Rebecca K Perkins
Thornton,CO
Summary
CPA Candidate adept at driving financial accuracy and compliance, I leveraged my expertise in GAAP compliance and strategic financial forecasting at Arrow Electronics, Inc., enhancing reporting processes and supporting audit readiness. My collaborative approach and ERP system proficiency streamlined operations, achieving significant efficiency improvements and fostering strong interdepartmental relationships.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Contract Senior Tax Accountant
Anuvu Operations, LLC
04.2024 - 06.2024
- Review and approve VAT returns for Spain, the Netherlands, Sweden, New Zealand, and the UAE (Dubai).
- Review and approve GST, HST, and QST returns for Canada.
- Work with the treasury to make corresponding tax payments once the returns are approved.
- Compile AR/AP reports and invoices for the Spain VAT team, in accordance with local regulations.
- Prepare and submit indirect tax filings, including Sales and Use, Business, and Property Tax.
- Work with IT to add Tax IDs for every vendor and supplier for AR and AP.
Senior Property Accountant
Prime West Real Estate Services, LLC
10.2022 - 11.2023
- A to Z accounting for eight properties.
- Ran weekly AR reports for property managers, and applied credits when needed.
- Entered AP and prepared weekly check runs, including any funding requests that required higher approval, while ensuring proper coding of invoices.
- Analyzed GL against the budget, and prepared questions for property managers on any gaps.
- Monthly meeting with property managers to finalize AP accruals, as well as preparing the variance analysis for their review.
- Recorded prepaid insurance and prepaid expenses, amortized CAM, loan amortization, property tax expenses, straight-line rent, and depreciation monthly.
- Reconciled 17 bank accounts monthly and sent them to the Controller for reviewer's signature.
- Completed reconciliation workpapers for all 25 balance sheet accounts, and tied the work papers to the trial balance monthly.
- Compiled 8 financial packages monthly.
- Processed property tax payments semi-annually.
- Prepared budgets and CAM Reconciliations for 8 properties annually, in collaboration with the property management team.
- Reviewed leases for any language affecting CAM reconciliations, or budgets. Example: CAP or base language.
Senior Accountant
Southwestern Production Corp
09.2021 - 05.2022
- Prepared and distributed consolidated IFRS financial packages.
- Created a template and process for reconciliations. Maintained reconciliations, ensuring that all GL accounts were reporting accurately.
- Analyzed 75 GL accounts on a monthly basis.
- Performed monthly revenue accounting, recorded sales, processed revenue in BOLO, and processed payments to revenue owners.
- Managed fixed assets and associated work papers.
- Prepared journal entries for true-ups, write-offs, and releases. Recorded prepaid assets on a monthly basis, and kept a schedule for audit purposes.
- Submitted compliance reporting to government agencies to report sales and volume of oil on a monthly basis.
- Prepared production taxes, and processed monthly reports and payments to government agencies on a monthly basis.
- Performed year-end audit requests, working closely with EY.
Senior Accountant
Arrow Electronics, Inc.
03.2019 - 08.2021
- Promoted to Senior Accountant within 11 months with Arrow.
- Team lead for two accountants, managing their workload and process training. Reviewed and approved their account reconciliations, balance sheet memo explanations.
- Presented the health of accounts for six business units, created, and submitted C-Schedules for high-risk balance sheet accounts to the executive committee on a quarterly basis.
- Reconciled 2 reconciliations with large revolving balances of $1B.
- Provided an intercompany report to the director monthly for four different business units. Prepared KPIs and AR aging for the largest business unit monthly.
- Provided DPO analysis on a quarterly basis, broken out by business units.
- Created and posted monthly journals for true-ups, write-offs, releases, and manual entries.
- Provided daily balance sheet memos to the finance team during close week
- Respond to all EY audit requests for all five business units.
- Led a team for the implementation of Oracle Cloud and BlackLine.
- Worked in conjunction with IT to create a dashboard in Power BI for the AP Managers to better access current data.
- Automated tasks within Excel using VBA coding create efficiency within the team.
Property Accountant
Etkin Johnson
12.2017 - 02.2018
- Resigned due to a family emergency.
- Managed the processing of accounts payable and accounts receivable on a daily basis.
- Prepared and processed tenant billing, invoicing, and investor payments on a monthly basis.
- Created and posted journal entries, reconciled bank accounts, and prepared financial statements on a monthly basis.
- Assisted with year-end audit processes, including preparation of vendor 1099s.
- Assisted with the preparation and review of budget and CAM reconciliations with Property Managers.
- Assisted with year-end audit processes, including the preparation of vendor 1099s.
Property Accountant II
Prologis
01.2015 - 12.2017
- Promoted to Property Accountant II after one year with Prologis.
- Prepared 6 monthly financial packages.
- Analyzed budget, forecast, and actual monthly.
- Reconciled Association bank account monthly. Submitted loan payments monthly, per executed documents.
- Reviewed and cleared the suspense account monthly. Cleared associations and recovery centers monthly.
- Accrued for bad debt, property tax, and margin tax monthly. Accrued income is recorded as needed on a monthly basis.
- Responded to audit requests within 24 hours.
- Reviewed and ran straight-line rent upon move-ins, move-outs, expansions, and contractions.
- Paid property taxes for 70 locations. Trued-up property tax on a yearly basis, per GAAP.
- Prepared CAM reconciliations for 70 tenants.
- Managed six markets until August 2017: Columbus, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Louisville, Memphis, and Nashville. Managed the largest market in the Central Region: Dallas, from 08/2017 to 12/2017.
Education
Masters of Professional Accountancy -
Colorado State University – Global Campus
03.2019
Bachelor of Business Administration - Finance
Kennesaw State University
05.2013
Skills
- Audit support
- Balance sheet review
- Bank reconciliation
- Budget preparation
- CAM reconciliations
- Cash flow management
- Depreciation schedules
- ERP system proficiency
- Expense management
- Financial forecasting
- Funding requests
- GAAP compliance
- General ledger journal entries
- General ledger management
- Income statement analysis
- Journal entry posting
- Month end close
- Property tax compliance
- Real estate industry insight
- Revenue recognition
- Tax preparation
- Variance analysis
- Year-end close
Systems
- Oracle
- Oracle: PeopleSoft
- Yardi
- Sage
- BOLO
- Blackline
- Hyperion
- Power BI
- Alteryx
- Quickbooks
- Microsoft Office - advanced proficiency in Excel with formulas and VBA Coding
- Outlook
Timeline
Contract Senior Tax Accountant
Anuvu Operations, LLC
04.2024 - 06.2024
Senior Property Accountant
Prime West Real Estate Services, LLC
10.2022 - 11.2023
Senior Accountant
Southwestern Production Corp
09.2021 - 05.2022
Senior Accountant
Arrow Electronics, Inc.
03.2019 - 08.2021
Property Accountant
Etkin Johnson
12.2017 - 02.2018
Property Accountant II
Prologis
01.2015 - 12.2017
Masters of Professional Accountancy -
Colorado State University – Global Campus
Bachelor of Business Administration - Finance
Kennesaw State University