Staff Accountant - Jones Homes USA/Emerson International Inc - Lake Nona, Florida
(2024-01 - 2025-11)
- Audit and Compliance: Financial Reporting: Prepared monthly U.S. GAAP financial statements for 12 land development and home building companies, supporting fiscal year-end external audits with accurate reporting and audit-ready documentation.
- Month-End Close: Performed final adjusting entries for month-end close across all balance sheet accounts with ending balances, ensuring all signed contracts, HUD and ALTA settlement statements, and contract addenda were included as supporting audit documentation.
- Month-End Close: Import Journal Entries: Prepared and posted 100% of month-end journal entries for accrued loan interest, prepaid expenses, asset depreciation, land costs, warranty reserves, deferred loan costs, inspection and spreader fees, loan draws, and tax accruals, improving close accuracy and audit readiness.
- Bank and Treasury Support: Recorded 100% of monthly cash receipt journals for all home closings to the respective bank ledgers and prepared suspense account reversing entries during month-end close.
- Bank and Treasury Support: Maintained daily cash sheets for control purposes, recorded monthly cash activity by bank account, and prepared final bank reconciliations during month-end close.
- Bank and Treasury Support: Escrow reconciliations: Worked closely with Osceola County, Orange County, the City of St. Cloud, and the City of Daytona Beach permit and impact fee offices to reconcile all escrow accounts monthly, maintaining 100% ledger accuracy at close.
- Maintained complete month-end documentation and support, including escrow statements, mobility credits, receipts, and fees charged.
- Data Integrity and Accuracy: Redesigned escrow reconciliation package and authored new policy guidelines, reducing process time by 66.7% while improving departmental efficiency and output.
- Revenue Recognition: Reduced (Home Closings) revenue recognition and cost of goods sold coding errors by 15% by reviewing closing activity and reclassifications.
- Accounts Payable: Reviewed approved work orders and purchase orders, ensured 100% of vendor invoices approved for payment were paid and uploaded into the ERP system monthly for AP month-end close, and participated in training initiatives that enhanced team productivity.
- Reconciled all corporate credit cards monthly, recorded import journal entries to allocate overhead costs across more than 20 companies, and reduced transaction errors by 14%.
Fixed Asset Specialist - Accounting Coordinator - Darden Restaurants Inc - Orlando, Florida
(2022-10 - 2023-02)
- Month_end Close and Internal Controls: Reduced errors and improved efficiency by 30% by processing weekly RPA workflows for new asset additions, cost capitalization, and asset retirements within a fintech business model.
- Prepared and processed monthly accrual journal entries for fixed asset depreciation and retirement estimates, reducing monthly errors by 20%.
- Prepared monthly SOX-compliant audit schedules for restaurant CIP lines recorded by team members, identifying and correcting material errors impacting financial statements.
Financial Controller - Grape Expectations (BVI) Inc - Road Town, British Virgin Islands
(2019-08 - 2021-08)
- Developed a financial plan for a new gourmet store launch, projecting $1.5M in revenue growth and supporting strategic business expansion.
- Prepared IFRS-compliant historical financial statements to support funding applications with financial institutions.
- General ledger review month end closing: Depreciation, Prepayments, Accruals, Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable and payroll liabilities.
- Resolved unanticipated discrepancies and strengthened controls to reduce recurrence.
Senior Finance Officer - ICC Women's World Twenty20 Cricket Tournament - West Indies, Caribbean
(2018-06 - 2019-01)
- Contracted for and worked closely with all key stakeholders (Government, ICC Executives, Vendors and Tournament Staff) on overseeing and reporting all financial activity.
- Accounts Payable: Processed timely vendor payments supporting tournament operations, achieving a 100% payment completion rate by tournament close.
- Inventory control: Completed 100% of tournament merchandise stock counts and ensured sales proceeds were banked promptly and accurately.
Financial Controller - Caribbean Yacht Management/ Proudly African Limited - Road Town, British Virgin Islands
(2011-08 - 2017-10)
- Management of Accounting Staff (8).
- General ledger review month end closing: Depreciation, Prepayments, Accruals, Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable and payroll liabilities.
- Implemented new accounting software, reducing errors and improving operational efficiency by 30%.
- Supported strategic decisions across company operations and business workflows, designing internal controls and procedures that contributed to sales growth from $950K to $3.1M USD over five years.
