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Rachel Davidson

Cookeville,United States

Summary

Organized and detail-oriented accounting professional successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude and willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals while cultivating effective working relationships at all levels. Proven dependable track record of performing work ethically while maintaining integrity of all financial data.

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Accoutant

City Of Cookeville
12.2021 - Current
  • Maintain grant documentation and contracts, track expenditures, and code reimbursements to correct general ledger accounts when received.
  • Prepare Schedule of Expenditures of Federal Awards (SEFA) for annual year end audit and maintain appropriate documentation for each grant.
  • Prepare invoices to be submitted to TDOT for infrastructure projects. Maintain accurate spreadsheets and documentation of approved budgets, expenditures, and reimbursements of grants.
  • Maintain all departments capital asset depreciation schedules, excluding Electric Department. Maintain correlating spreadsheets for additions or disposals of capital assets in timely manner for the current FY.
  • Maintains spreadsheets for all capital projects and costs involved. Upon project completion, determine capitalization amount and update correlating spreadsheets as additions in completed FY.
  • Prepare, enter, and post Gas and Water Department journal entries monthly to general ledger. Review trial balance and correct discrepancies as needed.
  • Prepare year-end audit schedules, deprecation summaries, and CIP roll forwards for Gas and Water Departments.
  • Prepare monthly check requests for approved expenditures and submit to Accounts Payable.
  • Facilitate the application process for non-profits pursuing funding from City of Cookeville.
  • Communicate with non-profits regarding the application process or any questions that might need to be answered.
  • Prepare non-profit booklet of all submitted applications and any additional documentation for non-profit committee.
  • Maintain effective communication with approved non-profits regarding quarterly reports and funding distribution dates.

Accounting Technician

City Of Cookeville
01.2020 - 12.2021
  • Received, count, and verified money from various city departments and prepared individual bank deposits.
  • Reconciled each utility departments daily reports to customer service billing software.
  • Updated utility customer banking information weekly to prepare for drafts.
  • Prepared utility bank drafts to be submitted to bank.
  • Prepared monthly reconciliation reports to be distributed to each utility department.
  • Maintained detailed utility deposit and accruing interest reports for Gas and Electric Department.
  • Maintained utility adjustment reports to reconcile to monthly STAT reports.
  • Prepared utility refund checks for utility customers.
  • Prepared utility deposit refunding checks and check request for accruing interest.

Education

Certified Municipal Finance Officer -

Tennessee Comptroller of The Treasury
Tennessee
12.2023

MBA - Business Administration

Tennessee Technological University
Cookeville, TN
12.2022

Bachelor of Science - Accounting

Tennessee Technological University
Cookeville, TN
12.2019

Skills

  • Financial Statement Review
  • Teamwork and Collaboration
  • Grant Accounting
  • Fixed Assets Management
  • GAAP Compliance
  • MS Excel
  • Time Management
  • Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

Timeline

Senior Accoutant

City Of Cookeville
12.2021 - Current

Accounting Technician

City Of Cookeville
01.2020 - 12.2021

Certified Municipal Finance Officer -

Tennessee Comptroller of The Treasury

MBA - Business Administration

Tennessee Technological University

Bachelor of Science - Accounting

Tennessee Technological University
Rachel Davidson