Senior Staff Accountant

Drew Sterling
604 Harmony Lane
Pleasantville, CA 94588
(925) 555-1234

PROFILE

· With 10 years of accounting experience in manufacturing, commercial property management, and medical industries.
· General ledger expert with an emphasis on month-end account reconciliations, journal entries, and month-end expense analysis.
· Completed 5.5 years in a supervisory role involved in interviewing, hiring, training, staff development, annual performance evaluations, and motivation.
· Proven track record recognizing and implementing improvements in workflow, increasing efficiencies and productivity, increasing accuracy of information, and creating synergy within team management environments.
· Computer skills include Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Publisher), SAP (Finance/Fixed Assets), Skyline, and MRI.

EXPERIENCE

Staff Accountant
1999 to Present
ATOFINA CHEMICALS, INC. – Crosby, Texas
Maintain full charge general ledger responsibility for an organic peroxide manufacturer with $15 million in expenses. This includes accounts payable, fixed assets, payroll, special construction projects, month-end closings, fixed cost budgeting, and budget analysis. Supervise 2 employees involved in accounts payable and payroll. Interact internally with engineering, local departmental managers, and corporate operations accounting, payroll, tax, and legal departments. Communicate externally with sales tax auditors and outside audit firms. Oversee annual audit for site.
· Oversaw an 8-year audit—involved pulling data, reviewing sales tax payments, building spreadsheets, and providing auditor with information in a timely manner.
· Identified $1 million in obsolete/retired assets during a $38 million fixed asset cleanup currently in progress.
· Setup from 50 to 60 capital projects since 1999—tracked and analyzed payments, verified accuracy, closed capital projects, and posted to fixed assets.
· Coordinated 3 major projects over $5 million each related to incidents and insurance claims—maintained separate sets of books, including claim reconciliation, and insured all engineers followed regulations on rebuild.
· Implemented numerous time efficiency projects to offset a decrease in closing time from 7 down to 2 days, a 70% reduction.
· Created approximately 80 spreadsheets used by management for expense analysis that reduced project time by at least 6 hours each week.
· Developed and implemented an automated fixed cost budget spreadsheet used to track budgets year to year, reducing project time by at least 75%.
· Improved efficiencies by 57% to 64% by creating a month-end report spreadsheet which reduced project time down from 2 weeks to 5 or 6 days.
· Achieved a 40% to 50% decrease in project time by creating automated balance sheet reconciliation spreadsheets.
· Created purchase order tracking spreadsheets adopted by corporate and used division-wide.
· Assigned additional responsibility for cost accounting and researching/correcting errors at month-end due to significant time saved through improved efficiencies.

Project Accountant
1998 to 1999
TRANSWESTERN COMMERCIAL SERVICES – Houston, Texas
Managed month-end closings, financial statement preparations, yearly budgeting, cash management, and all cost reconciliation and journal entries for 7 properties in Houston and New Orleans. Served as 1099 reporting specialist for 120 small entities.
· Saved approximately $30,000 annually by taking on three additional properties, with responsibility for seven after just months into position.

Financial Analyst II/Accounts Payable Supervisor
1997 to 1998
KELSEY SEYBOLD CLINIC – Houston, Texas
Supervised 6 accounts payable clerks and 1 file clerk. Reviewed accounts payable coding and checked production of between 900 to 1,200 invoices weekly. Resolved vendors’ payment issues. Supervised conversion from mainframe system to SAP.
· Developed and implemented check writing and payment procedures to accommodate new SAP system.
· Managed a 7-year balance sheet reconciliation project, supervising 4 temporary employees.

Accountant
1997
DYNACARE HOME HEALTH SERVICES – Lafayette, Louisiana
Tracked cash receipts and disbursements. Managed budgets. Developed and implemented standard operating procedures for all accounting functions. Prepared Medicare/Medicaid billing and cost reports. Interacted with intermediary concerning reimbursements and regulations.

Property Accountant
1996 to 1997
PROPERTY ONE INC. – Lafayette, Louisiana

Insurance Auditor
1995 to 1996
EQUIFAX COMMERCIAL SPECIALISTS – Lafayette, Louisiana

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science in Business Administration – Accounting (Minor in Business Administration)
1993
UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE – Lafayette, Louisiana

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