Kawauna C. Pittman
San Diego,CA
Summary
Accountant with over 25 years of experience. Collaborative professional who prepares clear and comprehensive financial reports for executive-level management. Seeking an Accounting position with room for growth.
Overview
33
33
years of professional experience
Work History
Accounting Assistant
Media Allstars
03.2024 - Current
- Daily Data Input at a fast pace to support our sales team
- Create and email invoices to customers daily
- Reconciles customer payments against open invoices
- Prepares bank deposits
- Inputs vendor invoices and processes vendor payments by internal accounting policies
- Responds to vendor inquiries and resolves any discrepancies in billings and payments
- Track daily expenses and prepare weekly, monthly, or quarterly reports
- Format information for internal and external communication – memos, emails, presentations, reports
- Organize and maintain the office filing system
Fiscal Assistant V (Contract)
San Diego Regional Center
08.2023 - 12.2023
- Performed daily bookkeeping tasks such as accounts payable/receivable, journal entries and budget preparation
- Developed and implemented financial policies and procedures to ensure compliance with state and federal regulations
- Updated and maintained financial records, including accounts receivable and payable, payroll, taxes, and investments
- Performed monthly and quarterly reconciliation of bank accounts and prepared financial statements
- Analyzed financial reports, identified discrepancies, and developed solutions to improve accuracy and efficiency
- Processed and recorded customer payments
- Answered customer inquiries and provided customer service
- Will download, review, and evaluate Purchase of Service (POS) requests, input requested changes to existing authorizations, and generate invoices to vendors
- Managed the office administration, including filing and document management
Accounts Payable Coordinator (Contract)
Westside Building Materials
12.2022 - 05.2023
- Process AP mail, date stamp, and route among departments to obtain authorization signature and original documentation
- Review all invoices for appropriate documentation and approval before payment
- Act as liaison between corporate and branch
- Answer all vendor inquiries
- Maintain all AP reports, spreadsheets, and corporate AP files
- Provide support to the accounting team during month-end
- Prepare analysis of accounts as needed
- Research and resolve invoice discrepancies and issues
- Follow and maintain the AP cycle
- Vendor Management
Accounts Payable Coordinator
Pacifica Senior Living
05.2022 - 08.2022
- Process invoices from multiple vendors and reconcile purchasing orders to vendor invoices
- Assist in monthly closings
- Complete Journal Entries
- Bank and credit reconciliation
- Codes to the general ledger account
- Processes month-end accrual of unpaid regular monthly payments (rent, utilities, etc.)
- Reconcile employee benefit invoices to payroll expenses and withholdings
- Work collaboratively with Human Resources to resolve variances
Assistant Store Manager
Walgreens
09.2019 - 03.2022
- Under the direction of the store manager, oversee the operation of a Walgreens store
- Monitor and analyze the customer service team members provide and offer feedback and coaching
- Greet customers and clinic patients and help with products and services
- Model and share customer service best practices with all team members to deliver a distinctive and delightful customer experience
- Supervise the operation of the store and team members, opening/closing/changing shifts, and task delegation to team members
- Perform and supervise merchandising by planning and ensuring the implementation, sets, resets, and revisions
- Supervise the receiving, stocking, pricing, returning, and transferring of merchandise
- Receive exposure to analysis of financial & performance data for the store, pharmacy, and clinic
Staff Accountant
Accountemps
08.2018 - 08.2019
- Maintain petty cash accounts and log all outgoing disbursements
- Demonstrated and acquired professional and subject matter expertise
- Created financial statements and footnotes for audit opinion
- Identified and communicated problems during an engagement and proposed solutions promptly
- Prepared tax returns for corporations, partnerships, and individuals
- Conducted business-specific research, gathered and analyzed data, interpreted results, compiled reports, and made recommendations
- Financial accounting, financial reporting, detailed bookkeeping, or corporate finance, the GAAP part will be implied
Staff Accountant
TGG Accounting
04.2018 - 08.2018
- Prepare accounting-related entries to numerous registers, journals, and logs
- Support accounts payable activities to ensure accuracy and timeliness of invoice creation and entry
- Perform monthly bank settlements
- Regularly maintain detailed reconciliations of all balance sheet accounts
- Provide detailed analyses and explanations of all transactions
- Prepare documentation for external auditors
- Follow the company’s established accounting process
Staff Accountant
Accountemps
03.2015 - 02.2018
- Analyzing and reconciling account information for their organizations, as well as overseeing and verifying that all charges in debit, credit, cash, or other payment methods are reconciled regularly
- Review and post A/R, A/P, and cash receipt batches
- Prepare adjusting J/E and related supporting documentation
- Reconcile Bank accounts
United States Navy
01.1992 - 01.1995
Education
Bachelor of Science - Management
Westwood College
01.2013
Skills
- QuickBooks
- SAP
- Icoms
- Yardi
- Yardi Breeze
- ADP
- PeopleSoft 91
- Syspro
- Perfect Law
- Great Plains
- Oracle 11i
- JD Edwards
- Solomon
- Timberline
- Sage 100
- Unit 4 Financial
- SharePoint
- Salesforce
- SQL
- Concur
- Microsoft Office Suite
- Navision
- Microsoft Excel
- Windows 10
Timeline
Accounting Assistant
Media Allstars
03.2024 - Current
Fiscal Assistant V (Contract)
San Diego Regional Center
08.2023 - 12.2023
Accounts Payable Coordinator (Contract)
Westside Building Materials
12.2022 - 05.2023
Accounts Payable Coordinator
Pacifica Senior Living
05.2022 - 08.2022
Assistant Store Manager
Walgreens
09.2019 - 03.2022
Staff Accountant
Accountemps
08.2018 - 08.2019
Staff Accountant
TGG Accounting
04.2018 - 08.2018
Staff Accountant
Accountemps
03.2015 - 02.2018
United States Navy
01.1992 - 01.1995
Bachelor of Science - Management
Westwood College