Lucille Spallone
Summary
Highly personable, with a multitude of experience in accounting and finance. Roles include Revenue Assurance, as well as FPA and Accounting Shared Services. Participated in preparation of budgets, forecasts, journal entries, and month end closing deadlines. Knowledge of audit prep per Sarbanes-Oxley internal controls.
Demonstrates strong analytical, communication, and teamwork skills, with proven ability to quickly adapt to new environments. Eager to contribute to team success and further develop professional skills. Brings positive attitude and commitment to continuous learning and growth.
Overview
32
32
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Accountant
HIT Promotional Products
05.2022 - Current
- Month end close deadlines.
- Sales/Use tax reporting.
- Work closely with sales regarding commissions.
- Expense analysis.
- Cash flow daily reporting. (backup)
- Balance sheet reconciliations.
- Support various departments in relation to cash flow reconciliation. Help facilitate A/P in processing and coding freight charges. General accounting duties include month end close, sales/use taxes, expense analysis, prepaids and depreciation. Backup for daily cash flow reporting.
- Led monthly close activities, streamlining workflows and improving turnaround times.
Financial Analyst
SHARP Electronics Corp
09.2017 - 05.2022
- Month end close responsibilities, including recording prepaid expense amortization.
- Working with Consolidations team as part of One Stream project.
- Help with month end posting of various journal entries in supporting accounting team.
- Working with branches to clear balance sheet accounts for gross receipts.
- Interact with Marketing team to make sure journal entries submitted by branches, relating to certain marketing programs are correct.
- Supported locations across the country for Sharp Business Systems. Post-closing procedures for balance sheet reconciliation reviews.Part of One Stream project to replace HFM.
Senior Accountant
PEARSON EDUCATION
06.2016 - 09.2017
- Month end journal entry reviews for offshore team in a timely manner.
- Review balance sheet reconciliations for accuracy and provide guidance to offshore team.
- Participate in management quarterly reviews of balance sheet and setup reporting packages.
- Provide support to Financial Controls team at year end, for input into Prime and corresponding with international team.
- Provided support to Internal/external audit teams and adhering to deadlines.
- Streamlining SmartView process.
- Worked for the Higher Education branch. Involvement with IBM offshore team, to provide accurate information for month end close. Monitor SOPs for SOX compliance, and audit prep. Heavily involved with Oracle, SAP and SmartView.
- Analyzed financial statement discrepancies, identifying issues, and recommending corrective actions to prevent future occurrences.
Senior Accountant
FRONTIER COMMUNICATIONS CORP
01.2015 - 06.2016
- Process SAB104 transactions with regard to service activation credits for only those customers who meet specific billing requirements.
- Reclass of billing coding errors WD1, to meet revenue deadlines.
- Provide proper support for internal/external audit requests.
- Analysis of customer premise equipment sales, for any variances over $100k for prior periods.
- Account reconciliations.
- Part of the End User Revenue accounting group, duties included, month end closing journal entries for revenue recognition, revenue analysis for enhanced services in various markets, and reconciliations. Fulfilling internal and external audit requests and working with tax department on various inquiries.
Senior Financial Analyst
SONY ELECTRONICS CORP
08.2001 - 09.2014
- Journal entries, budgeting, forecasting and commentary.
- Reviewed financial statements, and analyzed revenues, cost, and expenses in working with marketing teams to meet senior management deadlines and end user reporting.
- Worked closely with BU, as part of the implementation of automated sales incentive programs. This reduced the need for a manual calculation for promotional accruals.
- Implemented automation of Blackline Account Reconciliations
- Analyze ppt between factory and business unit.
- Participated in sales audit regarding to financial services discrepancies and banking fraud.
- Worked directly in the Consumer Media business unit doing monthly reporting, this includes SG&A, Inventory, Flash and Forecast. Duties required strong skills in supporting of financials in the BU, with a range of 100 different product categories.
Senior Financial Analyst
XO COMMUNICATIONS
01.2000 - 08.2001
- Consolidating and publishing weekly revenue results and forecast specific to voice and data unit sales, non-recurring revenue, sales headcount and P&L revenue.
- Re-engineered A/P cancelled check verification so that banks could determine any fraud.
- Publishing operating expenses for multiple sales regions.
- Budgeting and working closely with real estate business unit.
- Accruals and performed P&L and balance sheet account analysis.
- Bank reconciliations.
- Worked for one of the nation’s largest communications companies, serving commercial businesses, including other telecom companies. Detailed in handling metrics reporting, month end close, budgets, forecasts, and analysis.
Senior Accountant
VERIZON
08.1993 - 12.1999
- Monthly revenue analysis for Western NY markets. Identified issues negatively impacting the billing revenue stream and collaborated with management.
- Metric analysis including but not limited to, new connects, disconnects, roaming, and bundle features.
- Balance Sheet and P&L variance analysis.
- Performed capital and operating lease analysis, as well as other revenue recognition accounting tests.
- Over 4 years with mobile communications company; promoted to leasing division in NYC. Over those 2 years, involved with month end closing responsibilities, including journal entries, leasing analysis, and revenue market analysis.
Education
MBA - Finance
Iona College
New Rochelle, NYBBA - Accounting
Pace University
Westchester, NYAS - Business Administration
Rockland Community College
Suffern, NYSkills
- Skilled in data analysis tools including Business Objects and Microsoft Office
- General ledger accounting
- Financial reporting
- Audit support
- Financial statement review
- Bank reconciliation
- Variance analysis
Timeline
Senior Accountant
HIT Promotional Products
05.2022 - Current
Financial Analyst
SHARP Electronics Corp
09.2017 - 05.2022
Senior Accountant
PEARSON EDUCATION
06.2016 - 09.2017
Senior Accountant
FRONTIER COMMUNICATIONS CORP
01.2015 - 06.2016
Senior Financial Analyst
SONY ELECTRONICS CORP
08.2001 - 09.2014
Senior Financial Analyst
XO COMMUNICATIONS
01.2000 - 08.2001
Senior Accountant
VERIZON
08.1993 - 12.1999
BBA - Accounting
Pace University
AS - Business Administration
Rockland Community College
MBA - Finance
Iona College
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