Troya Williams
Bryans Road
Summary
Detail-oriented individual with exceptional communication and project management skills. I have more than 13 years of experience with a solid background in financial analysis, financial management, and compliance within the accounting environment. Proven ability to handle multiple tasks effectively and efficiently in fast-paced environments. Recognized for taking proactive approach to identifying and addressing issues, with focus on optimizing processes and supporting team objectives.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Accountant
Department of Interior: Bureau of Land Management
01.2025 - Current
- Prepares and/or reviews accounting reports of the Bureau. Perform in-depth reviews, analyses, and evaluation of major segments of both manual and automated accounting and budget systems including GTAS.
- Determines Bureau compliance with established accounting principles and standards.
- Prepares various types of financial and narrative reports, including analyzing, preparing, and entering accounting entries.
- Responds to and resolves audit findings and recommendations.
- Reviews and analyzes financial reports generated in FBMS (S/4HANA) financial system.
- Performs and coordinates the day-to-day operations of major segments of the BLM's accounting system.
- Practices consistent open and effective communication internally and externally as customer service.
- Establishes positive working relationships. Work to solve issues before they arise, to relieve the impact to the department and bureau.
- Promotes a team mentality. Actively participates and leads group interactions and meetings, proposing creative ideas and perspectives to benefit the output of the group or team.
- Reconciled accounts and reviewed expense data, net worth, and assets.
- Handled day-to-day accounting processes to drive financial accuracy.
- Used advanced software to prepare documents, reports, and presentations.
- Provided journal entries and performed accounting on accrual basis.
- Maintained integrity of general ledger and chart of accounts.
- Reviewed accounts, resolved coding areas, and tracked recurring expenses for accrual entry.
- Collected and reported monthly expense variances and explanations.
Accountant
Department of Commerce: U.S. Census Bureau
01.2024 - 01.2025
- Analysis of Undelivered Obligations (UDOs) which include a quarterly comparative analysis of all financial document types and timeliness of de-obligation and/or closeout.
- Weekly reporting of accounts payable transmittal statistics to monitor the timeliness of tracked invoices.
- Monthly vendor analysis to provide year over year analytics on who our repeat vendors are and ensure timeliness of invoice payments as well as what are the main causes of late payments.
- Pre-certifier of invoices and other financial transaction documents before disbursement.
- Weekly report on aged invoices 16+ days as well as monthly aging report for KPI presentation by leadership.
- JP Morgan Chase Approver for pending transactions for misc. financial transactions.
- Assist team lead with COR accrual estimate and examining and providing financial documents for OIG and internal audit requests.
- Create and maintain the accounts payable branch dashboard which displays AP KPIs, financial system clean up progress, CFO weekly report and quarterly UDO reviews.
- Analyze, examine, review, monitor and reconcile and record apportionments, obligations, expenditures, transfers, allotments, disbursement funds, debt billings and collections, and other financial transactions to determine appropriateness and that those transactions comply with regulations.
- Examines financial documents to confirm the validity of commitment, obligations, cost, account codes, disbursements, reimbursements, and availability of funds prior to approval. Resolve payment discrepancies and recommend corrective actions.
- Participates in developing new procedures and in updating existing standard operating procedures (SOPs).
- Independently reviewing the accuracy and properness of vendor invoices (contracts, purchase orders, IPACs, miscellaneous document types and other complex and unusual financial documents in Commerce Business System CBS) and ensuring compliance to Federal Acquisition Regulations, Prompt Payment Act.
Accountant
Department of Defense: Defense Logistics Agency (DLA)
07.2023 - 01.2024
- Performs accounting and financial program analysis on various inventory accounts, work including the maintenance of accounting records and preparation, analysis, and interpretation of financial statements and excel reports.
- Prepare, review and post Journal Vouchers and upload to SharePoint.
- Reverse temporary journal vouchers after close.
- Data cleansing of outstanding AP Purchase Orders.
- Perform monthly reconciliations.
- Develops modifications and enhancements of systems to meet local needs.
- Evaluates the effectiveness and efficiency of daily accounting operations and existing procedures.
- Provides interpretations of accounting and financial data reflecting the interrelationships between proprietary, budgetary, and erroneous budgetary accounts and other accounting, budgeting, and management data.
- Serves as a functional expert who facilitates the end-to-end business cycle design as fully synchronized with DLA's continually evolving strategic direction and transformational programs.
- Performs a continuing review and analysis of processes, records, reports, user comments and audit results to identify process, system, and regulatory problems affecting accounting and financial operations.
Accounts Payable Technician
District of Columbia Government (OCFO) Department of Health
08.2017 - 07.2023
- Responsible for the preparation of vouchers for payment to contractors and billing entities and assisting accounting/financial management personnel with a range of duties relating to complex accounts processing and reconciliation functions.
- Processing accounts payable transactions, reviewing contract documentation or purchase order information, ensuring that all invoices received are date and time stamped, entering data into Invoice Tracking Log and determining net retainage if any.
- Review and process Inter-agency agreement contracts and direct invoices.
- Resolving any discrepancies with vendors, responding to all vendor calls within the time frame stated, and maintaining complete, accurate and orderly accounts payable files.
- Responsible for review and approval of p-card transactions.
- Responsible for processing Medicaid Interface payments.
- Import Payables Invoices Report spreadsheet upload for multiple entries-ADFdi Excel.
- Use Excel to review, allocate funding and process interest payments to vendors.
- Reviewing accounts payable transactions and generating reports identifying discrepancies and/or corrective entries required to adjust accounts in Oracle Cloud.
- Processing travel advances and expense reimbursements in Oracle Cloud.
- Making recommendations on more efficient clerical processes, and ways to reduce errors and/or processing delays.
- Oracle Cloud system tester to validate key business processes by stimulating real-life scenarios in a controlled environment.
