YongHuei Kwon
Walnut Creek,CA
Summary
With more than 5 years of experience in accounting, I have been recognized for proven track record of successfully analyzing and reconciling general ledger accounts, executing financial reporting, and creating journal entry schedules to improve efficiency. Skilled in handling fully cycle accounting, prepaid accounts, schedules, reconciliations, and month-end accruals. Committed to ensuring accuracy and compliance with accounting regulations while delivering exceptional organizational goal.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Transactional Lead Accountant
Church World Service
Waltnut Creek, CA
09.2024 - Current
- Reviews cash receipts and deposits, as well as journals, for accuracy.
- Perform the monthly closeout of the general ledger, and prepare and submit related reports as required.
- Performs cash flow analysis and review of assigned accounts.
- Reviews account balances, verifies money transfers, reviews cash deposit receipts, and ensures deposits are made to proper accounts.
- Receive, review, and enter invoices into the accounting system for payment.
- Review, analyze, and prepare monthly financial activity reports.
- Manages the petty cash account, disbursement of petty cash, cash equivalents, and other banking transactions.
- Perform monthly bank reconciliations.
- Review credit card receipts and statements, staff expense reports, and service fees; ensure CWS/Headquarter office receives these items in a timely manner.
- Coordinate and manage the annual audit process, and liaise with internal and external auditors.
- Ensure proper record-keeping and maintenance of financial documents in accordance with legal and regulatory requirements.
- Record incoming donations.
- Manage monthly allocations of expenses.
Staff Accountant
Engeo
San Ramon, CA
11.2023 - 05.2024
- Assist with full-cycle accounts payable, accounts receivable, and invoicing.
- Compile and analyze data sets for relevant patterns and financial indicators.
- Perform internal expense audits.
- Office lease reconciliations.
- Renew the business license.
- File annual business tax renewals.
- Provided technical guidance to junior staff members regarding accounting principles and practices.
- Managed accounts receivable activities such as invoicing customers, applying payments received, monitoring customer balances.
- Review time and expenses for accuracy for the correct accounting period.
- Process prevailing wage and certified payroll requests.
- Assist with multiplier billing rates in accordance with Caltrans and FAR guidelines.
- Assist with annual audits.
- Monitor bank deposits daily, and for the correct accounting period.
- Analyze financial results, and provide relevant insights and explanations.
- Perform balance sheet reconciliations, and prepare manual journal entries as needed for the monthly close.
- Prepared monthly account reconciliations for bank accounts, credit cards, and other balance sheet accounts.
- Generated 1099 forms at year end for reporting purposes.
Project Accountant
Fehr & Peers
Walnut Creek, CA
06.2023 - 10.2023
- Client billing for multiple profit centers in a contract via Deltek Vision Vantagepoint.
- Project review and reporting.
- Contractual billing terms review, management, and updates in an ERP system.
- Financial reporting in accordance with the monthly billing and reporting schedule.
- Coordination and collaboration with project managers and coordinators in other offices.
- Open and set up projects in Deltek Vision Vantagepoint, per negotiated contract.
- Enter changes per amendments.
- Prepare fee logs and back up to determine weekly fee expenditure.
- Enter project expense transfers and labor adjustments.
- Gather professional fee, reimbursable, and consultant invoicing information in order to create both draft and final invoices.
- Coordinate and perform updates to billing rate schedules, employee billing titles, and employee billing classifications, as applicable.
- Record and reconcile transactions for accuracy for each construction project cost.
AP Coordinator
CCH
Walnut Creek, CA
08.2022 - 04.2023
- Handling accounts payable for separate entities and vendors.
- Auditing invoices against purchase orders, researching discrepancies, and investigating problems that vendors or purchasing agents have with obtaining payment for bills.
- Monthly reconciliation of the aging subledger to the general ledger.
- Reviewed and processed all AP invoices according to company policies and procedures.
- Conducted monthly reconciliations of vendor accounts, ensuring accuracy of payments.
- Generated 1099 forms at year end for reporting purposes.
- Managing accounts payable using accounting software and other programs.
- Processing ACH Payments.
- Enters payables for up to 60 properties across seven states.
- Enters payables for properties and processes ACH payments.
- Assists employees, vendors, clients, or customers by answering questions related to accounts, procedures, and services.
- Analyzing workflow processes.
- Maintain regulatory compliance and standards.
