Bridgette Cooper

Enjoy a fast paced work environment and being part of a team!

Payroll Manager - Blount Fine Foods

(2021-08 - 2024-10)

• Perform the duties of processing weekly and biweekly payrolls for roughly 1500 employees across multiple states using UKG software.
• Oversaw payroll tax payments and tax fillings.
• Reconcile payroll bank accounts and general ledger accounts.
• Worked with employees and HR regarding and payroll questions or concerns.
• Created and oversaw managers and supervisor payroll timesheet trainings.

Bookkeeper/Tax Preparer - Accounting Portfolios Inc - Fall River, MA

(2015-06 - 2021-07)

Perform bookkeeping and payroll services for 60 plus business clients. Experience with both small businesses and franchise corporations with multiple locations with multi-state withholding. Clients ranged from restaurants, construction companies, funeral homes, dermatologist, property management, auto bodies, counseling services and more

• Processing weekly, bi-weekly and monthly payrolls for about 60 business clients using multiple payroll softwares including Accounting CS, Payroll Releif and Quickbooks through direct deposit or live checks.
• Entering data for 60 plus monthly, quarterly and yearly bookkeeping clients either in quick books online or Accouting CS
• Accessing clients online banking and credit cards
• Monthly bank and credit card reconciliations
• Payroll journal entries
• Sales and meals tax journal entires as well as remitting and paying sales and meals tax
• Reviewing generals ledgers and making month end journal entries
• Reviewing P&L's and Balance sheets
• Setting up and coding chart of accounts
• Working with client on questions regarding classification of transactions
• Workers compensation audits
• Overseeing and training multiple employees across multiple offices. (Fall River, New Bedford, and Newport)

Bachelor's - Accounting - Bridgewater State University (2011 - 2015) Bridgewater, MA