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Tamara Martinez
Staff Accountant
Jacksonville,FL
Summary
Accounting professional with proven track record in managing financial operations and ensuring compliance with regulations. Known for fostering collaboration and achieving results, consistently adapting to changing business needs. Key skills include financial analysis and team leadership, valued for reliability and flexibility.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Accounting Supervisor
Sissines
Jacksonville, FL
11.2024 - Current
- Lead accounts payable team, ensuring precise and timely financial operations.
- Enhance staff skills through continuous training and constructive feedback.
- Collaborate with the Controller on financial reporting and process improvements.
- Oversee month end close and inventory task, ensuring accuracy and compliance.
- Streamlined the T&E process and implemented new procedure driving noticeable improvement in departmental performance. (85% receipt improvement within 6 months).
- Streamlined accounts payable processes, improving invoice processing time and vendor relationship management.
- Streamlined accounts payable processes, improving invoice processing time and vendor relationship management.
- Maintained general ledger accuracy through regular account reconciliations, and transaction reviews.
- Managed accounts payable processing, ensuring timely payments to vendors while maximizing cash flow management strategies.
Branch Accountant
Sharp Electronics Corp
Miami Lakes, FL
02.2019 - 10.2024
- Managed daily financial transactions, ensuring accuracy and compliance with company policies.
- Manage monthly accounting close, ensuring timely financial and audit readiness.
- Maintained branches bad debt receivable below 1%.
- Oversaw reconciliation of bank statements, ensuring timely resolution of variances and enhancing cash flow management.
- Streamlined accounts payable processes, reducing processing time and increasing efficiency across departments.
- Prepare reports, schedule and other documents required for both internal and external audits.
- Assist with Month and Yearly Inventory Audits (Equip., supplies & Car stock), ensuring accurate financial reporting.
- Responsible for processing monthly sales commission calculations in sales force.
- Perform special projects/requests as required.
Business Analyst
Eulen America
Miami, FL
06.2018 - 12.2018
- Assisting in the formulation of pricing strategies by gathering data from various internal departments, conducting detailed cost and pricing analysis, and other reports and analysis as requested by internal customers and various clients.
- Assist in pricing related projects including establishing deadlines for submission, defining deliverables, and drafting communications or presentations.
- Maintains historical pricing data on the organization and its competitors.
- Maintain knowledge and stay abreast of pricing and wage developments in the industry via information obtained from financial publications and services, governmental agencies, company sources, and personal interviews to assist in future pricing decisions.
- Run P&L analysis and provide pricing recommendations to leadership.
Financial Analyst II
Comcast Cable
Sunrise, FL
11.2017 - 06.2018
- Process, manage, and proactively monitor daily tracker of project expenditure to the PO level.
- Conducts financial studies and coordinates financial projects to address risk for spend overages.
- Develop revenue and expense analyses, approve transactions, evaluate opportunities, and make recommendations regarding project progress and future business opportunities.
- Managed actual vs. forecast variances to be no greater than +/- 2%.
- Monitor and analyze trends and spend analysis of current projects in preparation for funding future projects.
- Participated in the preparation of operating budgets and conducted detailed analysis to explain variances between actual and forecasted expenditures.
- Analyzes and tracks key financial metrics and operational procedures to foster process improvements.
- Work closely with internal departments with the preparation of month and year-end processes by reviewing actual vs. budget/forecast variances, and financial trends.
Personal Financial Consultant
Self Employed
Miami, FL
10.2015 - 11.2017
- Developed comprehensive financial plans tailored to client needs, ensuring alignment with long-term objectives.
- Analyzed financial data to identify trends and recommend strategies for client investment portfolios.
- Conducted risk assessments to evaluate potential investment opportunities and enhance portfolio performance.
Sr. Financial Analyst
Beckman Coulter
Miami, FL
01.2010 - 01.2015
- Prepared and managed a $2M budget, maintaining favorability quarterly and at year end.
- Responsible for Capital Budget of approx. $15M : Processes & tracked Authorization for Expenditure (AFE) against approved Capital Budget.
- Managed month-end closing processes, ensuring accurate financial reporting and compliance with accounting standards.
- Reviewed and analyzed project spending throughout project life cycle.
- Created journal entry schedules to improve efficiency, support, and documentation of accounting processes.
- Conducted detailed financial analysis to identify and evaluate changes in operations, trends and potential areas of improvement. (Team of 7 Manager's)
- Assisted in budget preparation, ensuring alignment with departmental goals and financial forecasts.
- Assisted comptroller with year-end financial audits.
Education
MBA - Business Administration
UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX
MIRAMAR, FLORIDA01-2012
Skills
- Cash flow analysis
- Budget compliance
- Variance analysis
- Bank reconciliation
- Expense tracking
- Accounts payable management
- Expert in financial analysis and financial planning
- Inventory management
- Excel – Advance: V-Look Up; Pivots; Charts
- ERP Systems (ORACLE, EA, Hyperion, SAP, Blackline, Salesforce)
Languages
Spanish
Native or Bilingual
English
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
Accounting Supervisor
Sissines
11.2024 - Current
Branch Accountant
Sharp Electronics Corp
02.2019 - 10.2024
Business Analyst
Eulen America
06.2018 - 12.2018
Financial Analyst II
Comcast Cable
11.2017 - 06.2018
Personal Financial Consultant
Self Employed
10.2015 - 11.2017
Sr. Financial Analyst
Beckman Coulter
01.2010 - 01.2015
MBA - Business Administration
UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX
Work Availability
monday
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saturday
sunday
morning
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