Paul Jules
Woodland Park
Summary
Highly skilled in both accounting and auditing, with broad experience managing financial records, conducting audits, and ensuring compliance with financial regulations. Strong analytical skills to evaluate data accuracy and integrity, coupled with proficiency in various accounting software. Successfully improved financial reporting processes in previous roles, leading to enhanced efficiency and reliability of financial information.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Staff Accountant
Avis Budget Group
Parsippany
06.2023 - Current
- Reviewed accounts payable invoices for accuracy prior to payment processing.
- Researched complex transactions to ensure proper classification within the general ledger accounts.
- Created reports to track budget variances against actual results.
- Compiled and prepared journal entries to ensure accurate general ledger records.
- Prepared audit schedules as requested by external auditors.
- Managed accounts receivable activities such as invoicing customers, applying payments received, monitoring customer balances.
- Reconciled intercompany accounts on a monthly basis.
- Maintained accurate and comprehensive financial records, supporting audit activities.
- Managed accounts payable and receivable, improving cash flow management.
ACCOUNTANT
Baccarat
06.2022 - 01.2023
- Review expense reports for approval, ensuring accuracy and timely input if information in Concur website.
- Contact employees to correct any discrepancies in expenses.
- Post accrual entries if reports are not submitted on time.
- Input payroll into S2K system every two weeks.
- Post Journal Entries as well as accruals.
- Entering payroll information and maintaining files.
- Calculating salaries, OT and Vacation deductions.
- Attend payroll inquiries from employees.
- Prepared GL entries with earnings and deductions.
- Assist Controller and book Journal Entries as instructed.
- Reconciling Credit Card Statement and creating report.
- Review marketing expense for CFO monthly.
- Assist with Month-end close.
- Correcting sales tax percentage according to state.
- Create journal entries for Invoices incorrectly reporting sales tax.
- Familiarize with tax rates from states where business occurs.
- Requesting resale certificates or tax-exempt forms for customers who aren’t charged sales tax.
- Filing taxes by the remittance date.
- Preparing Sales Rep commission statement.
- Ensuring each employee is correctly paid based on sales for the current month.
ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE
Dish
02.2021 - 03.2022
- Strengthen customer relationships with proactive approach according to manager needs.
- Built and strengthened relationships with new and existing accounts.
- Generated new sales, retained existing customers and grew overall book of business.
- Increased sales by educating potential prospects on benefits of products and services.
- Maintained routine communication with clients.
- Achieved monthly sales goals by promoting product benefits and enrolling new clients.
- Career Break -This break was necessary because it allowed me to work from home during the height of the pandemic. The position was beneficial, allowing me to interact with various customers as well as meet the organizational goals of the company.
Inventory Exchange Analyst
PBF Energy
05.2018 - 02.2021
- Terminal Reconciliation: Terminals reconciled two days to ensure accuracy in data.
- Worked with billing to ensure all tickets are properly booked.
- Assisted Supervisor in revision of receivables.
- Use of Microsoft Excel, pivot tables, and v-lookups to perform majority of reconciliation tasks.
- Contacted Clients in regards to financial statements for both day-to-day operations and End of Month reports.
Fuel Accountant
Suburban Propane and Fuel
05.2017 - 04.2018
- Completing daily cost of sales report.
- Completing Storage reconciliations for various Customer Service Centers.
- Complete matching report daily: keeping track of the fuel going in and out of Customer Service Centers.
- Emailing Customer Service Centers for specific documentation used to track fuel movement.
- Assist in Month-End and Year-End Closing.
- Compile documents throughout the month/year that depicts that provides in-depth look of fuel movement.
- SAP Fuel Receipts.
- Fuel Transfer.
- Fuel Adjustments (Profits/ loss).
- Keeping track of the adjustments on a daily basis to ensure that no losses or gains have been posted and if so further research would be done to notate said account.
Accounting Intern
Haggerty & Bosch Accounting Firm
01.2017 - 04.2017
- Assist with tax preparation.
- Complete bank reconciliations for various companies.
- Paying bills for clients.
- Contacting clients for missing information.
- Categorize accounts using QuickBooks.
- Making Journal Entries.
Education
Bachelor of Business Administration - Accounting
Berkeley College
Woodland Park, NJSkills
- Microsoft Suite
- Accounts payable
- Accounts receivable
- Journal entries
- Reconciliation processes
- Audit support
- Attention to detail
- Time management
- Effective communication
- Variance analysis
- Bookkeeping
- QuickBooks
- Quick Time
- ProSystems
- SAP
- Spreadsheets
- Microsoft Excel
- Pivot tables
- V-lookup
- SoloArc Right Angle software
- S2K accounting Software
- Concur Travel and Expense
Hobbies and Interests
- Member, Seton Hall’s D.O.V.E.- Division of Volunteer Efforts.
- Take part in humanitarian efforts in Haiti and Dominican Republic.
- Member, Read Across Hillside, NJ; reading to at-risk youths.
- Army Reserves.
Timeline
Staff Accountant
Avis Budget Group
06.2023 - Current
ACCOUNTANT
Baccarat
06.2022 - 01.2023
ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE
Dish
02.2021 - 03.2022
Inventory Exchange Analyst
PBF Energy
05.2018 - 02.2021
Fuel Accountant
Suburban Propane and Fuel
05.2017 - 04.2018
Accounting Intern
Haggerty & Bosch Accounting Firm
01.2017 - 04.2017
Bachelor of Business Administration - Accounting
Berkeley College
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