Peter Colon
Delray Beach,FL
Summary
Finance professional with 8+ years of experience in accounting, commission analysis, and financial reporting. Skilled in Netsuite, Sage, Salesforce, Excel and Tableau. Experience analyzing high volume financial data and supporting executive decision making. Proven ability to improve financial processes, manage large transaction volumes and drive operational efficiency.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Commission & Margin Specialist II
All Star Healthcare Solutions
Boca Raton, FL
10.2023 - Current
- Manage monthly close activities across revenue and non-revenue accounts, including journal entry preparation, account reconciliations, and variance analysis.
- Partner with Sales leadership to provide monthly and quarterly financial statements for commission and margin profitability.
- Identify opportunities for process improvements, to enhance revenue recognition for $15 million+ in monthly transactions.
- Create a system of internal controls to ensure accuracy and compliance with accounting procedures and regulations.
- Collaborate with senior management to implement a new accounting system, resulting in a 20% improvement in accurate reporting.
- Analyze financial statements and created reports to present to executive team, resulting in improved decision-making.
Lead Commission Specialist
Virgin Voyages
Fort Lauderdale, FL
11.2022 - 11.2023
- Manage the process of all sales commission payments.
- Utilize SQL systems to combine and transform data to help generate financial reports.
- Analyze 10,000+ transactions per month to ensure accurate reporting.
- Effectively partnered with the Revenue and Sales Department to drive commission improvements.
- Prepare and audit financial reports
- Assist in training new staff on commission tracking software and protocols.
Commission Accountant
Compass Real Estate
New York, NY
01.2021 - 10.2022
- Issue commission payments to 1,000+ real estate agents, while tracking referral payments, and agent deductions.
- Reconcile and release escrow payments.
- Work closely with the Accounting Department and the Sales Department to research and respond to commission inquiries impacting the monthly financial statement.
- Process changes to agent commission splits, and generated ad hoc agent financial reporting.
- Increase revenue for the Illinois region by onboarding top-performing agents to Compass programs.
- Work with management and leaders on ways to improve process flows to help increase performance metrics, such as KPIs, and SLAs.
- Record adjustments and journal entries for payment errors.
Accounting Specialist
Kennedys Law
Basking Ridge, NJ
07.2020 - 01.2021
- Support U.S. offices while ensuring compliance with the firm's accounting policy.
- Assist attorneys with client disbursements.
- Daily and monthly bank reconciliations of operational accounts and trust accounts.
- Allocate proper expenses to client accounts and general ledger.
- Maintain budgets according to management guidelines.
- Support month-end close, and identify variances that are impacting the financial statements.
- Manage daily operations of Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable.
Accounts Payable Accountant II
Jones Lang LaSalle
Newark, NJ
02.2019 - 03.2020
- Maintain financial transactions for 50+ commercial buildings for Prudential Insurance.
- Work with the Directors and Vice President of Commercial Real Estate to maintain lease responsibilities for assisting with assigned transactions of data, including lease extensions, index adjustments, and lease terminations for domestic and international leases.
- Assist with the transition of management from Cushman & Wakefield to JLL for our client Prudential Insurance.
- Allocate proper expenses to sub-ledger and chargeback accounts.
- Respond to lease transaction questions with regard to lease payments, and third-party vendors.
- Assist the senior accountant with prepaid journal entries, and cash management reporting.
- Problem-solve accounts payable questions on behalf of internal team members, management and vendors.
Accounts Payable Analyst
Wilentz, Golmdan & Spitzer Attorneys At Law
Woodbridge, NJ
01.2018 - 01.2019
- Process a high volume of vendor invoices and ensure accurate coding for financial records.
- Maintain accurate records of all transactions including purchase orders, invoices, credit memos.
- Create ad hoc reports as requested by management team members or other stakeholders.
Education
Bachelor Degree - Finance
Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, FL05-2028
Associate Degree - Business Management
Ocean County College
Toms River, NJ05-2019
Skills
Financial Systems
- Netsuite
- Sage Intacct
- Oracle - Enterprise One, Business Intelligence
- IBM Tririga
- Quickbooks
- Thomson Reuters - Elite 3E
- Aderant Expert
- Floqast ai
Data & Reporting Software
- Salesforce
- Tableau
- Dremio
- Seaware
- Concur
Skills
- Financial Analysis
- Lease Management
- Bank Reconciliations
- Accounts Payable
- Accounts Receivable
- Sales & Commission Reporting
- Revenue Recognition
Timeline
Commission & Margin Specialist II
All Star Healthcare Solutions
10.2023 - Current
Lead Commission Specialist
Virgin Voyages
11.2022 - 11.2023
Commission Accountant
Compass Real Estate
01.2021 - 10.2022
Accounting Specialist
Kennedys Law
07.2020 - 01.2021
Accounts Payable Accountant II
Jones Lang LaSalle
02.2019 - 03.2020
Accounts Payable Analyst
Wilentz, Golmdan & Spitzer Attorneys At Law
01.2018 - 01.2019
Bachelor Degree - Finance
Florida Atlantic University
Associate Degree - Business Management
Ocean County College