Laila Clare
Brooklyn,NY
Summary
Finance professional with strong background in accounting and financial management. Known for accuracy in financial reporting and ability to streamline accounting processes. Collaborative team player focused on delivering results and adapting to changing needs. Skilled in financial analysis, regulatory compliance, and budget management.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Accountant
ENDEAVOR
09.2022 - Current
- Responding to queries from vendors and artists as well as internal resources and assist with audits
- Monitoring expenses activities through corporate cards and ensuring expenses are being posted to the correct project
- Performing project reconciliations and performing accurate journal entry adjustments to Profit and Loss income account
- Ensuring all projects have sufficient backup and auditable work papers
- Maintaining and reconciling general ledger accounts monthly
- Managing the month-end financial close process, including accruals and deferrals for revenue and expense items
- Reconciling balance sheet accounts monthly
- Processing a high volume of invoices daily
- Reconciling artist accounts and artist statements
- Assisting in preparing the Company’s monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports that are prepared for various stakeholders and ensuring all reports have sufficient backup and auditable work papers
- Supporting the management of the company’s cash flow through building relationships with Treasury and our shared service team while ensuring all corporate policies are followed
- Provided the weekly payment proposals to controller and shared service team to submit for payments
- Preparing 90-days Cash Forecast report to Treasury
- Supporting the Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable shared service teams
- Setting up new vendors/customers, approving vendor invoices, and responding to queries about vendors and artists
- Preparing monthly reporting packages for the assigned business unit and contribute to monthly review meetings/discussion with agents/producers
- Maintaining accuracy over tax requirements including W8Ben/W9s from vendors, sales use tax, and 1099 information for IRS submission and execute timely filing
- Assisting Controller in preparing corporate reporting of company balance sheet analytics at quarter end
- Supporting the internal and external audit of the Company’s financial statements
- Providing system implementation support by serving as a financial member of system implementation teams
- Prepare other daily, weekly, monthly reports as needed
Associate Accounts Receivable and Revenue Analytic
MSCI
03.2021 - 09.2022
- Responsible for monitoring approved contracts using Salesforce and Sage
- Full cycle of legal billing: Pre-bills, distributing and corrections, submitting invoices to clients via Salesforce
- Managed all accounts and activities in Salesforce and Sage
- Recorded and reconciled daily cash deposit receipt batched to daily bank statement
- Deposited and withdraw security deposit checks
- Proactively tracked aging, resolved delinquent client accounts, and escalate as necessary to management
- Contacted clients with past due accounts to formulate payment plans and discuss restructuring options
- Performed weekly/monthly reconciliation to ensure all payments are accounted for properly posted
- Monitored and reconciled general ledger accounts monthly
- Prepared weekly billing, collection, account receivable, and revenue reports and presented to controller and CFO
- Corrected accounting errors and post journal entry adjustments
- Coordinated and participated in monthly, quarterly, and yearly close process for assigned area of responsibility
- Reviewed invoices to ensure strictly comply with Sarbanes-Oxley regulations
- Ensured revenue is booked accurately in accordance with GAAP guidelines and compliance with company's revenue recognition policies
- Performed contract analysis review to flag non-standard contracts and potential revenue recognition issues to ensure compliance with ASC 606
- Collaborated with Sales and customer success for timely processing of revenue transactions throughout month
- Ensured that revenue is being recognized at correct time by calculating deferred revenue
- Prepared monthly Deferred revenue, Recurring revenue, and Waterfall revenue reports
- Investigated unusual items and report to controller during month end close
- Assisted controller with year-end financial audits by providing backup documentation for audit samples
Billing Specialist & Account Payable
Guidepoint Global LLC
12.2019 - 03.2021
- Responsible for monitoring and billing 2000+ accounts using CRM, Salesforce, and NetSuite
- Managed all service billing activities related to Full-Service Maintenance Agreement, time, and Materials
- Reviewed submitted contracts to ensure billing terms are being followed accurately
- Ensured all customers are invoiced timely and accurately for subscription, professional services, and usage fees
- Engaged with multiple internal teams to invoice customers efficiently and accurately
- Coordinated all service credits and re-bill activity
- Analyzed accounts to discover discrepancies and resolve all variances promptly
- Quality check of invoices correctness and ensured approval in all levels before releasing for payment
- Submitted invoices to clients via NetSuite and solving client's problems
- Reported to supervisor and controller
- Identified, researched, and resolved billing variances to maintain system accuracy and currency
Education
Master of Public Administration - Inspection and Oversight Specialized in Forensic Accounting
John Jay College of Criminal Justice of The City University of New York
New York, NY12.2022
Skills
- Microsoft Office
- SAP
- Sage Intacct
- NetSuite
- QuickBooks
- Salesforce
- CRM
- Blackline
- Esker
- Concur
Timeline
Senior Accountant
ENDEAVOR
09.2022 - Current
Associate Accounts Receivable and Revenue Analytic
MSCI
03.2021 - 09.2022
Billing Specialist & Account Payable
Guidepoint Global LLC
12.2019 - 03.2021
Master of Public Administration - Inspection and Oversight Specialized in Forensic Accounting
John Jay College of Criminal Justice of The City University of New York
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