Senior Accountant

186642 | Contract

This Senior Accountant is a career consultant who completed several successful assignments for Brilliant Management Resources over the past four years. Background includes solid month-end close experience, deep automation capabilities and a strong sense of problem-solving, especially with disparate systems. Systems experience includes SAP, SAP BPC, SAP Business Objects, SAP HANA, Great Plains, Hyperion, Salesforce, Maxwell, Yardi/Voyager, AS400, Concur, Sage 300, QuickBooks, SQL and Excel (pivot tables, v- and h- lookups, nested if/than statements and macros).

Additional qualifications include:

  • Streamlined full-cycle month-end close within a $50 million private-equity investment portfolio across five separate companies and various entities within each company
  • Provided back-logged complex manual balance sheet account reconciliations, reconfigured job costing, prepared all JEs which included extensive reclassed entries, tax liabilities, etc.
  • Established proper CAPEX and revenue recognition principles in accordance with the ASC 360 & 606 standards
  • Reconciled all inter-company transfers for proper elimination in various currencies as part of the quarterly-close process
  • Coordinated with various groups inside accounting and finance to automate interim quarterly and annual cash flow statements using SAP BPC and Visual Basic
  • For manual systems and large transaction volumes, created tools that automated journal entries, reduced errors and improved accuracy
  • Completed a full 12-month, year-end balance sheet reconciliation project re-creating historical data to produce consolidated financial reports; used four different systems (Profit 21, QuickBooks, Sage and Navision) to download data to Excel, reviewed and prepared the journal entries and account reconciliations, and formulated that into consolidated financial statements
  • Leveraged analytical skills by composing a monthly analysis for the service and parts distribution of the business
Skills: Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Accruals, Balance Sheet, Bank Reconciliations, Budgeting & Forecasting, Collections - Commercial, Cost Accounting - Standard, Cost Analysis, DEC Alpha Hardware, Excel - Advanced, Excel - Basic, Excel - Intermediate, Expenses, Financial Analysis, Financial Reporting, GAAP, General Ledger, Great Plains, IFRS, Intercompany Accounting, Inventory, Journal Entry Preparation, Month End Close, Payroll Processing, Policies and Procedures, QuickBooks, SAP, SQL, Tax - Compliance, Tax - Property, Tax - Provisions, Tax - Sales & Use, Treasury, VBA, Year End Close
Skills: Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Accruals, Balance Sheet, Bank Reconciliations, Budgeting & Forecasting, Collections - Commercial, Cost Accounting - Standard, Cost Analysis, DEC Alpha Hardware, Excel - Advanced, Excel - Basic, Excel - Intermediate, Expenses, Financial Analysis, Financial Reporting, GAAP, General Ledger, Great Plains, IFRS, Intercompany Accounting, Inventory, Journal Entry Preparation, Month End Close, Payroll Processing, Policies and Procedures, QuickBooks, SAP, SQL, Tax - Compliance, Tax - Property, Tax - Provisions, Tax - Sales & Use, Treasury, VBA, Year End Close