Rahinatou Nacro
Senior Accountant
Rosharon,TX
Summary
Goal-focused Senior Accountant with record of accurate reporting and budget management. Offering 8 years of experience handling finances for 3 locations. Processed payroll, budgets, reports, audits, journals, expenditures and payments. Diligently maintains latest training on tax regulations and legal issues impacting financial operations. Experienced in grants management as well.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Languages
Work History
Senior Accountant
Harris County Public Health
Houston, TX
02.2023 - Current
- Reconciles balance sheets and streamline best practices for new fiscal year budget preparation processes.
- Partners with auditors to track errors and add contributions to maintain accuracy.
- Reviews budgets and communicates discrepancies to senior management.
- Reconciles accounts and creates documents for monthly closure procedures.
- Updates general ledger with latest entries, Reconcile discrepancies and submits journal entries as needed.
- Completes year-end closing processes with controllers and external auditors.
- Reviews documents and accounts for discrepancies and resolved variances.
- Reviews and approves all submitted requisitions and facilitates POs issue from purchasing
- Custodian of county travel and purchase cards.
- Submits expense reports to reimburse credit cards
- Reviews and approves expense reports submitted by employees daily
Financial Analyst
HARRIS COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH
Houston, TX
02.2021 - 02.2023
- Administer, review, and approve accounts payable, conduct general ledger and bank reconciliations and prepare monthly sales and used tax returns
- Collect data and develop detailed spreadsheets to identify trends and create revenue, profitability, and expense forecasts
- Review and approve biweekly payroll for approximately 630 employees
- Prepare various payroll (e.g., compensation-related data) analysis reports for department
- Produce ad hoc reporting and completes special projects as requested
- Conduct regular audits on payroll procedures and timesheets
- Ensure Financial Services is well informed with all updates and revisions to payroll and timekeeping policies and procedures
- Improve operational efficiency and cultivated cost reduction and increased productivity.
Contact Tracing Coordinator
HARRIS COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH
Houston, TX
08.2020 - 01.2021
- Provided educational and informational resources regarding isolation policies and quarantine measures
- Achieved specific team objectives and collection activity
- Performed record keeping by logging client information within secure contact-tracing software
- Requested and report CLEAR Search to identify contact information
- Submitted metrics at end of day to managers
- Host daily team huddles in absence of team Lead, and managed team of 25 people
- Investigated and identified confirmed and suspected coronavirus cases, also documenting potentially affected contacts.
Customer Service Representative / HARRIS
COUNTY, TOLL ROAD AUTHORITY
Houston, TX
12.2019 - 05.2020
- Maintained customer satisfaction with forward-thinking strategies focused on addressing customer needs and resolving concerns
- Interfaced with customers to handle Violation Enforcement and EZ TAG program inquiries
- Assisted customers with setting appointments, special order requests, and arranging merchandise pick-up
- Establishes EZ TAG accounts, payment plans and handles problems and/or customer complaints
- Processed toll violations into system, generated receipts for customer payments, received and processed deposit payments, updates invoice, handled inquiries regarding invoices
Professional Tax filler/ RMJ TAX CONSULTANT
RMJ Consulting
06.2017 - 12.2019
- Executed efficient multi-tasking skills to file returns on Tax-wise 2016, 2015, 2014, and 2013
- Demonstrated excellent customer service by resolving issues and providing resources to create positive atmosphere.
Personal Banker
BANK OF AFRICA
08.2013 - 12.2013
- OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO
- Received and audited working cash at beginning of shift, validated and cashed checks
- Assisted customers with setting up or closing accounts, completing loan applications, and signing up for new services, answered customer inquiries regarding account balances, transaction history, services charges, and interest rates
- Logged cashier's checks and other transactions to maintain accurate account records, reconciled cash drawer and resolved discrepancies
- Learned about customer's financial needs, established trust and optimized sales opportunities resulting in quality customer service.
Fraud Management Analyst / AIRTEL BURKINA
04.2009 - 08.2013
- Bharti Airtel, OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO
- Conducted series of measurements and reconciliations to establish deviations between actual outputs, expected outputs and established key performance indicators
- Controlled Sim box frauds activities and saved approximately $2,000,000 in January 2013
- Investigated all potential fraud alarms and incidents such as subscription fraud, internal fraud, and roaming report analysis, gathered, documented, and modeled data to assess business trends
- Evaluated current processes to develop improvement plans, collected, organized, and modeled data using SQL.
Education
Master of Business Administration - Finance
University of Houston - Downtown
08.2014 - 05.2016
BBA - Accounting, Audit Control And Finance
University of Ouagadougou - Burkina Faso
Burkina Fao 10.2008 - 05.2013
Skills
Financial and operational reportingExcellentStrategic financial planningFinanceExpert in customer relationsFinancial ManagementGAAP and statutory reporting
Financial statement review
Expertise in PeopleSoft and Intermediate in Power BI
Account updates
General ledger accounting
Timeline
Senior Accountant
Harris County Public Health
02.2023 - Current
Financial Analyst
HARRIS COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH
02.2021 - 02.2023
Contact Tracing Coordinator
HARRIS COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH
08.2020 - 01.2021
Customer Service Representative / HARRIS
COUNTY, TOLL ROAD AUTHORITY
12.2019 - 05.2020
Professional Tax filler/ RMJ TAX CONSULTANT
RMJ Consulting
06.2017 - 12.2019
Master of Business Administration - Finance
University of Houston - Downtown
08.2014 - 05.2016
Personal Banker
BANK OF AFRICA
08.2013 - 12.2013
Fraud Management Analyst / AIRTEL BURKINA
04.2009 - 08.2013
BBA - Accounting, Audit Control And Finance
University of Ouagadougou - Burkina Faso
10.2008 - 05.2013