Senior Accounting Consultant
Ascendo Resources
07.2023 - 10.2023
Hi, I’m
Lisa Ryan
Senior Accountant
Coral Springs,FL
Summary
Skilled Accountant with 30 years of experience working in the Automotive, Hospitality, and Health Care industries. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet Company goals. To seek and maintain a full-time position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management, and problem-solving skills. Detail-oriented team player with strong organizational skills. Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy.
Work History
Ascendo Resources
Senior Accounting Consultant
07.2023 - 10.2023
Job overview
- Prepared working papers, reports and supporting documentation for audit findings.
- Provided journal entries and performed accounting on accrual basis.
- Tracked funds, prepared deposits and reconciled accounts.
- Reviewed accounts, resolved coding areas, and tracked recurring expenses for accrual entry.
- Compiled general ledger entries on short schedule with 100% accuracy
Robert Half Finance & Accounting
Senior Accounting Consultant
05.2023 - 06.2023
Job overview
- Provided journal entries and performed accounting on accrual basis.
- Maintained integrity of general ledger and chart of accounts.
- Reviewed accounts, resolved coding areas, and tracked recurring expenses for accrual entry.
- Compiled general ledger entries on short schedule with 100% accuracy.
Jungle Queen Riverboat -Company Buyout
Financial Controller
2022 - 2023 (1 year)
Job overview
- Work with CPA and lawyers to give accurate P&Ls for company buyout May 29 2023
- Oversaw monthly bank reconciliation and financial statements
- Prepared and analyzed consolidated financial reports
- Ensure all transactional activities are conducted smoothly, not limited to payroll, payables, receivables, chart of accounts, debt payments, cash disbursements, accruals, reconciliations
- Maintain Fixed asset spreadsheet
- Oversaw accounts payable, month-end close, asset coordination, and budgets
- Reviewed journal entries and resolved discrepancies to maintain account accuracy
- Make all accrual entries at EOM
- Submit monthly sales tax for the State of Florida Revenue
- Executed periodic budgeting and cash flow analysis to project monthly cash requirements
- Submitted grant budget for SVOG grant without owing any monies to the government
- Work with auditors to complete SVOG grant closing
- Accounts Payable
- Accounts Receivable
- Business needs include special projects, and job descriptions are subject to change per business needs
- Currently using QuickBooks Pro, Advanced MS Excel, MS Office Suite, Google Office
- Prepared accurate financial reports and monthly statements for accounts receivable.
- Managed payroll data entry and processing for 100 employees with gratuities
- Toast, Quickbooks Enterprise and RocketRez, Fareharbor ticketing software
Impact Media Solutions - Out Of Business
Senior Accountant
2020 - 2022 (2 years)
Job overview
- Stringbit, National Health Connect, Safeguard, Blackstone Properties, National Health Hub, Senior Health Connect, Reconciling bank, credit card accounts, and eight intercompany accounts
- Review financial statements for accuracy and legal compliance
- Prepare and file tax returns
- Payroll and tax weekly
- Payable and Receivable
- Assist with financial statement review
- Assist Controller with month-end closing procedures
- Not assigned to one project at a time
- Advanced MS Office, Excel, Google Docs, Google shared drives
- Executed financial reporting, managing prepaid accounts, schedules, reconciliations, event settlements and month-end accruals.
- Collected and arranged financial information and entered details into QuickBooks online, Zoho financial management system.
