Mary Jo Fitzgerald Landers
Eugene
Summary
Dynamic accounting professional with extensive experience at Horizon Home Builders, excelling in financial statement analysis and job-costing. Proven track record in recovering over $500K in revenues through meticulous internal auditing. Adept in QuickBooks and Excel, demonstrating strong leadership and strategic planning skills to drive profitability and growth.
Overview
40
40
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Accountant
Austin Fire & Flood
Austin
01.2024 - Current
- Handle the Accounting for four corporations including: Reconciling Bank Statements for 8 accounts, credit cards, LOC transactions.
- Provide Profit and Loss for each; Adjusting with J/E as needed, using QBO.
- Oversee all Accounting including A/R, A/P, Payroll entries.
- Performed general ledger reconciliations on a timely basis.
- Reviewed financial information detailing assets, liabilities, and capital.
Accountant
All-Alaskan Racing Pigs
Eugene
12.2020 - 12.2023
- Enter, audit and job-cost various expositions and inventory.
- Prepare Financial Statements and Budgets as needed.
Controller/ CFO
Horizon Home Builders
12.2015 - 07.2020
- Compiled/analyzed financial statements, including reconciling multiple bank and inter-company accounts.
- Reconciled WIP (over two million dollars) by job weekly.
- Initiated and created budgets per home built, using both Phase and Job-costing, Excel and QuickBooks.
- Created an Excel workbook with over 50 tabs and formulas used for pricing, auditing, and creating PO's.
- Provided Financials for the businesses (five total) and inter-company transactions.
- Verified and audited all pricing on hundreds of supplier and subcontractor invoices as well as setting these up for payments.
- Provided back up for audits and met with auditors yearly regarding 1099 Contractors.
Accountant
John Quattrocchi, CPA
01.2012 - 01.2015
- Provided bookkeeping services and live payroll for various clients. Approximately 15).
- Entered information for tax preparation.
- Compiled tax returns for multiple types of businesses as well as individuals.
- Met with Clients to resolve any issues with State or Federal notices.
Office Manager/Controller
TransContinental Meats, Inc.
01.1997 - 01.2015
- Compiled and analyzed financial statements, including reconciling bank and investment accounts.
- Prepared and audited Payroll and Tax filings.
- Audited payables, receivables, cash, and GL entries utilized Peachtree Software and formulated Excel spreadsheets.
- Entered and paid all vendors.
- Recorded all Sales invoices, applied deposits and issued Customer Statements.
- Utilized job-costing procedures to evaluate broker transactions.
President
MJ Business Services
Marietta
01.2008 - 01.2012
- Company Overview: My Corporation
- Provided payroll services for external clients which included monthly, quarterly, and out of state tax filings.
- Provided P/R services for external clients, which included monthly and quarterly taxes.
- Prepared Sales/Use, Property, and Income taxes and maintained corporate business licenses.
- Developed and presented Profit/Loss and financial statements for clients using various client software- including Great Plains, QuickBooks, SAP, Peachtree, and Creative Accounting.
- My Corporation
- Oversaw development and implementation of corporate policies and procedures.
- Led strategic planning and execution to enhance profitability and company growth.
Accountant
SUNBELT EXTERIORS/PAN REALTY
Atlanta
01.2000 - 01.2008
- Performed all accounting functions including payables, receivables, cash, and general ledger entries.
- Created Profit/Loss statements for every property or home that was built or sold utilizing Job Costing Procedures.
Internal Auditor/Accountant
OmniSource Corporation
01.1985 - 01.1996
- Performed internal audit and general accounting functions for the Atlanta regional office.
- Initiated the implementation of setting up and maintaining a separate accounting data base as well as generating reports for the regional office using Excel.
- Promoted to internal auditor responsible for reconciling, reviewing, and analyzing regional accounting information with the home office.
- Recovered over$500K in revenues that were reported incorrectly by the home office while auditing the London Metal Exchange transactions that occurred for our division.
- Reported directly to the Treasurer and was promoted three times.
Education
BBA - Accounting
University of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WIFlorida State University
Tallahassee, FLSkills
- General Ledger/Journal Entries
- Sales Tax - Multi-State Preparation/Submission
- Leadership/Management
- Income Tax Returns/Multi-State
- WIP
- Job-Costing and Reconciliation
- Financial Statement Analysis
- Accounts Payable/Receivable
- Business Licenses/Incorporation
- Payroll Specialist
- Profit & Loss Statement
- Internal Auditing
- Income Tax Preparation
- Contract Analyst
- Construction/Real Estate Accounting
- Job Costing
- Private Accounting
- Government Accounting
- Supervisory Experience
- Financial reporting
- General ledger reconciliation
- Payroll administration
- Budget preparation
- Microsoft Excel
- QuickBooks Online
- Data analysis
Certification
- Quickbooks Pro Certified
- Quickbooks Online
Previous Clients
- RaceTrac Petroleum, Client unable to reconcile their 1000's of ATM machines. Provided a formulated Excel spreadsheet where they could take specific line items from their Timberline software and plug into this spreadsheet to automatically Balance their ATM's.
- Garden City - City Hall, Audited 2014 books in preparation for their State-mandated Audit. Made necessary J/E's to allocate Payroll, Depreciation, and year-end Accruals. Utilized Great Plains software.
- Sam's Marts, Provided financial statements and payroll/payroll tax payments to include various States.
- Pizza Hut/ Dunkin Donuts Chains, Provided Monthly Financials, Payroll, Multi-State Sales/Use Tax Returns.
- Automobile Dealerships, Chuck Clancy Ford: Responsible for entering Autos into and out of Inventory. Reconciled on-site Cash. Handled all titling of vehicles.
- Nalley Volkswagen, Responsible for New car inventory, entering Customer information into dealer database, as well as A/P.
- John Quattrocchi CPA Firm, Provided bookkeeping services and live payroll for various clients. Entered information for tax preparation. Compiled tax returns and met with Clients to resolve any issues with State or Federal notices.
- The Nielson Group - News Transcription, Transcribed Atlanta News for all Stations. Prepared and audited tapes to send to NY and Miami.
- Work-Out Anytime Fitness, Provided all Financial Statements and live Payroll. Handled multiple tax notices until resolved.
- Kennesaw Transportation, Compiled and Audited Financial Statements. Reviewed and collected debts. Found monies owed to Client that was not in the books.
Timeline
Accountant
Austin Fire & Flood
01.2024 - Current
Accountant
All-Alaskan Racing Pigs
12.2020 - 12.2023
Controller/ CFO
Horizon Home Builders
12.2015 - 07.2020
Accountant
John Quattrocchi, CPA
01.2012 - 01.2015
President
MJ Business Services
01.2008 - 01.2012
Accountant
SUNBELT EXTERIORS/PAN REALTY
01.2000 - 01.2008
Office Manager/Controller
TransContinental Meats, Inc.
01.1997 - 01.2015
Internal Auditor/Accountant
OmniSource Corporation
01.1985 - 01.1996
BBA - Accounting
University of Wisconsin
Florida State University