Michelle Warner
Dover,DE
Summary
Business-minded Finance Manager promoting more than 15 years of expertise overseeing transactions and reconciling monthly financial reports. Highly collaborative individual with track record of effectively training and coaching staff members. Offering confidence, team contribution and decision making skills.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Finance Operations Manager
Wilmington Housing Authority
01.2022 - Current
- Oversee the organization’s Finance Staff’s daily operations
- Perform high level accounting, financial analysis, and reporting functions
- Develop, interpret, and implement complex financial and accounting concepts/techniques by researching and resolving issues for financial planning, analysis, journal entries, reconciliations, control, and auditing of all types of financial transactions including but not limited to operations, fixed assets, capital funds, grant programs, Non-Profit entity and Tax Credit Entity
- Reviews and administers all general accounting functions, internal audits, financial statement preparation and preliminary work for external audits and year-end processes
- Provide support with site-based accounting, budgeting, and forecasting as mandated by HUD, as well as other special projects
- Lead internal audit initiatives to develop best practices in accordance with GAAP and accounting procedures and/or systems for site-based accounting
- Promote greater accounting integrity and efficiency for reporting and auditing.
- Trained new and existing staff members in various financial procedures to prepare for job requirements.
- Monitored budget and revenue trends, compiling reports for company leadership to inform decision-making.
Fiscal Administrative Officer
State of Delaware
01.2022 - 01.2022
- Managed a team of 5 accounting specialists responsible for accounts payables, receivables, and billing
- Reviewed/approved financial transactions using First State Financials accounting system
- Reconciled monthly and quarterly financial transactions and submitted reports to senior management
- Managed cash and external bank accounts
- Assisted with the management of state and federal budgets – monitored, tracked, performed audits, and/or analysis of financial transactions; ensured payments or accounts receivables were accurately posted to the various ledger groups
- Performed budget forecasts and made recommendations for cost saving measures
- Ensured compliance with federal and state financial laws and GAAP
- Prepared documentation for state and federal audits/year end close out activities
- Compiled financial documents/reports for program managers and senior management to assist with budget planning
- ESTAR payroll auditor
- Supervised and guided new employees and responded quickly to questions to improve understanding of job responsibilities.
Senior Accountant
State of Delaware
01.2019 - 01.2020
- Managed a team of 6 accounting specialists responsible for accounts payables, receivables, and billing
- Managed petty cash and grant diversion bank accounts
- Accurately classified, coded, and processed fiscal and financial transactions
- Ensured transactions posted to correct state and federal ledger accounts
- Maintained Purchase Order balances for vendor accounts
- Cash management and reconciliation
- Assisted management with cost analysis/projections and made recommendations regarding budget planning
- ESTAR Payroll auditor
- Prepared monthly journal entries and reconciliations.
- Reconciled accounts and created documents for monthly closure procedures.
- Completed year-end closing processes with controllers and external auditors.
- Reviewed documents and accounts for discrepancies and resolved variances.
Office Manager
State Of Delaware
01.2015 - 01.2019
- ESTAR payroll auditor
- Reconciled state issued credit cards
- Processed journal vouchers
- Assisted with state and federal audits
- Maintained computer and physical filing systems.
- Developed and maintained successful relationships with vendors, suppliers and contractors.
- Created, maintained and updated filing systems for paper and electronic documents.
- Updated reports, managed accounts, and generated reports for company database.
- Managed office operations while scheduling appointments for department managers.
Administrative Specialist
State of Delaware
01.2013 - 01.2015
- Coordinated statewide fair hearings
- Maintained, tracked, and monitored Fair Haring cases
- Provided excellent support services to the Director’s Office
- Managed Fair Hearing vendor accounts
- Efficiently and effectively reviewed invoices/monitored expenditures of Fair Hearing accounts and submitted for payment
- Prepared case files for Superior Court upon request
- Assisted with various research projects
- ESTAR auditor
- Created and updated records and files to maintain document compliance.
Education
High School Diploma -
Basseterre Senior High School
St. Kitts-NevisSkills
- Budget development
- Budget tracking
- Analytical skills
- Payroll management
- Gaap
- Audit
- Leadership
- Problem solving
Timeline
Finance Operations Manager
Wilmington Housing Authority
01.2022 - Current
Fiscal Administrative Officer
State of Delaware
01.2022 - 01.2022
Senior Accountant
State of Delaware
01.2019 - 01.2020
Office Manager
State Of Delaware
01.2015 - 01.2019
Administrative Specialist
State of Delaware
01.2013 - 01.2015
High School Diploma -
Basseterre Senior High School
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