Stephanie Fells

• Managed employee relations, investigating and resolving conflicts to maintain a positive work environment.
• Collaborated closely with department heads in executing strategic workforce planning initiatives that aligned human capital resources with company goals.
• Guided leaders and employees on company policies, programs, benefits and salary administration.
• Ensured legal compliance with labor laws by conducting regular audits and updating policies as necessary.
• Led decision-making and implementation of HR policies, procedures, programs and functions.
• Maintained company compliance with local, state, and federal laws, in addition to established organizational standards.

• Oversee HR functions and accounting for over a dozen small and mid-sized businesses of varying industries including Healthcare, Cannabis, Hospitality, Event and Wedding, Entertainment, Non-Profit, Corporate, and more.
• Creation of HR department for many clients
• Employee handbooks
• Labor compliance
• Recruiting
• Onboarding/offboarding
• Job descriptions and salary research
• Bookkeeping
• Financial Reports
• Budgeting

• Managed all A/P, payroll, and account reconciliations for home office and Lab entities
• Worked closely with CPA for year-end reporting
• Researched and implemented policies to account for grants and other contributions.

• Administered all areas of multi-state payroll including benefits, payroll taxes, and 401(k) plans
• Was responsible for all aspects of invoicing, customer relations, and Accounts Receivable for international clients
• Performed month end and year-end financial report reconciliations and review
• Evaluated and reconciled company profit sharing plan
• Instrumental in helping create and adopt policies and procedures that adhered to accounting compliance

Key Contributions:

• Seamlessly integrated new payroll software and procedures, saving the company $5,000.00 annually
• Reconciled high level accounts to date

Consulting and Project Accountant for different companies in the Virginia and California areas.

Industries consisted of: Construction, Fashion Design, Government Contracting, and Software.

Key Contributions:

• Completed and delivered financial statements for shareholder meetings to ensure further backing.
• Prepared Incurred Cost Submission within required deadline.
• Helped develop procedures for accurate reporting and payout.
• Was instrumental in the project completion by executive deadline.
• Increased payroll quality control by developing checklist for processing and submission that the company adopted into internal procedures.
• Instrumental in re-tooling of company wide sales tax matrix.
• Trained and developed new employees.
• Implementation and integration of new accounting systems

Operations accountant for 8 entities.

• Responsible for semi-monthly payroll, including high volume sales commission calculations.
• Maintained all aspects of accounts payable including weekly and daily check runs, as well as invoicing and relations with all vendors.
• Generated daily revenue reports for executives.
• Prepared general reports including expense and capital.
• Accountable for and maintenance of employee files and tax information.
• Responsible for receiving and rebutting high volume chargebacks.

Key Contributions:

• Responsible for 8 entities within Umbrella Company.
• Able to save money due to full-force action against chargebacks.
• Saved all entities money by working with vendors and banks to get all service charges dropped.
• Identified a previously implemented mistake on 1099 reporting, and was able to correct.
  

• Handled hourly and salaried bimonthly payroll
• Managed bookkeeping for all company accounts
• Processed credit card and checks into company system
• Responsible for all aspects of accounts payableand receivable
• Prepared general statistical and financial reports
• Managed inventory

Key Contributions:

• Was able to close out various past due accounts due to consistent communication and collection