- Ensuring bills and payroll are paid in a timely and accurate manner, while adhering to departmental procedures.
- Processing transactions and performing accounting duties, such as account maintenance, recording entries, and reconciling books of accounts.
- Comparing purchase orders, prices, terms of payment, and other charges.
Payroll Specialist
La Familia
Hayward, CA
07.2021 - 08.2022
- Provide information, respond to payroll-related inquiries, and resolve concerns.
- Perform PTO accrual balance and reconciliation.
- Meet regulatory compliance and standards.
- Prepare payroll transaction reports for accounting and auditing purposes.
- Managing electronic timekeeping systems, and reviewing timesheets.
- Calculating payable hours, tax withholdings, wage garnishments, and deductions.
- Prepare and issue earnings statements.
- Issuing paychecks, manual checks, and managing direct deposits.
- Maintain accurate records of payroll documentation and transactions.
- Keeping up to date on payroll processing systems and changes in wage and tax laws.
- Maintain employee records, especially to accurately deduct union dues for employees who have completed a six (6) month introductory period.
- Coordinating with the HR Department to ensure correct employee data.
- Managing union employee salaries, updating the union spreadsheet, and managing step increases.
- Payroll account reconciliation.
- Record a payroll journal entry for each pay period.
- Assisted with auditing processes related to payroll
- Performed manual calculations for retroactive pay adjustments or special payments as required
- Prepare monthly reports for Workers' Compensation, Vacation Accruals, 403B, and Union Dues.
Accounting Clerk
Ray's Electric
Oakland, CA
04.2020 - 07.2021
- Assist in accounting and administration duties.
- Prepare submittals, schedules, progress billings, and general correspondence, and financial report.
- Update and maintain all financial correspondence and document control logs.
- Invoice projects and other customers monthly, and A/R collections.
- Perform a monthly reconciliation on vendor statements.
- Frequent coordination with project managers, project engineers, safety managers, superintendents, foremen, and subcontractors to ensure construction activities.
- Managing over 60 vendors in A/P and over 30 clients in A/R.
- Maintain business licenses.
- Maintain regulatory compliance and standards for each project.
- Managing lien releases from the initial request to the final unconditional waivers.
- Collaborate with the CPA firm to assist with the quarter-end and year-end close.
Accounting Clerk
First Student, Inc
Concord, CA
06.2019 - 03.2020
- Processing bi-weekly payroll using FOCUS ERP for over 60 Union employees (drivers).
- Understanding the current union CBA and processing accurate wages and sick days depend on the driver’s seniority and hire date.
- Process holiday pay for union employees based on CBA to determine driver’s eligibility by whether he/she has worked before and after the holiday
- Performs bi-weekly reconciliation for any off-cycle payroll, as well as normal payroll, using ADPiReport.
- Monthly transfer journal entries for shared driver wages, overtime, employee welfare, mileage, and FICA tax using the appropriate GL code via Excel.
- Assist with full-cycle accounting, with daily, accurate invoice processing using Tungsten/JDEdwards; timely and accurate GL coding via Tungsten/DoCuSphere Workflow.
- Process vendor invoices in a timely manner, with high accuracy, as well as verifying each invoice with the location manager.
- Complete the monthly billing process for all HTS (home to school) and charter invoices in a timely manner, with high accuracy, and send them to the customer.
- Generate the AR correction form and credit memo.
- Follow up on all aging AR items over 30 days.
Education
GED -
San Juan Unified School
BS - Accounting, Business Administration
Western Governor University
Skills
- Journal entry preparation
- General ledger accounting
- Auditing
- Controls verification
- Fixed assets review
- GAAP compliance
- Monthly account / bank reconciliation
- Bank reconciliation
- Monthly / quarterly / year end reports
- General ledger management
- Variance analysis
- Payroll liability and deductions
- Month-end closing
Timeline
Transactional Lead Accountant
Church World Service
09.2024 - Current
Staff Accountant
Engeo
11.2023 - 05.2024
Project Accountant
Fehr & Peers
06.2023 - 10.2023
AP Coordinator
CCH
08.2022 - 04.2023
Payroll Specialist
La Familia
07.2021 - 08.2022
Accounting Clerk
Ray's Electric
04.2020 - 07.2021
Accounting Clerk
First Student, Inc
06.2019 - 03.2020
GED -
San Juan Unified School
BS - Accounting, Business Administration
Western Governor University
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