligated funds.
- Recognition Forms and real property Sentry transactions to identify prior period adjustments and submitted requests for adjustment to Central Office.
- Drafted debt management letters to staff and vendors outlining the agency’s debt management policy.
- Prepared responses to Audit Guidance and Finance Branch Memorandums.
- Drafted correspondence for the Chief Executive Officer’s signature.
- Prepared requests for write-off’s or general ledger adjustments that completely detailed the problem and the solution.
- Drafted internal procedures or Institutional Supplements that were put into use.
- Drafted Program Review findings that clearly identified the finding.
- Drafted dunning letters to creditors.
- Reconciled and corrected differences between FMIS and Sentry
- Corresponded with vendors concerning invoicing discrepancies.
- Identified B&F projects difference for Facility managers at FTD, NYM & BRO.
- Conducted meeting with departmental managers to discuss obligation errors.
- Provided guidance on travel regulations to staff.
- Trained agency staff on financial systems, such as the Financial Management Information System (FMIS) travel program.
- Contacted the Treasury Department regarding disbursements and deposits.
- Conducted meetings outside agencies to resolve Intra-Governmental Payment and Collection (IPAC) problems.
- Assisted OIG auditors and answered questions concerning their review and findings.
- Developed an accounts receivable tracker to ensured payments are made on time according to the Prompt Payment Act and for Executive review.
- Prepared accounts receivable and payable payments in FMIS.
- Generated reports from FMIS that are needed to prepare proof checks.
- Assisted property officer in identifying financial differences.
- Demonstrate accounting and budgeting principles, concepts, theories and practices, financial reporting and standards for Federal agencies in preparation of reports and statistics for management.
- Conduct cash verification audits for Northeast Finance Center which includes, MDC Brooklyn, New York MCC, and FCI Fort Dix.
- Attended Executive Staff Meeting as a Developing the Leader from within trainee student.
- Shadowed Department Head Manager under the Developing the Leader from within trainee.
- Instructed 2016 Annual Refresher Training on Core and Mission value.
- Series: 0510 - Grade: 09
- Hours per week: 40
Education
Associate's degree - Business Management Technology
Burlington County College
Pemberton, NJMaster's degree - undefined
Nutrition and Human Performance
Chesterfield, MO12.2018
Bachelor's degree - Culinary Arts and Food Service Management, Business and Accounting
Johnson and Wales University
Providence, RI11.2015
Associate's degree - Accounting
Burlington County College
Fort Dix, NJ12.2013
Skills
- General ledger management
- Cash flow management
- Accounts payable and receivable
- Fixed asset management
- GAAP
- Auditing procedures
- Financial systems expertise
- Accounting and bookkeeping
- Year-end close
- Cashflow processes
Accomplishments
- Handled and resolved the largest Number of reporting discrepancies in the recommended time fame which run between 10 to 30 days.
- Resolved product issue through consumer testing.
- Documented and resolved prompt payments leading to the payment for goods and services by a specific deadline, usually 30 days from receiving a proper invoice.
Job-related training
- Instructor Skills Training – 1/6/2016 (2 year Collateral Duty)
- Developing the Leader Within – 12/18/2015 (11 months collateral duty)
- T&A Certification
- FEMA Certification
- Financial Management course training, Certification-BOP 10/2011
- Central Inmate Monitoring System (CIMS), Certification-BOP 1/12/206
- Unit Disciplinary Committee, Certification-BOP
- Psychology, Job Specialty 5/10/2007
- Correctional Support Team (4 to 8 hrs monthly training- present)
- COMM - Strategies for Communication with Tact and Diplomacy 10/23/2014
- Firearms, All Weapons, Annual Certification -BOP CSV-0430-BXX 10/16/2014 Successful
Languages
English
Full Professional
Timeline
System Accountant
Federal Bureau of Prison
07.2022 - 09.2025
Regional Accountant
Bureau of Prison Mid-Atlantic Region
12.2019 - 07.2022
Accountant
U.S. Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Prisons
04.2016 - 12.2019
Master's degree - undefined
Nutrition and Human Performance
Bachelor's degree - Culinary Arts and Food Service Management, Business and Accounting
Johnson and Wales University
Associate's degree - Accounting
Burlington County College
Associate's degree - Business Management Technology
Burlington County College
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