Shanika Thompson
Tallahassee,FL
Summary
With more than 15 years of experience, Shanika is a dedicated, goal-oriented and resourceful team player with a strong work ethic. She is a self starter who has created desk procedures as lead accountant, cross trained and assisted as backup for vacant positions. Possesses extensive knowledge of general accounting principles, proficient with accounting systems (Statewide Purchasing Sub-System, Florida Accounting Information Resource System, Information Warehouse, Department of Health Financial Information System, and My Florida Marketplace, BARS (Budgeting & Accounting Reporting System), CashPro (Bank of America) payment system. FACTS (Florida Accountability Contract Tracking System), FLAGS (Florida Grant System), Grants Portal (FEMA), and SharePoint. Familiar with policies, and procedures as they relate to the Department of Financial Services.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Junior Financial Analyst
Indelible Solutions, Inc.
02.2023 - Current
- Enhance internal control systems and procedures to improve overall efficiency in Accounts Payable.
- Implement processes to better streamline invoice processing.
- Record expenses and costs of sales that are engagement related prior to month-end close.
- Prepare monthly reconciliation of various bank accounts and take corrective actions on any discrepancies.
- Identify process issues and make recommendations for improvement or correction.
- Process all invoices received from various vendors, including operations and engagement specific tasks of project deliverables.
- Serves as liaison, facilitating communication between management and associates regarding payment inquiries.
- Prioritize tasks to meet tight deadlines, pitching in to assist others with project duties.
Senior Associate
Indelible Solutions, Inc.
06.2022 - 02.2023
- Responsible for supporting engagement delivery through engagement specific objectives.
- Developed and strategized in the pursuit of project opportunities.
- Executed engagement specific tasks against project milestones to help ensure timely submission of project deliverables.
- Worked on multi-disciplinary teams and built skills and core competencies to serve clients of all sizes from diverse industries.
- Track, monitor, and report on engagement and administrative tasks assigned.
- Updated engagement leaders and management of challenges, barriers, and status of engagement assignments.
- Contributed to the review and response to opportunities to support vertical growth and diversification.
- Served as liaison, facilitating communication between management and associates.
- Completed daily logs for management review.
Government Operations Consultant III
Department Of Commerce
05.2019 - 09.2020
- Responsible for fiscal activities related to reviewing the monthly schedule of allotment balances to project out the spending per grant group.
- Created and completed the Notice of Award/Notice of Fund Availability (NFA) to increase/decrease the release and/or award or closeout amounts for the subrecipients to incur costs for reimbursement and to make funds available for cash draws in SERA.
- Processed, reconciled, and approved invoices through SERA for CDBG-DR related grants and contracts, retrieved various RDS reports to process monthly and quarterly federal reports to capture cumulative actual dollar obligations by program, cost category and staff years as well as other assigned grants.
- Analyzed, monitored, and tracked encumbrances and expenditures against grant budget allocations for the CDBG-DR grants to prepare the weekly expenditure report for the Office of Disaster Recovery.
- Monitored daily cash discrepancies. Reported issues and/or discrepancies to higher management with great detail.
- Implemented processes and procedures to improve overall efficiency in operations.
Professional Accountant
Florida Department of Corrections
10.2015 - 05.2019
- Responsible for efficiently reviewing and auditing all voucher files received by other Accountants prior to submitting to the Comptroller.
- Created and processed vendor PO-Based invoices for payment in My Florida Marketplace.
- Reconciled monthly, quarterly, and yearly reports for grant claims to be submitted for accuracy and timeliness.
- Utilized FLAIR to process all disbursements, travel reimbursements, purchasing card charges, adjusting journal entries, allotments, and to set up receivables for the Revenue Accountant.
- Provided journal entries and performed accounting on accrual basis.
- Completed daily cash functions like account tracking, payroll and wage allocations, cash, and banking reconciliations.
Accountant
Division of Disability Determinations
05.2008 - 01.2012
- Handled day-to-day accounting processes to drive financial accuracy.
- Responsible for preparing daily, monthly, quarterly, and annual reconciliation reports in Excel.
- Maintained and reconciled federal grants in the DOH Grants System.
- Assisted higher level accounting positions with the preparation of financial statements. Responsible for the reconciliation of federal cash needs or requests, monitored expenditures, GL codes and processed any adjusting journal entries.
Education
Associate of Arts -
Tallahassee Community College
05.2018
Skills
- Auditing
- Accounting Assistance
- Account Reconciliation
- Budget Support
- Funds Distribution
- Due Diligence
- Comparative Data Analysis
- Contract Experience
Timeline
Junior Financial Analyst
Indelible Solutions, Inc.
02.2023 - Current
Senior Associate
Indelible Solutions, Inc.
06.2022 - 02.2023
Government Operations Consultant III
Department Of Commerce
05.2019 - 09.2020
Professional Accountant
Florida Department of Corrections
10.2015 - 05.2019
Accountant
Division of Disability Determinations
05.2008 - 01.2012
Associate of Arts -
Tallahassee Community College
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