FUNCTIONAL AREAS OF EXPERIENCE:
Payroll, Cash Accounting, General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Credit & Collections, Customer P&L, Inventory, Personal Property & Real Estate Tax Preparation

SOFTWARE:
Tesseract Payroll System, MS Office Professional, MicroGrafx Graphics, Dbase III+, Unitech Systems Inc., MS Project, CA-EasyTrieve, Nomad, TSO/MVS, Lotus SmartSuite, FileAid, Dunn & Bradstreet, QMF/SQL, Harvard Graphics, SyncSort, M&D Ledger System

PUBLICATIONS
"Auditing Payroll Data Integrity Using Automated External Controls"
IS Audit & Control Journal - Volume II - 1996

AWARDS
1996 Finalist for the International award for Excellence in Information Integrity - Atlanta, GA

EXPERIENCE:
August 1996 thru Present - ABN AMRO Bank Working as a Consultant on Unitech Systems software for Van Duyn Associates. Implementing Unitech into financial applications such as General Ledger and ATM. Directed numerous projects with the Finance groups at the bank in providing Information Integrity Controls. Demonstrated the ability to manage projects as an Independent contractor by coordinating and developing the finance projects conversion into the mainframe systems.

1987 thru 1996 - NABISCO INC. Wilkes-Barre, PA; Senior Analyst (1993 - 1996); Responsible for implementing automated controls company wide using Unitech Systems, Inc. software. While programming for these integrity control points I gained valuable knowledge in Payroll Accounting, using QMF/SQL against DB2 tables, and had the opportunity to use Unitech in EDI transmissions using Gentran and MVS translators. Created a marketable set of payroll integrity control points for Unitech Systems, Inc. in which Nabisco receives a 20% royalty for each package sold. Devised over 75 integrity control points for Payroll on the newly implemented Tesseract System eliminating numerous manual balancing issues while enhancing the detail of management reports. Eliminated over 1,200 yearly General Ledger Tax reconciliation's by automating the manual process. Implemented control checks on incoming EDI transmissions in achieving the perfect customer invoice and thereby reducing paperwork in having less short-pays, increasing cash flow and improving customer relations. Established for our Revenue Systems a notification when branch cash deposits were outstanding or transferred improperly resulting in positive cash flow. Standardized a set of automated AP controls used in plant locations easing internal audits and reducing tedious manual efforts of checks and balances.
Accountant III - East Hanover, NJ (1992 - 1993)
Worked with Senior Executives in providing P&L statements with graphics for Nabisco's top 30 customers. Designed a product unsaleable analysis report for over 150 direct store sales teams. Enhanced management reporting by programming the results to update into a graphical representation of unsaleable finished product. Analyzed the fixed assets system proposing a $.9M reduction in depreciation expense for upcoming budget review.
Accountant II (1991 - 1992)
Responsible for inventory product transfers for Nabisco's 133 operating branches, 11 bakery and distribution centers. Implemented a "paper less trail" inventory tracking system along with providing a simplified finished product reconciliation for branch managers. Conducted and allocated cost accounting entries for outside purchases of raw materials and finished product. Championed a steering committee of system applications and end user representatives developing a strategic plan for streamlining the monthly financial closing process.
Accountant I (1989 - 1991)
Created a MS Excel template for standardizing the preparation of General Ledger account reconciliation's. Ensured timely and accurate completion of financial closings, Inter-Company transfers and journal entry preparation. Prepared and processed the payment and filing of personal property and real estate tax forms. Responsible for coordinating the filing of census forms for over 200 locations
Associate Accountant (1987 - 1989)
Responsible for the tax reporting of all company charitable contributions Accurately transferred over 150 local bank deposits into corporate bank accounts and the reconcilement of each account. Created PC based macros accelerating the cash forecasting figures from all subsidiary ledgers

EDUCATION
Kings College (Wilkes-Barre, PA), Wilkes University (Wilkes-Barre, PA)
BS Degree, Accounting (1987)
Currently Pursuing MBA in Business Management