Accounting Consultant/contractor Resume
Atlanta, GA
SUMMARY:
- Accomplished accounting professional with over 15 years of diversified and challenging experience. Proven specialty experience in the real estate arena, with progression from a small local company to a global leader in the industry. Recognized and highly effective team member with strong technical and computer skills.
- Researching and Compiling Information
- Interpreting Financial Data
- Deciphering Rules and Regulations
- Planning and Organizing Events/Projects
- Delegating and Monitoring Work Tasks
- Providing Targeted Staff Instruction &
- Encouraging Effective Teamwork
- Interpreting Behavior & Responding with Empathy
- Effective Communicator
- Integrity in Decision Making
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Software Skills: J.D. Edwards, MRI, Foresight, Confidential, Timberline, PROJECT, People Soft - HR, Microsoft Office
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
ACCOUNTING CONSULTANT/CONTRACTOR
Confidential, Atlanta, GA
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for the month end close and monthly reporting for 11 hotel properties in the US.
ACCOUNTING CONTRACTOR
Confidential, Atlanta, GA
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for abstracting and processing legal documents. Input and verification of Accounting data using Confidential Voyager. Assumed responsibility for various projects, as assigned.
ASSISTANT CONTROLLER
Confidential, Atlanta, GA
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for all accounting functions, including accounts receivable and accounts payable, thru financials for development projects and the brokerage business. Implemented a redesign of the firm’s financial statements and the use of computer generated checks.
AREA ACCOUNTANT
Confidential, Atlanta, GA
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for the management of accounts receivable and accounts payable for a group of office properties. Providing financial analysis and support to managers in the field. Reconciled complex account with the CDC collecting old delinquencies. Designed and implemented a weekly A/R reporting tool, for area managers. Produced a Building Economic Terms Analysis for properties in metro Atlanta being considered for purchase.
CONTRACT PROPERTY ACCOUNTANT
Confidential, Atlanta, GA
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for the month end close and monthly reporting for 10 to 15 strip shopping centers in the Southeastern US. Suggested process improvements to departmental management.
SENIOR ACCOUNTANT
Confidential, Atlanta, GA
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for partnership accounting and property accounting for commercial office properties in Georgia and Florida. Also responsible for the accounting for a dozen real estate partnerships and a fourteen building office park in Atlanta.
ASSET MANAGER
Confidential, Atlanta, GA
Responsibilities:
- Provided asset strategy and quarterly reporting for foreign parent company.
- Lease analysis and property budget reviews for $250 million in assets.
- Assisted with acquisition of new asset management assignment for $130 million dollar building located in Chicago/CBD.
ASSISTANT CONTROLLER
Confidential, Atlanta, GA
Responsibilities:
- Transitioned the accounting for four property acquisitions as well as the sale of four assets.
- Assisted in the development of new policies and procedures manual for property management accounting. Also participated in the development of internal property audit program for firm.
- Performed internal property audits.
SENIOR ACCOUNTANT
Confidential, Atlanta, GA
Responsibilities:
- Oversee property management and ownership transitions successfully coordinating six investment and corporate accounts.
- Recognized by management and assigned for ongoing peer and development.
- Served as advisor to senior management in Atlanta and Chicago divisions on client accounting human resource policies including: flextime, telecommuting and internal communications.