Latrice Parham
Concord,NC
Summary
Highly-driven Project Accountant with over 6+ years of accounting experience with a strong skillset in investigating variances, approving expenses and project cost management. Committed to allocating and monitoring cost funding to maintain budget. Strong attention to detail and excellent time management skills.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Construction Accountant- Commercial Real Estate
SunCap Property Group
Charlotte, NC
04.2022 - Current
- Manage financial aspects of construction projects, including preparing reports, forecasting, and budgeting the overall project
- Preparing draw requests
- Entering invoices into the accounting system for construction projects
- Entering interest from loan statements
- Maintain contractor information
- Manage open payables
- Prepare regular job cost reporting and ad hoc reporting
- Analyze reports for variances
- Provide variance analysis explanations
- Track budget changes
- Set up new construction projects in the accounting system
- Process credit card payments
- Assist with property management accounting
- AR - including regular deposits of tenant payments
- Accounts payable
- Management fee calculations, payment, and deposits
Project Accountant
The Cook & Boardman Group
Charlotte, NC
10.2020 - 04.2022
- Manage daily bookkeeping functions with attention to accounts receivable, and submitting weekly check deposits.
- Complete monthly pay applications, and bill retainage based on contractual agreement.
- Communicate with project management to monitor job progress cost reporting.
- Meet billing deadlines, enter GL coding, and analyze billing completeness prior to submitting to project manager.
- Utilize Textura & GCPay system to process monthly subcontractor billing.
- Manage unconditional waivers with payment for subcontractors based on project requirements.
- Process invoices, and request change orders as needed.
- Oversee full accounting cycle and prepare daily sales journal reports.
- Maintain project-related records, including contracts and change orders.
- Process end-of-day paperwork using Comsense verifying deposits and rectifying discrepancies.
- Assess accounting accuracy, along with credit card and petty cash reconciliations.
- Assist Accounting Manager with month-end and year-end close activities.
Business Account Analyst-Contract
Truist
Charlotte, NC
07.2020 - 10.2020
- Identifying users of 4400 accounts and move them into the CyberArk security vault.
- Responsibilities include:
- Coordinating and working with the test group as well as developers to ensure that there are no issues throughout the process.
- Validating that the user(s) of the account has been added, removed, or split in CyberArk. Will be responsible to creating a ticket within the ServiceNow system regarding if they need to be added, removed, or split, etc.
- In charge of investigating to identify how many users there are per account (There could be up to 20 users per account)
- Completing research and analysis on a daily basis in order to identify who the users are for each account.
- Communicate with multiple users (via phone and email) to explain the process of moving the accounts and action items that will be taken.
- Maintaining a report/spreadsheet that is tracking all of the accounts and where they stand in the process.
Assistant Project Accounting Manager
Gresham Smith
Charlotte, NC
04.2019 - 03.2020
- Work with Project Managers in managing multiple complex projects from the fee proposal stage through close-out.
- Work closely with Project Managers in setting up new projects, creating new WBS levels, maintaining and tracking the overall performance of the Project Plan.
- Monitoring and analyzing the overall financial health of the project and facilitate the monthly billing process and adjust changes as needed.
- Work simultaneously on a number of projects under strict deadlines and coordinating with multiple project managers to ensure projects are on track and we are minimizing any risk factors during the life cycle of the project.
- Primary responsibilities include consultant invoicing coordination and expense tracking, provide project reporting to the PM and the project team, compile and calculate data for fee proposal development, and ensure Certificate of Insurance is current and within guidelines of the project contract.
- Monitored design processes from conceptual phase through construction and ensure the contract amounts are aligned with the signed contract agreements.
- Gathered information to produce accounts payable reports for review.
- Reconciled monthly statements and transactions to keep records accurate and current.
- Facilitated payment of invoices due by sending bill reminders and contacting clients.
- Managed over 15 accounting projects worth over $ 600 million dollars with accuracy in Deltek software.
Project Accountant
Progressive AE
Charlotte, NC
05.2017 - 04.2019
- Prepare monthly bill reviews and support Project Managers with collection efforts.
- Maintain billing on all projects, including reimbursable expenses, consultant and vendor invoices, providing sound advice on client billing.
- Ensure up-to-date maintenance of client contracts.
- Partner with multiple project managers to ensure billing detail report is accurate on a project level.
- Initiate and maintain project and budget data into accounting software.
- Review contract against labor billed in each phase to ensure we are in agreement with authorized contract agreement.
- Monitor accounts receivable and support project managers with collection efforts.
- Create financial reports to track the financial progress of projects, used by project managers to aid in project management.
- Prepares asset, liability, and capital account entries by compiling and analyzing account information.
- Review and approve expenses, and ensuring that project billings are issued to customers and payments collected.
- Review and approve supplier invoices related to a project.
- Approve the write-off of any project-related billings that cannot be billed to or collected from customers.
- Guarantee timely reporting, budgeting, financial management and project forecasting to clients.
Accounting Assistant
Surgical Specialist of Charlotte, P.A.
Charlotte, NC
8 2016 - 5 2017
- Perform debit, credit and total accounts using Sage accounting software.
- Received, recorded, and banked cash, checks, and vouchers as well as reconciled records of bank transactions.
- Balanced batch summary reports for verification and approval.
- Prepare Physician Scorecards monthly, submit bank deposits and journal entries.
- Coded the general ledger and processed vendor invoice payments. Record cash, check and credit card transactions and assist with month end close.
- Updated accounting records with client checks and cash receipts.
- Maintained daily bookkeeping functions with attention to accounts receivable, accounts payable, and banking reconciliation
Education
Master of Accountancy - Business Management
Louisiana State University At Shreveport
Shreveport, LA08.2023
Bachelor of Science - Psychology
Troy University
Troy University
Troy, ALSkills
- High Proficiency in Deltek
- Quickbooks
- Yardi
- Sage 300/ Peachtree
- Bluebeam
- Newforma
- Managing contract agreements/COI
- Accounts Payable/Receivable
- Construction Project Accounting
- Subcontractor Billing
- Budgeting and Forecasting
- Excellent Communication Skills
- Financial Reporting
- Proficiency in LinkSquares, AON, NCS, Textura, GC Pay, UTA & Suntrust Enterprises
Certifications
ProCore
Timeline
Construction Accountant- Commercial Real Estate
SunCap Property Group
04.2022 - Current
Project Accountant
The Cook & Boardman Group
10.2020 - 04.2022
Business Account Analyst-Contract
Truist
07.2020 - 10.2020
Assistant Project Accounting Manager
Gresham Smith
04.2019 - 03.2020
Project Accountant
Progressive AE
05.2017 - 04.2019
Accounting Assistant
Surgical Specialist of Charlotte, P.A.
8 2016 - 5 2017
Master of Accountancy - Business Management
Louisiana State University At Shreveport
Bachelor of Science - Psychology
Troy University
Troy University