- Providing documents requested by auditors for the year-end and interim closings.
- Providing support to the year-end closing process by providing documents and reports.
Accounts Payable & Accounts Receivable Associate
Tate & Tryon CPAs and Consultants
03.2017 - 08.2017
- Develop and maintain an understanding of the accounting operations within the organization.
- Continually improve business processes to ensure best practices.
- Process client cash receipts, accounts receivable, invoices, and accounts payable on a recurring basis using various automated accounting systems such as Bill.com and Tallie.
- Approve client time and attendance using Nexonia for employee payroll.
- Ensure client financial records are accurate and updated.
- Assist with other client services as outlined in the T&T engagement letter and proposal submitted to the client.
- Respond to vendor invoices.
- Ensure that all payments are made in accordance with company policy and are sent on time.
- Post payments to customer accounts.
Accounting Technician
WETA, VA
01.2015 - 03.2017
- Data entry of accounts payable and accounts receivable transaction into Great Plains, including processing invoices (AP) and entering cash receipts and creating invoices for customers (AR).
- Audit and process employee personal reimbursement expense reports.
- Audit and process employee Amex reconciliations.
- New vendor setup, including entering accounting system and verifying vendor information.
- Responsible for obtaining additional signatures and check distribution.
- Create journal entries/accrue after the month end closes.
- Make sure that invoices and expense reports have been charged to the correct project grants and federal grants.
- Maintain accounts payable files.
- Respond to minor vendor and in-house inquiries regarding status of payables.
- Assist with producing and distributing IRS 1099 forms at year-end.
- Assist with account reconciliations and schedule preparation as needed.
- Maintain open invoice files.
- Enter all wire information monthly.
- Update outstanding check list in Excel.
- Participate in special projects and perform other duties as assigned.
- Attend Budget meetings during the month end close.
- Use Microsoft Word to take meeting notes and create and update processing procedures.
Accounts Payable Coordinator-Financial Services
American Diabetes Association, VA
09.2011 - 01.2015
- Data entry of AP invoices into the accounting system/Oracle Financials.
- Provided backup to the operations manager of incoming mail specific to the cash disbursements process.
- Training on matching of requisitions to a purchase order number and receipt acknowledgment for those submitted online.
- Logged check number and check dates weekly after check runs.
- Investigated Past Due invoices and contacted vendors with results.
- Processed requisition orders for Supervisors by liaising and negotiating with vendors.
- In a timely manner. Checked requisition status in Procurement.
- Validate all batches enter in the Oracle System.
- We process 2 big check runs a week and urgent check runs for time sensitive requisitions.
- Computer Operations-Microsoft Word, Outlook, some Excel.
- Help update A/P Spreadsheet.
- Answering vendor and internal staff inquiries.
- Document management including scanning, filing, photocopying, and faxing.
- Support office meetings by creating power points to display meeting notes.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Accounting
University of Maryland Global Campus
College Park, MD12.2023
Associates of Applies Science - Accounting
College of Southern Maryland
La Plata, MD05.2021
Skills
- Year-end close
- Data inputting
- Auditing
- Account reconciliation processes
- Invoice balancing
- General ledger management
- Great plains
- Auditing procedures
- Financial management
- Accounts payable and receivable
- Microsoft Excel
- Data analysis
- Internal controls
Accomplishments
- Achieved low/no error rate by completing pre-certifier role of financial transactions with accuracy and efficiency.
- Documented and resolved financial processing issues which led to higher department efficiency.
- Collaborated with team of fifty in the development of Oracle Cloud system testing to validate key business processes.
Specialized Experience
- Proficient with the full cycle accounts payable related book-keeping formats and procedures including check distribution and signature authority.
- Assist with year-end accruals.
- Identifying project and federal grants in terms of invoice and expense processing.
- Wire payment processing.
- Proficient with processing accounts receivable invoices by client cash receipts and processing bank and lockbox deposits.
- Skilled at coordinating with internal and external personnel from all levels.
- Proficient in manual and automated financial management accounting systems.
- Reviewing financial transactions and accounts for accuracy and proper supporting documentation.
- Medicaid Interface Payments.
- Review and approve p-card transactions.
- Oracle Cloud system testing to validate key business processes by stimulating real-life scenarios in a controlled environment.
- Research invoice discrepancies and funding issues.
- Ensures that transactions are processed on appropriate fiscal year fund authorization and purchase orders.
- Inter-agency agreement contracts and direct invoices.
- Government Prompt Payment Act.
- Spreadsheet management.
- Invoice reconciliations.
- Examining and providing financial documents for OIG and internal audit requests.
- Audit employee expense reports and corporate cards.
- Approve time and attendance using Nexonia timekeeping.
- Communicate effectively to high level officials, vendors, and program staff.
- Experience in Oracle Financials, Great Plains, Bill.com and procurement systems.
- Proficient in Microsoft Word, Office, Outlook, Nexonia, Tallie and Excel.
Timeline
Accountant
Department of Interior: Bureau of Land Management
01.2025 - Current
Accountant
Department of Commerce: U.S. Census Bureau
01.2024 - 01.2025
Accountant
Department of Defense: Defense Logistics Agency (DLA)
07.2023 - 01.2024
Accounts Payable Technician
District of Columbia Government (OCFO) Department of Health
08.2017 - 07.2023
Accounts Payable & Accounts Receivable Associate
Tate & Tryon CPAs and Consultants
03.2017 - 08.2017
Accounting Technician
WETA, VA
01.2015 - 03.2017
Accounts Payable Coordinator-Financial Services
American Diabetes Association, VA
09.2011 - 01.2015
Bachelor of Science - Accounting
University of Maryland Global Campus
Associates of Applies Science - Accounting
College of Southern Maryland
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