Tara K. - Accounting/Bookkeeping/Administrative Support - Freelance Consultant, United States

Provide accurate and timely responses to user questions, submitted via SMS to a web interface.

Locate information for customer questions within the standards of the company, and abide by the site requirements.

Expected to maintain the highest standards of customer service at all times.

- Responsible for full cycle financial reporting/bookkeeping for photography studio

- Maintain Quickbooks files for all accounting/reconciliations

- Process payroll, receivables and payables

- Monitor account activity online and ensure accuracy of financial records

- Maintain fixed asset ledger, reconcile all capital asset accounts, including CIP

- Monitor and process accounts payable

- Prepare and distribute productivity reports

- Reconciliation of operating accounts to bank statements and cash records

- Process all month-end closing entries, prepared reconciliations and reporting for 34

cost centers

- Responsible for expense management of an approx $30M annual organizational budget

- Worked with business unit contacts to assist in creating and uploading monthly

forecasts

- Provided forecast, budget and actual reporting to senior management as requested

- Responsible for all financial reporting and tax filings for small e-commerce retailer

- Provide technical support and management for website, including shopping cart and forum software

- Respond to customer service inquiries for sales and product questions, primarily via email     communications

- Expected to maintain a high level of customer satisfaction at all times

- Served as primary point of contact for vendor relations and billing.

- Responsible for correctly allocating internal charge back of $6M in vendor invoices over 2 years

- Created a verification process for invoices that saved approx. $16,000 over 2 years

- Reviewed all submitted expenses to ensure accuracy and to verify that they consistently

met the terms of the current contracts

- Maintained a tracking system to monitor all vendor accounts to monitor payment

activity, reconciled with each vendor monthly and worked with them to correct any

discrepancies

- Responsible for expense verifications within the asset budget to ensure proper transfers

and credits were completed

- Maintained all records of contract compliance with all technician vendors, addressed

compliance issues with each vendor and worked through to resolution.

- Supported Director of Worldwide Training in an administrative capacity.

- Aided with the day to day functions of the training center, and assisted with budget

reconciliation and forecasting.

- Responsible for P&L reporting, revenue tracking, statistical analysis, projections and expense reconciliation for 8 departments under the Director of Worldwide Training

- Responsible for keeping personnel records, and processing payroll/time accounting submissions and tracking for a staff of approximately 40 employees