Staff Accountant - Puesto - San Diego, California
(2025-07 - 2026-06)
- Oversaw daily reconciliation processes for bank fees, prior-day sales, and credit card transactions through RAMP.
- Reconciled AP transactions, ensuring accuracy through automated systems integrated at the store level.
- Managed monthly inventory processes and reviewed POS activity with restaurant managers & team members.
- Performed daily transaction imports/exports between TOAST, CTUIT, BOA ensuring accuracy and consistency.
Junior Staff Accountant - Taiyo Yuden (U.S.A.) Inc. - Solana Beach, California
(2024-09 - 2025-06)
- Verified invoices and secured coding approvals from department managers before processing payment.
- Prepared weekly disbursements of ACH, wires, and checks.
- Maintained effective vendor relationships by providing payment statuses and resolving invoice discrepancies.
- Handled intercompany billings, nettings, and audit confirmations with international offices.
- Completed month-end AP close by processing journal entries, balancing AP, and creating AP aging reports.
- Prepared month-end warehouse reports, Budget vs. Accruals, and tracked supply chain tariffs.
- Reviewed and reconciled weekly corporate credit card transactions with the Finance Director.
Junior Staff Accountant - Katz & Associates, Inc. - San Diego, California
(2022-03 - 2024-07)
- Reviewed vendor invoices for accuracy and proper project coding before posting entries to the GL in QuickBooks.
- Managed weekly disbursements, recording and processing ACH & check deposits.
- Handled receivables, billing disputes, and vendor/client communications.
- Prepared monthly utilization reports, for CEO/CFO review, before being distributed to project managers.
- Reconciled monthly credit card account and organized billing data for project invoicing and financial reports.
Junior Accountant - Gibbs & Cox, Inc. - New York, New York
(2017-03 - 2022-02)
- Headed international & domestic travel-related expenses of naval architecture & marine engineering firm.
- Decreased invoicing time by training 100+ new & existing staff on proper use of Deltek Costpoint ERP software.
- Primary company contact for 7 international clients regarding billing questions and concerns.
- Executed payments for weekly travel advances & processed $25k - $70k worth of biweekly expense reports.
- Processed and reconciled 10 American Express Corporate & Executive card accounts across all U.S. locations.
- Applied currency conversion procedures to reconcile company's monthly Australian bank transactions.
- Used Excel to manually record, reconcile, & import monthly journal entries for 3 balance sheet accounts.
