Experience

Artesian Water Company

• United States
• Utilities
• 1 - 100 Employee

• SEC/Inventory Accountant

  • Nov 2016 - Present

  Preparation and coordination of SEC reports/filings on a quarterly, annual, and as needed basis, including editing, filing and preparing applicable XBRL tagging, related footnotes, and supporting schedules. Preparation of Monthly Board of Directors’ reports, which includes financial MD&A and ratio analysis. Prepare monthly count for physical and chemical inventory for various business units which include setting up the count event, preparing all documents and supervisors sign offs. Coordinate the Escheat Check process which include preparing all documents, uploading information to the web based program and filing with various states. Provide financial support for investor presentations, reports, and press releases. Monitor SEC, FASB, and GAAP guidance and publications for updates and/or new regulations for financial reporting. Reconcile various general ledger accounts on a monthly basis. Prepare audit schedules as needed for external and/or internal audits. Perform other analysis work and special projects as may be needed. Perform any and all other appropriate functions as required. Show less



Dechert LLP

• United States
• Law Practice
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Accountant

  • Mar 2015 - Sep 2016

  Provide excellent customer service to both internal and external customers. Apply leadership skills including motivating and coaching coworkers, managing workload assignments, reviewing work performed by others, and ensuring optimum efficiency and effectiveness of processes. Apply project management skills including creating work plans, scheduling work to meet filing deadlines, obtaining documentation, preparing workpapers, researching / resolving issues, working with Dechert staff on a global basis, liaising with country-specific external audit teams and especially communicating status of projects. Be a key contact for the Firm’s annual external financial statement audits. The Firm currently has ten annual audits using various country-specific GAAP. Be a key contact for the Firm’s external accounting consultants. Prepare non-audited financial statements for tax and statutory filing purposes. Prepare the Firm’s intercompany invoices including determining the criteria for internal report preparation, analyzing data, preparing workpapers, preparing invoices, and obtaining signatures. Prepare reconciliations as necessary to ensure the accuracy of the Firm’s books. Prepare reconciliations of the non-US local books in local currency with the Firm’s Elite books in US dollars, taking into account the differences between country-specific GAAP and the modified cash basis of accounting. Prepare workpapers and other documentation to assist the Firm’s internal and external tax teams. Maintain a Compliance Timeline and other shareable lists to organize and complete projects. Maintain efficient and logical shareable filing systems – both electronic and paper. Other duties and responsibilities as assigned. Show less



Day & Zimmermann

• United States
• Construction
• 700 & Above Employee

• General Ledger Accountant

  • Apr 2014 - Dec 2014

  • Responsible for period-end close procedures closing for SAP general ledger system and sub ledger, through collaboration with corporate and business unit management teams • Performed high volume period-end account analysis while resolving and trouble shoot errors for multiple companies • Supported business unit managers in evaluation and investigating balance sheet and income statements accounts through comparative of budget to actual • Facilitated and lead the inter-company invoicing process to allocate actual costs, investigate disputes, resolve variances, and coordinate collection of outstanding receivables • Responsible for all the exchange rates inputs in the general ledger system for the companies foreign transactions • Prepared account reconciliations for various business units in the Blackline system Show less



Reliance Standard

• United States
• Insurance
• 500 - 600 Employee

• SEC Senior GAAP Accountant

  • Oct 2002 - Apr 2014

  • Prepare the company’s 10-K, 10-Q, and Proxy Statements for the SEC • Prepared annual and monthly balance sheet, income statement and equity statement and distribute reports to executive management, including variance analysis, statistical forecasting and a summary of key assumptions • Research and analyzed GAAP, STAT, IFRS and SEC related information and create summaries if applicable for senior management • Prepare various high level data and reports for senior management • Calculated the weighted average shares and the book value per share for the company • File the company’s form 3 and 4 for the directors and company’s 8-K documents with the SEC • Managed and prepared the company’s outstanding common and preferred stock, controller of the stock software to distribute various monthly and annual reports • Prepare monthly reports of the Company’s most recent results, forecast and comparison to the budget • Conduct ad hoc scenario analysis for senior management with projected impact of various actions • Prepared the company’s annual and monthly employee benefit plan reporting, filing the company’s form 5500. • Prepared and analyzed the company’s ASC 718 stock compensation expense for senior management • Managed and calculate the debt compliance agreements, file quarterly documents with the Bank Creditors • Prepare and analyzed the company’s earned premium and fees and production sales for each of the company’s line of business products and are sold • Write various reports in the Oracle Financial System • Managed the prepared company’s insurance rating presentations for various insurance agency’s Show less