- Rentec Direct software for Blackstone real estate property management
Digestive CARE - Laid Off Buyout
Assistant Controller
2018 - 2020 (2 years)
Job overview
- Gastro Health bought out company, and all employees were laid off
- Managed group of 5 accountants
- Oversaw monthly bank reconciliation and financial statement preparation for 30 care centers
- Prepared and analyzed consolidated financial reports
- Coordinated and implemented transition from manual entry to importation of inter-company transfers, payroll, month-end, and accounts receivable transactions to reduce error and increase efficiency
- Oversaw accounts payable, month-end close, asset coordination, and budgets
- Reviewed journal entries and resolved discrepancies to maintain account accuracy
- Reconciled treasury transactions
- Executed periodic budgeting and cash flow analysis to project monthly cash requirements
- Collaborated with collections and payment-posting departments to deliver comprehensive financial information to ease decision-making for management, stakeholders, and parent companies
- Managed four employees, providing positive feedback, discipline, and leadership
- Promoted cross-training and encouraged development of new skills
- Worked with chief financial officers and external auditors to complete a closed year-end process
- After losing all staff at company buy-out during COVID-19, recorded all Digestive Care transactions to ensure delivery of accurate consolidations for recording networking capital for sale
- Workload is not specific to one project at a time
- Worked closely with Medical Centers and office managers on A/P and A/R
- Currently using ACCPAC Sage, Heavy MS Excel, Heavy Outlook
Vista BMW - Resigned For Better Opportunity
Assistant Controller
2015 - 2018 (3 years)
Job overview
- Prepared journal entries and updated recurring journal entries for monthly closing
- Prepared and assisted in monthly and quarterly reporting
- Maintained excellent relations with outside accounting vendor (s)
- Gathered and reviewed weekly and monthly statistical information
- Completed monthly balance sheet and bank reconciliations on time
- Assisted in preparation of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial package
- Administrative functions included processing paperwork for financial department, maintaining spreadsheets, or creating graphs/charts
- Audit/assist in quarterly physical inventory BMW and reconciliation of company's inventory
- Conducted annual physical inventory of fixed assets and reconciled physical inventory
- Prepare, post, and distribute computer-generated report
- Accounts Receivable
- Accounts Payable generation and reporting as needed, benefits, payroll, 401K
- Managed 11 employees, providing positive feedback, discipline, and leadership
- Promoted cross-training and encouraged development of new skills
- CDK, Excel
Joey Accardi Chrysler Dodge Jeep - Resigned
Accounting Specialist
2010 - 2015 (5 years)
Job overview
- Billing over 170 + deals or more a month
- Posted sales and fiance commissions
- Billing aftermarket warranties
- Prepare daily Title work, Title Tec, and Wholesale paperwork
- Prepare MSO and Dealer checks for over 40 or more Dealer Trades per month
- JM&A monthly warranty submissions
- Refund of Customers warranty cancellations
- Responsible for cleaning schedules for customer money down, tag fees, new and used inventory, warranty, wholesales, CIT's
- Assisting the Finance Managers Packaging contracts for banks Customer trade payoff Assisting Controller at month-end closes Prepare weekly/monthly/bonus commissions for payroll
- Reynolds & Reynolds, Title Tec, Dealer Services Network
Family Leave
Caretaker
2008 - 2010 (2 years)
Job overview
- Bereavement. Worked at Family Business.
- Kims Alley Bar, Neighborhood Bar, Fort Lauderdale, FL
- Bookkeeper
JM Family Enterprises/World Omni - Resigned Family
Dealer Services Representative
2000 - 2008 (8 years)
Job overview
- Assisted Auto Finance Credit Buyers
- Assisted Auto Dealership Finance Managers on the west coast of the United States with funding of automotive contracts
- Made sure all contracts were balanced correctly, APR was correct, and proper paperwork, such as proof of income, mortgage, and any stipulations that Buyer requested
- Very personal and confidential paperwork handled
- When everything was perfectly correct, I would fund contracts to dealership
- MS Excel, mathematical aptitude, internet, Heavy Outlook emails, heavy calls for customer service for Finance Managers and Directors of Car dealerships across nation, typing at least 50 wpm
- Complete 100% accuracy was audited with money bonuses if scored high
Education
Florida State UniversityTallahassee, FL
Bachelor of Accountancy from Accounting And Business Management
12.1988
Fort Lauderdale High SchoolFort Lauderdale, FL
High School Diploma
1984
Skills
- Balance Sheet Management
- Closing Process Management
- GL and Accrual Journal Entries
- Cash Flow
- Staff Management
- Profit and Loss Management
- Audit Preparation
- Team Leadership
- Intercompany Accounting
- Payroll Processing
- Corporate Tax Returns
- Fixed Assets Accounting
Timeline
Senior Accounting Consultant
Robert Half Finance & Accounting
05.2023 - 06.2023
Financial Controller
Jungle Queen Riverboat -Company Buyout
2022 - 2023 (1 year)
Senior Accountant
Impact Media Solutions - Out Of Business
2020 - 2022 (2 years)
Assistant Controller
Digestive CARE - Laid Off Buyout
2018 - 2020 (2 years)
Assistant Controller
Vista BMW - Resigned For Better Opportunity
2015 - 2018 (3 years)
Accounting Specialist
Joey Accardi Chrysler Dodge Jeep - Resigned
2010 - 2015 (5 years)
Caretaker
Family Leave
2008 - 2010 (2 years)
Dealer Services Representative
JM Family Enterprises/World Omni - Resigned Family
2000 - 2008 (8 years)
Florida State University
Bachelor of Accountancy from Accounting And Business Management
Fort Lauderdale High School
High School Diploma
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