MARIA LOURDES VINAS
Las Vegas,NV
Summary
Senior Accountant with 17 years of experience in General Accounting and Cost Control Accounting Functions across diverse industries including Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, and Cannabis. Proven track record as a proactive and goal-oriented professional with exceptional time management and problem-solving abilities. Recognized for reliability and adaptability, consistently demonstrating a rapid capacity to learn and apply new skills.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Bookkeeper
Premium Produce, LLC
01.2021 - Current
- Supervise Junior Bookkeeper
- Record transactions in QuickBooks
- Review the company’s financial reports
- Reconcile General Ledger
- Responsible in filing the monthly taxes including Marijuana Wholesale Tax, Sales & Use Tax
- Process the payroll semi-monthly
- Coordinate with the company lawyer for filing the renewal of licenses and other legal matters
- Update the owner for the Payables and Receivables in a timely manner
- Imposed guidelines on following the proper accounting procedures
- Collate all supporting documents and implement soft copy and hard copy filing system
- Perform ad hoc jobs as per owner’s request
Staff Accountant
IMI Precision Engineering
03.2022 - 03.2023
- Manage Accounts Payables
- Data entry of all supplier invoices
- Process ACH, Wire and Check payments
- Investigate purchase price variance between supplier invoice against purchase order
- Reconcile payable aging against supplier statements
- Liaise with customers and account managers to ensure issues are resolved in a timely manner
- Process Credit Card Payments
- Entered Customer invoice in Customer’s Invoice portal
- Accurately prepare and post month end entries, complete with appropriate audit trails
- Assist in the monthly financial statement close process to ensure that all financial transactions are recorded accurately and comply with financial policies and procedures
- Post A/P & A/R transactions to General Ledger daily
- Perform various reconciliations, problem solving as required
Senior Accountant
Vogue Fitness, LLC
02.2018 - 09.2018
- Responsible for producing monthly financial statements
- Performed monthly closing entries, journal entries, accruals, amortization, and depreciation
- Reconcile monthly bank statements
- Update the chart of accounts and reconcile the general ledger in preparation for annual financial audit
- Monitor sales daily
- Ensure membership enrollment fees are properly accounted for
- Process Payroll and Accounts Payable
- File Sales Tax monthly
Senior Accountant
Sumaq (Crave) Restaurant Management
11.2014 - 01.2018
- Responsible for compiling and analyzing financial information to produce monthly Financial Reports
- Prepare journal entries, amortization of prepaid expenses, accruals
- Reconcile bank accounts, general ledger, and subsidiary ledger accounts
- Maintain the Fixed Asset Ledger
- Review accounts payable, match purchase orders and invoices to the suppliers’ statements
- Review the Cashier’s Daily Sales Report
- Reconcile cash and credit card payments and investigate discrepancies
- Set-up the company’s Accounting and Inventory System
- Develop Standard Operating Procedures in accounting and purchasing
- Oversee software system implementation in all the stores
- Train staff in using software to ensure compliance with standard procedures and data accuracy
- Set-up restaurant menu costing and pricing, ensuring the Chef and kitchen staff follow the standard menu
- Prepare food cost comparison between actual and standard cost and investigate the variance
- Prepare Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) monthly
- Review the payroll computation prior to process the payment to employees
- Leads the migration of the accounting system used by the company from Tally to Xero
- Prepare the annual budget and determine the actual to budget variance analysis monthly
- Responsible for negotiating prices and terms with suppliers, leading to a decrease in the company’s purchase costs by 5% - 10%
- Work with the external auditors for the annual financial audit
Accountant / Purchaser
Grandma’s Cheesecake
01.2014 - 06.2014
- Setup standard food cost system and pricing of products
- Perform physical count of stock monthly
- Monitor waste and product returns
General Accountant
Swiss Bakery
05.2013 - 08.2013
- Maintained cost control through month end physical count, account reconciliation, report generation, account analysis, and forecasting
- Process Accounts Payable while ensuring proper documentation exists
- Work with suppliers on payment issues
- Monitor daily sales reports from outlets
- Manage Accounts Receivable
- Preparing Financial Statements
- Reconcile bank statements
Cost Accountant
Swiss Bakery
02.2012 - 04.2013
- Setup standard food cost system
- Prepare gross profit analysis
- Update recipe costing system with current prices
- Perform month-end physical count and monitor the flow of goods
Cost Control Supervisor
Pancake House Group of Companies
11.2009 - 01.2012
- Responsible for preparing restaurant and commissary menu pricing
- Prepare Gross Profit Analysis
- Monitor Cost of Sales, Product Mix, Theoretical, Spoilages, & Product Returns reports
- Review Sales Invoices and Receiving Reports
- Ensure accurate recording of the flow of goods
- Reconcile Inventory
- Participate in monthly inventory count
- Lead employee performance appraisals
- Lead system migration and integration from Microsoft Dynamics Solomon to NAV 7
- Work with the internal programmer to design and produce accounting reports
- Train employees on using the ordering system
- Managed Bookkeeping functions of two Pancake House stores in Malaysia
General Accounting Officer
Pancake House Group of Companies
12.2007 - 10.2009
- Prepare monthly Financial Statements and Analysis
- Process Accounts Payable for various suppliers and prepare checks
- Prepare monthly VAT payable
- Reconcile bank statements monthly
- Record restaurant sales
- Monitor daily cashier's reports
- Compute restaurant cost of sales
- Monitor Fixed Assets (depreciation and amortization)
- Prepare schedule of accounts in preparation for annual audit
- Facilitate Government Reports such as Social Security System, Home Development Mutual Fund, Philhealth and Withholding Tax
Payroll Assistant
Pancake House Group of Companies
10.2004 - 11.2007
- Calculate labor cost of more than 400 employees
- Prepare Journal Entries to record Cost of Labor
- Process payroll
Education
Bachelor of Science - Accountancy
Meycauayan College
Meycauayan, Bulacan03.2004
Associate - Computer Science
STI College
Meycauayan, Bulacan03.1998
Skills
- Cost accounting
- Financial statement preparation
- Journal entry preparation
- Financial statement review
- Audit preparation
- Payroll
- Accounts Payables
- Bank reconciliation
- General Ledger reconciliation
- Internal controls implementation
- Quickbooks
- Used several Accounting system
Timeline
Staff Accountant
IMI Precision Engineering
03.2022 - 03.2023
Senior Bookkeeper
Premium Produce, LLC
01.2021 - Current
Senior Accountant
Vogue Fitness, LLC
02.2018 - 09.2018
Senior Accountant
Sumaq (Crave) Restaurant Management
11.2014 - 01.2018
Accountant / Purchaser
Grandma’s Cheesecake
01.2014 - 06.2014
General Accountant
Swiss Bakery
05.2013 - 08.2013
Cost Accountant
Swiss Bakery
02.2012 - 04.2013
Cost Control Supervisor
Pancake House Group of Companies
11.2009 - 01.2012
General Accounting Officer
Pancake House Group of Companies
12.2007 - 10.2009
Payroll Assistant
Pancake House Group of Companies
10.2004 - 11.2007
Associate - Computer Science
STI College
Bachelor of Science - Accountancy
Meycauayan College
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