Alexa Banchetti

Accountant at Fen App (2025-09 – Present)

• Contracted to manage transaction data across a local art marketplace, supporting seamless buying and selling between creators and customers.
• Tracked and reconciled payment activity to ensure accuracy across sales and creator payouts.
• Improved visibility into marketplace performance by organizing data across sales, user activity, and transaction flows.
• Collaborated cross-functionally to streamline pricing, payouts, and transaction workflows, improving overall process efficiency.
• Leveraged accounting background to bring structure and consistency to financial tracking through Excel-based analysis.

Staff Accountant at PeopleConnect (2024-05 – 2025-08)

• Ensured financial accuracy by reconciling multiple bank accounts, 25+ credit cards, and multi-entity accounts, supporting a timely and precise month-end close.
• Drove close-cycle efficiency by recording recurring journal entries and reconciling key balance sheet accounts, including cash, prepaid expenses, and accruals.
• Reduced reporting errors by 20% through accurate categorization of high-volume transactions, enhancing general ledger integrity and reporting quality.
• Supported tax and audit readiness by preparing monthly sales tax filings for multiple states and providing detailed schedules and documentation for internal and external audits.
• Streamlined expense management, reducing manual tracking and reconciliation by 25% through effective Expensify management and improving policy compliance through cross-functional collaboration.

Staff Accountant at LEWIS PR, Inc. (2021-11 – 2023-01)

• Executed in-depth financial reporting for a global PR and digital marketing agency by verifying financial accuracy and enhanced financial transparency across international operations, resulting in a 20% reduction in reporting errors.
• Bolstered cash flow by implementing a daily project billing system, cross-referencing purchase orders, invoice numbers and confirming prompt client payments, improving financial operational efficiency.
• Reached financial accuracy by conducting rigorous bank account reconciliations, overseeing accounts payable and accounts receivable, and analyzing data using advanced Excel skills, resulting in a 20% increase in efficiency.
• Drove operational efficiency by monthly updating budget schedules, project billing protocols, and purchase order tracking mechanisms resulting in a 30% improvement in PO accuracy through prompt planning.
• Secured compliance by facilitating yearly audits, processing 100+ 1099 forms, and managing debt recovery, resulting in a 30% decrease in overdue payments through proper documentation and collaboration with stakeholders.

Accounting Assistant at L.W.P. Group, Inc. (2018-05 – 2021-04)

• Increased the efficiency of bank account reconciliations by completing weekly reconciliations for all 10+ business accounts, check runs, deposits, invoicing and monthly reconciliations for 10+ business credit cards.
• Accelerated employee reimbursements 50% by employee expenses, repairs/maintenance, and costs.
• Constructed accounts receivable and accounts payable for multiple business entities (9+ rental apartment properties with 200+ units, 3+ event spaces, a small boutique hotel, and Onyx Room Nightclub).
• Prepared monthly financial forecasting by producing in-depth reports that tracked sales and monitored trend goals in addition to bi-weekly payroll information for 40+ employees.
• Filed yearly 1099s, W2s, W9s with 100% compliance, and assisted in producing annual budgets.

Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Creative Writing – San Diego State University