Education:

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, University of St. Thomas - Houston, TX

• Eligible to sit for CPA exam

Work Experience/Skillset:

• 15 years of accounting experience with a demonstrated background in financial analysis, month-end closings, and financial reporting.

• Skilled in generating reports, managing budgets, reducing expenses, and performing intercompany transactions and consolidations to strengthen internal controls.

• Experienced monitoring variances, authorizing expenses, tracking financial performance, and overseeing asset management.

• Proactively builds productive relationships with internal and external auditors, sales tax authorities, vendors, bank representatives, and team members.

• Experienced producing month end closings, recording and updating journal entries, reconciling balance sheets, and bank reconciliations.

• Variance analysis reports (VAR) for payroll, project cost, and financial statements.

• Payroll processing, entries, payroll tax, 940 & 941, 1099. Sales & use tax.

• Experienced providing support for internal and external audits.

• Software skills in SAP, QuickBooks, Sage 50, PeopleSoft, MS Dynamics, Paycom, Paylocity, JD Edwards, MS Office Suite (Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint)

• Bilingual in English and Spanish

• Consulted for two manufacturing companies for a year each when she ran her own business. She performed the role of a Senior Accountant and was responsible for full cycle accounting functions as well as inventory accounting, work in progress (WIP), cost of goods sold (COGS), assets, and payables/receivables oversight.