Chakiyah Garrison

Managed accounts payable and accounts receivable processes, ensuring accurate recording of transactions Provided support during external audits by preparing necessary documentation and responding to auditor inquiries Monitored cash flow activities to ensure sufficient funds were available for daily operations

Staff Accountant - Tuerk House, Inc - Baltimore, MD

(2024-06 - 2025-05)

• Managed accounts payable and accounts receivable processes, ensuring accurate recording of transactions
• Provided support during external audits by preparing necessary documentation and responding to auditor inquiries
• Monitored cash flow activities to ensure sufficient funds were available for daily operations
• Participated in month-end close process by preparing journal entries and reconciling general ledger accounts

Staff Accountant - Anderson and Co. - Baltimore, MD

(2022-09 - 2023-09)

Meet with and advise company clients to discuss confidential accounting issues, policies, and procedures, reconcile credit card, bank, and ledger accounts, conduct month end closing procedures, resolve account issues, assist with and prepare documents for audits, & maintains and up dates accounting records and files using quickbooks and Microsoft excel.

Data Assistant - Osiris Therapeutics - Baltimore, MD

(2019-02 - 2019-03)

• Match and review of GPO member rosters against the customer database to verify GPO member eligibility
• Identify and resolve discrepancies relating to the matching of rosters against the database
• Link members to the appropriate GPO in the ERP

Data Analyst - Brown Advisory - Baltimore, MD

(2018-08 - 2018-09)

Maintain stock portfolios for accuracy and data entry in excel

Billing Associate Temp - Agora, Inc - Baltimore, MD

(2016-09 - 2017-08)

• Processed Amex payments
• Paid vendors with Amex and VISA
• Applied payments and entered data as needed

Accounting Intern - Sickle Cell Disease Association of America - Baltimore, MD

(2016-02 - 2016-08)

• Bank Statement and Credit Card Reconciliations
• Created miscellaneous reports and filed as needed
• Entered account payables and receivables via QuickBooks

Data Entry Clerk Temp - Baltimore County Employee FCU - Baltimore, MD

(2015-10 - 2015-10)

• Managed balancing of accounts
• Entered data via Excel spreadsheets
• Updated customers' accounts as requested

Cashier Temp - CCBC - Baltimore, MD

(2015-08 - 2015-09)

• Greeted customers
• Answered incoming calls and provided exceptional customer service
• Answered product questions and provided product knowledge

Data Entry Clerk Temp - McCormick - Hunt Valley, MD

(2015-06 - 2015-08)

• Receives inbound calls and used a variety of databases to access information
• Prepares memos and Excel spreadsheets for managerial staff

Bachelor Degree - Accounting - Morgan State University (2015-05)